A six-story condominium with 12 spacious houses in resort has passed its final approval and can now continue with the construction of the former Bahama club on the Miracle Mile of Naples.
The City Design Review Board on January 22nd unanimously approved KT Naples Owner LLCS final design review for Olana, 1121 Gulf Shore BLVD. N., the spacious 9,000 to 10,000 square meters of condominiums with five bedrooms, each with a sauna, a steam bath, a hot and cold fall pool and a private garage.
DRB members praised the building, the landscaping plans and the views of Golf and found that the landscape architect Maggie Watts and the architect Pinar Harris heard their concerns last summer when they asked for more robust and interesting plantings and changed construction design.
“You created A BOtanian GArden, ”said DRB chairman Steve Hruby to Watts from Enea Garden Design Inc. by Miami.“ It is something special and will improve your building. “
“… This is a refreshing change in the type of condominiums we have received,” said Hruby, architect, Harris, who works for the global design company 10SB architects in coral forks. “It is a new architecture company that goes hand in hand with an international perspective. I like the interaction of the horizontal and vertical. It is nicely proportioned and their use of materials is very elegant, very reserved. “
The 2.52 hectare property is located on a 220 foot Gulf of Mexico beach, which was originally developed in the late 1950s as a 36-unit low-rise owner apartment, the Bahama Club. After it had significantly damaged by the hurricane Ian, the real estate developer of Delray Beach, the Kolter Group and Miami-based BH Group, a private equity company. Bought it for 102.6 million US dollars in spring 2024. Soon afterwards, a demolition permit was granted to eliminate the location of all existing structures, driveways, sidewalks, vegetation and supply companies, and the location was destroyed last summer and autumn.
The area is next to the 150-home Naples Beach Club, a Four Seasons Resort, And the 42-house Rosewood Residences Naples in the north, where Construction started in September. It is bordered by the two -story condominiums on the oceanide in the south, nine -story via Delfino in Coquina Sands in the north, the Gulf of Mexico in the west and the Golf Shore Boulevard to the north in the east.
Plans show that there will be two condominiums on each of the six floors over a garage and a parking deck on the floor level. The building will sit with A in the middle of the site lobby Entrance, guest parking spaces in the east and the pool and pool deck in the west. The apartment The building includes a lobby with concierge, hiking trails, benches, a theater, a club room and a conference room. Condominiums will offer a family room, a kitchen, a formal restaurant and a play room. The condominiums in the east include a Spa fitness studio component.
“Although the zoning code enables us to have 18 units per morning, which results on 45 units on the site, we only suggest 12,” Harris told DRB and noticed that this reduced a reduced reduction in the Bahama club is.
In order to offer a great arrival experience, the building is reset 182 feet from the road, at least the at least 45 feet required and the main entrance doors are flanked by Inground Reflective Pools. Within the arrival area, residents and visitors have a spacious view of the Gulf of Mexico. In the west there is a sunset garden that leads to a covered lounge area outdoors, a swimming pool with sun shelves and laps, a fireplace, seating, a sunken lounge, cabanas and lawn seats.
The building contains Rime prevention through environmental design Principles, especially about entrances. Access is checked, blind spots were Elimited, And inputs are illuminated.
Watts said there were 18 types of trees – the largest that can be transported – for a “lavish tropical feeling”. The color palette, she said, was mostly green, with white flowering plants, some sunset orange tones with bougainvillea and bird of paradise as well as purple and water features.
DRB members praised the changes made since August.
“It is like a park, a botanical garden in the front half of my property, which I can enjoy, and then reach the back where I have an entire beach resort pool,” said DRB member Sabrina McCabe, a landscape Architect that praised the color and texture layers.
The DRB member Doug Haghey, a broker, quoted the flow of landscape design styles and described the back area as the “tropical oasis”. He praised the unique architectural features of the building and added: “I wish that there were more projects that had thought about as much as this.”