Illustrative AI-generated image. It is not a photograph of the Fairfield Cypress Creek or Treo site.
The 295-apartment project described as a new pitch for Fort Lauderdale’s Uptown district appears to be an old proposal, not a new development filing. City and company records indicate that Fairfield Cypress Creek was reviewed in 2020 and that its 295-unit residential building was later completed and marketed as Treo Apartments. Fairfield announced Treo’s completion in 2025.
The distinction matters: the Fort Lauderdale Development Review Committee’s published agenda for Nov. 10, 2026, lists two cases at 125 N. Birch Road, not a new Fairfield application on North Andrews Avenue. The agenda does not support describing Fairfield Cypress Creek as a fresh 295-unit proposal under review this week.
A project name changed; the apartment count did not
The city’s Planning and Zoning Board agenda from December 2020 identifies “Fairfield Cypress Creek” as a development case at 6500 N. Andrews Ave. The board record describes a project that included 295 residential units.
Fairfield’s own May 2025 announcement says the company had recently completed Treo Apartments at 6500 N. Andrews Avenue, adding 295 apartments. The company’s release identifies Treo, not Fairfield Cypress Creek, as the community’s name at completion.
Taken together, the records strongly indicate that the earlier Fairfield Cypress Creek plan and the completed Treo residential building are the same 295-unit project at the same principal address, rather than two separate apartment developments. The initial proposal also covered 6520 N. Andrews Avenue, where the plans described an office component. That broader site description may be one reason the older project details are being presented as a new proposal.
Illustrative AI-generated image of an office corridor; it does not show the project site.
What the original plan called for
An earlier report on the Fairfield Cypress Creek proposal described an eight-story residential building with 49 studios, 166 one-bedroom apartments and 80 two-bedroom apartments. It also described an eight-story parking garage with 602 spaces and 14 additional surface spaces.
The report said the larger of two low-rise office buildings on the site would be acquired for demolition to make way for the apartments. At the southern end, the proposal would retain one office building and add another, with 93 surface parking spaces. The report identified attorney-developer Keith Poliakoff’s group as a partner in the office portion.
Those figures describe the earlier plan, not a newly filed 2026 project. The city’s 2020 board record provides the official case history; the older report supplies additional detail about the proposed unit mix and site layout.
Why the “new application” account does not line up
The older report describes a proposal being submitted for initial review and anticipates construction could begin in early 2021. That timeline does not match a new filing in November 2026. The city’s Nov. 10, 2026, DRC agenda lists two cases for 125 N. Birch Road: a right-of-way vacation and a 13-story, 38-unit multifamily proposal. It does not list Fairfield Cypress Creek or a 295-unit North Andrews Avenue project.
The agenda is not proof that no later application could ever be filed. It does show that the 295-unit plan was not among the cases on that meeting’s published agenda. The public records reviewed therefore do not substantiate the claim that Fairfield submitted this same project for an initial DRC review in November 2026.
The naming difference can also be confusing. City records use “Fairfield Cypress Creek” for the earlier review, while Fairfield’s announcement calls the completed community “Treo Apartments.” The available documents connect the projects through their shared address and matching 295-unit count. They do not support counting Treo and Fairfield Cypress Creek as two separate 295-apartment proposals.
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The affordability question
The city’s 2020 board record identifies eight affordable units within the 295-unit plan. The earlier proposal report also quoted Fairfield’s attorney, Robert Lochrie III, saying a portion of the apartments would serve lower- and middle-income wage earners, while noting that prices had not yet been set.
Those statements should be kept in context. The eight-unit figure appears in the city record for the earlier application. The report’s comments about wage earners and rents reflect what the project’s representative said at the time; they do not establish current rents or current availability. Fairfield’s 2025 completion announcement confirms the apartment count and the Treo name, but does not provide rent ranges.
Uptown’s longer-term housing shift
The proposal fit into a broader effort to bring more homes and mixed uses to a district known for offices, businesses and car-oriented development. Fort Lauderdale’s Uptown Urban Village plan says the city adopted the master plan and form-based code in 2019. The city describes goals that include a mix of uses, better connectivity and mobility, a stronger pedestrian environment and development that supports transit.
Uptown sits near I-95, Cypress Creek Tri-Rail station and Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. Those assets are part of the setting for the city’s planning framework, but they do not by themselves establish that every new apartment project will be easy to reach without a car. The city’s plan frames transit-supportive development as a district-wide objective; the details of any individual project still depend on its design and approvals.
A report on the initial Fairfield Cypress Creek review quoted city planner Jim Hetzel describing it as a “guinea pig” because it was the first large residential proposal in Uptown to gain traction. In hindsight, the early plan’s importance is better understood through what followed: the project went through city review and ultimately delivered apartments under the Treo name.
Illustrative AI-generated image of a mixed-use streetscape; not a depiction of Treo or Fairfield Cypress Creek.
What is confirmed now
The strongest available records tell a clearer story than the “first big pitch” framing. Fairfield Cypress Creek was a 295-unit residential proposal reviewed by the city in 2020. Fairfield later identified a completed 295-apartment community at 6500 N. Andrews Avenue as Treo Apartments in its 2025 announcement. And the city’s Nov. 10, 2026, DRC agenda does not list a new Fairfield application for 295 units there.
For South Florida real estate watchers, the Uptown story remains significant as a case of housing entering a district planned around a broader mix of uses. But the North Andrews Avenue apartment milestone is not an unbuilt new pitch: the records point to a project already delivered, with its original and later names explaining much of the apparent discrepancy.
Sources: Fort Lauderdale Planning and Zoning Board record (2020) · Fairfield completion announcement (2025) · Fort Lauderdale DRC agenda (Nov. 10, 2026) · Uptown Urban Village plan · Earlier Fairfield Cypress Creek report
