1.17.2025
Uptown Harbour
Talk about a big idea! The development team at Dezer Development envisioned the redevelopment of the Intracoastal Mall around a harbour. The problem – no harbour. That detail became a design inspiration. The development team hired Zyscovitch to design a plan that brought the Intracoastal Waterway into the property to serve as the central design feature of a stunning new plan for an old shopping center.
The plan features 575,000 square feet of retail and office uses and 250 hotel rooms, 2000 residential units.
Our firm served as co-counsel with Holland & Knight through the entitlements phase.
We served as lead litigation and appellate counsel to successfully defend several challenges that were brought in a failed attempt to derail the development.
At issue were complex matters relating to transportation planning, access, heights, density, and intensity.
The case resulted in a published decision styled E. Shores Prop. Owners Ass’n v. City of N. Miami Beach, No. 2021-02-AP, 2022 WL 203209 (Fla. 11th Cir. Ct. Jan. 10, 2022). Here’s a link to the decision.
