MIAMI | Development Thread

[dave8721]

Miami Herald article on the new "tallests" One Brickell CityCentre, One Bayfront Plaza, the obervation tower thing, and Panorama:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/2...lanned-to.html

[chris08876]

New Miami River Mega Yacht Marina To Handle The Big Ones

Ever have that problem where you simply cannot find a suitable slip for your 200-ft. yacht? That's exactly the problem that HCD Developers out of Doral is looking to solve with their proposed design for the "Miami Mega Yacht Marina" on the Miami River, across from Curtis Park. The project includes covered slips for 16 mega-yachts of up to 200 feet in length, each of which include covered parking for 3 vehicles, indoor storage, and captain/crew quarters – a relatively new and unique concept in private marina design. Each vessel is also provided with covered storage for tenders, an owner's vault for storage of valuables, and a "flex" space that could be used as a repair shop or additional storage. But wait, it gets better. Owners and crew members would also have access to a clubhouse, dining area, spa, exercise room, and pool.

The site formerly known as Florida Yacht Basin has been home to a long-running marina with structures dating back to the 1940's and 1950's, so no zoning changes or variances would be required for implementation. According to the Miami River Commission, the plan is consistent with the Miami River Greenway Action Plan and would fulfill a current shortage of dock space for vessels of this size in Miami-Dade County, helping the city tap into a $732 million industry that is dominated by Broward and Palm Beach. Finally, relief for Miami's chronic shortage of mega yacht dockage. And that's not an ironic statement. The plan will be reviewed and considered by the full City Commission on March 3rd.—Margina Demmer

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Sean McCaughan
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...e-big-ones.php

[chris08876]

Aventura Mall is Beefing Up

Aventura Mall will soon be the second largest mall in the U.S. It was up in the air when we announced it a few weeks ago, but the mall finally has the city's approval to add a new three-level, 421,000 square-foot retail wing and a parking garage.

This expansion will bring more higher end stores to the mall, which will surely help Aventura in it's shift towards becoming a more luxurious retail destination. The increasing number of affluent visitors and new Miami residents has caused brands to take notice of our city and demand more retail space. Thus, Aventura Mall was left with no choice but to expand. Sigh.

This expansion will be adding a garage with a ground floor and up to six levels of parking. That alone is cause for celebration, as we can all relate to driving up and down the isles for what feels like hours trying to find a spot. Don't even get us started on what it's like to park during the holidays. Construction should begin this year, so please excuse the dust as you receive a more comprehensive shopping experience.

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Ashley Brozic
Thursday, February 27, 2014
http://miami.racked.com/archives/201...-expansion.php

[N830MH]

Wow! I didn't hear the news. What a surprise! It will be so extremely overcrowded. Some of those customer who couldn't find a parking spot. The parking is full. They couldn't find it at all. It gonna to be change. I haven't visit Florida for a long time. No Florida trip at this time.

[chris08876]

Here Are Vizcaya's Plans For The Science Museum Site



The master plan creates a "green space/cultural landscape" on the historic site of Vizcaya's original farm, now the site of the Miami Science Museum, and restores the surrounding farm buildings. New parking is created on two sides of the green space and on two currently empty pieces of land to the north of 32nd Road.

As the Miami Science Museum's eventual move from its current site to its new building in Museum Park draws closer and the science museum's land reverts to the control of the neighboring Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, plans are being put together to restore the museum's land to something approximating its original use: a farm for Vizcaya.

The current master plan is a simplification of this much more idealized master plan, in which the farm area is recreated more extensively, including a recreated propagation house on the far side of the axis that would contain a visitor's center, as well as an underground parking deck beneath the farm area. The red line would be the route of a circulating trolley for the estate.

Architect Richard Heisenbottle has designed a master plan, which includes a reactivation of the still-extant farm village for museum uses, demolition of the science museum building, and the creation of some sort of large green space, or cultural landscape that approximates the historical farm. Admittedly these plans are a major simplification of the idealized and much more expensive master plan that Heisenbottle originally designed and Vizcaya had hoped to aim for and which would include orchards, an underground parking structure, and a trolley, but the end result is still a monumental step forward for the institution. It reunifies these two halves of the historic Vizcaya estate (farm and villa) and provides a tabula rasa for the institution's further growth.

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Sean McCaughan
March 12, 2014
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...rm-village.php

[chris08876]

Renderings Leaked Of Rem Koolhaas' Park Grove, In The Grove

exMiami has leaked the first renderings of Park Grove, the luxury residential project that starchitect Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture is designing (along with Arquitectonica) for Terra Group and the Related Group for the Coconut Grove Bank site. The design has evolved significantly from Koolhaas' winning competition entry, which was a veritable forest of skinny towers that has now (according to exMiami) been reduced to three twenty story buildings at heights of 256, 287, and 294 feet.

There will be four two-story amenity buildings, a three story building for the relocated Coconut Grove Bank and a fitness center, and a two story office building. 730 parking spaces, for the bank and the project's 298 units, will be stuck somewhere. The project will be built in phases, with the first phase being the construction of the new bank while it continues to operate out of its old building. (which we hear will also serve as the project's sales center) Landscaping is by Enzo Enea and interiors by Studio Sofield.

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Sean McCaughan
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...-the-grove.php

[chris08876]

Collection of various projects that constitute the development on a grand scale:
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Faena District Miami Beach Development




The addition of landscaping/mini-park land:

Construction continues at the Faena District Miami Beach, that glorious and mysterious wonderland that Argentinian developer Alan Faena is building in Mid Beach. Wallpaper* Magazine tracked the developer down, somehow got some great new imagery of the project out of him (a mixture of old and new, actually) with new design details by Antwerp-based Studio Jobs and others, and was able to ask him a few (three) questions, to which he gave charming if not overly specific replies. Here is basically what he said, paraphrased of course:

1) Why Miami? "Often a place finds you, rather than you finding it." He had a chance to buy the Saxony Hotel two years ago and it just kind of snowballed from there.

