MIAMI | Development Thread

[chris08876]

The whole area is gentrifying. Edgewater is experiencing a boom in high rise condos/ high end living towers, and its only a matter of time before it affects the Wynwood art district. Also, keep in mind the proximity to downtown, and the proximity to future major projects such as World Center; which will begin this year and that are high-end. Money and capital is flowing towards these areas, and over the next 10 years, you will see things naturally go high-end.

Even if I may draw a comparison, the South Bronx for example is starting to slowly gentrify. Harlem has been doing this for years now. It doesn't take a area to have a rich history for high-end developments to occur. Likewise for Williamsburg, which in the last 10 years has experienced a dramatic resurgence.

[chris08876]

Could affect future developments:
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City officials are considering amending the Miami 21 zoning code to allow for bigger balconies.

The proposed changes would allow for balconies on the eighth floor of a building or above to encroach three feet into the required setback.

Under current rules, no encroachments into the setback are permitted above the eighth level except for shading and screening devices that promote energy efficiency. The modification would apply to the T6 Transect Zones.

Miami’s Planning Department is recommending approval of the changes. The Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board was scheduled to review the new rule at a meeting last week, and the full commission will ultimately need to approve or deny the changes.

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http://www.lineairedesigns.com/miami...ger-balconies/

[chris08876]

Video with tons of Developments: (Might be good to alter the speed of it)

* Shows some hidden renderings, 3d videos, etc not posted here.

• Video Link

* Some may be a little outdated, but for the most parts, does a good job of documenting projects.
* Combination of low rises, mid, and high rises.

[GoldenDuskPhotograph]

I hope the holidays were good for everyone!

Brickell Heights Ready To Go Vertical

http://www.goldenduskphotography.com...on-go-vertical

[GoldenDuskPhotograph]

Brickell City Centre Construction Photos Update

http://www.goldenduskphotography.com...-photos-update

[IMG]Brickell City Centre-1 by Golden Dusk Photography, on Flickr[/IMG]

[chris08876]

Extra Rendering (District 36 or 3635 NE First Avenue):


Credit: http://www.miamitodaynews.com/2014/1...9-story-tower/

[chris08876]

FENDI Château Residences Is Now Over 50 Percent Sold

Reminder:

MIAMI, FLORIDA – January 5, 2015 – Luxury private developer Château Group is pleased to announce that FENDI Château Residences is more than 50 percent sold. FENDI Château Residences is a new and exclusive 12-story waterfront condominium building located at 9365 Collins Avenue in Miami, Florida, two blocks south of The Bal Harbour Shops. Venegas International Group is handling the marketing and sales of the property and recently opened the building’s sales gallery and model residence.

FENDI Château Residences brings together Italian luxury house FENDI and Château Group – two leading global brands synonymous with style, and is FENDI’s first branded condominium building globally. Slated to be completed in June 2016, FENDI Château Residences features 58 exclusive floor-thru oceanfront residences and penthouses ranging in size from 3,300 square feet to more than 7,000 square feet, with prices from $5 million to $25 million.

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http://www.thenextmiami.com/index.ph...-percent-sold/

[chris08876]

Related Reveals Hyde Midtown Interiors by David Rockwell













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http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...-interiors.php

[chris08876]

Crescent Heights is proposing a 40,000 square foot Whole Foods Market

Crescent Heights is proposing a 40,000 square foot Whole Foods Market and 4,500 square foot Wells Fargo Bank at the corner of Alton Road and 19th Street, topped with three very visible levels of parking, and a public plaza out front with a fountain, to complement the Sunset Harbour fountain across the street. Inside the store, a cafe will be located on an upper mezzanine. Renderings show solid stretches of Christmas colors. Green for Whole Foods. Red for Wells Fargo. White stucco.

Local activists are concerned about the traffic the 5,359 daily trips the store would generate. Then there's already a Fresh Market, Epicure, and two Publix Grocery Stores within a four block radius. The store's rather generic big box look, and the fact that all the parking is just right there, totally contrasts with the more imaginative and distinctive designs of those other grocery stores. (One Publix is historic. The other is a silvery Carlos Zapata-designed space ship. Fresh Market is urban and swanky. Epicure is cute and neighborly). The Miami Beach Planning Board will review it at their meeting on the 28th.

