UPDATE: Developers advanced plans to build Blue Park, an eight-story rental complex with 173 units in Hallandale Beach, two blocks west of the Gulfstream Park racetrack and casino.
The Hallandale Beach City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a site plan for Blue Park and rezone, on second reading, one of four parcels in the development site on Southeast Eighth Street and Ninth Street.
Construction of Blue Park is expected to start in the second quarter of 2026, Aventura-based developer Bryan Cohen said. He and his brother, Jonathan Cohen, are developing Blue Park on a site they assembled last year.
The Cohen brothers acquired the 1.5-acre, four-parcel site through their Aventura-based company Blue Park LLC. They paid a total of $5.4 million for 216, 220 and 228 Southeast Eighth Street and 221 Southeast Ninth Street in Hallandale Beach, according to state and county records.
Blue Park is designed as two eight-story apartment buildings connected by a parking garage with a swimming pool on top.
The 173 apartments would include studios and both one-bedroom and two-bedroom units with several floor plans, including units with dens, lanai-style apartments and townhouses.
The market-rate monthly rents at Blue Park would start at $1,950 for a studio apartment, Cohen said.
Spread throughout the development, and across all three types of units, would be 28 units reserved as rent-restricted affordable housing for buyers who earn up to 140 percent of the area median income.
On the block just north of the Blue Park site, Kadima Developers is developing an eight-story, 121-unit condominium called Seven Park at 218-220 Southeast Seventh Street. Alejandro Chaberman and Joseph Melul are co-founders of Kadima.
Construction of Seven Park is scheduled to start in October. Kadima assigned Fortune Development Sales to lead sales and marketing of units with prices starting at $375,000. The ground floor of the mixed-use development will have a quartet of 4,500-square-foot retail spaces.
Bryan Cohen said he and his brother Jonthan retained Chaberman as a consultant for their Blue Park rental development.
Chaberman is also a co-founder of Grupo Eco, which developed Atlantic Village, a mixed-use property in Hallandale Beach with restaurants, retail stores, and office space. Located next to Jeffrey Soffer’s Big Easy Casino, Atlantic Village covers three blocks on the west side of Federal Highway between Northeast 6th Street and Atlantic Shores Boulevard.
(This updated version of an article published earlier correctly identifies Bryan Cohen and Jonathan Cohen as the developers of Blue Park, a 173-unit rental apartment complex in Hallandale Beach, and Alejandro Chaberman as a consultant for the Blue Park development. This updated version also correctly identifies Blue Park as a rental development.)