MIAMI | Development Thread

[QuantumX]

Chill out man, it's just a freaking word, calm down. If you're so offended by retard then be offended by dumb, lame, moron, etc.

It's a derogatory remark that I've even seen ads educating people about. We should refrain from using offensive terms because they are all moronic!

How tall is that echo brickel building or whatever supposed to be?

Current specs are putting Echo Brickell at 750 feet, but we've seen renderings that indicate they might be trying to get approved to go taller with it because the building is almost completely sold out already.

[easy as pie]

wow, i'm so depressed, the miami beach convention center poobahs recommended the ingels design over the clearly superior ace (oma) proposal. :(
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2013/06/18/miami-beach-convention-center-advisory-board-recommends-bjarke-ingels-company.php

[skyscraperfan23]

wow, i'm so depressed, the miami beach convention center poobahs recommended the ingels design over the clearly superior ace (oma) proposal. :(
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2013/06/18/miami-beach-convention-center-advisory-board-recommends-bjarke-ingels-company.php

so that means no jackie gleason theater

The Great one must be rolling in his grave right now.

[dave8721]

A new (actually a resubmittal of an old boom era submission) tower: The Chelsea (1550 Biscayne Blvd). 52-floors, 647 feet tall. Mixed use: 23 stories of condo's on top of an office tower. The site is across the street from the Omni mall and whatever Genting ends up building on that site.

http://exmiami.org/index.php/owner-of-the-chelsea-submits-new-plans-for-52-story-tower/
http://i.imgur.com/EM5AxX3.jpg

[dave8721]

In other news, yet another west Brickell project is in the works: the 8-story 421 unit Broadstone Brickell is coming to 145 SW 13th ST west of the Metrorail tracks.

One of those "human scale" projects that add tons of density:
http://exmiami.org/index.php/broadstone-brickell-lofts-design-revealed/
http://i.imgur.com/Vic3R7p.jpg

[skyscraperfan23]

Miami is still the truth here.

[Private Dick]

In other news, yet another west Brickell project is in the works: the 8-story 421 unit Broadstone Brickell is coming to 145 SW 13th ST west of the Metrorail tracks.

One of those "human scale" projects that add tons of density:
http://exmiami.org/index.php/broadstone-brickell-lofts-design-revealed/
http://i.imgur.com/Vic3R7p.jpg

I like this. Thanks for posting, dave.

[Private Dick]

Miami is still the truth here.

Magic City TRUTH in yo face, muthafucka!

[jd3189]

Cool. Finally some more projects aside from the regular condo offerings. Hopefully they don't just develop Brickell but also the rest of the city from its suburban-like characteristics.

[dave8721]

The old Beacon at Brickell Village (across the street to the south of Brickell CityCentre) may finally return from the dead after being emroiled in a several years long foreclosure suit:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/26/3472026/developable-brickell-area-land.html

Developable Brickell area land in foreclosure and linked to bankruptcies, has offer

BY INA PAIVA CORDLE
ICORDLE@MIAMIHERALD.COM

A Miami-Dade bankruptcy judge will decide at a hearing July 10 on the sale of developable, vacant land in the Brickell corridor. The offer on the property, at 30 SE 8 St, 18 S.E. 8th St and 830 SE 1 Ave., in Miami, is for $19.5 milliion.

The proposed purchaser is Crystal Tower on Brickell Plaza, managed by Omar Botero. The $19.5 million exceeds the value of mortgages on the properties, which are in foreclosure, according to a 30-page motion filed in U.S. Bankrupty Court in Miami.

The properties are owned by Chapter 7 bankrupt entities Beacon at Brickell Village and Beacon Developer Partners, linked to developer Renzo Renzi and his brother Pasquale Renzi.

[MaMuDPT]

The Broadstone Brickell renderings don't seem to show any ground floor retail. Does anyone know if that block is strictly residential?

[MaMuDPT]

The Broadstone Brickell renderings don't seem to show any ground floor retail. Does anyone know if that block is strictly residential?

[Hurricanes]

Here are a few shots of Miami from Critical Mass last night.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c370/Blackbirdm6/photo-64.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c370/Blackbirdm6/photo-65.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c370/Blackbirdm6/photo-66.jpg

[Crackertastik]

Im pretty sure both the Tishman proposal and the Portman proposal for the convention center site keep the Gleason Theatre, and revamp it.

You can specifically see it in this video, actually being added to a bit.

http://www.portmancmcmiamibeach.com/

[N830MH]

Magic City TRUTH in yo face, muthafucka!

Hey! Watch your mouth!! You are not allowed to used a bad language. Please don't do that again.

[QuantumX]

Hey! Watch your mouth!! You are not allowed to used a bad language. Please don't do that again.

Is this the truth or are you being sarcastic? It's so hard to tell on this website!

