Inside downtown Fort Lauderdale’s luxury development boom — NY Post (construction, restaurant)

[Orionsdolph]

Inside downtown Fort Lauderdale’s luxury development boom — NY Post



"According to the Fort Lauderdale Downtown Development Authority (DDA), more than 50 developments are in the pipeline, some already underway, bringing more than 8,500 new residential units — and 725,800 square feet of new restaurant and retail space."


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https://nypost.com/2023/02/17/inside...elopment-boom/

[CXT2000]

I'm happy that downtown Ft. Lauderdale is getting a lot of investments and getting talked more about (and downtown Ft. Lauderdale is highly underrated IMO). My only issue (and this is for all of SoFla) is how hideous the architecture is. There is no added value at the street level and it's just so... bland and generic. It just saddens me because there is so much potential yet the final result is always the bare minimum.

[wizrap]

Where’s Addison Mizner when you need him?

[drive carephilly]

Originally Posted by CXT2000

I'm happy that downtown Ft. Lauderdale is getting a lot of investments and getting talked more about (and downtown Ft. Lauderdale is highly underrated IMO). My only issue (and this is for all of SoFla) is how hideous the architecture is. There is no added value at the street level and it's just so... bland and generic. It just saddens me because there is so much potential yet the final result is always the bare minimum.

Unfortunately, I don't see a real end to it. Construction costs are already outrageous, housing prices already too high, there's little to no room for all but the most expensive of product to add a lot of cost to building facades.

It was tough in the '00s to get ground floor retail on new buildings and it's only gotten worse. Retail is dead and is only partly being replaced by the restaurant/service industry.