WHAT'S NEW in Greater Fort Lauderdale
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WHAT’S NEW in Greater Fort Lauderdale Hotels, restaurants, attractions, shops and many other businesses throughout the region have committed to the Visit Lauderdale Safe + Clean Pledge ensuring practices and protocols are followed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. For visitor guidelines and local policies visit sunny.org/healthadvisory. Take advantage of special savings offered throughout Greater Fort Lauderdale. Visit Lauderdale’s LauderDeals offers spectacular hotel packages, restaurants specials, savings on attractions and limited time only promotions on experiences. NEW ON THE SCENE The Hyatt Centric Las Olas offers 238 guest rooms boasting city skyline views from downtown Fort Lauderdale. The lobby-level Harborwood Urban Kitchen & Bar serves classic, modern-American cuisine. Elev8 rooftop features a pool deck and bar with panoramic views.
NEW ON THE SCENE
The newly reconstructed Pompano Beach Fishing Pier, now known as
the Fisher Family Pier, features shade structures, benches, marine-
related artwork, Wi-Fi and an underwater camera for watching fish.
The end of the pier is also built in the shape of a Pompano fish.
Sistrunk Marketplace & Brewery, a 24,000-square-foot indoor food
hall, mixed-use event space and retail concept, opened in the heart of
Fort Lauderdale’s historic Sistrunk. The newly opened property features
a myriad of food vendors including: Bronte Café, The Chop Shoppe,
The Empanada Bodega, Fuoco Roman Pizza, Heavenly Raw, Hot Lime
Craft Tacos and Ceviche, Kasai + Koori Asian Deserts, Needa’ Pita,
Nellie’s Country Kitchen, OSOM Crepes, Poke OG and Senbazuru
Ramen. In addition, there are several private and shared event spaces;
a DJ and production music academy – Wired Sound Academy, and a
co-op style retail boutique – SistrunKollective. Khoffner Brewery and
Shady Distillery will also be opening inside the venue this fall.
Unit B Eatery + Spirits, a speakeasy-themed bar PRIMADONNA Ristorante e Bar, a new Italian
and restaurant, has opened in Pembroke Pines. The experience in Fort Lauderdale, serves traditional
tapas-style restaurant serves 30 cocktails. and inventive twists of Italian classics paired with a
curated all-Italian wine list.
The Old Riverhouse Vegan Village, a vegan comfort
food restaurant, opened inside the Old Riverhouse Papa’s Raw Bar in Lighthouse Point recently
along Fort Lauderdale’s historic Riverwalk. Built unveiled its new lounge called The Barrel Room,
in 1903, it is the second-oldest building in the city featuring elevated, smoked Papa’s Old-Fashioned
(behind the 1901 Stranahan House). cocktails, an oyster and seafood bar and a
charcuterie menu.
Cleveland’s Old Fashion Ice Cream opened
in Miramar. The ice cream parlour features 52 Chick’nCone, the fast-casual to-go restaurant
homemade ice cream flavors including six vegan featuring crispy air-fried chicken in a waffle cone,
options, birch beer and soda floats. opened in Fort Lauderdale’s MASS District.
COMING SOON
Yeasty Brews Artisanal Beers opens in Hotel Maren Fort Lauderdale Beach,
Lauderhill this fall. The craft brewery and a Curio Collection by Hilton, a new
restaurant will offer small batch beers brewed 229,000-square-foot, 12-story hotel with 136
with all-natural fruits, spices and herbs. luxurious resort rooms, oversize balconies and
breathtaking ocean views, is scheduled to
The new 101-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by open in December 2020. Amenities include
Marriott Boca Raton-Deerfield Beach opens a VIP lounge, Ocean Club, 5th floor Pool and
in Deerfield Beach in October 2020. Pool Bar, meeting rooms and a state-of-the-
art fitness center.
