The beach that stopped building, and what it is building now
The last round of building on the Pompano Beach oceanfront ended in 2008, and the next began in 2019. What Broward County records say about both, and about what is rising now.
Broward County’s tax roll shows no condominium finished on Ocean Boulevard or Briny Avenue in Pompano Beach between 2008 and 2019. Eleven years. Then Sabbia Beach was completed, and in the seven years since, three more towers have finished on the same shore and three more projects are under construction.
Marder Group, which publishes this site, holds listings in three of the buildings named in this article: Pompano Atlantis, Solemar and The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Pompano Beach.
The years nothing was finished
The last cycle ended in 2008. In Pompano Beach the tax roll puts 32 homes at Aquamarine, 32 at Luna Ocean Residences and 64 at Sonata Beach Club in 2007 and 186 homes at Plaza at Oceanside in 2008. Aquamarine and Plaza at Oceanside stand on the west side of A1A, across the road from the sand. After that it holds nothing on those two streets until Sabbia Beach.
The whole oceanfront, Hillsboro Beach to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, has one entry in those years: 18 homes at 1200 Hillsboro Mile in Hillsboro Beach, dated 2016.
Two readings of the county’s record agree on every year above: its tax roll, read on Oct 1, 2026, and its parcel map, read on Oct 5, 2026.
The land was not idle for want of plans. What the building records hold for those years is plans, approved and not built, and lots bought and held.
- 2005 WCI opens sales for OceanSide, never builtPending 20 N Ocean Blvd, now W Pompano Beach Hotel and Residences
- 2011 Related buys the vacant site 1116 N Ocean Blvd, now Solemar
- 2015 92 condominiums approved on the lotPending 1350 S Ocean Blvd, now Waldorf Astoria Residences Pompano Beach
- 2016 Oceanside Pompano Beach plan, later approved 20 N Ocean Blvd, now W Pompano Beach Hotel and Residences
- 2017 A 27 story plan announced, not builtPending 1350 S Ocean Blvd, now Waldorf Astoria Residences Pompano Beach
- 2018 City approves a 35 and 14 story planPending 1380 S Ocean Blvd, now The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Pompano Beach
By every source the record holds, 80 buildings stood on this oceanfront in 2015. It confirms a completion year for 49 of them: thirty finished before 1980, twenty in the 1970s alone, and the newest eight years old. The other thirty-one are older than that on every source, and the sources do not settle the year.
The same shore, four times
- 79 more stood with no story count on the record, and are not listed here.
- 80 more stood with no story count on the record, and are not listed here.
- 80 more stood with no story count on the record, and are not listed here.
- 80 more stood with no story count on the record, and are not listed here.
- 2015Eighty buildings stood on this oceanfront by every source the record holds, and it holds a story count for one of them. Nothing takes the accent, because nothing was new.
- 2020One more by 2020: Sabbia Beach (2019). 1200 Hillsboro Mile, which the record puts at 2008 and at 2016, enters here without the accent, because its sources do not agree it stood in 2015.
- 2026Three more by Nov 13, 2026: Solemar (2023), Casamar (2025) and Salato Residences (2026).
- CommittedThree more under construction or at full height, as the record stood on Oct 11, 2026: Rosewood Residences Hillsboro Beach, Waldorf Astoria Residences Pompano Beach and The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Pompano Beach. Committed, not forecast. Nothing here says when they finish.
The turn
Sabbia Beach was completed in 2019 at 730 N Ocean Blvd, nineteen stories and 69 homes on the county roll, developed by Fernbrook Homes and Grupo Fernandez and designed by Arquitectonica. In 2016 its developers described it as the first oceanfront development of its kind in Pompano Beach in almost a decade. The roll puts the gap at eleven years.
Three more have finished since, in the order below. The record confirms 208 homes across three of the four, and has not settled the count at Casamar.
What they have traded at is on the county record. Over the thirty-six months to Oct 8, 2026 it holds 15 closings at Sabbia Beach at a median of $1,201 a square foot, 37 at Solemar at $1,167, 18 at Casamar at $1,274 and 17 at Salato Residences at $1,396. The median across the whole oceanfront over the same months is $436, across 1,027 closings in 119 buildings.
What is under construction
Three projects are under construction or at full height, as the record stood on Oct 11, 2026. This is what is committed and not a forecast: nothing in it says when a building finishes or whether it sells.
Five projects on this shore carry a licensed brand: Armani/Casa, Ritz-Carlton, Rosewood, W and Waldorf Astoria. All five were announced by 2024, five years after Sabbia Beach was completed. Three of them are in the list above. Armani/Casa Residences Pompano Beach and W Pompano Beach Hotel and Residences have not broken ground on any source the record holds, and are not counted. Nor is Ocean 580, announced and unbranded.
Not all of those face the ocean. The counts for Rosewood Residences Hillsboro Beach and The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Pompano Beach take in a second building across the road, on the Intracoastal.
The county’s tax roll holds 9,882 condominium homes at the 94 addresses on these streets that it can match to this record, which is a count of those buildings and not of the beach. It puts 555 of them between 2000 and 2008, at nine addresses. In the eleven years after, 18. From Sabbia Beach on, 208 that the record confirms.
Under construction on Oct 11, 2026, not counting The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Pompano Beach 184 residences.