MIAMI | Development Thread - Page 10

brickell · #1 Posted **Jul 27, 2006, 5:28 PM**

yes it's the dupont site. Here's a shot of the one under construction. There's two planned, you can see them on the first page.

MiamiSpartan · #2 Posted **Aug 25, 2006, 1:46 AM**

Latest news has MLB looking at a downtown Miami site for a new ballpark for the Marlins. The site is just south of the "old" Miami Arena, which means it would be located just off of I 95, and right next to a Metrorail Station. How great would it be to have the new Met 3 building peering into the stadium over the right field wall when the roof was open?
Still gotta find funding, tho...

Scruffy · #3 Posted **Aug 28, 2006, 2:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by brickell

yes it's the dupont site. Here's a shot of the one under construction. There's two planned, you can see them on the first page.

This is such a cool pic. but I dont know that much about miami. Are all of these built or are many of these renders of what will be there?

bobdreamz · #4 Posted **Jul 27, 2006, 5:45 PM**

thanks Brickell I thought it was the old Dupont hotel site...that's a great shot too.

DGM · #5 Posted **Jul 27, 2006, 5:50 PM**

They should rename it Crane River. That whole area is going to be one big construction site over the next few years. I'd hate to have to take anything but the metrorail or metromover over the river. Correct me if Im wrong, but don't the west 2nd ave and miami ave bridges both have expansion plans in the works?

NewAtlantisMiami · #6 Posted **Aug 13, 2006, 12:37 AM**

Okay, guys! I did one of my weekend construction site tours. Met3 is still a big cleared lot. Is there any word on when some real construction might begin? Infinity I & II look as though they might be going up at the same time i.e. the Plaza on Brickell I & II, Everglades on the Bay North & South Tower, and Quantum on the Bay North & South Tower, so it could be that they are both under construction. Even though they were marketed as separate projects, they could even end up looking something like Quantum. At least that's what the model in the sales office looks like to me. Now, please, help me make sense out of the River Front site. Wind and Ivy I've seen clearly marked, but what is going up south of Ivy next to the Metrorail on the Miami River? The holes are being drilled for the anchor columns. Is that Mint? Emporis also calls it River Front West, so from its location on the River Front site, it must be. And what else is going up on that site in relation to the Ivy and Wind, north or south of each, either on the river or on SW 3rd Street and S. Miami Avenue? I mean it's a pretty big site since this will be the gated River Front community! I actually got out of my car and walked halfway up the S. Miami Avenue bridge to try to make sense out of it all. From the renderings I've seen of Liz Calderon's Cima, it looks as though it will go up on the Miami River just south of Wind and will be one of the River Front East towers. And will we ever see construction on Onyx2 and Element (formerly Ice2), which is the most not-under-construction under-construction project you'll find anywhere? Premier Towers is another project that's been on the radar for a long time without starting construction! Steve

bobdreamz · #7 Posted **Aug 13, 2006, 4:39 PM**

umiami305's Construction Update
These are a few weeks old nevertheless some updates regarding projects downtown:

Foreground: Wind (153m, 501ft), Ivy (156m, 526ft). Background: Neovertika (112m, 369ft), Latitude (145m, 476ft).

MarinaBlue (187m, 615ft), Ten Museum Park (178m, 585ft).

Met I (134m, 440ft)

Marquis (207m, 679ft)

Plaza on Brickell (two towers, 186m, 610ft)

500 Brickell (two towers, 130m, 426ft)

Brickell on the River II (147m, 482ft)

Everglades on the Bay (164m, 538ft)

Loft II (132m, 433ft) with the Metro mover tracks underneath!

