Fort Lauderdale, FL - July 28, 2009 – Amera Barron Companies today announced the start of a new phase at Riverbend, South Florida’s first Transit Oriented Development (TOD), which spans nearly 100 acres along Interstate 95 at the western edge of downtown Fort Lauderdale. Riverbend Village, comprising 50 acres on the south side of Broward Boulevard, will encompass office, retail and residential development, complementing Riverbend Corporate Park on the north side of Broward Boulevard, which last year launched Broward County’s first new Class A office submarket in 20 years.
Completion of $25 million in ...
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Highlights
-Major leases include 10,000 SF for Darby Dental Supply, LLC at Coral Springs Financial Plaza and 16,000 SF to Retro Fitness for national chain’s first Florida location at Cocogate Plaza in Margate
- Deals follow major announcements at Amera’s Riverbend TOD in Fort Lauderdale: Broward County Supervisor of Elections complex commitment and opening of Strayer University’s Fort Lauderdale campus.
Coral Springs, Fla., December 2, 2008 -- A welcome sign of momentum in Broward County’s commercial real estate market, Amera Barron Leasing today announced it has finalized seven leases totaling ...
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Commitment to 72,000-square-foot complex accelerates redevelopment of a major regional location at downtown Fort Lauderdale’s western edge.
Highlights
· Broward Supervisor of Elections contracts with Broward Barron for build-to-suit complex at Riverbend to consolidate elections operations and offices now in various locations in the county.
· Riverbend TOD provides strategic, accessible regional location with future multi-modal transit hub.
· Development will bring jobs, economic benefit, new amenities to neighborhood.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., November 11, 2008 -- The Riverbend Transit Oriented Development at I-95 and Broward Boulevard will be home ...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FL., October 30, 2008 -- Another milestone has been reached in the development of Riverbend Corporate Park. Strayer University has leased an entire floor, 15,241 square feet, in the first completed building at Riverbend, where a new urban community is taking shape at the western edge of downtown Fort Lauderdale.
Strayer University will occupy the ground floor in the four-story, 67,000-square-foot Class A office building. The building is the first of six planned for the initial phase of the 100 -acre Riverbend Corporate Park, located at the northwest quadrant of ...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., September 17, 2008 -- With the completion of the first 67,000 -square-foot Class A office building at the Riverbend Transit Oriented Development (TOD), developer Amera-Barron today announced it is finalizing approvals for two additional four-story, Class A office buildings and an adjacent parking garage.
The project’s multi-modal transit hub is designed to streamline travel throughout Broward County’s central corridor. With I-95 ramp infrastructure and a Tri-Rail station in place, a proposed east-west light rail connector route on the boards, and its own internal trolley system, Riverbend is designed to be the ...
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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. , June 15, 2007 – One Charter Place, a $25 million Class A office center by Amera Urban Developers, is now open, marking the completion of the first phase of the Downtown Coral Springs project.
The dramatic, curving 4-story office, financial and retail center is located on a 3.9-acre site at University Drive and Sample Road. State Farm, the signature tenant, occupies 50,500 square feet, or approximately 50 percent of the building. Wachovia, Merrill Lynch, First Southern Bank, and a LasikPlus Vision Center are completing their build-outs ...
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City Commissioners voted in late June to approve a new project known simply as 300 Third (finally a return to simple addresses instead of names like Aura), a project which will be in many ways a marvelous change for this city.
Bustling Fort Lauderdale has seen its share of new multi-unit buildings over the past few years. Many of these have been worthy of praise and many others are quite simply not up to par for a growing city of this caliber. It seems we have begun to learn our lesson and avoid further high-rise "Bocatecture." ...
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Places that attract George Rahael represent Florida sprawl stereotypes. One spot, ostensibly a city’s main intersection, is no more than six lanes of asphalt separating a confluence of parking lots. Another site is a forgettable strip of tired shopping centers.
Rahael and his Amera Corp. aim to make the first - an intersection in northwest Broward’s Coral Springs - into a $300 million office-residential-retail downtown. The second, west Broward Boulevard just off I-95, will take another $300 million to reconfigure for offices. He’s also starting a $60-million retrofit of a branch bank site in east Boca ...
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George Rahael is helping to shape the future of western Broward. In Coral Springs, his development company is moving ahead to create a pedestrian-friendly “downtown” environment. A few miles to the east in Lauderhill, the founder and CEO of Coral Springs-based Amera Cos. plans to turn a vacant retail center into a one-of-a-kind mixed-use center with a Caribbean theme.“While west Broward has great homes, schools and playgrounds, people are yearning for a stronger sense of place,” Rahael says. “Today, suburban residents are seeking out places where they can walk, dine, shop and enjoy with their ...
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