Construction in Hallandale
City approves project with a 200-room hotel, 500 condos and a 10-story office tower
HALLANDALE BEACH —A $250 million project calling for a 19-story hotel, 26-story twin condo towers and a 10-story office complex was approved by city commissioners thisweek.
The Hallandale Oasis development would rise on 10 acres along Hallandale Beach Boulevard east of Gulfstream Park. The land is currently home to a bank, office building and office park.
The developer, Romagnole Investment Properties, plans to demolish those buildings to pave theway for 500 luxury condos, a 200-room hotel, an office tower with retail shops on the ground floor and a twostory building with restaurants and shops.
A smaller 5-acre project proposed by a different developer in 2006 was waylaid by the Great Recession, said Steve Geller, attorney for Romagnole.
“The earlier project was a $115 million investment,” Geller said. “The new one is $250 million. It went from 5 acres to 10 acres, sowe’re twice as large.”
If all goes as planned, the entire Oasis projectwould take five years to build, Geller said.
Construction would get under way on the first condo tower nine months from now, Geller said. When that tower opens, construction would begin on either the office tower or the second condo tower. And when the second project is complete, work would begin on the third tower.
Commissioner Keith London was the lone dissenter in Wednesday’s 4-1 vote. He said hewas impressed by the project’smodern design but couldn’t approve it unless another east-west roadway leading to U.S. 1 could be built.
“It’s quite an investment,” London said. “It’s functional and innovative and it will make an iconic project for the city. But I will not support it if all the traffic dumps onto Hallandale Beach Boulevard. I won’t support it unless they come up with at least one more entrance and exit.”
Geller said the hotel and condos will generate less traffic than the office park that’s already there. A final hearing is expected in mid-May. sbryan@tribpub.com or 954-356-4554