Plans have been filed to redevelop part of the Big Easy Casino site in Hallandale Beach into two eight-story residential towers with 278 apartments and ground-floor retail space, according to a South Florida real estate account on Instagram. No developer or project team has been publicly identified in available sources, and no construction timeline has been announced.
The proposed project — if approved by the City of Hallandale Beach — would convert a portion of one of Broward County's longest-running entertainment properties. The Big Easy Casino traces its origins to the 1930s, when the site operated as a greyhound racing facility. For much of the 20th century, pari-mutuel tracks were central to South Florida's recreational economy, and the Big Easy remained one of the more visible of these venues as the industry's audience steadily contracted.
Florida voters passed Amendment 13 in 2018, constitutionally banning greyhound racing statewide, with the prohibition taking effect in January 2021. In the years following, former racing properties across the state have faced the question of what replaces a use that once defined the parcel. The Big Easy had already pivoted its programming toward casino-style gaming ahead of the ban, but the larger site — with its legacy infrastructure, surface parking, and commercial-scale footprint — has remained a candidate for more significant repositioning.
The twin-tower configuration described in the filing is consistent with how other large South Florida entertainment and retail parcels have been approached in the current development cycle: residential stacked above or alongside ground-floor commercial, often phased to allow retained uses during construction or to sequence approvals. Whether the casino component would continue operating on the remaining portion of the site during or after any buildout is not addressed in the available source.
Hallandale Beach occupies the southern edge of Broward County, between Hollywood to the north and Aventura to the south — a corridor that has drawn residential investment as both neighboring cities have grown denser and acquisition costs in those markets have climbed. The city's proximity to the Gulfstream Park mixed-use development, which anchors its northwest quadrant, has given it additional visibility among developers tracking South Florida's residential pipeline.
The next markers to watch are the City of Hallandale Beach's public hearing schedule for the application, the identification of the development team, and whether subsequent filings expand the project's scope beyond the two towers described. A 278-unit project on a site this historically prominent would rank among the larger residential additions to Hallandale Beach's recent pipeline — if the plans advance.
