Luxury condo holding job fair
Auberge Beach Residences & Spa Fort Lauderdale is expected to open by year’s end — and is seeking about 120 workers for its restaurants and spa.
A job fair has been scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 1 and 2 at The Galleria mall, 2414 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale.
The luxury condominium, at 2200 N. Ocean Blvd., has 171 residences, including seven penthouses, divided in two towers a, as well as a fitness center, golf simulator, multiple swimming pools and a restaurant. Among the positions available, Auberge is hiring a bookkeeper and a maintenance technician.
For the Dunes beachfront restaurant, it is filling jobs including for managers, hosts, servers, food runners, bartenders and bar-backs, baristas, executive chefs, line cooks and sous chefs.
For the spa, it needs an operations manager, supervisor, massage therapists, nail technicians, front-desk concierge, and spa attendants.
The North Tower, which is sold out, has been completed, and the South Tower is expected to be finished by year’s end, according to a spokeswoman for Auberge. The South Tower has less than 20 percent of the condos remaining to be sold, she said.
In July 2017, Auberge announced the sale of its final penthouse for $9.5 million, topping its previous record Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is featured in a recent Nike ad campaign.
sale of $8.9 million.
The Auberge project was developed by Miami-based The Related Group with Fortune International Group in Miami and The Fairwinds Group in Fort Lauderdale. Moss Construction of Fort Lauderdale is the builder.
During last September’s Hurricane Irma, a crane plummeted while the Auberge was mid-construction. But there were no reported injuries.
The new condo is on the site of the former Ireland’s Inn Beach Resort, a sevenstory hotel that opened in 1965 and closed in 2007.
Andy Mitchell, CEO and president of The Fairwinds Group, and wife Kathy Ireland Mitchell were thirdgeneration owners of Ireland’s Inn.
He is the visionary behind the Auberge Beach Residences and Spa, which is part of Auberge Resorts Collection, a portfolio of hotels, resorts, residences and private clubs in locations including Mexico, Fiji and Costa Rica. Other U.S. locations are in Colorado and California, including a flagship resort in Napa Valley.