FORT LAUDERDALE | 525 South Andrews Avenue | 491 FT | 46 FLOORS

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Fort Lauderdale’s Design Review Committee on Tuesday will consider plans to build a 2.3 million-square-foot, mixed-use development along South Andrews Avenue with apartments, hotel rooms, offices and retail stores.
The three-building development, called Southside City Centre, would be built on a 3.32-acre city block just south of the New River along Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.

The owner of the property has a contract to sell it to Southside River LLC, managed by Kevin J. Reilly in Miami. Attorney Robert Lochrie represents Southside River LLC.

Two existing office buildings on the one-block property would be demolished. The property address is 519, 529 and 597 South Andrews Avenue and 518 and 532 Southwest 1 Avenue.

The developer would build two 43-story buildings with a total of 879 apartments and a 35-story, 330-room hotel. The designer of the development is Dorsky Yue International.

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This was redesigned. Name is "Riverparc Square"



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Fort Lauderdale approves Riverparc Square

Fort Lauderdale commissioners on Tuesday approved Riverparc Square, a mixed-use development just south of downtown.

Riverparc Square, formerly called Southside City Centre, will include three towers, two of them 43 stories tall and one 36 stories tall, with 790 residential units, hotel rooms, retail and office space. It is being developed by an entity led by Kevin J. Reilly of Miami.

The 3.3-acre development site at 501 South Andrews Avenue is an entire block bounded by Andrews Avenue, Southwest 1st Avenue, Southwest 5th Street and Southwest 6th Street. The south side of the block is across Southwest 6th Street from a Publix supermarket.

Commissioners approved Riverparc Square one week after their rejection of Alexan-Tarpon River, another high-rise development just south of the downtown area, triggered lawsuits against the city. Commissioners last month voted 3-2 to reject the 21-story residential project.

At Tuesday night’s commission meeting, commissioner Ben Sorenson said city staff “misapplied or failed to apply the comprehensive master plan traffic and mobility requirements” to Riverparc Square. But none of the other commissioners seconded Sorenson’s motion to schedule a public hearing to review and vote on the development.

“While I’m very comfortable with most of the project and I appreciate the investment the developer is making, I still have concerns about traffic and how it aligns with our comprehensive master plan,” Sorenson said.

The Riverparc Square development would generate 10,491 daily trips, according to a study that Traf Tech Engineering conducted in February.


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Riverparc Square won preliminary approval Sept 4 after the developer cut the number of residential units to 790, the number of hotel rooms to 297 and the retail space to 44,698 square feet. The amount of office space was increased to 296,459 square feet. The project is designed by Dorsky + Yue International.

Fort Lauderdale residents spoke at the city commissioners’ meeting Tuesday night during a public-comment period, and many expressed concerns about the impact of Riverparc Square on the city’s water, sewer and storm water systems.

“Overall, we think it’s a world-class project,” said Janet Scraper, president of the Tarpon River Civic Association, but “we do have concerns about the infrastructure.”

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This was introduced in the Fort Lauderdale development summary I made (https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166590&page=6), but I'll post this here for future construction updates, etc...

The FAA Grants Approvals For 491-Foot-Tall 525 South Andrews Avenue In Fort Lauderdale
https://floridayimby.com/2021/08/the-faa...h-andrews-avenue-in-fort-lauderdale.html

The structure will now be allowed to rise 491-feet, or 498-feet above sea level, and is designed by Dorsky + Yue International Architecture. Federal City Property Investors, LLC is the developer behind the project.

525 Andrews is projected to yield 543,307 square feet of usable space including 390,658 square feet of residential space across 399 units, 900 square feet of commercial space, 26,126 square feet of amenities and 116,623 square feet of service space. Residential units will vary between 751 square feet and 1398 square feet, likely in 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom and 3-bedroom floor plans. Amenities and services include a pet lounge and spa, 1222-square-foot bike storage room and outdoor bike racks, a mail room and package room, duplex club area and fitness center, a landscaped outdoor garden deck with cabanas and day beds beside a pool, a yoga lawn and dedicated space for events and gaming, a sky lounge on the 46th floor and at the base of the building a 529-vehicle parking garage.

Demolition permits will be required for the removal of the existing 17,299-square-foot commercial building.

Here is the FAA permit the article is referencing: https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/sea...=displayOECase&oeCaseID=475891453&row=13

The short name for this development is: 525 Andrews

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This height map was made by FTL Beach Bum from Skyscrapercity a few years ago (downtown is where it says Fort Lauderdale):

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Credit: https://dorskyyue.com/portfolio/525-andrews/