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Bring on the Mandarin at Via Mizner; the Other Midtown in Delray

Boca Raton Magazine
Published on 01.16.2018

The Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Boca Raton and Mandarin Oriental, Boca Raton

More than two years after the Boca Raton City Council approved Via Mizner 2 and 3, construction should start soon on the Mandarin Oriental hotel and the adjoining luxury condos that will have privileges at the hotel.

That’s the word from Al Piazza, senior vice-president of development for Penn-Florida Companies. We spoke in late December. The two buildings will join Via Mizner’s first phase —the 366-unit apartment building at Camino Real and Federal Highway. The Mandarin Oriental will be in the middle, with the condos at the north end. All three buildings will face the Boca Raton Resort & Club.

The project, which the company has called “an urban resort,” will bring a new level of distinction to Boca Raton. Mandarin Oriental has only one other location in Florida—Miami—and just five elsewhere in the United States—New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Las Vegas. The chain’s roughly two dozen foreign locations range from Hong Kong to Morocco to Barcelona.

And it all happened, Piazza said, because Penn-Florida President and CEO Mark Gensheimer made a cold call to Mandarin Oriental.

“He was trying to figure out what to do with the project and wanted to give a sense of what the community is all about,” Piazza told me. “He saw a void for a five-star hotel and made the call. That started a dialogue.”

Penn-Florida will own the building and Mandarin will operate the hotel, which Piazza said is typical of properties with the Mandarin brand. It will have 164 rooms and suites. That’s fewer than Miami but more than Atlanta and Boston.

The number of condos was 104 when the council approved the project. It dropped to 85 and settled at 92 as Penn-Florida adjusted the layout. Units will range in size from 1,400 square feet to 9,000 square feet—for the penthouse—and from $2 million to $20 million.

Just who will own those condos may surprise you. Conventional wisdom might be that most buyers would be from outside this area. Actually, Piazza said, he now expects that between 50 percent and 60 percent will be from Boca Raton or just outside the city.

“They’re older and living on the beach or a golf course,” Piazza said, “and want a newer product and less to worry about.” Piazza also rattles off the number of Michelin stars earned by Mandarin restaurants. The brand has had more stars combined than any other hotel chain since at least 2014, according to news reports.

Condos sales are “going really well,” Piazza said, though he declined to give specifics. “We are higher than we thought we’d be” at this point. For the sales center of what the company calls the Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Penn-Florida spent $3.5 million to buy and remake what used to be Old Town Tavern behind the old City Hall.

Council approval of the project was unanimous. Penn-Florida got permission for added height in exchange for adhering to downtown architectural guidelines. The only issue of note was parking. The three buildings will share parking and Penn-Florida has presented a valet plan for the hotel and the condos, which the city had requested.

Piazza said the construction loan for Via Mizner 2 and 3 is $400 million. Penn-Florida hopes to finish the hotel in late 2019, but Piazza said the date “probably” would be early 2020 with the condos “two or three months behind.” He predicts “sporadic” closings of Federal Highway.

Via Mizner 2 and 3 mostly will complete the redevelopment of downtown Boca Raton that began with the Boca City Walk rental complex and the Trader Joe’s plaza on the west side of Federal Highway. The hotel and condos will displace two buildings whose design looks like a combination of Arabian Nights and Boogie Nights. As Penn-Florida markets the project, the company essentially is marketing Boca Raton. It’s a measure of how far the city has come.

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