DOWNTOWN MIAMI
Plans submitted for Miami World Center’s first phase
After eight years of delays, detailed plans for the giant redevelopment project have been submitted for approval. The projects still faces questions and opposition.
BY ANDRES VIGLUCCI
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After eight years of planning and delays, developers of the Miami World Center mega-development submitted detailed plans Monday for a massive shopping complex and three towers covering several city blocks for approval by planners.
The plan maps the first 10-acre phase of what would eventually be a 27-acre mixed-use urban redevelopment project, one of the largest in the country, in the long-forlorn Park West district just north of the downtown core. The project is valued at around $1.5 billion.
Highlights include the first publicly available details on three mostly residential towers that will crown the retail center and share a nine-acre amenity deck 13 stories up. The towers, at 56 stories, 47 stories and 34 stories, will have 1,200 units “in a range of sizes and prices,’’ though precise details are not yet decided, said Miami World Center managing principal Nitin Motwani. One tower will also include a boutique hotel.
The three towers are positioned to interfere minimally with the western views of condo dwellers on Biscayne Boulevard, Motwani said. The tallest would face the NAP of the Americans server-farm building on Northeast First Avenue.
The urban layout of the complex, which follows existing streets and would create three open public plazas, is oriented to pedestrians and sidewalk life, said Motwani. All ground-level shops and retaurants in the multi-level complex, which would contain 765,000 square feet of retail space, including Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, would open to the sidewalks. Parking garages for 4,500 vehicles, truck bays and loading areas would be concealed within the complex.
Retail developers The Forbes Company and Taubman will jointly develop the shopping center.
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