Foundation Work Underway on 21-Story Alida Residences and Tribute Portfolio Hotel in West Palm Beach
Foundation work is underway at 524 Datura Street in West Palm Beach, where a 21-story tower is taking shape a short walk from the city’s Brightline station. Alida Residences and Tribute Portfolio by Marriott, as the project is known, is being developed by LD&D and IGEQ, who broke ground over the summer and plan to start vertical construction soon. The site sits in a part of downtown that is already busy with new development. Getting here took years. According to Palm Beach property data, the developers finished assembling the multi-parcel site in 2022 for nearly $5 million, then worked through a multiyear process that included rezoning, a pause during the pandemic and a redesign. The rezoning raised the site’s floor-area ratio from 2.75 to 6.5 in exchange for a hospitality component, which is why a hotel shares the property with the apartments. Kast Construction, the project’s general contractor, says foundation crews are working with auger cast piles, sheet piles and tangent piles, the groundwork that has to be in place before vertical construction can begin. From there, the tower will rise 21 floors, reaching roughly 230 feet at its tallest point. View this post on Instagram A post shared by KAST Construction (@kastconstruction) The residential and hotel uses may look like a single building, but they will be built separately as two independent properties. Alida Residences will offer 181 units, from studios to three-bedrooms ranging from 500 to more than 2,000 square feet, and the developers say it will include the first rooftop pool in West Palm Beach alongside other high-end amenities. On the eastern side of the property, Tribute Portfolio Hotel will have 112 rooms. The project also fills a gap in the downtown pipeline. Alida is the first high-rise multifamily project to break ground in Downtown West Palm Beach since the Laurel, a luxury development by Related Ross. FrontRange Capital partnered with the developers as the capital and investment partner, and its CEO, David Robertson, framed the deal around supply. He said the tower brings “much-needed high-rise rental inventory” to a market where demand has outpaced it, pointing to strong office and hospitality investment downtown but very little new multifamily. When finished, the tower will be the second on its block, part of a wave of transit-oriented development in West Palm Beach and in other cities that gained stations along Brightline’s route.
Plans Filed for 44-Story Tower on Size-Constrained Brickell Lot at 150 SW 7th Street
Few lots in Brickell are as small as this one, and few proposals are as tall. A 44-story, 537-foot residential tower has just been proposed at 150 SW 7th Street, on a site of just 0.4 acres. The developer, 150 158 SW 7th Street, LLC, recently filed plans with the county for the 200-unit project, which was designed by Behar Font Partners. If built, it would be the latest in a series of proposals for a parcel that has changed hands several times. That turnover runs back to 2016, with another trade in 2025 and the most recent in August 2026, when the site sold for $12.5 million. The latest deal was between Habitat Group, a well-known Brickell developer behind several projects including Smart Brickell, and 150 158 SW 7th Street LLC. The proposal hinges on a recent zoning change. The property was just granted an RTZ designation, which allows added density and height and also opens the door to administrative approval. In practice, that means planning department staff can sign off on the project without it going before public boards. What’s Planned Inside, the tower would hold 200 units, ranging from one-bedrooms and one-bedrooms with dens to two- and three-bedrooms. Most of the shared space sits high up. The 27th floor has 6,750 square feet of indoor amenities, and the roof on level 44 adds another 4,330 square feet along with a pool deck. The base of the building will not include ground-floor retail, featuring only a lobby and garage enterances. Instead, a multi-story podium will hold 241 parking spaces, most of them in lifts, a setup the lot’s size calls for. Above the parking, two floors will be devoted to 15,730 square feet of daycare space. From there, the tower rises 537 feet, which would place it among the tallest buildings in the area. Elevations show a modern design with floor-to-ceiling windows, glass balconies, a white stucco facade, and a podium wrapped in an architectural prefab screen. At 537 feet, the tower would need sign-off from the FAA, an approval that is expected. Height is not a major obstacle in this part of the city, since Brickell and portions of Downtown Miami have allowed towers reaching 1,049 feet. Land in Brickell keeps getting scarcer and more expensive, and proposals on compact lots like this one may become more common as a result. Large assemblages on the scale of Brickell City Centre, meanwhile, could largely become a thing of the past, short of immense capital like the kind of deals by buyers such as Ken Griffin.