The project includes 140,000 sf of restaurant and retail space, and 100,000 sf of office space. The Walk has 11 restaurants and outdoor cafes, a 27,000-sf Barnes & Noble, several shops, as well as offices for corporate and professional service tenants.
Among the commercial tenants are: Coldwell Banker Real Estate Inc., Prudential Securities Inc., National Search and Symbol Technology. Restaurants include national chains such as Longhorn Steaks, Hops, Quiznos, Baja Fresh, and Starbucks, as well as local eateries like Café Amalfi, Peking Tokyo, Grains of Olde, TooJays and Gold Coast Grill.
The Walk consists of two newly built three-story office/retail buildings along with two recently renovated office buildings, totaling 115,000 sf, that formerly comprised Coral Springs Trade Center. The existing complex was seldom more than 70% leased.
The design team included architect Derek Vander Ploeg of Vander Ploeg & Associates and landscape architect Fred Stresau of Stresau Smith & Stresau PA. Charlie Ladd and the Barron Real Estate Inc. staff handled leasing for the project.
The Walk is part of a trend that creates interactive destinations by mixing land uses and making pedestrians, not vehicles, the focus, according to George Rahael, president of Amera Corp., the project's developer. The development manager is Barron Commercial Development. In a public/private partnership, Amera and the city plan to develop a 3.3 million-sf livable town center district at the intersection of Sample Road and University Drive.
A few blocks north of The Walk, Coral Springs' downtown initiative will entail integrating new development with existing buildings into an around-the-clock, mixed-use village including office, retail, hotel, residential, leisure, institutional and educational uses.
In October 2001, the city formed a Community Redevelopment Agency, which planned for the project to begin early next year. This project will take place on 40 acres on all four quadrants of the intersection. The city's new downtown is master-planned for an eight- to 10-year build-out, according to Rahael.
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