50 Biscayne (169m, 554ft)

Opera Tower (166m, 543 ft)

NewAtlantisMiami · #8 Posted **Aug 13, 2006, 5:28 PM**

Thanks, Bobdreamz! Some pretty impressive photography there! So much construction in what is only the first or second wave of what is to come!Steve

dave8721 · #9 Posted **Aug 16, 2006, 5:58 PM**

Work begins on 617-foot tall Met 2 office tower:

http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/060817/story1.shtml

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Work begins on Met 2 offices

By Marilyn Bowden
Groundwork is under way at Met 2, the office component of the Metropolitan Miami project downtown, with the start of vertical construction probable in six months.
"We have the site permit, which allows us to do foundation work up to the level of the top of the piles," said leasing representative Jack Lowell, vice chairman of Flagler Development Corp., formerly Codina Realty Group.
Site and foundation work, which requires another permit and would cover development of the ground floor, will be finished in about six months, he said, when developer MDM Group USA expects to have the full building permit in place.
"We are building regardless of whether we have a tenant signed or not," Mr. Lowell said. He said he expects the Met to field one of several large financial tenants looking for space.
The 47-story tower at 200 SE Third St. will house about 750,000 rentable square feet of office space, Mr. Lowell said, as well as a garage and a 376-room Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Completion is expected in early 2009.
The Met's major competitors are proposed office buildings at 1450 and 600 Brickell Ave., just across the Brickell Bridge. The 35-story, 585,055-square-foot 1450 Brickell, a project of Rilea Group, could make it to the market first, said leasing representative John Marshall, because it is a smaller building. Construction is expected to start there when a major tenant is signed.
A major use special permit has been granted to the Foram Group for a mixed-use project at 600 Brickell Ave., the first phase of which would be a 36-story tower containing 490,126 square feet of office space. The permit requires a construction start within two years. The second phase, slated for a 2011 start, would add another 463,483 square feet of offices.

bobdreamz · #10 Posted **Aug 16, 2006, 7:05 PM**

dave this is incredible news!!....the first significant office building in the heart of the CBD since the 80s finally gets underway!! I'm also glad that Flagler/Codina are involved as they surely get this built.

Dale · #11 Posted **Aug 25, 2006, 2:47 AM**

At this point it may be a toss-up between which is less likely to be built between the stadium and Met 3.

MAH4546 · #12 Posted **Aug 26, 2006, 4:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dale

At this point it may be a toss-up between which is less likely to be built between the stadium and Met 3.

Met3 has been delayed ridden, but it is happening, no doubt. We are going to see a lot of projects never happen. Met3 is not one of them.

Dale · #13 Posted **Aug 26, 2006, 3:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by MAH4546

Met3 has been delayed ridden, but it is happening, no doubt. We are going to see a lot of projects never happen. Met3 is not one of them.

This is comforting, MAH. I trust you have a bit of inside info ?

dave8721 · #14 Posted **Aug 25, 2006, 7:04 PM**

This project being dead isn't news but burried in the article was the fact that Platinum on the Bay was originally to be a new tallest before the FAA chopped it down:

http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/...l?surround=lfn

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Platinum on the Bay for sale

South Florida Business Journal - 3:03 PM EDT Thursday
by Susan Stabley
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The asking price for Miami's Platinum on the Bay: $44 million.

The Redondo development family has put its second residential condominium tower project on the market. The 320-unit luxury Platinum on the Bay is to rise 56 stories from the edge of Biscayne Bay at Northeast 29th Street.

"Since the market has changed, we're selling the site now," said Carmen Redondo, who doubles as family broker for Kamany Realty.

Platinum on the Bay is listed with LoopNet.

The project ran into trouble more than a year ago due to Federal Aviation Administration height restrictions.

The family, which does business as Maysville Inc., had originally hoped to build up to 825 feet.

But in May 2005, the FAA said the building would need to conform with two other nearby structures, both of which topped out at 544 feet.

The family's first project, Platinum, is expected to be completed in October. Redondo said they have sold more than 80 percent of that project.

Dale · #15 Posted **Aug 26, 2006, 6:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by dave8721

This project being dead isn't news but burried in the article was the fact that Platinum on the Bay was originally to be a new tallest before the FAA chopped it down:

http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/...l?surround=lfn

Seems academic though, seeing as how they didn't have the goods to build it at 544'.