West Palm Beach could soon be home to Solana, an eight-story apartment building featuring “micro-units.” Plans propose 65 apartments and two live-work units. Twelve apartments measure 621 to 855 square feet, while micro-units average about 419 square feet each.
Two Roads Development and Alpha Blue Ventures have officially broken ground on Forté, a new 24-story waterfront residential building at 1309 South Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach. The ceremonial event occurred on Thursday March 3, 2022, which was was attended by elected officials, community representatives and future residents. Designed by Bernardo Fort-Brescia of Arquitectonica with interiors imagined by Jean-Louis Deniot, the condominium development will boast 41 luxury residences spanning anywhere between 4,200 to 8,400 square feet, configured in three- and four-bedroom floor plans and a crown jewel six-bedroom penthouse spanning 8,900 square feet with an additional 2,000-square-foot private rooftop deck which includes a pool, summer kitchen, cabana bath and unmatched 360-degree views. Over 80% of Forté’s residences have sold, with a majority of the buyers coming from markets across the domestic U.S.
Airspace obstruction permits have been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for work on Flagler Towers, a twin-towered 27-story residential development in West Palm Beach comprised of two 373-foot-tall structures designed by New York City’s Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) with Stantec as the executive architect and developed by Palm Beach-based Frisbie Group. Addressed as 1315 and 1401 South Flagler Drive, the planned development is comprised of 728,365 square feet of space including 100 condos and 9 townhomes, 10 suites for the guests of condo owners, a 312-space parking garage integrated into a multistory podium, and 8,184 square feet of restaurant space. The permits were approved as of March 8, 2022, and have an expiration date set for September 9, 2023, meaning activity could begin within the next 18 months. Plans for Flagler Towers were unanimously approved by the West Palm Beach City Commission earlier this year; construction is projected to reach completion by 2025.
Sales have officially launched for Alba Palm Beach, a 22-story waterfront residential condominium tower located at 4714 North Flagler Drive, directly along the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach. Designed by Spina O’Rourke + Partners with Schmidt Nichols as the landscape architect, and developed by BGI Companies along with Blue Road Group, the development is a collection of 55 luxury residences with two- and three-bedroom units, and four two- and three-story townhomes with four bedrooms, offering residents a variety of desirable amenities including an entire 25,500-square-foot, sixth-floor amenity level with sunrise and sunset swimming pools, as well as on-site private docks with boat slips exclusively for owners. In pre-sales, Alba Palm Beach received a strong response with more than 30 percent of the building reserved.
Brightline, the only provider of modern, eco-friendly, intercity rail in America, has completed its first major construction zone (Zone 2) on its 170-mile extension from West Palm Beach to Orlando International Airport (OIA). One of four zones along this extension, Zone 2 is a 3.5-mile-long section on Brightline’s corridor leading into OIA and represents one of the most complex and challenging areas for construction in the entire project. The Orlando extension is 70 percent complete and employs more than 1,300 daily construction workers and is scheduled to be finished by the end of 2022. The Middlesex Corporation, based in Orlando, served as the general contractor, and constructed the corridor over 33 months through the work of over 100 employees who logged more than 419,000 hours.
