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Witkin Hults Design Group Retained to Design Exterior Environment for $500 million Sheridan Station, Broward’s first Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
Hollywood: Witkin Hults Design Group, landscape architecture firm based here, has been retained by Ram Development Company, Ft. Lauderdale, and Pinnacle Housing Group, Miami, to design all exterior features for the $500 million Sheridan Station, which will be Broward County’s first Transit-Oriented Community (TOD).
Located adjacent to Tri-Rail’s Sheridan Street Station, 2900 Sheridan St., the 40-acre project will include 1,050 residential units, 300,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 299,000 square feet of office space, a 150-room hotel, a 793-space parking garage to serve the Tri-Rail station, and a six-acre live oak hammock that developers will donate to the city for use as a public park.
Witkin Hults has been charged with visually integrating the diverse components to give the project a unified appearance. Hardscapes of concrete pavers in different sizes, patterns, and shades of color will give each building/entryway a distinctive profile while establishing a signature look for Sheridan Station’s overall exterior environment, says Juan R. Pacheco, Witkin Hults Senior Project Manager.
“Major water features defining the central plaza will include a 24-by-10-foot mirrored water wall and a 15-by-15-foot stainless steel landmark feature of interlocking S shapes sitting on an 800-square-foot round water basin,” Pacheco says. “Native royal palms and street furniture will provide shaded rest areas. Walkways and bikeways will link all the project elements to the Tri-Rail station.”
In keeping with the project’s pro-environment character—it is one of six Florida projects chosen by the U.S. Green Building Council for its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Neighborhood Development pilot program—Witkin Hults worked closely with civil engineers Carter & Burgess, Fort Lauderdale, to design a road through the live oak hammock that will preserve every single tree. They also prepared a very detailed relocation program in order to keep the best trees and relocate them to the project’s public spaces.
The project is due to break ground early next year and will be developed in phases over the next 10 years. Twenty percent of all residential units in Sheridan Station will be workforce housing.
The project is expected to generate the equivalent of 2,150 full-time jobs with at least an $80 million annual payroll, plus millions of dollars in new annual city and county tax revenues.
Witkin Hults Design Group is a nationally-recognized landscape architecture firm which designs recreational amenities and exterior environments for hotels, resorts, and commercial, industrial, mixed-use and residential projects throughout Florida, the Caribbean and Central America.