Sunbeam is seeking an increase in building height to up to 450 feet tall — from 240 feet that’s currently allowed — for the properties south of the 79th Street Causeway; and the ability to build up to 650 feet tall on properties in two areas north of the causeway, where zoning allows for 340-foot-tall structures. That could equate to 65-story towers.
Sherry Abramson, a planning and zoning board member, said the proposed height increase is “outrageous.” North Bay Village is a small two-island town that’s east of the mainland and west of Normandy Isle.
The developer is proposing: nearly 2,000 residential units with fewer than 100 workforce housing apartments; a 300-key, 112,500-square-foot hotel component; 870,000 square feet of office and retail space; about 5,000 parking spaces, and open space. It could relocate WSVN’s studios to the project.
Sunbeam would seek its first building permit within two years of securing approvals, and would have the first two phases completed and open within 10 years, according to the proposal. The first and second phases are at the western entrance to North Bay Village, north and south of the causeway.
Despite residents’ opposition to the height increases, North Bay Village commissioners voted in favor of three ordinances, on second reading after midnight Tuesday. The ordinances allow the developer to build up to 650 feet high, which could be as tall as 65 stories, on the waterfront properties in Sunbeam’s Special Area Plan (SAP). North Bay Village is sandwiched between mainland Miami and Miami Beach. The first ordinance amends Sunbeam’s special area plan, changing the zoning within the SAP to T6-30 from T6-24. The second ordinance approves the conceptual site plan for the mixed-use project, and the third ordinance OK’s the developer agreement between the village and developer.
The billionaire Ansin family plans to move its WSVN-TV Channel 7 television station from North Bay Village to a new office site in Miramar. It would be part of a proposed massive mixed-use project at its industrial park in Broward County, The Real Deal has learned.
The Miramar City Commission Wednesday night unanimously approved a site plan for a two-story, 71,272-square-foot office building that WSVN would occupy. The commission also approved a related plat waiver and conditional use application.
“We will be on-air from Miramar within three years, hopefully a little bit sooner,” Andrew Ansin told TRD on Thursday. Ansin is president of Sunbeam Television Corporation, the company that owns WSVN, and is a member of the Ansin family that controls Sunbeam and the land where the WSVN’s new home will be built.
By November, the city commission is expected to consider a proposed site plan for the mixed-use development, which is scheduled to begin construction after the WSVN project breaks ground, Ansin said. “We should be in front of the commission in a couple of months,” he said.
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