New York Developer Submits Plans For Twin-Tower Ombelle In Fort Lauderdale

A New York developer has submitted plans to build a massive twin-tower apartment project in Fort Lauderdale called Ombelle.

Ombelle is proposed to include:

  • 1,100 apartments
  • 11,217 square feet of commercial/retail
  • 1,100 parking spaces, in a 9-story podium mostly lined with residential

The developer told the SFBJ that the units would be premium rental apartments, with a condo-like experience and large amenity spaces.

Both towers are proposed to rise 43 stories, with the top of the structures at 525 feet above ground and a roof height of 493 feet above ground

Brightline’s Fort Lauderdale station is around a ten minute walk from the project site.

Dependable Equities is the developer.

New York’s ODA is the architect.

The project is scheduled for a hearing before Fort Lauderdale’s Development Review Committee on May 24.

 

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Really nice. Fort Lauderdale is getting some great architecture.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Yuppie
10 months ago

These are beautiful. Could use more architecture like this in Downtown Miami.

BB1
10 months ago

I love hearing development news from all over South Florida. Keep it coming TNM!

Ciparoo
10 months ago

B/c Miami is a metro center that doesn’t just include the city of Miami

Mikey Mike
10 months ago

I’m kind of jealous ngl but great overall for Fort Lauderdale if this goes through.

Anonymous
10 months ago

why are you jealous ?

Des
10 months ago

because Miami has never really seen a development of this kind.

Se me paro
10 months ago

Not true. Coconut Grove has similar towers, just not as tall

Kenny
9 months ago

😂😂😂😂😂

Anonymous
10 months ago

you make it sound like this tower is the empire estate or the chrysler building. it is a nice tower but it’s not better than paramount, one thousand museum or aston martin residences.

Not Anonymous
10 months ago

this looks like something that would be built in midtown

Andrew
10 months ago

Beautiful! More of this 🙂

Melo is sigma and chad
10 months ago

South Florida with another beautiful twin tower development

Tuesday.
10 months ago

The building itself is stunning! The one thing I would change are the balcony guard railing. I personally think glass panels would finish it perfectly!

Ciparoo
10 months ago

Yeah that kinda stuck out for me too. It could look better in person tho

Anonymous
10 months ago

It would be nice if there were all evenly spaces and lined up, too. It detracts from the sleekness and massing, and looks like two blobs.

Adrian
10 months ago

That is great

Angelina
10 months ago

The shape of this building is absolutely amazing ❤️

Gabriel Guerrero
10 months ago

Why the railings? Glass adds more definition and minimal design to the building but overall it’s pretty good

Anonymous
10 months ago

Looking at the cluttered balconies, these two towers must be the two monkeypox cases.

Raf
10 months ago

Blot out the sun.

Abul Icktar Misha
10 months ago

Interesting buildings. I think it would look a lot less busy if they simply had wrap around balconies instead of this random placement. Mixed with the vertical slits and twisting, a lot going on here.

John
9 months ago

Wait for a drought in, Florida. Putting too many buildings here. We will have droughts normal at times.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Nice shapes, shame about the balconies.

Se me paro
10 months ago

Gorgeous architecture.
Melo and Architectonica, please take heed

Truth Matters
10 months ago

Refreshing architecture

Kat
10 months ago

1100 parking spaces? Wtf. This is insane. Parking minimums is climate arson imo

Anonymous
10 months ago

Last night I went to enjoy myself with a night out on south Miami Beach but had to scrap that and go back home because I couldn’t find somewhere to park.

Not finding somewhere to park on south beach is like NIMBY terrorism imo …

lol…

Anonymous
9 months ago

If you were never born, the planet would be doing a lot better.

to many trolls here
10 months ago

way too much going on in this design. there is elegance in simplicity. This has neither

Anonymous
10 months ago

It would have elegance if the balconies lined up. Simplicity? Sorry, but Missoni Baia is boring.

Joe the Lion
9 months ago

Fort Lauderdale used to be beautiful. Now it us endless concrete, people, traffic, stress and misery. Paradise ruined.

Anonymous
9 months ago

Disagree. Hope they continue building. Fort Lauderdale shouldn’t be a sleepy town. There are plenty of places in Florida for that. Think of FTL as a whiter and gayer version of Miami.

Kenny
9 months ago

The Strip on Fort Lauderdale, Beach, use to be run down in the mid-80’s and in the past years new motels/ Hotels developers have really done a marvelous job in the area, voting in the right people helps control traffic and brings in tourists to the area.