[dave8721]

A bunch of projects going before the UDRB on July 17th. Zaha Hadid's One Thousand Museum and a re-incarnation at the Element site among them. Plus a new CBD tower called "River Tower"

http://www.miamigov.com/planning/pages/boards/UDRBAgenda07-17-2013.pdf

[dave8721]

The one-sided 550-foot buildings Related is putting at the old Element site on NE 31st Street in Edgewater. Designed by Arquitectonica of course.

http://exmiami.org/index.php/arquitectonica-related-group-crank-out-twin-55-floor-element-condominium-towers/

Related's new 550-foot tall "Element"
http://i.imgur.com/YPJY9Sl.jpg

typical arquitectonica bland stucco walls and exposed hallways on the back side of the building:
http://i.imgur.com/x2Le2ch.jpg

[brickell]

More proof that the "city" doesn't matter? Only views and garages...

[dave8721]

Another day, another tower. Here is River Tower. Another western CBD building. Not the most lovely location (surrounded by an FPL substation, I-95 and its ghastly on-ramps)

from exmiami
http://i.imgur.com/3bJf9el.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/IE49eRO.jpg

[dave8721]

Keeping up with the "another day, another tower" theme. Here is Biscayne Beach, a 51-story condo for Edgewater (NE 29th ST):

from exmiami.org

http://i.imgur.com/B9LzAzD.png

[colemonkee]

^ Nothing groundbreaking, but respectable.

[Eightball]

"Miami and cars. They go together like piña and colada, right?

Well, maybe so. But one new luxury condo in the heart of downtown is making what is, for this Florida city, a bold move. The building in many ways fits the profile of recent development in Miami’s reviving core: It has 36 stories, 352 units, and 10-foot ceilings.

But as for parking? Zero of that."

Great news for Miami!

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/07/apartment-designed-force-you-out-your-car/6211/

[dave8721]

Its not that ground breaking. Centro will be the 4th recent tower built without parking (Loft 1 & 2 and MyBrickell).

[Eightball]

Well, that is even more impressive. Do you have any articles handy about the other projects?

[brickell]

Loft 1 and 2 are boom era towers in the downtown section. Relatively cheap, small units, lots of young folks.

Mybrickell is just topping off south of the river in Brickell. Seems like it's tilted to higher earning crowd.

[simms3_redux]

How does building a 100-300 unit tower in Miami with no parking work? Even here in SF practically every development comes with some ratio, which may range from 16 spaces for 299 units in an extreme case to an almost 1:1 ratio.

The city here has 83 million SF of office space, mostly confined with some of the best transit in America and a notably full range of dining/shopping/supermarket options anywhere you can walk, not to mention the bus system here is good. Miami's DT + Brickell has under 15 million SF I believe (someone correct me here), which means that a lot of the office employment that can put people in expensive tower rentals "luxury" style like they do in Miami and the SE is fairly limited and spread out throughout the city, and due to the river isn't the easiest to get around between DT and Brickell, even with the people mover. I know there's the Publix in Mary Brickell Village (how late is it open?), but honestly how can you live there without a car?

[dave8721]

Supposedly Centro will have a car sharing station. Asking over $400/sq ft for a unit without parking may be a little much. The loft buildings, as Brickell stated, were priced towards a younger less affluent crowd who were more likely to be fine taking the metromover or busses everywhere. Would people dropping ~$500k for a 2-bedroom be as happy taking the bus? I'm not so sure. The studio units are starting at only $220k so they might get a younger, more "urban friendly" crowd in those units.

That said, there are several public garages near by where I'm sure someone could rent a spot if need be.

[brickell]

If they're being bought as pied-a-terres or 2nd homes by South Americans it might not matter as much also. There's no taxi culture here so to speak, but I doubt they'll have trouble finding rides when then need them.

I'm not stating as fact that that's who's buying. Just conjecture that it might work for them.

[N830MH]

Here are a few shots of Miami from Critical Mass last night.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c370/Blackbirdm6/photo-64.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c370/Blackbirdm6/photo-65.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c370/Blackbirdm6/photo-66.jpg

Wow! Very nice shot. I haven't visited in South Florida for a long time. I can bring it back a memory. I missed South Florida lots. It was so much change for a long time.

[Eightball]

They also have an agreement to lease parking at a lot across the street, if necessary. And the article mentioned there is a WF under construction extremely close.

On another note, this submission (that won) for the renovation of the miami beach convention center is hot!
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/07/18/oma-lands-miami-beach-convention-center-commission/

[dave8721]

That proposal leaves a lot of empty space. Especially since the Miami Beach commission wants to nix the residential buildings on the left of the image basically leaving a giant empty lawn or concrete expanse.

[brickell]

Interesting...

Miami zoning board OKs considerable increase to Design District plan

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/18/3506375/miami-zoning-board-oks-considerable.html

fter more than three hours of discussion, testimony, and power point presentations, Miami’s Planning, Zoning & Appeals Board voted Wednesday to accept a revised plan for the overhaul of the Design District, changes that will considerably increase the number of commercial properties, residential units and parking spaces developer Craig Robins would like to build.

Board members voted 11-0 to pass on the recommendation to city commissioners ultimately responsible for accepting a plan that could turn what is now a sleepy retail and office intensive neighborhood just north of Midtown Miami into a more walk-able destination filled with green space, living space and high-end retail outlets.