The new 104-room Cambria Hotel & Suites
Fort Lauderdale Beach will offer ocean The historic Escape Hotel is being
views, a meeting room, coffee bar, pool deck transformed into the Gale Fort Lauderdale
and fitness room, opening late 2020. Beach. The 96-room boutique hotel will
feature a rooftop sky deck with pool, spa,
The new 137-room Courtyard Fort private beach club and fitness center.
Lauderdale Downtown is scheduled to open Opening in 2020.
in December 2020.
ON THE HORIZON
A $1 billion expansion of the Greater Fort Lauderdale/
Broward County Convention Center is underway. Phase
one opens October 2021 with 350,000 sq. ft. of contiguous
exhibit space. Full completion is projected for 2024. This
sensational venue will be even bigger and better with a total
of 1.2 million sq. ft. of meeting space, including 65,000 sq.
ft. waterfront ballroom, a new expansive waterfront plaza,
new dining concepts, enhanced water taxi access and an
800-room headquarters hotel.
The Abbey, part restaurant and part nightlife/
entertainment venue, opens in early 2021 inside a
transformed church in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
The highly anticipated Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar is expected to open in early
2021 on Las Olas Blvd. in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Chef-partner Guillermo Pernot
promises a modern take on Havana-inspired dishes.
Dual-Branded Tru by Hilton and Home2 Suites by Hilton is expected to open in February
2021 in Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village. Upon completion, the 19-story hotel will have
112 Tru guest rooms and 106 Home2 Suites guest rooms. The property will feature two
distinctive lobbies – each of which will have its own breakfast bar, lounge and other brand-
specific amenities. It will also offer an outdoor pool deck complimented by an outdoor bar,
a fitness center and 4,843 square feet of private event and conference space.
ON THE HORIZON
AC Hotels by Marriott Fort
Lauderdale Downtown is expected
to open in Spring 2021. The hotel will
boast ocean views, an open kitchen
for European-style breakfast and
specialty culinary events, a library,
an expansive resort-style pool with
cabanas and dining services and
1,000 square feet of meeting space.
AC Hotels by Marriott Fort
Lauderdale Sawgrass Mills/Sunrise, a new 174-room hotel in Sunrise adjacent
to the Sawgrass Mills outlet shopping center, is expected to open in spring
2021. The eight-story hotel will have 174 rooms, an arts-focused library, lounge
with tapas-style menu and craft beers and cocktails, health and fitness center,
rooftop restaurant and offer 2,500 square feet of meeting space.
Tru by Hilton and Hilton Home2Suites is scheduled to open a 150-room hotel with a rooftop bar in Pompano
Beach Fishing Village in April 2021.
The Old Sistrunk Distillery is forecast to open in 2021 in Fort Lauderdale’s historic Sistrunk neighborhood. A
partnership between rapper, singer and songwriter Flo Rida and businessman and ex-rapper Victor G. Harvey,
the distillery will produce the duo’s new Victor George Vodka, along with gin, whiskey, tequila and other specialty
liqueurs. The public will have access with a tasting room, cigar bar, a wine lounge and meeting and event space.
Florida House restaurant and bar will open in 2021 in Fort Lauderdale. The building will be reminiscent of an
Ernest Hemingway-like house with outdoor seating.
A South Florida icon for more than 50 years, Pier Sixty-Six Hotel & Marina is going through a total
reimagination of the destination. Upon completion, the hotel will have 345 guest rooms and suites, multi-level
pool experience with family and adult areas, lobby lounge, Pier Top lounge, spa, fitness center, kids club, marina
promenade and residential offerings. The hotel is officially closed, but the marina, Pelican Landing and Grille 66
remain open, welcoming guests and boaters. Expected reopening is set for 2022.
A new 23-story Four Seasons is opening in late 2022 with 130 guest rooms and 90 residences, two restaurants,
a spa, fitness center, children’s recreation room, “Beach Butlers” and ballroom and meeting facilities.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION,
VISIT SUNNY.ORG/WHATSNEW
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