Spirit Airlines, the budget carrier known for bright yellow planes, opened its new corporate campus in Dania Point, Florida, as it finishes moving remaining employees from its former headquarters in Miramar over the next few weeks.
The company's new headquarters, called Spirit Central, includes four buildings: a 180,000-square-foot support center with six floors of office space, fueling station, training hub and a corporate housing facility called The Landing with accommodations for up to 400 employees. The Landing comes with meeting spaces, fitness center, pool and market, alongside a parking garage. The entire project represented a $250 million investment for Spirit Airlines, according to the company's initial announcement from 2020.
Spirit Airlines broke ground on its 11-acre campus in 2020 after purchasing land in the Dania Pointe mixed-use project from developer Kimco Realty for $32.5 million at the end of 2019, according to CoStar data. Dania Pointe is a 102-acre mixed-use development with nearly 1 million square feet of retail and restaurants in addition to apartments, hotels, offices and public event space, according to Kimco Realty.
Spirit Airlines is planning to vacate its headquarters at Miramar Park of Commerce at 2800 Executive Way where it has leased space since 1999, growing through the years to occupy about 100,000 square feet of space at the complex.
The new campus is set to host approximately 1,000 employees and totals 500,000 square feet of space. The site is located at 1731 Radiant Drive, about 4.5 miles south of downtown Fort Lauderdale and immediately south of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline’s largest operating base.
The South Florida-based airline with a stock market value of about $441 million, according to Forbes, serves about 90 cities across North America, Central America and South America.
The airline has struggled financially in recent years, leading to proposed mergers with Frontier Airlines and later JetBlue, which pursued a $3.8 billion acquisition before the U.S. Department of Justice terminated the deal on antitrust concerns, according to an official statement from the DOJ.
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Spirit Airlines partnered with Florida architecture firm HuntonBrady to design the new campus, with Brasfield and Gorrie serving as the general contractor. David Matthews, a managing director at JLL’s Fort Lauderdale office, brokered the deal on behalf of Spirit Airlines, with the real estate services firm’s project and development services team serving as the airline’s development adviser for the project.