The board accepted adding 12 parcels to the overall plan mostly along its western edge near North Miami Avenue, but turned down a zoning request that would have allowed a condominium on Biscayne Boulevard just north of I-195 known as Parcel 9 to build as high as 48 floors or 592 feet. Now it can only be built to 20 floors.

[skyscraperfan23]

They also have an agreement to lease parking at a lot across the street, if necessary. And the article mentioned there is a WF under construction extremely close.

On another note, this submission (that won) for the renovation of the miami beach convention center is hot!
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/07/18/oma-lands-miami-beach-convention-center-commission/

Now that's the truth here.

[chris08876]

Keeping up with the "another day, another tower" theme. Here is Biscayne Beach, a 51-story condo for Edgewater (NE 29th ST):

from exmiami.org

http://i.imgur.com/B9LzAzD.png


This tower is just big. Tall and very wide. Seems like it would support a lot more units. Must be some large condos.

[dave8721]

More towers coming for the Cima site, the Paramount Park site and the site that curls around the Freedom Tower:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/21/3511733_p2/south-florida-developers-proposing.html

Taken together, South Florida could soon have at least 145 towers and nearly 20,700 units proposed for Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.

Contrast this total with the last South Florida condo boom that began in 2003 and ultimately resulted in 245 towers with nearly 49,000 units in the tri-county region’s seven largest coastal markets.

The rush to build new projects comes as less than 2,150 new condos — about five percent of the total developer inventory from the last South Florida real estate boom — were unsold as of March 31.

At the current transaction pace, nearly all of the oversupply of the developer units from the 2003 boom — and subsequent bust of 2007 — could be sold by the second half of 2014.

The reduction in unsold developer units combined with a competitive cash-dominated condo resale market — where less than 18,400 units are for resale in all of South Florida — and strong rental rates are prompting many buyers to seriously consider purchasing condos during the preconstruction process that can take up to three years.

As with South Florida’s last condo boom, Miami-Dade County has the greatest concentration of proposed projects with more than 90 towers and nearly 15,285 units planned as of July 17.

Broward County ranks a distant second with 26 towers and less than 2,125 units proposed. Palm Beach County is a third with 23 towers and nearly 2,100 units proposed.

On a market-by-market basis, developers in Greater Downtown Miami — the epicenter of South Florida’s last boom-and-bust cycle — are proposing at least 35 new towers with nearly 9,850 units and counting.

Developer created 84 towers with more than 22,200 units during the last boom-and-bust cycle that began in 2003 but only 600 new units remain as of March 31.

In anticipation of an eventual sellout in Greater Downtown Miami, South Florida developers have recently filed applications with the Federal Aviation Administration — the governmental entity that governs airspace — to obtain approval to assemble construction cranes within the next 15 months to build a 713-foot-tall tower with at least 60 stories at 600 Biscayne Blvd., a 710-foot-tall tower with at least 60 stories at 700 Biscayne Blvd, and a 610-foot-tall tower with 55 stories at 24 SW 4th St. on the north bank of the Miami River.

The total number of condo units to be featured in these three condo projects is unclear as the respective developers all said they were in the planning stages.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/21/3511733/south-florida-developers-proposing.html#storylink=cpy

[chris08876]

This is great news. Let the boom begin. This will result probably in very tall towers and maybe even a supertall. Fantastic!

[skyscraperfan23]

This is great news. Let the boom begin. This will result probably in very tall towers and maybe even a supertall. Fantastic!

If they build a huge tunnel in the airport, Miapolis and EWT will happen someday.

[chris08876]

If they build a huge tunnel in the airport, Miapolis and EWT will happen someday.

Hopefully the FAA won't have a fit. There the real problem with the supertalls. :(

[schlaboong]

Miapolis?

Empire World Towers?

Really?

Again?


Seriously?

If they build a huge tunnel in the airport, Miapolis and EWT will happen someday.

[chris08876]

One day...... mabye............

http://urbanpeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Miapolis-5.jpg

Urbanpeek , http://urbanpeek.com/ , 2011

[chris08876]

Curious to see what happened to the Empire World Towers:
Site is to be sold

Court Ruling Allows Empire World Towers Site To Be Sold


After many years of being tied up in the courts, the site of the project known as Empire World Towers at 300 Biscayne Boulevard will be marketed and sold. A recent decision by the Florida Supreme Court allows for the sale process to begin.

http://i.imgur.com/1efm4y0.jpg

Source: http://exmiami.org/index.php/court-ruling-allows-empire-world-towers-site-to-be-sold/

[skyscraperfan23]

Hopefully the FAA won't have a fit. There the real problem with the supertalls. :(

The FAA is full of s***!

[dave8721]

New renderings of the Herzog & de Meuron Jade Signature tower. Buildings midsection will be "see through" with no internal walls:

http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2013/07/24/jade-signature-new-renderings.php#more
http://miami.curbed.com/uploads/ext.JPG

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/51f02293f92ea1058e015c4d/ext3.JPG

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/51f022a3f92ea1058e015c9d/2013_06_14_09_55_39_ext.jpg

[skyscraperfan23]

New renderings of the Herzog & de Meuron Jade Signature tower. Buildings midsection will be "see through" with no internal walls:

http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2013/07/24/jade-signature-new-renderings.php#more
http://miami.curbed.com/uploads/ext.JPG

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/51f02293f92ea1058e015c4d/ext3.JPG

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/51f022a3f92ea1058e015c9d/2013_06_14_09_55_39_ext.jpg

Very tall building.

