After an unenthusiastic response to initial renderings of redevelopment plans for city-owned land on the Intracoastal Waterway, which includes a 256-room Waldorf-Astoria hotel and a renovated 180-room Bahia Mar hotel, LXR Luxury Resorts and Hotels Vice President Peter Henn recently appeared again before the Central Beach Alliance group with new plans exhibiting improved “wave” architecture.

The new sketches come after a lukewarm response to initial plans that Henn showed the group in November. Back then, some in the Central Beach Alliance group said the buildings appeared too rectangular and boxy.

“You need to work on the aesthetics,” Alliance member Joe Panico said during the November meeting. “The buildings have no wow power.”

This time, Henn showed the group improved sketches of various parts of the project that utilized “wave” architecture, including concave structures that mimic modern buildings in Dubai.

“They rise to a crescendo,” Henn said. “They’re either approaching you or retreating from you [and] we sought a balance between ‘edgy’ and ‘timeless.’”

This time around, Alliance board member Fred Carlson was impressed.

“We have to balance the need for orderly development with exploiting the resources of the beach and the water,” he said. “If we don’t, it will hurt the tax base. We need the money for schools and public services.”

City commission public hearings and votes on the proposed hotel-residential projects will come later this year.