Florida of Tomorrow

A Mediterranean-style café and crêperie has officially opened its doors in West Palm Beach's buzzing Flamingo Park District. Salt n Sugar, a concept by three longtime colleagues and friends, is a relaxed gathering place built around crêpes made to order in savory and sweet versions, with an espresso program founded on a gold-medal blend from La Genovese, the Italian family roaster at it since 1936. It lands on the same stretch where Emelina earned a Michelin star in May as the first Cuban restaurant ever to do so. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/eVGVBWtr

The first-ever standalone Four Seasons residences in Colorado have just been officially unveiled in Denver, with Cherry Creek, A Four Seasons Private Residence, putting 42 homes in an eight-story building in the city's most established luxury neighborhood. With no hotel in the building, the dedicated Four Seasons team runs 24-hour concierge, housekeeping, valet, and in-residence dining for the owners alone, with global architecture firm 10 Design behind the building and Tihany Design's Alessia Genova shaping the interiors around one- to three-bedroom homes. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/ezVp2Gsk

Raffles Hotels & Resorts' first-ever standalone branded residences anywhere in the world have just been officially unveiled on South Bayshore Drive in Miami's historic bayside neighborhood, with 35 private residences and a limited number of penthouses. Brandon Haw Architecture is designing Raffles Residences Coconut Grove for Mast Capital and BH Group Miami, carrying the Raffles name and its service to homeowners, with every owner receiving global VIP recognition at Raffles properties and Elite status in ALL Accor across more than 5,800 hotels and resorts. Sales are anticipated to launch this fall. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/eDHixiJe

A 14-story Oppenheim Architecture-designed rental tower with 305 homes has just been unveiled by The Allen Morris Company in West Palm Beach. Allen Morris, the Coral Gables developer behind the world-class Ponce Park and Ziggurat projects, is bringing the Pine Street Residences to the city's emerging residential corridor next door to Shorecrest, Olara, Currie Park, the Rosewood Residences and the Ritz-Carlton Residences, pitched at young professionals. The residences are set around a park and a monumental banyan tree, with a curated dining concept and retail on the ground floor. Construction is anticipated to start late next year, with completion targeted for late 2029. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/eCyscPWH

The Nora Hotel, the 201-key hotel from the team behind Hotel Chelsea, The Bowery Hotel and The Mercer, has officially welcomed its first guests in West Palm Beach's new $1 billion Nora District, the group's first ground-up hotel anywhere outside New York. Christine and John Gachot designed the Leading Hotels of the World member as a reinterpretation of Spanish Colonial Revival with nods to Flagler, Mizner and the grand hotels of Palm Beach, while James Beard Award winner Stephen Starr brings New York's Pastis and Jack's Bar to the ground floor, Lillys crowns the roof with a pool deck, bar and restaurant from the team behind Palm Beach & Nantucket hotspot Mary Lou's, with Florida's first Sisley Spa inside. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/eFGRGuis

Archer Aviation has just officially unveiled plans for three electric air taxi networks across the Texas Triangle of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin, with routes designed to turn 60-to-90-minute drives into 10-to-20-minute flights. Midnight, the all-electric aircraft meant to fly them, is a piloted eVTOL that lifts off from a pad rather than a runway, and much of the plan leans on helipads that already exist: Houston's network runs from the Thompson Hotel helipad downtown out to coastal Galveston, while Austin's links Bergstrom to the helipad at Circuit of the Americas, which is exactly where the news landed in the middle of Formula 1 weekend. Midnight is parked in the Fan Zone at Circuit of the Americas through race day on October 25, where anyone with a Grand Prix ticket can walk right up to it. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/ejHYFnGN

Tradewind Aviation, the private carrier that pioneered the shared charter, is officially launching a daily non-stop from Fort Lauderdale to Nassau with no TSA line at either end, the first Nassau service in its schedule to fly seven days a week. The route flies Pilatus PC-12s with two pilots out of Fort Lauderdale's Sheltair FBO into Odyssey Aviation's private terminal in Nassau, so passengers arrive an hour before departure, hand their bags to the crew and walk straight to the aircraft. It rounds out a Fort Lauderdale lineup that already reaches North Eleuthera and Marsh Harbour, three years after Tradewind opened its Southeast base and quadrupled its flights across the region. The first departure is set for December 10, 2026, with seats on sale now at flytradewind.com Explore more: https://lnkd.in/eMwu_754

Ponce Park, The Allen Morris Company's boutique Coral Gables condominium, has just officially unveiled its ultra-luxury eight-residence Penthouse Collection, with three of the eight already sold. The penthouses crown an 11-story building of just 58 homes, each opening from a private elevator onto a deep terrace with its own summer kitchen and outdoor bar. Every resident will share a rooftop pool, a sky bar and a private rooftop lounge overlooking Coral Gables, with Madrid's Quintín Ultramarinos announced as the first restaurant on the street below. Sales are open now through ONE Sotheby's International Realty at the Ponce Park Sales Gallery, at the corner of Ponce de Leon Boulevard and University Drive. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/ecYUXFbu

Little Ruby's, the all-day New York cafe modeled on the beach cafes of Northern Sydney, is officially coming to CityPlace in West Palm Beach, its second location outside New York after its Dallas location earlier this year. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/eXSXQXhj

Sophia, a Sophia Loren-inspired disco lounge and nightclub, is officially opening this Friday, October 23, in downtown West Palm Beach, for guests ages 23 and over. Jeremiah Pitts, a West Palm Beach local, is setting the glamour of the Italian actress against the energy of disco, with the early hour extending until 3 a.m. VIP tables carry bottle service, food arrives through partnerships with local favorites, and a membership brings exclusive events and social hours inside a more intimate circle than the general room. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/ee4u7fxN