The Kimpton Goodland Hotel -- Fort Lauderdale Beach is set to open April 15 on the site of one of the city's pioneering hotels.
The 96-room, boutique property is an adaptive re-use of the first hotel opened by George Gill in 1950, the Escape. It was the first year-round resort on Fort Lauderdale beach, and Gill went on to build the Sheraton Yankee Clipper and Yankee Trader hotels, among others.
The new hotel will span three two-story buildings, inclusive of an eclectic American restaurant and nearly 500-square-foot private dining room. It will have a fitness center and two private pools, - one on the ground level and the other atop the neighboring residences' eighth floor rooftop.
Owned by Banyan Investment Group and operated by Hotel Equities, the Kimpton Goodland will be Kimpton's seventh hotel in Florida, joining the recently opened Kimpton Hotel Palomar South Beach and Kimpton Key West.
Weekday prices start around $200.