Sun Sentinel Palm Beach Edition
Tamarac chips in extra $4 million for hotel project
Unexpected costs could have derailed a major redevelopment project, but the Tamarac City Commission has agreed to spend nearly an extra $4 million to build a clubhouse on golf course property in a deal tied to construction of a hotel next door.
The extra cash balloons the cost of the Colony West clubhouse to $11.1 million, an amount blamed on the mounting cost of construction materials and labor “literally on a daily basis right now,” said City Manager Michael Cernech. “I’ve got to allow our partners to get under construction.”
In 2017, the City Commission agreed to the cost of both the 18,000-square-foot clubhouse and 7,600-square-foot cart barn to store golf carts, but “since then prices have fluctuated,” including a spike in the price of steel, said Jon McMillian, spokesman for AD1 Global, the developer.
The developer’s construction of the hotel on the site — a six-story Fairfield Inn by Marriott on the east side of Pine Island Road south of McNab Road, next to the golf course — was contingent on the clubhouse also being built.
“It’s been a long journey,” McMillian said. “We feel really good about this project, and when it’s all said and done, everyone is going to be happy including the city and the public.”
“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is a fabulous project,” added Com-