The complex, which will be built on one acre in Downtown's historic, arts and entertainment district, will include 16,493 sf of ground-level retail fronting Brickell Avenue and Wall Street near Las Olas Riverfront, and six levels of parking. In addition, 522 spaces will provide a parking ratio for office space of four spaces per 1,000 sf.

"By adding the first significant new office space to the heart of the district, the complex will help link Downtown's government facilities and courthouses with the dynamic riverfront restaurants, shops and cultural institutions," Stiles Corp. president Doug Eagon says in a statement.

The offices will have views of the New River, Huizenga Park, the Oldtown Himmarshee district and Downtown. The development will be located adjacent to a nationally registered historic landmark. The project also will have a brick base and decorative features from the period between the 1910s and 1940s, such as friezes and corbels. The building's signature on the Downtown skyline will be a lighted, domed tower that imitates the dome on Fort Lauderdale's original courthouse. The development's designer is Architecture 6400, a division of Stiles Corp. Stiles Corp. divisions also will handle development, construction, office and retail leasing, and property management.

The project will offer office space for-sale and for lease, with the option to buy an entire floor, as much as 20,000 sf, according to Eagon. "This is the first time Stiles has utilized this approach, which provides purchasers a significant cost savings over constructing a stand-alone office building of similar size," he says.

The building will also feature advanced technology, such as fiber-optic and broadband capabilities, for businesses. Construction is set to start in the summer, after final city approvals are obtained and an existing building is demolished. The project is scheduled to be completed in summer 2005.

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