Peerless Sixty-Six
The venerable Pier Sixty-Six property is expected to reopen this fall with a reimagined resort and a high-end residential enclave – a $1 billion project that will reframe the city’s…
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Mike Seemuth
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Mike Seemuth has 35 years of journalism experience as a writer and editor of articles on business, finance and economic trends for newspapers, magazines and websites.
Trains of Endearment
The Fort Lauderdale station on Brightline’s intercity passenger rail line is driving transit-oriented development downtown. Jean Francois Roy has made a career out of creating water views. Among other projects,…
Life After Searstown
A Denver-based developer plans to revive the old Searstown site by building on its commercial past and banking on its residential future. One-stop shopping was a new postwar convenience in…
Chilling at Holiday Park
In partnership with the city, Florida Panthers owner Vincent Viola is steering a renovation of War Memorial Auditorium in Holiday Park and the development of two ice rinks next door,…
Ascending in South Florida
The developers of a high-rise apartment tower just south of downtown and the river have entered the Fort Lauderdale market after doing several high-profile projects in Miami. OKO Group, an…
Indoor-Outdoor Appeal
The Terraces, a beachfront project in Fort Lauderdale, is the latest entry in a local handful of mid-rise condo developments on, or close to, the water. Thousands of apartments are…
From Rust to Resilience
Two companies have formed a public‑private partnership with Fort Lauderdale to replace the city’s Fiveash water treatment facility as it enters its seventh decade of service. A short video produced…
The Height of Success
A new eight-story condo will replace a three-story condo that long occupied a prime riverfront site where a Texas developer wanted to build something much taller. An aging, three-story condominium…
Updating Oakland Park
New apartments and a major renovation of the ’60s-era KenAnn Building are part of a transformation of the city’s Federal Highway corridor. A new apartment building next to an Oakland…
Aiming for Attainability
DeLand-based Prospect Real Estate Group is developing two midrise apartment buildings just north of downtown with rentals priced well below the area’s most expensive rates. Sky-high apartment rents in Fort…