The Conrad Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort is slated to open in late spring 2016, with 290 studio and suite accommodations, four dining choices, an ocean-view spa and nine flexible meeting and event spaces.
A new 23-story Four Seasons property is expected to break ground in Fort Lauderdale before the end of the year. Planned for 2018 are 150 rooms and 95 residences, two restaurants, a spa/fitness center and meeting facilities.
The $23 million Tryp Maritime by Wyndham Fort Lauderdale is under construction, with a projected opening at the end of 2016. The nautical-inspired property will feature 150 rooms, a European-style tapas bar and 11 aquariums.
Fort Lauderdale’s Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six has unveiled the newly renovated, 5,900-square-foot Panorama Ballroom, now sporting new carpeting, lighting, furnishings and a fresh color palette.
Opening in March 2016, the 175-suite Residence Inn by Marriott Miami Beach-Surfside will include 1,000 square feet of meeting space that opens onto a 5,000-square-foot pool deck.
YVE Hotel Miami has added 2,000 square feet of bayfront meeting space, composed of a main conference room, two boardrooms and two open break areas that fit up to 50 people. The downtown property now offers more than 3,000 square feet of flexible meeting space.
Coming May 1st is EAST, Miami, the first EAST property outside Asia and part of the new downtown Brickell City Centre mixed-use complex. Amenities include 352 rooms and suites, an onsite restaurant, rooftop bar and a number of meeting rooms.
Set for a spring 2016 debut, The Nobu Hotel at Eden Roc Miami Beach, a “hotel within a hotel” concept, will feature 350 Nobu-inspired guest rooms and the new Malibu Farm restaurant. Meanwhile, the signature Nobu Restaurant and Bar has already opened and many elements of the Eden Roc have been refreshed, including more than 70,000 square feet of re-energized meeting and event space.
Following a projected mid-March opening in downtown Miami, the Langford Hotel will boast a restaurant and lounge, exercise studio, complimentary Wi-Fi, a business center and conference rooms. The 126-room property is housed in the former Miami National Bank, built in 1925 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The veteran Miami Beach Convention Center is being reimagined as a LEED-certified facility with more than 500,000 square feet of exhibit space, a 60,000-square-foot mixed-use ballroom and 81 new breakout rooms spanning 190,000 square feet. The $615 million project is due in 2018.