CLIENT NEWS: New York developer plans 1st Live Local Act project in Surfside
February 3, 2026A developer aims to use the state’s Live Local Act to build multifamily and a hotel in Surfside.
This would be the first project under the Live Local Act in Surfside, a city known for luxury developments such as the Four Seasons at the Surf Club and the Fendi Chateau Residences.
The state’s Live Local Act allows developers to build multifamily to the maximum height and density in a municipality as long as 40% of the units are workforce housing for people making up to 120% of area median income. The height may be equal to the tallest building permitted within a mile radius in the same municipality. City staff is required to approve it without a public hearing if the application complies with the law.
Florida Postal Holdings LLC, managed by Andrew Spodek in Cedarhurst, New York, filed the Live Local Act application with the city for the 0.31-acre site at 250 95th St. It currently has a 8,000-square-foot office building. The U.S. Postal Service office there is currently closed.
Under the proposal, Ocean Walk would total 79,061 square feet in 11 stories, with 22 residential units, 11 hotel rooms and 60 parking spaces. That would include seven studio apartments and two one-bedroom units with workforce housing. The other 13 residential units would have four bedrooms each, so they could be luxury condos.
There would be three standard hotel rooms and eight hotel suites.
Ocean Walk would have basement parking, the workforce housing on the second floor, the hotel rooms on the third floor, the hotel amenities on the fourth floor, the market-rate residential on floors five through 11, and a rooftop amenity deck with a pool, pickleball court, gym and multipurpose room.
Local attorney Graham Penn, who represents the developer in the application, couldn’t be reached for comment. Parkland-based Plus LLC is the architect of the project.
Building workforce housing in pricy Surfside would be extremely difficult without the Live Local Act. By including luxury residential units and hotel rooms in Ocean Walk, the developer may be able to justify providing the income-restricted units.