[chris08876]

300 million in sales for the Jade Signature Condo Tower in only three weeks.

http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2013/06/26/jade-signature-reaches-300-million-in-sales-in-three-weeks.php

This will rise very soon.

[brickell]

SoFla has 46 condo towers in the pipeline
Preconstruction prices are back to boom levels, more growth expected
http://therealdeal.com/miami/blog/2013/07/30/s-floridas-preconstruction-condos-near-2004-prices/

Developers have nearly 50 condominium projects on the drawing board in South Florida, their solution to meeting a voracious demand for homes now that nearly all the inventory from the last housing crisis is gone, according to new data from Condo Vultures, a real estate consulting firm.

The preconstruction per-square-foot prices for the 46 projects range from $241 to $2,640, roughly the equivalent of levels in 2004 — the height of the development boom, Condo Vultures principal Peter Zalewski said Tuesday.

[N830MH]

Very tall building.

Yes, it is. Very tall building. How many floors is that? Maybe it is 40 or 50 floors, but I am not quite sure.

[chris08876]

Yes, it is. Very tall building. How many floors is that? Maybe it is 40 or 50 floors, but I am not quite sure.

It will be 57 stories.

"Developers have released images of a 57-storey residential tower designed by Herzog & de Meuron for Miami."

Source: http://www.dezeen.com/2013/06/04/herzog-de-meuron-jade-signature-residential-tower-miami/

[chris08876]

Jade Signature Sunny Isles Beach Florida

Nice clip with renderings, location, sales, and good music to help.

1nCqhv0Y2QQ
============================
Michael DeMoya, MD International Real Estate, Jul 26, 2013

[Dale]

This one has really grown on me.

[bobdreamz]

The Capital at Brickell site in Miami's Brickell neighborhood is officially on the market.
The 2.78-acre site, at 1420 S. Miami Ave., has already been approved for 1.3 million square feet of development. Under Miami 21, the city’s zoning code, the owner can go back and ask for as much as 3.2 million square feet of development, according to Robert Given and Gerard Yetming of CBRE, who are marketing the property.
As a result of the potential for greater density, Given said the property could fetch more than $100 million.
That’s a price that would eclipse the $64 million Swire Properties recently paid for the 700 Brickell Ave. site. Swire can build 1.1 million square feet of development on the 1.55-acre site.
Yetming said the focus of a lot of development in the Brickell corridor today is on South Miami Avenue, a main thoroughfare through the neighborhood." Via SFBJ


http://marketing.cbre.com/FtLauderdale/Team-Given/MH-LAND/Capital%20at%20Brickell/Capital%20at%20Brickell%20MP.jpg


* This property will probably sell soon as it is one of the last large parcels of land left in the Brickell district with close access to Metromover & Metrorail! The site is excavated but the project died during the real estate bust. For those who don't remember this is what the Capital at Brickell project was supposed to look like:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/1115TwinMiamiSkyscrapersGetGoing_pic1.jpg

[skyscraperfan23]

Miami's skyscrapers are so shiny and smooth.

[N830MH]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/05/3544470/genting-receives-permit-to-demolish.html

Well, this is it. They're going to be demolish the Miami Herald Building sometime end of 2013.

[MiamiSpartan]

I was SO disappointed that Capital didn't get built...I loved those two buildings....

[dave8721]

The 25-story Bellini Williams Island in Aventura is just about complete:

http://belliniwilliamsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bellini-crane.jpg

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2013/07/29/new-condo-cycles-bellini-williams.html

New condo cycle's Bellini Williams Island crane coming down

Oscar Pedro Musibay
Reporter-South Florida Business Journal

One of the first condominium projects to start construction during the new residential cycle Bellini Williams Island is taking its crane down this week.
Developed by Martin Z. Margulies, the 25-story Bellini Williams Island is slated for completion in 60-90 days. After only a year and a half of construction, the 70-unit building will be one of the first luxury residential developments to be completed since 2008.
Margulies said the community’s first residents will be arriving in the fall.
In recent months, Bellini Williams Island has celebrated achievements, including the sale of the project’s pair of trophy penthouses and both Artefacto-designed model residences. Due to the success of sales at Bellini Williams Island, Margulies is also able to pay off his $80 million personal loan—which he used to finance the project.

[skyscraperfan23]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/05/3544470/genting-receives-permit-to-demolish.html

Well, this is it. They're going to be demolish the Miami Herald Building sometime end of 2013.

I Truly hope the destination casino bill get passed next year, so they can finally include a casino.

