Redevelopment Agency (MCRA) approved an agreement with South Florida’s New Urban Communities for development of a 36-acre mixed use town center at State Road 7 and Margate Boulevard. The plan will provide 968 apartment units, 100,000 sq. ft. of retail and restaurants, an 80+ room hotel, and numerous civic uses–all within walking distance of each other.
“We are pleased to partner with the Margate CRA to create a pedestrian friendly new city center,” states Timothy L. Hernandez, AICP, Principal of New Urban Communities. “The Margate City Center will be a beautiful and interesting place that Margate residents can be proud of, with lots to see and do. It will be a place that attracts new businesses and residents to Margate, and serve as a catalyst for additional redevelopment.”
New Urban Communities is one of South Florida’s most successful developers of urban infill and redevelopment projects, with projects ranging from less than one acre to 145 acres in size, including many mixed use communities. For this project they’ve engaged award-winning architects Dover-Kohl & Partners to design a sustainable community with a mix of uses and building types, an interconnected network of walkable streets, and architecture that will reinforce a distinctive sense of place.