Inside Fort Lauderdale's new FAT Village office building

The city's first ground-up office in five years, T3 is a six-story, 180,000-square-foot timber triumph. Binyan

After more than five years without a new office tower, Fort Lauderdale is finally breaking its dry spell.

The city has watched from the sidelines as its neighbors — Miami to the south and West Palm Beach to the north — pushed ahead with glassy skyscrapers for Wall Street transplants during the post-COVID boom years. Now, Fort Lauderdale has an entry of its own: a six-story, 180,000-square-foot timber building called T3 that civic leaders hope will jump-start a new office district and prove the city has the muscle to attract big-name tech and corporate tenants.

“It’s going to look like a Google or Apple campus,” said Alan Hooper, CEO and co-founder of Fort Lauderdale-based Urba