[jd3189]

Curious to see what happened to the Empire World Towers:
Site is to be sold

Court Ruling Allows Empire World Towers Site To Be Sold


After many years of being tied up in the courts, the site of the project known as Empire World Towers at 300 Biscayne Boulevard will be marketed and sold. A recent decision by the Florida Supreme Court allows for the sale process to begin.

http://i.imgur.com/1efm4y0.jpg

Source: http://exmiami.org/index.php/court-ruling-allows-empire-world-towers-site-to-be-sold/

Sell it to Miami World Center. I always imagined north Downtown to be another large commercial district for Miami featuring twin buildings.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3710/8849088770_15f31c4c98_b.jpg

It's still a pipe dream since the FAA wouldn't allow it but as Miami grows, I really want a lot of great changes to occur in the city.

[skyscraperfan23]

Sell it to Miami World Center. I always imagined north Downtown to be another large commercial district for Miami featuring twin buildings.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3710/8849088770_15f31c4c98_b.jpg

It's still a pipe dream since the FAA wouldn't allow it but as Miami grows, I really want a lot of great changes to occur in the city.

screw the FAA, they don't care about supertall buildings.

[Private Dick]

I nominate this thread be terminated in the name of all that is good and holy.

For the love of god, please make it stop.

Oh yeah, and one more thing, Miami is a glitzy and glamorous city for skyscrapers... just fyi.

[dave8721]

I nominate this thread be terminated in the name of all that is good and holy.

For the love of god, please make it stop.

Oh yeah, and one more thing, Miami is a glitzy and glamorous city for skyscrapers... just fyi.

And perky and firm.

[brickell]

so round and muscular

[skyscraperfan23]

We need more glamour in miami.

[skyscraperfan23]

and more money and power for miami.

[dave8721]

http://www.globest.com/news/12_671/miami/multifamily/32nd-New-South-Florida-Condo-Tower-Launches-Construction-336651.html

32nd New South Florida Condo Tower Launches Construction

By Jennifer LeClaire | Miami

MIAMI—At least 152 new condo towers are proposed in South Florida—and construction is underway on the 31st and 32nd condo high-rises in the region. So says a new report from CondoVultures.com.

GlobeSt.com recently reported on the groundbreaking of 400 Sunny Isles, a 230-unit condo project in Sunny Isles. That brings the total of under-construction condo units to 565 in Sunny Isles alone, according to the Preconstruction Condo Projects Database compiled by the licensed Florida brokerage CVR Realty. And that number is about to rise as developers break ground on Jade Signature, adding another 198 units to the construction tally later this month. Across the tricounty area, developers are planning about 20,000 units.

“The push for new condo construction comes as the boom-era unit inventory is dwindling in South Florida,” says Peter Zalewski, principal at Condo Vultures. “Overall in South Florida, less than 2,150 new condo units remain unsold from a supply of nearly 49,000 units created since 2003 in South Florida’s seven largest coastal markets …”

Zalewski reports that a number of the newly proposed condo units are not expected to be completed until 2014. That’s when the unsold developer inventory from South Florida's last real estate boom and bust is projected to be sold.

“It is important to note there are various stages to a residential real estate transaction in South Florida,” he says. “A transaction begins when a property is made available for sale and ends when a title is conveyed from one party to another party as a result of the recording of a deed with the local government. As part of the process, a property typically goes under contract and into a due diligence phase by which a deal can be canceled.”

[dave8721]

http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2013/08/20/00/18/omqrY.Em.56.jpeg

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/20/3573709/all-aboard-florida-seeks-downtown.html

All Aboard Florida seeks downtown Miami property for train hub

BY ALFONSO CHARDY
ACHARDY@ELNUEVOHERALD.COM

Managers for All Aboard Florida, the project to build an Orlando-to-Miami passenger train service, are about to begin negotiations with Miami’s Community Redevelopment Agency to acquire two parcels in downtown Miami as part of the plan to build a massive train station and transportation hub downtown.

The goal is to persuade the CRA to sell the parcels across from the Lyric Theater in Overtown to All Aboard Florida for $5.5 million, according to Michael Reininger, president and chief development officer for the train project.

All Aboard Florida’s disclosure that it is seeking to acquire the two parcels, currently operating as a parking lot, marked another significant milestone in the $1.5 billion train project. Reininger and the project’s public affairs manager, Ali Soule, also provided the first glimpse of what the Miami station and transport hub would look like. It wouldn’t be just a train station with amenities inside, such as restaurants, cafeterias and shops. It would also include office space, residential apartments and retail stores. One of the reasons All Aboard Florida wants to acquire the two parcels at the corner of Northwest Eighth Street and Second Avenue is because project managers want to build a multi-story building there that would feature apartments, offices, shops and parking for the area, the nearby Lyric Theater and the International Longshoremen’s Association — all connected to the train station.

The station would rise on parcels where parking lots operate right now, next to the county government building downtown. Those parking lots belong to the company in charge of All Aboard Florida.

[skyscraperfan23]

http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2013/08/20/00/18/omqrY.Em.56.jpeg

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/20/3573709/all-aboard-florida-seeks-downtown.html

thank god for free market HSR, not taxpayer spending funded.

[Private Dick]

^^ They won't be able to build it without federal loans dude.