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http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...alton.php#more

[chris08876]

FAA warns developers that planned Miami towers pose hazard to MIA flights

The FAA issued warnings to the developers of four towers in downtown Miami that their projects were so tall they might interfere with air traffic.

Downtown Miami sits in the path of airliners landing at Miami International Airport so the FAA is careful to regulate the height of buildings near the typical flight paths. In December, Brickell City Centre, One Bayfront Plaza, Aria on the Bay and Met Square were sent letters on height concerns from the FAA.

Swire Properties' mixed-use Brickell City Centre wants to soar 1,039 feet above sea level, but the FAA said that would pose a hazard to air traffic. It recommended a height of 461 feet.

Florida East Coast Realty has proposed building its One Bayfront Plaza office and retail tower 1,005 feet tall. The FAA wants to cut it down to 470 feet.

Melo Group wants the Aria on the Bay condominium to reach 535 feet, but the FAA proposes to cap it at 460 feet.

MDM Development Group's residential and hotel project Met Square is planned for 538 feet, yet the FAA wants to cut it to 471 feet.

"The proposed structures are located 5.7 nautical miles or less east of the Miami International Airport," the FAA said in a statement. "The FAA issued Notices of Presumed Hazard (NPH) for the proposals indicating that initial studies have been completed. The NPH is not a final FAA determination, it is an interim step in the process used to notify the proponent of the initial findings and begin negotiations on possible mitigations."
The developers have 60 days to respond to the FAA.

In previous building booms, the FAA has issued NPH letters but the developers reached compromises and the buildings mostly moved forward. Downtown Miami has dozens of buildings taller than 475 feet. However, several new proposals – such as Brickell City Center and One Bayfront Plaza – would take the tallest building in Miami title away from the 789-foot Four Seasons Hotel & Tower.

However, the FAA announced a policy change several years ago to place more restrictions on tall buildings near major airports around the country.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/southflor...mi-towers.html

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Preliminary Construction set to begin on Brickell Bayview Center

http://www.goldenduskphotography.com...bayview-center

[jd3189]

Originally Posted by chris08876

FAA warns developers that planned Miami towers pose hazard to MIA flights


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http://www.bizjournals.com/southflor...mi-towers.html

Read some of the comments on the article. A private pilot who has flown to MIA many times said that anything above 1,000 feet 5.7 miles away poses zero threat for planes. It can be understood that the FAA may have good intentions but these height restrictions really stifle Miami's growth. Height restrictions should exist, but only in certain zoning areas. Downtown, Brickell, and part of Midtown should be allowed to at least have supertalls.

[chris08876]

Project: 3601 N Miami Ave

A rendering of Triptych recently appeared on the website of HES Group, the developer of the project.

HES bought the property 3601 N Miami Ave (across from Midtown Miami and up against I-195) in the summer of 2014 for $12.25 million.

The developer is planning a 20-story project that includes 297 full service hotel rooms, 50,000 square feet of office space, nearly 50,000 square feet of ‘luxury’ retail space, and 500 parking spaces. A 10,000-square-foot restaurant and bar is planned for the rooftop.

An ‘important’ art gallery will occupy 7,000 square feet and will have a separate entrance.

Bermello Ajamil & Partners is the architect.

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http://www.thenextmiami.com/index.ph...midtown-miami/

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Vacant Lot in Edgewater Sells For $64 Million

http://www.goldenduskphotography.com...for-64-million

[Private Dick]

Originally Posted by jd3189

Read some of the comments on the article. A private pilot who has flown to MIA many times said that anything above 1,000 feet 5.7 miles away poses zero threat for planes. It can be understood that the FAA may have good intentions but these height restrictions really stifle Miami's growth. Height restrictions should exist, but only in certain zoning areas. Downtown, Brickell, and part of Midtown should be allowed to at least have supertalls.

A single anecdote (from someone who has "piloted private aircraft") is nothing to base opinion, much less rule, on. His anecdote is also complete bullshit.

The issue here is safety... safety for both the aircraft and its passengers and safety for all in the flightpaths of aircraft both taking off and landing from/at MIA. The "pilot" commenter seems to only focus on planes heading west descending to land at MIA, and that those planes maintain heights above 1000' past Brickell. Planes take off heading east right towards downtown Miami as well... he seems to ignore that fact.