Cheryl Hunt
10 months ago

This is really stupid we have plenty of residential buildings we don’t need to add another structure

Anonymous
10 months ago

I don’t understand, in the oceans are plenty sharks, we don’t need another shark swimming and eating fish in the waters.

Lee Bacall
9 months ago

Just what fort Lauderdale needs. More traffic, more stress on aging sewer and water infrastructure.

I love the preponderance of positive comments no doubt posted by bots and paid promoters of the project.

I was at the city commission meeting when this mega ploink was proposed to a mostly disbelieving audience.

Wake up city of Fort Lauderdale. This is not a good direction for our city.

Andrew LInhares
9 months ago

There’s people that get paid to post comments here? Do you really believe this? If you follow construction, than you would know these projects pay for the sewer projects. It’s NIMBYs like you that have no idea how a city works that ruins it for the rest of us.

Kenny
9 months ago

For my comments $10,000 dollars, Pls let me know “ I’ll be on the next JetBlue flight out of Jacksonville International Airport, to FLL to collect! 😂😂😂😂

Anonymous
9 months ago

Anyone who disagrees with you is a bot?

Anonymous
9 months ago

Move back to the NIMBY Northeast/Cali. We are YIMBYs in South Florida!

Ugh
10 months ago

As a broward resident…idc or at least just start a separate site for greater Miami development.

Anonymous
10 months ago

“as a broward resident” sure…..

Anonymous
10 months ago

This should be In “The Boring Broward” news NOT TNM

Anonymous
10 months ago

Don’t be jealous

Anonymous
10 months ago

NOT MIAMI! …NEXT!

Karen Hunter
10 months ago

Start your own blog Karen

Abul Icktar Misha
10 months ago

LOL!

Karen Hunter
10 months ago

Edit: Start your own blog Kareem

Anonymous
10 months ago

TNM covers multiple municipalities including Miami Beach, Aventura, Coral Gables, Fort Lauderdale, Sunny Isles, etc. If you don’t like it go somewhere else.

billy cohen
10 months ago

exactly, all of those are in the 305 except fort lauderdale

Anonymous
10 months ago

They report on Hollywood too. Get it yet? It’s basically South Florida.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Then the name is wrong

Truth Matters
10 months ago

Best comment of the day

Anonymous
10 months ago

Calling it “the 305,” so edgy…

Anonymous
10 months ago

Then they should change the name

Anonymous
10 months ago

TNMM===The Next Metro Miami….there, happy now?

Anonymous
10 months ago

People from Miami are SO touchy GEEZ – you even mention Fort Lauderdale and they go beserk – why?

Mary
10 months ago

Because they are selfish, Fort Lauderdale is a beautiful and I’m glad I had invested in this city.

Truth Matters
10 months ago

Oh shut up

Anonymous
10 months ago

Here come the cancel culture idiots

Anonymous
10 months ago

You don’t even know what cancel culture is. You are just a parrot repenting what you hear at FOX propaganda channel.

Anonymous
10 months ago

And here they come lmao ^

Truth Matters
10 months ago

Please take your silly political nonsense somewhere else. If you only knew what’s coming because of your angst.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Funny you should say. I know plenty of “parrots ” on the other side of the fence who constantly swawk plenty of their own propaganda gleaned from the REALLY BIG MONEY corporate news outlets.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Did you just assume I identify as a parrot, you bigot? I for one, seggsually identify as an attack helicopter.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Cancel culture is the reaction to silence somebody because you’re triggered over a free blog posting Fort Lauderdale information.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Go somewhere else…. NEXT!

Donnie S
10 months ago

But part of the Miami Metropolitan area

Se me paro'
10 months ago

Guys as much as you want to make it tri-county, I don’t see why Broward cannot have a separate TNM, like TNB for The Next Broward. No point in getting upset because we want to concentrate on what’s happening in Miami-Dade.

Se me paro'
10 months ago

Guys as much as you want to make it tri-county, I don’t see why Broward cannot have a separate TNM, like TNB for The Next Broward. No point in getting upset because we want to concentrate on what’s happening in Miami-Dade.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Why does it bother you so much?

Anonymous
10 months ago

Because we only get 4 articles 4 days a week as it is. It’s not asking much to keep those limited articles to Miami.

Truth Matters
10 months ago

Very well said

Anonymous
9 months ago

There really not that much big development news to only concentrate in Miami

Anonymous
9 months ago

It’s the Miami metropolitan area