2) Why build on such a large scale? He loves to change an entire neighborhood.

3) Does Faena Miami Beach have a Latin flavor? Yes, in some ways, with the wrap-around balconies called aleros, and the lifestyle they're going for. Oh, and "Faena Miami Beach is a country, with a flag, a coat of arms and heraldic symbols [all designed by Studio Job]. It will change Miami Beach forever."

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http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...wonderland.php
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[chris08876]

Development of a park with a odd statue ???
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Gulfstream Park's Huge Pegasus Statue

Gulfstream Park's absolutely battshit ugly proof that classic Florida kitsch is still alive and well, a.k.a. its giant roadside Pegasus statue, complete with waterfalls, is under construction. The statue will be placed in the center of a "park", or rentable event lawn, or whatever and will be on top of a sculpture of a dragon, in mid battle, or killing it, or whatever. The base of the sculpture, a spherical on which its big equine rump will be supported, is already in the ground, and construction continues. Do check out a rendering of the finished product, in all its roadside-scholck glory, is after the jump.

The current site:

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http://miami.curbed.com/places/gulfstream-park

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by chris08876

The current site:

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http://miami.curbed.com/places/gulfstream-park

Wait, where is it?

[chris08876]

^^^^^^^^

The location for the site is: 901 S Federal Hwy, Hallandale Beach, FL

[brickell]

It's Gulfstream Horse Track / Casino / statuary

[chris08876]

CIM Group Now Owns 72% Of Miami Worldcenter

Los Angeles-based real estate fund CIM Group now owns a 72% stake in the Miami Worldcenter project.

The ownership stake was revealed as part of a request to close and vacate certain public streets within the proposed Worldcenter project. That request will be taken up by a Miami Planning board next week.

Art Falcone, who once controlled the project, now owns less than 28% of the project. Falcone’s actual ownership could be well below 28%, as owners with stakes that are below a 5% threshold are not revealed but make up a significant share of the group. Broker Edie Laquer is also suing, claiming that she is owed a stake in the company.

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http://www.exmiami.org/index.php/cim...center-project

[N830MH]

Originally Posted by brickell

It's Gulfstream Horse Track / Casino / statuary

Originally Posted by chris08876

^^^^^^^^

The location for the site is: 901 S Federal Hwy, Hallandale Beach, FL

Oh yes, I remember where it is. We haven't visit in South Florida for a long time. Why I haven't visit Gulfsteam Horse Race Track and also, I remember Broward County Fair. It is very near Hallandale Beach Blvd & US 1 South. This is where they used to be.

[chris08876]

Flagler Street Getting Full-On Redo, With A Subtle RR Theme

Flagler Street, Miami's original 'Main Street' will undergo a $12 million overhaul that includes a total redesign and reconstruction from Biscayne Boulevard to the Miami-Dade County Courthouse at NW 1st Ave, and a really adorable (but not overdone) "Henry Flagler/Railroad"-ish theme. The plan has been in the works for three years and is the result of a rare alliance between property owners and city and county officials, all of whom want downtown to be a friendlier, safer place for residents and downtown workers, and is designed by Miami-based Curtis + Rogers Design Studio. With so many historic buildings undergoing restoration and the arrival of thousands of new condo units, everyone agrees that timing is critical.

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Monday, March 17, 2014
Sean McCaughan
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...treet-redo.php

[chris08876]

Proposed Retail Wing Of Lincoln Road's Church

Miami Beach's oldest church, designed by Walter DeGarmo with a rectory building added later by Russell Pancoast, never really paid to much attention to its courtyard, a space left over from multiple planned but never executed additions that at one time some decades ago had had a blah fence slapped up around it, and was almost always empty. Now, if developer Tristar Capital gets its way (and of course nothing's for sure until the fat lady sings) that little square of grass could net the financially imperiled church $100 million over the next 50 years.

The architectural design itself, by firm Touzet Studio, and the landscape design by Raymond Jungles, however, had remained largely unseen by the public, as it wended its way through Miami Beach's approvals process. That is until now. Here ye, here ye, are the plans, elevations, axonometrics, architect's statement, and etc. Love it or hate it, judge for yourself, after the jump.

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http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...ads-church.php

[N830MH]

Developers propose 50-story residential building near Alton Road flyover

Developers are planning to build what could be Miami Beach’s tallest building on the city’s front doorstep — beside the Alton Road flyover at the end of the MacArthur Causeway.

Designed by international architecture firm Perkins + Will, the residential tower would rise 50 stories at the foot of the flyover. A six-story waterfall and three-acre public park would take the place of a dilapidated hospital and parking garage that now greet the millions of visitors streaming into South Beach from the MacArthur.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/1...sidential.html

[chris08876]

South Beach's Latest Wacky Walgreens Is Coming Together



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http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...g-together.php

[bobdreamz]

^ Certainly a unique design for a WalGreens.

[cabasse]

my bf and i just got back from a week in miami for the opening days of the sony open. i (we) could definitely see ourselves buying a place down there in the near future and making a second home.

Originally Posted by chris08876

^^^^^^^^

The location for the site is: 901 S Federal Hwy, Hallandale Beach, FL

i was wondering what the hell this was. we stayed at a marriott near aventura mall and passed gulfstream park a few times.

[Private Dick]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26728226