Planning board approves 15-story, 246-key hotel at 804 S. Federal Highway

The Hallandale Beach Planning and Zoning Board on Jan. 26 approved a major development plan to build a 15-story, 246-key hotel at 804 South Federal Highway, granting waivers from several street- and setback-related requirements and attaching conditions including impact-fee payments and sidewalk, landscaping and operational requirements.

City planner Christie Dominguez summarized staff’s recommendation at the Planning and Zoning hearing, saying the application seeks “to build a 15 story hotel with 246 keys” on a vacant 0.77-acre corner lot at Federal Highway and Southeast Eighth Street. Dominguez told the board staff found the development generally complies with the major-development standards but identified multiple redevelopment-area modifications needed for setbacks, loading dimensions, parking-layout rules and perimeter landscaping.

The project applicant, identified in the record as Hallandale Hotel Holdings LLC (doing business with Prime Group), presented the design as a dual-branded hotel with ground-floor restaurant space, a plaza-style civic open space at the Federal Highway/Eighth Street corner, podium parking, guest…