St. Petersburg city officials greenlit the expansion of the Miramar Beach Resort on Tuesday. The redevelopment calls for the demolition of two two-story buildings, which will be replaced with a 76-foot-tall tower with 30 rooms. This is a scaled-back plan of the original; in 2021, the developer secured approval for 54 rooms.
Two developers have secured a multi-million-dollar construction loan for the Residences at Shell Bay, a luxury venture in Hallandale Beach. The project will have both a residential and commercial aspect, with plans calling for a 20-story, 108-unit condominium, along with a 60-key Auberge resort hotel.
Habitus Edgewater HF B LLC hopes to move forward with an eight-story hotel in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. The 50,902-square-foot hotel would be under the Sonder banner, offering 61 rooms.
London + Regional Properties submitted an Administrative Site Plan Review (ASPR) application with Miami-Dade County on October 24 to develop two eight-story mixed-use buildings on the Pullman Miami Airport hotel site at 5800 Blue Lagoon Drive. The proposal outlines plans for 600 new residential units spread across two buildings on the hotel’s existing parking lot. The 10-acre site, currently home to the 281-room hotel, was acquired by London + Regional Properties in 2019. The pre-application filing for this project was previously covered earlier this month.
BD Hotels has secured a $75 million construction loan to develop a 201-room hotel, the Nora Hotel, in the emerging NORA District of West Palm Beach. Metropolitan Commercial Bank provided the loan, which JLL’s Steven Klein and Mark Fisher arranged for financing. BD Hotels is working with NORA District master developers NDT Development, Place Projects, and Wheelock Street Capital.
