19-story project would be built block off AIA
FORT LAUDERDALE - It's just a vacant parking lot with a tiny guard shack on it, staring at the back of a beach bar. But a developer sees the property at 2939 Banyan St. as the future home to a 19-story hotel-condo with restaurants.
City commissioners will vote tonight on the proposed ELAD project on property a block off State Road A1A, and a block north of Las Olas Boulevard, on land zoned for resorts.
EL-AD FL BEACH LLC is proposing a 256-room hotel there, with 41 residential condos on the top floors. On the ground floor would be almost 8,000 square feet of restaurant space. Beneath the ground floor would be four levels of "robotic," or mechanical, parking.
The proposed hotel is one of the relatively few major redevelopment plans submitted for property that's not facing the beach or the Intracoastal Waterway.
Paul Flanigan, owner of the nearby Quarterdeck restaurant and a beach redevelopment advocate, said he's waited years to see the back streets of the beach enhanced, and was starting to think he had wasted his time trying.
The central beach was declared officially blighted and in need of redevelopment years ago. In recent years, though, many luxury high-rise condo-hotels were constructed on the strip of State Road A1A facing the Atlantic Ocean. Flanigan is among those who want redevelopment to reach further into the barrier island.
He said he hadn't reviewed the ELAD plans, but if it would attract people to the inner streets of the beach community, he likes it.
"We're one of the few places where you can walk from the Intracoastal to the beach in three minutes," he said. "That whole back area , that should be redeveloped."
The ELAD property is just south of the property where another developer hoped to build the proposed Cortez Hotel. That project was rejected by the City Commission at its last meeting.
The meetings are open to the public, at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 100 N. Andrews Ave. Or watch on local cable Channel 78 or online at www.fortlauderdale.gov.
Brittany Wallman can be reached at bwallman@sunsentinel.com or 954-356-4541.
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