Youre a sochialist like all the rest. You fucking commie! Next youre gonna tell us about how you work for the FAA!

[N830MH]

http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21011473619927/port-miami-tunnel-close-to-completion/

Port of Miami tunnels is almost to be completion. It will be done sometime in Spring 2014. You don't have worry about traffic in downtown anymore. You can go into the tunnels from I-95 or I-395, and Miami Airport as well. This is only for cruise passengers & cargo containers as well.

[bobdreamz]

^ Actually the Port tunnel is for cargo trucks only. Cruise passengers will still have to go through downtown Miami streets and use Port Blvd. next to the AA Arena to access the cruise ship terminals.

[N830MH]

^ Actually the Port tunnel is for cargo trucks only. Cruise passengers will still have to go through downtown Miami streets and use Port Blvd. next to the AA Arena to access the cruise ship terminals.

Actually, Cruise passengers bus won't go through downtown Miami, but instead, they have to go through the tunnels. All vehicle have go into the tunnels.

[BrandonJXN]

Are there any infill projects going up in Miami?

[Private Dick]

Are there any infill projects going up in Miami?

Maybe not infill in terms of what infill might mean in older, denser cores. But, it's great to see some mid-rise apartment/condo buildings going up with ground floor retail, as well as lower height apartment buildings.

There is ample land for "infill" development within, immediately north, and immediately west of downtown and Brickell. I think we're going to see many of those types of projects in the near future -- including ground floor retrofits of office buildings in the Brickell area specifically, and residential conversions in downtown proper. Once you start getting that going at a good pace, the environment in Miami's core can dramatically become much less "suburban".

http://exmiami.org/index.php/broadstone-brickell-lofts-design-revealed/

http://exmiami.org/index.php/peebles-proposal-for-overtown-gateway-hotel-office-retail-residential/

[BrandonJXN]

I think Miami would benefit more if there was a boom of infill projects in the 8-20 story range.

[dave8721]

Most of the smaller traditional "infil" type of developments are on the fringes of downtown. There are quite a few of them but they don't get the attention that the 150 or so 40+ story towers proposed around town get. Insane land prices in the actual core make any smaller developments pretty much impossible.

Here for example is the area just to the west of Brickell (west of the Metrorail tracks). This area had been filled with old run-down 3 to 5 story apartments that are being raised and replaced with 15 to 25 story rental towers at a quite a pace. East of the metrorail tracks very little under 40-stories gets built. There was a 3 to 5 story Jewish center built recently and in the CBD, Miami-Dade College has built a few 5 or so story classroom, activity center type buildings and there is a Whole Foods under construction but it is being built to support a future apartment/condo tower on top of it.

(from QuantumX @ssc)
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5340/9542358564_72aa2e937c_b.jpg

Here is another image showing the northern fringes of downtown, Edgewater (bottom of the image). A ton of 15 to 20 story smaller scale towers have gone up and are going up in this area but recently a few proposals for monolithic 55+ story towers in this area so we will see what happens with that neighborhood.
http://metroatlantic.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/20121125-131855.jpg

[jd3189]

Maybe not infill in terms of what infill might mean in older, denser cores. But, it's great to see some mid-rise apartment/condo buildings going up with ground floor retail, as well as lower height apartment buildings.

There is ample land for "infill" development within, immediately north, and immediately west of downtown and Brickell. I think we're going to see many of those types of projects in the near future -- including ground floor retrofits of office buildings in the Brickell area specifically, and residential conversions in downtown proper. Once you start getting that going at a good pace, the environment in Miami's core can dramatically become much less "suburban".

http://exmiami.org/index.php/broadstone-brickell-lofts-design-revealed/

http://exmiami.org/index.php/peebles-proposal-for-overtown-gateway-hotel-office-retail-residential/

Hopefully this kind of development is more prefered in the future. If Miami needs a model for lowrise density, it shouldn't look very far. Miami Beach(South Beach) has already set the standard.

[Private Dick]

Here for example is the area just to the west of Brickell (west of the Metrorail tracks). This area had been filled with old run-down 3 to 5 story apartments that are being raised and replaced with 15 to 25 story rental towers at a quite a pace.

I'd like to see those old 1940s apartment buildings get refurbished/improved. They actually represent historic architecture for Miami, and it would benefit the creation of a real neighborhood to preserve and enhance them, rather than level them for more generic 15 story towers atop parking garages.

[brickell]

I wish there was more small scale stuff going in around the periphery, but land prices mean they're either building tall or not at all.

Does seem to be changing lately with quite a few midrises going up.

[dave8721]

I'd like to see those old 1940s apartment buildings get refurbished/improved. They actually represent historic architecture for Miami, and it would benefit the creation of a real neighborhood to preserve and enhance them, rather than level them for more generic 15 story towers atop parking garages.

Edgewater actually has (or had) a lot of nice late 1910's-1920's apartments, some of the oldest in Miami. But most of them have been raised in the last few years. Some condo developers are leveling almost entire blocks and letting them sit vacant for years. I wish more was done to save some of them. The older West Brickell ones are nothing special and aren't all that old either. Most are actually from the 60's and 70's.

