Palm Beach has luxury Renaissance Hotel – BNN Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) — With roughly $2.5 billion currently invested in hotels along a few blocks of Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, it doesn’t take much to imagine how much more money is going back and forth along Florida’s south coast.

Throw in hospitality-focused real estate projects a bit further from the A1A Coastal Highway, and the total is likely to reach 11 figures. In recent years, new construction in the area has begun at a frenzy, fueling a boom in wealth that has made south Florida a national powerhouse. As a result, the lines between neighborhoods are blurred: Miami, Ball Harbor, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and Palm Beach now form an almost continuous (and consistently luxurious) seaside strip.

But one key difference between its southern and northern ends is that several of Miami’s projects will be under construction for years, while Palm Beach is preparing to cut ribbons on most of its high-profile openings this winter.

Here’s a look at five new and newly renovated “up north” getaways to add on your next visit.

Palm House

London-based Iconic Luxury Hotels (whose grand UK properties include the majestic Cliveden House and Chewton Glen) is crossing the pond and heading straight to Florida, where it’s reimagining the long-closed 1960s icon on Royal Palm Way. The 79-room hotel, expected to open in January, has a classic Palm Beach feel, with floor-to-ceiling seashell tapestries in the lobby, Slim Aarons photos lining the hallways and pink umbrellas and striped cabanas around the pool. Rooms honor the Palm House’s heyday with plenty of coral-green Art Deco accents. But dining options promise to be more global, with a Nikkei (Japanese-Peruvian) restaurant filling the old Palm House dining room.

Vineta

This Mediterranean revival building is nearly a century old, but now the Palm Beach landmark is getting a new lease of life as an Oetker Collection hotel, making it a sibling to the decadent Le Bristol in Paris and the Eden Rock in St. Barts. It will reopen in the first quarter of 2025 with details carefully preserved, notably the revived Leopard Lounge, a celebrity haunt from the 1950s, and 41 refurbished rooms. The company has been tight-lipped on details, relying on its impeccable reputation to generate buzz, but one thing’s for sure: the Mediterranean-style restaurant will add a little extra sparkle to the original palm-lined pool. And all this is a stone’s throw from Tony Worth Avenue.

Breakers

The old-money Palm Beach mainstay has invested in several upgrades of its own, adding a new $12 million recreational facility for tennis, padel and pickleball and reopening an exclusive hotel at the Flagler Club. The latter will have 21 rooms renovated by Tihany Design, which adds details such as embroidered wall coverings, trompe l’oeil stucco and a coastal color palette to blend the Breakers’ iconic Italianate Renaissance architecture with the resort’s cool beachfront location.

Boca Raton

It’s not technically Palm Beach, but it sure is close. And in December, Boca Raton’s legendary private club will unveil its $120 million Beach Club resort, with 210 rooms decked out in marble and velvet. It’s the latest installment in a four-year, nearly $300 million renovation of the sprawling Boca Raton resort complex — totaling 356 acres — aimed at replicating the mega-success of Bahamian tourism juggernaut Baha Mar. At the Beach Club, three new restaurants will include all-day Mediterranean concept Marisol and toes-in-the-sand Onda. Guests will also be able to take pink Vaporina-style longboats across the Intracoastal Waterway to the main Boca Raton campus, which features 706 guest rooms and suites in four hotels, as well as a golf course, 14 restaurants, a racquet club and an expansive pool complex. with a lazy river.

Worth seeing: Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa

This 1950s icon was recently purchased by billionaire Larry Ellison, whose growing hotel portfolio includes Nobu Ryokan Malibu and Four Seasons Resort Lanai. According to the statement, the co-founder of Oracle Corp. bought the resort for an undisclosed amount. While it’s now business as usual at the 7-acre beach resort, Ellison has brought in a Nobu pop-up for the winter season. In 2025, additional updates will surely appear.