Besides fancy yachts and other vessels, luxury condo projects await visitors to Fort Lauderdale boat show
After launching the largest redevelopment project anywhere in the city, Tavistock Development Company is looking toward the fall of next year to activate the resort’s sweeping new look and additions at 2301 SE 17th St., which will include the reopening of the property’s Pier Top lounge atop its iconic 17-story spire hotel tower.
Total cost: More than $1 billion.
The newly created residential components will include two 11-story condominium buildings, Azul and Indigo, with 31 and 30 units respectively. Prices start at $3.85 million.
There will also be two four-story residential buildings with 31 villas.
“Since launching sales at the 2022 Boat Show, we have seen tremendous interest from yacht owners across the country,” she said. They see the potential for the resort’s Pier Sixty-Six Marina as a “base” between the U.S. and Caribbean.
The marina, which has remained open during the project, boasts 164 deep-water slips and full concierge-level service and will be available for this year’s boat show. A new promenade with 33,000 square feet of retail, office, and restaurant space is being built adjacent to the facility.
Blakley said Tavistock over the past several years “has made several investments including new floating super yacht docks at ‘Pier South’ (the marina on the south side of 17th Street) and dredging along the northwest corner of the Marina.”
Those moves allow for docking “without having to pass through any bridge,” she said, and the marina “can accommodate the world’s largest motor and sailing yachts.”
The resort’s hotel component will have 325 rooms and suites, 12 food and beverage options, a 15,000-square-foot spa and fitness facility, two-level marina-front pool deck, and 40,000 square feet of meeting and event space. A new 10-story hotel tower is going up near the original.
But as the massive remake of the property has unfolded, Blakley said the company is asked one question more than any other.
“The number one question we get is about the reopening of Pier Top,” she said. “When debuting next year, Pier Top will instantly become the preeminent cocktail lounge in Fort Lauderdale.”