You won’t recognize Pier Sixty-Six when they’re done with it

By: David Lyons

A luxurious new community of yachts, homes, shops and offices is coming to the site of the Pier Sixty-Six Hotel and Marina in Fort Lauderdale.Tavistock Development Co. of Orlando, which bought the resort in 2016, intends to convert the site’s 22-acre waterfront setting into a place where full-time residents and visitors will lounge in the lap of luxury, gaze at super yachts, shop and work in high-end retail and offices, and dine at upscale restaurants.

The historic 17-story tower hotel, with its rotating Pier Top lounge, will remain, but a 10-story hotel building with two-story pool deck will rise behind it, replacing rooms in lower lanai buildings that once encircled the property. The new hotel structure will include a restaurant, spa and meeting rooms.

It will be surrounded by:

• Waterfront luxury condominiums and single-family homes, as well as 32,000 square feet of retail and office space and a public marina promenade.

• Condos in two 11-story towers on the southwest portion of the site with 38 units each. The first and second floors of both buildings would have space for offices, shops and restaurants.

• Thirty-nine villas in four buildings, which will rise four stories on the north side of the site.

• A dozen single-family homes — four-story houses of 5,000 square feet each — with private yards.

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