The issue is not about commercial airliners' altitudes being above 1000' both after takeoff and while descending in normal flight situations. The prime issue is safety in emergency/avoidance scenarios. In which a 1000' foot structure directly in a flightpath is HIGHLY likely to compromise safety.

Does anyone get that? With the ever-increasing volume of large aircraft at MIA, should the FAA just keep quiet about supertall construction and just chance it? What the hell is wrong with people on this Miami thread about this topic? Pilots, airlines, MIA itself, along with the FAA feel strongly about the safety issues posed with very tall development in downtown Miami.

And if you think a regulation that prohibits 1000' foot towers and results in 500' towers instead "stifles Miami's growth"... or even somehow equate that with growth, well then, you have a lot to learn about urban economic growth.

[bobdreamz]

^ The FAA is being overzealous since I've seen airports around the world who have to land large planes in a valley between mountains with even shorter runways. Problem is they can't move mountains though. Also you are going to tell us a pilot can't maneuver around 3 or 4 super talls concentrated in the heart of Miami? If a plane is in trouble does it matter whether it hits a super tall building or a 5 story one on the ground?
Perhaps Miami should wipe out all ground development over the flight paths until they reach the ocean too.

[Private Dick]

Originally Posted by bobdreamz

^ The FAA is being overzealous since I've seen airports around the world who have to land large planes in a valley between mountains with even shorter runways. Problem is they can't move mountains though. Also you are going to tell us a pilot can't maneuver around 3 or 4 super talls concentrated in the heart of Miami? If a plane is in trouble does it matter whether it hits a super tall building or a 5 story one on the ground?
Perhaps Miami should wipe out all ground development over the flight paths until they reach the ocean too.

This is a complete non sequitur.

It's not about airports and large planes around the world in valleys or anywhere else that you have personally seen; it's about air travel at MIA in the United States which is tightly regulated (for very good reason) by an agency primarily concerned with air traffic safety.

Pilots should not have to potentially "maneuver around 3 or 4 super talls" in downtown Miami. Even suggesting that they should be able to do so is beyond preposterous. And trying to somehow equate the obstacle posed by a 5-story building or any ground development with a 1000'-ft tower when it comes to a large commercial airliner in an emergency situation at takeoff is simply silly.

Not only is your argument a non sequitur, it is also plain stupid.

[bobdreamz]

^ It's not stupid it's the truth. How many planes have flown in to high rise buildings in the US? Do you have any stats? Sounds like you are more into hypetheticals like the FAA is.
I have seen smaller aircraft crash into houses & commercial buildings here in central Florida.
In fact we had one today in Lakeland which despite being surrounded by a rural area managed to crash into a warehouse.
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/...uilding/njs8c/

Also please explain how chopping of 19 feet from the Panorama tower from it's original height of 849 feet somehow makes it safer for airplanes.

[Dale]

Originally Posted by Private Dick

This is a complete non sequitur.

It's not about airports and large planes around the world in valleys or anywhere else that you have personally seen; it's about air travel at MIA in the United States which is tightly regulated (for very good reason) by an agency primarily concerned with air traffic safety.

Pilots should not have to potentially "maneuver around 3 or 4 super talls" in downtown Miami. Even suggesting that they should be able to do so is beyond preposterous. And trying to somehow equate the obstacle posed by a 5-story building or any ground development with a 1000'-ft tower when it comes to a large commercial airliner in an emergency situation at takeoff is simply silly.

Not only is your argument a non sequitur, it is also plain stupid.

Pilots sure must suck these days.

[sakau2007]

Originally Posted by bobdreamz

^ It's not stupid it's the truth. How many planes have flown in to high rise buildings in the US? Do you have any stats? Sounds like you are more into hypetheticals like the FAA is.
I have seen smaller aircraft crash into houses & commercial buildings here in central Florida.
In fact we had one today in Lakeland which despite being surrounded by a rural area managed to crash into a warehouse.
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/...uilding/njs8c/

Also please explain how chopping of 19 feet from the Panorama tower from it's original height of 849 feet somehow makes it safer for airplanes.

are you being serious? i seriously can't tell if you are trolling or not, so i guess if it is trolling, it is a good one?


and did it ever occur to you that perhaps the reason so few planes fly into skyscrapers is because of these FAA regulations?