Donald Trump will build a 24 story, 298 room $200 million hotel condominium tower on 200 feet of Fort Lauderdale's oceanfront at North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard, just a few blocks from Las Olas Boulevard. Trump will partner with developer Roy Stillman of New York's Bayrock Merrimac LLC. Construction is anticipated to be completed in 2007. The project will bear the title Trump International Hotel and Tower Fort Lauderdale. The current plan is to build 298 Hotel Condominium Units of which 150 will be studios, 75 will be 1 bedroom units, 73 will be 2 bedroom units. Other firms involved in the project include Stiles Construction Co., Oscar I. Garcia AIA Architects, and Galleria Collection of Fine Homes. Donald John Trump, Sr. ... Nickname: Venice of America Location of Fort Lauderdale in Broward County, Florida. ... Las Olas is the most popular street in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lined with blocks of trendy shops, restaurants and hotels. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...

According to reports, the site is cleared at 551 North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard. Construction is underway on the site where the 1950's Merrimac and Gold Coast hotels once stood. This is just south of The Atlantic, which is already open, and W and Q Club, (now called Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort and scheduled to open August 2006), which are under construction nearby as of May 2006.

External Links

• Emporis Page
• Trump Organization
• Trump Organization's Trump International Hotel and Tower Fort Lauderdale page