Here's a typical Edgewater streetscape. Small old buildings and big new ones. In the new buildings defense, before those new buildings, the old buildings didn't house much more than prostitutes and drug dens.
(pan around 360 degrees to see the contrast)
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=ne+24th+st+%26+ne+6th+ave,+miami,+fl&hl=en&ll=25.800278,-80.184703&spn=0.005544,0.006577&sll=25.800273,-80.186752&sspn=0.005583,0.010664&t=h&hnear=NE+24th+St+%26+NE+6th+Ave,+Miami,+Miami-Dade,+Florida+33137&z=17&layer=c&cbll=25.800273,-80.186752&panoid=CZW3MUrqHlyJZ_KZyCIJqg&cbp=13,359.85,,0,2.54

Now way too much of Edgewater looks like this as big sections were bulldozed:
(pan around again) -soon to be the site of 40+ story buildings
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=450+ne+28th+st&hl=en&ll=25.80361,-80.185325&spn=0.005544,0.006577&sll=25.803614,-80.187378&sspn=0.005583,0.010664&t=h&hnear=450+NE+28th+St,+Miami,+Florida+33137&z=17&layer=c&cbll=25.803614,-80.187268&panoid=0EM8rUn4oMoUleKxIAeL9g&cbp=13,27.23,,0,10.14

[easy as pie]

well, in theory, once the rezoning is all completed for wynwood, it should see a boom in 4-8 story construction (along with a concomitant cap in land values).

[dave8721]

On the former rental tower turned condo tower turned rental tower called EnV Brickell and now condo tower development "Nine at Mary Brickell Village"

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/22/3580110/brickell-apartment-project-changes.html

REAL ESTATE
Brickell apartment project changes to condo in mid-construction

BY MARTHA BRANNIGAN
MBRANNIGAN@MIAMIHERALD.COM
EnV at Mary Brickell Village — one of Miami’s most talked about new rental apartment projects — won’t be a rental after all.

Seizing on the red-hot demand for pre-construction condominiums in the Brickell area, the developers switched the project to a condominium, dubbed Nine at Mary Brickell Village.

The tower, which will remain 390 units spanning 34 floors, is under construction above the Publix at Mary Brickell Village at 999 SW First Ave.

[dave8721]

As if this area in Brickell didn't have enough going on.

To go across the street from Brickell CityCentre:

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/morning-edition/2013/08/related-group-plans-two-new-projects.html

Related Group plans two new projects in Midtown and Brickell

Oscar Pedro Musibay
Reporter-South Florida Business Journal

The Related Group is developing two new projects including the 400-unit Hyde Midtown inside the Midtown Miami community and 1,000-unit Brickell Heights on South Miami Avenue.

Brickell Heights would be located at 801 South Miami Ave. and would be made up of three towers.
News of plans for Brickell Heights comes as word circulates that EnV at Mary Brickell Village, now under construction, is going to be a condo called Nine at Mary Brickell Village instead of a rental.

[Dale]

Almost afraid to ask: any movement on Paramount ?

[dave8721]

Another building for Brickell. "1010 Brickell", a 47-story 352-unit tower to go where the parking garage behind 1000 Brickell currently stands. The building will be on SE 1st Ave not Brickell Ave despite the name.

http://www.kafka-franz.com/1010-brickell-condo.htm

http://www.kafka-franz.com/photo-11/1010-b5.jpg

[dave8721]

Jade Signature is going to be digging for a while:

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2013/08/28/jade-signature-in-sunny-isles-has.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search

Workers at Edgardo Defortuna's Jade Signature in Sunny Isles Beach have begun the 9-month process of digging out the underground parking level of the new condo project.

[QuantumX]

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5478/9589893365_8d0827238a_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9589893365/)
DSC_0551 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9589893365/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2840/9537661389_36babb6c66_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9537661389/)
DSC_0518 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9537661389/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5509/9608884823_820cb22c0a_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9608884823/)
CSC_0766 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9608884823/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5347/9537661851_73c03763d9_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9537661851/)
DSC_0572 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9537661851/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr


http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5504/9585340810_5ef1957bb2_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9585340810/)
CSC_0717 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9585340810/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5341/9589893209_ab898ded88_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9589893209/)
DSC_0539 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9589893209/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5509/9583737419_259f15da8f_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9583737419/)
DSC_0541 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9583737419/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7424/9589893031_1fa2efc1a4_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9589893031/)
DSC_0508 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9589893031/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2875/9583737561_4c5946a85e_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9583737561/)
DSC_0542 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9583737561/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5441/9583737771_aff16c5c06_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9583737771/)
CSC_0718 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9583737771/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5542/9542358440_0244f5d714_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9542358440/)
CSC_0692 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9542358440/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5343/9537661057_3c762ed549_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9537661057/)
DSC_0502 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9537661057/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7307/9539287984_119c0c7654_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9539287984/)
DSC_0607 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9539287984/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7415/9539287834_1e8f91d9e9_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9539287834/)
DSC_0606 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9539287834/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3756/9539288124_57c773f491_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9539288124/)
DSC_0645 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27357258@N03/9539288124/) by QuantumX (http://www.flickr.com/people/27357258@N03/), on Flickr

[bobdreamz]

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3722/9630508864_04c125d03d_c.jpg

The lot in front of My Brickell is part of the huge Brickell City Centre project. The people who will live in My Brickell aren't going to have much of a view.

