$1B Development Planned Near Seminole Hard Rock, With 5 Towers

A developer has unveiled plans for The District in Davie, just north of the The Guitar Hotel at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

The project is expected to cost $1 billion, and will be the largest multi-family project in Davie history.

The District in Davie is planned to have five towers ranging from 20–24 stories, with:

  • 1,256 class A residential apartments, with 1.6 million square feet
  • 36,000 square feet of restaurants and retail
  • 2,650 parking spaces

A total of three phases are planned with 2.8 million square feet.

Construction on the first phase is planned to begin by mid-2023, and pre-leasing is expected to commence in early 2025. Anticipated completion of the first phase is 2025.

Cooper Carry of Atlanta is the architect.

El-Ad National Properties is the developer.

 

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rainey411
20 days ago

At 1 billion, almost 800k per unit seems way out of line for this type of building and quality. Something is off

Azarius
20 days ago

Yeah something is off but I still hopes it moves forward

A Nonymous
20 days ago

Right? Unless they’re planning to rent the parking separately.

Not Anonymous
20 days ago

Did the math and they would make just almost exactly 1 billion if every unit was sold at that price, so yeah there is definitely something off.

Anonymous
20 days ago

Ahahahah stop drinking…. the guy is saying that it would cost 800K per unit and the quality of the units don’t match the construction price!

*NAME*
20 days ago

You people have no clue how development works and it shows.

Anonymous
19 days ago

Actually (but not clearly pointed out) it appears these will be rental apartments, not condos.

Not Anonymous
20 days ago

Great to see different centers of density in the metro area, but I don’t think it is a good idea to create so many trips to an area with no transit and so far away for other dense areas. hopefully some sort of rail project from Ft Lauderdale of Hollywood is planned to connect this project to the rest of SoFlo’s transit infrastructure.

Azarius
20 days ago

For transit west of turnpike it’ll have to be built above grade, due to how Broward is developed. I can see transit running North South 441/S.R 7, university, and East West 816/Oakland Park (connecting it to downtown Brightline, even tri rail at 95)

Anonymous
20 days ago

Not really. You can add light rail in the medians, and maybe a road diet of a lane or two, for those giant divided highways that are under capacity for ninety percent of the day.

Azarius
19 days ago

Under capacity in Broward 😂🤣😂 after 10PM

Anonymous
19 days ago

Make car traffic worse so your toy train has a whiff of a chance at succeeding….DENIED

Rain
19 days ago

1,256 class A residential apartments, with 1.6 million square feet
36,000 square feet of restaurants and retail
2,650 parking spaces

And where are people supposed to park??? Residents will take most of the parking spots this is not NY folks we all drive in S. FL.

Anon
20 days ago

As if it being in Davie wasn’t already bad enough, the noise from aircraft using 10R/28L is going to be insane

Anonymous
20 days ago

There are lovely parts of Davie. This isn’t one of them.

Anonymous
20 days ago

The market rents for this neighborhood can’t hope to recoup the roughly $600/sq ft construction costs plus operating expenses.

Anonymous
19 days ago

It seems like a nyc housing project but with much better weather

Name
18 days ago

No.

30kmillionMIA
19 days ago

There are several BCT bus routes at the intersection of Griffin and 441 where the project would be, including one that connects to Tri Rail and a hub. Also, FDOT did a study of EW light rail that would run along Griffin. Plenty of transit options here

Podium aficionado
20 days ago

Podium life. Ammmirite?

BB1
20 days ago

I’ve heard of class A office space, but never class A referring to residential. I guess it’s possible.

happy gilmore
20 days ago

If the Seminoles are willing to pay $1 billion for this, then I got the SkyRise project to sell them.

Anonymous
20 days ago

Not the biggest fan on the cluttered window architectural on the corner, otherwise looks solid. However, it’s probably a conceptual plan. Cooper Carry did excellent work on the Downtown Doral masterplan, but the final product was vertical suburbia meets Dania Pointe on steroids.

Bob
19 days ago

Brickell city center was a billion dollar development. This? No way

HipHopAnonymous
18 days ago

They are gonna have an awesome view of the landfill and the dump!

Anon
20 days ago

Needs metro or this is actually detrimental

Anonymous
20 days ago

So redeveloping a dilapidated shopping center with multi-family housing is detrimental, while everybody whines about the lack of housing stock every other day of the week?

N, N
19 days ago

Why does South Florida have to choose between housing and easing congestion? Also how does it negatively affect you if any of the 6 million South Floridians you don’t know and have never met, take public transit or simply don’t add to the traffic you yourself probably complain about.

Anonymous
19 days ago

Why does EVERY thread here name drop “metro” when so little of real-world South Florida gives AF about it?

Cover the Podiums
20 days ago

There should be height limitations in areas where its mostly single family homes. It keeps the land values low and brings more developers to the area since its cheaper to build. Once they’re allowed to build 20-30 story buildings, the greed comes out.

Cost Effective
20 days ago

Actually, the more dense an area is the cheaper it is to maintain because the resources aren’t spread out as much as when homes sprawl. Dense areas also provide more taxes on less land. The truth is really that not every piece of land needs to/will look like Manhattan (and that isn’t going to happen, at least not anytime soon).

Anonymous
20 days ago

Both wrong. The land values are low because of the location, not allowable density.

Cover the Podiums
19 days ago

What I mentioned is straight out of the urban planning textbooks. If you allow and build a skyscraper in low density area, you take up all the demand for the near future. And now you have a just one or two towers with no development around it for years.

A medium density mixed development that covers a relatively large area as found in Europe is the correct choice here.

There’s absolutely no need to build this tall in this location. They should be focusing instead in land acquisition of single family homes around the area while values are still somewhat cheap.

Se me paro'
20 days ago

Way too far

Denied
20 days ago

0 transit options in this area, Davie is a small country town, deny this

Anonymous
20 days ago

It pretends to be a small country town with a historical pocket, but in reality it’s suburbia meets commuter college town.

Oh yeah
20 days ago

The Next Davie

Anonymous
20 days ago

Just had to know some shithead would post this

Uh huh
20 days ago

And y’all fall for it every time. The Next Complainer

Anonymous
19 days ago

Just had to know some shithead would complain about the people calling out the Not Miami shitheads.

Anon
20 days ago

This is a “no”. Too much for that area- that is not that desirable

Build it, and they will come
20 days ago

Wynwood wasn’t always a desirable area. You have to invest time and effort to make places thrive. This single development won’t create that alone, but it can be a piece in the puzzle.

Anonymous
20 days ago

Wynwood has the advantages of being near downtown and Biscayne Bay. This area has no comparable advantages.

Build it, and they will come
20 days ago

Huh? It’s right up the street from the Guitar, which itself is an attraction to the area. As well as multiple educational institutions. Wynwood isn’t walking distance to either of the places you mentioned, and desirability and walkability are hand-in-hand. Wynwood itself might be a walkable neighborhood, but nobody is walking from Wynwood to Downtown.

Anonymous
20 days ago

I bet your logic entails nothing is desirable outside of Downtown Miami and South Beach.

Anonymous
19 days ago

^^Not nothing outside of DTMIA or SoBe, but not this location either. Logic FAIL.