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SOTA HOTEL AND RESIDENCES - HOYT ARCHITECTS

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4WALLS Design Competition - December 2022

SOTA is a 16-story mixed-use building located at the middle of downtown Sarasota’s Main Street, an area that has missed recent spurts of large-scale residential and retail development activity. The project takes advantage of two unique elements of the Downtown Sarasota Zoning code. Downtown core zoning allows for 50 units per acre. SOTA is located on a very small parcel of land (0.43 acres), so just 21 units are allowed. The downtown code allows for the purchase of density rights from adjacent properties. Fourteen units will be purchased from the adjacent office building site for a total of 35 units. The code also has a provision that allows for two 180-foot buildings in the in the downtown core. For all other buildings, the height limit is 10 stories. The provision requires that more that 50% of the building must be nonresidential. And the Director of Planning must approve the design. Though this provision had been in the code for almost 20 years it had never been utilized. A 120-room hotel and a first-floor restaurant provided the requisite amount of non-residential space. The Director of Planning weighed in on, and eventually approved of the building design. A 5,000 SF first floor, street front restaurant, coupled with activity of a fullservice hotel will breathe new life into this midMain Street neighborhood. Residents and hotel guests will share a fifth-story amenity level with a hotel restaurant, bar, and swimming pool and fitness center. Valet drop-off will be located on a side street; valet pick up on the second floor. Refuse and recycling will be stored and picked up on the adjacent office building site.

Architect

Hoyt Architects

Contractor

Kast Construction

Developer

Trepp Development

Interior Design

Andre Kokoski Architect

Structural Engineer

Bliss & Nyitray, Inc.

Mechanical Engineer

MC Engineering

Landscape Architect

David W. Johnston Associates.