Fort Lauderdale is set to welcome one of its largest new residential projects. Drilling has begun at 300 NE 3rd Avenue, where Ombelle is rising as two 44-story towers holding 754 residences in the center of Flagler Village, a development spanning about 1.46 million square feet.
ODA Architecture, the New York firm behind boundary-pushing residential work across Brooklyn and Manhattan, is handling architecture, interiors, and landscape in-house. More than 11,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space activates the base along NE 3rd Avenue.
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More than 100,000 square feet of amenities sit above the retail floors. Morning light crosses one pool deck while a second catches the sunset, and residents drift between ceramic-clad kitchens, a golf simulator, and the shock of a cold plunge. Pickleball courts, a podcast studio, and a pet spa round out the upper floors.
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A 35,000-square-foot Equinox anchors the wellness side, the club’s first location in Fort Lauderdale and in Broward County. The gym was announced ahead of groundbreaking.
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“We’re building for people who want to live, work, and recover in one place, not commute across the city for it,” said a principal at Dependable Equities, the South Florida arm of New York based Sky Equity Group. The firm has been stacking a Fort Lauderdale pipeline with ODA as its design partner, including a sculptural 47-story tower planned at 633 SE Third Avenue and a 45-story mixed-use tower at 101 SE 7th Street along the New River.
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Flagler Village is where much of downtown Fort Lauderdale’s residential surge is landing. Broward County has drawn a steady stream of wealth and finance migration out of the Northeast, and the district’s supply of new luxury towers has struggled to keep pace with demand. Ombelle joins a corridor filling fast, from FAT Village, the $500 million arts district taking shape on 5.6 acres, to the Viceroy-branded twin towers Naftali Group is planning nearby.
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Completion is expected in 2028, by which point Flagler Village will look less like a warehouse fringe and more like the vertical heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale.