Himmarshee Landing

Owner: Las Olas Place II
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Cost: $15 million
Contractor: Moss/Miller Joint Venture, a joint venture of Moss Construction and Miller Construction Co., Fort Lauderdale.
Architect: PGAL Architects

Himmarshee Landing showcases a five-story, 48,000-sq.-ft. retail office building with a neo-Mediterranean style. The attached five-level parking garage accommodates 213 vehicles.

Wrapped around the parking garage are nine high-end, three-story residential town homes ranging from 2,100 sq. ft. to 3,700 sq. ft. An additional 9,500 sq. ft. of retail space completes the overall 167,000-sq.-ft. building.

The Himmarshee Landing project is located on downtown Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas Boulevard, an area known for upscale shopping and dining. To address the tight, urban site, Moss/Miller built the project in three phases to establish staging areas for each phase.

The office building was built in the first phase, using the west side of the site for laydown. During the second phase, trades used the east side of the site to stage materials for the parking garage. Town homes were built in the third and final phase.

Moss/Miller self-performed the concrete work, providing the owner with $500,000 in budget savings.

Nielsen Media Research Corporate Offices

Owner: Nielsen Media Research
Location: Oldsmar, Fla.
Contractor: Hardin Construction Co., Tampa
Architect: Alfonso Architects, Tampa

Nielsen Media Research has located its new campus on 39 acres located in the middle of a natural preserve, with the expressed goal of consolidating more than 900 employees from various satellite offices in Pinellas County into one highly efficient facility.

The phased project includes six buildings, each custom-built to specific requirements. The project totaled approximately 778,340 sq. ft.

Phase one of the project included construction of a 45,000-sq.-ft., four-story building that houses Nielsen's technical facility and is designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane; 268,000-sq.-ft., four-story building featuring support office and conference-room space; 41,000 sq.-ft., three-story building that includes facility support as well as office space and meeting rooms; 16,000-sq.-ft., single-story amenities building that includes a cafeteria; and 16,000-sq.-ft., two-story central plant with mechanical yard.

Building "A" was actually constructed as part of phase two. This structure is a four-story, 138,000-sq.-ft. office building that includes 113,370 sq. ft. of additional tenant improvements in an overlapping existing building and a 48,944 sq.-ft., 600-space, three-level parking deck.

The campus was designed to meander over the preserve in lieu of adding height. While this added to the cost of the project, it allowed the campus to blend with the natural environment. Large ponds in the middle of the campus originate in the preserve and flow into the campus.