[N830MH]

Wow!!! Very nice shot! I like it lots.

Keep it up the good work.

[QuantumX]

Wow!!! Very nice shot! I like it lots.

Keep it up the good work.

And that's the only nice shot you see on this page? Okay! WTF-ever! Keep it up the good work? Viper took the shot!

[easy as pie]

? hate on dude for a passionate thumbs up on the post? mm...

at the risk of attracting your scorn, can i ask (maybe discuss via pm) the costs and details of a quick air tour of miami? heading back to south beach and i'm thinking a little air excursion might be a nice treat.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3722/9630508864_04c125d03d_c.jpg

that's sick, amazing, so miami, love it! also, what a podium in the adjacent structure! can even overlook the fact that it's a multi-story parking structure just because it looks so cool

[QuantumX]

? hate on dude for a passionate thumbs up on the post? mm...

My post was not about hate. It was about fairness. I find it strange that you don't see that. If I wanted to, I could interpret that as hate coming from his direction or just plain stupidity. I find it interesting though that you didn't see it that way or that you would go in the direction of hate. I pay money to get those aerials and it takes a certain amount of skill to get good clean shots while you're moving through the sky in a fast-moving Cessna. That post was a slap in the face occurring when it did even though I'm sure it was just an oversight and I'm simply bringing that to his attention. Viper isn't Bobdreamz, so he didn't take the photo. It's Viper who should be told to keep up the good work that he does, not Bobdreamz. I will PM you about the operation.

[Private Dick]

^ We LOVE your photos and are sooooo fortunate that you share them with us!

You're the fucking BEST, Quantum!! :worship:

[Guiltyspark]

[QUOTE=bobdreamz;6251813]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3722/9630508864_04c125d03d_c.jpg

Interesting building.

[QuantumX]

^ We LOVE your photos and are sooooo fortunate that you share them with us!

You're the fucking BEST, Quantum!! :worship:

FINALLY! Thank you! It is because I want the city to continue to grow!

[QuantumX]

Interesting building.

Yes! Too bad it's not taller. That happens so often with designs that beg to be taller and end up getting wasted on a small buidling.

[dave8721]

http://www.globest.com/news/12_685/miami/multifamily/How-Centro-Sold-220-Units-in-Four-Months-337259.html?pg=1

http://cdn.globest.com/media/newspics/232/mia_centro.jpg

How Centro Sold 220 Units in Four Months

By Jennifer LeClaire | Miami

MIAMI—The first condominium to launch in the Miami’s central business district since the last real estate cycle has sold more than 220 units in less than four months of its marketing launch. Newgard Development Group’s Centro, a 352-unit loft-style condo tower set to rise at 151 SE 1st Street, is translating reservations to contracts as construction plans are finalized.

Newgard will break ground on Centro this fall and open to residents in early 2015. Centro residents will move into a much different Downtown Miami than we saw a decade ago. Slews of new shops, restaurants, hotels, and cultural arts and entertainment venues are now part of the urban core.

“Miami’s central business district has been largely overlooked this development cycle, but our sales success thus far proves there is clearly demand for this type of unique product in this neighborhood,” says Harvey Hernandez, chairman and managing director of Newgard Development Group, the project’s developer. “Centro offers a truly urban live-work-play lifestyle in the center of the bustling metropolis that is Downtown Miami.”

With Downtown Miami’s emergence as a pedestrian-friendly district, Centro is being developed without a built-in parking garage. Residents of the 37-story tower will have access to a fleet of on-site Smart Cars through a partnership with the Car2Go vehicle sharing program. Residents can also tap into cost-effective transit options close to the tower, including the Miami Trolley, Metromover and Metrorail, which provides access throughout Miami-Dade with frequent direct service to and from Miami International Airport.

[QuantumX]

^ We LOVE your photos and are sooooo fortunate that you share them with us!

You're the fucking BEST, Quantum!! :worship:

BTW, the photos I've posted on this page are all construction-related. To see more photos from the same shoot that are not necessarily related to construction of new projects, see my Miami 2013 thread in the My City Photos section. Sometimes, the guys on here make me feel like I just find photos on the internet and post them like so many other people rather than doing all of this myself. I pulled off a lot of extremely difficult shots that day that not just anybody can do.

[Private Dick]

^ I know you're up in the sky working your sexy lens voodoo on the Magic City.

[dave8721]

Submitted by All Aboard Florida for their special area plan for Flagler Gran Central Station: Over 1.4 millions square feet of office space and 785 residential units, 820 hotel rooms, and over 400,000 square feet of retail.

http://egov.ci.miami.fl.us/Legistarweb/Attachments/72841.pdf

[skyscraperfan23]

Can't wait for all aboard florida.