An affiliate of Urbanica Hotels has proposed a 35-story, mixed-use tower in the Edgewater neighborhood of Miami. The city’s Urban Development Review Board considered plans for the 0.93-acre site at 3200 N.E. Biscayne Blvd., 237 and 229 N.E. 32nd St., and 246 and 230 N.E. 33rd St. on March 20. The property is owned by Miami-based Green Circle Development LLC, which is led by executives at Urbanica Hotels. The site currently has three older apartment buildings with a combined 22[...]
Read MoreMiami Beach is to buy a single-family home for $6.5 million. The site at 7605 Collins Ave. is surrounded by city-owned land on three sides and is the missing piece needed to complete a city-owned oceanfront block with no use yet decided. The city commission discussed its decision to buy the property this month and is act again to finalize the buy. “We’ll direct the administration to work on the purchase of the property and send the contract and the[...]
Read MorePlans for one of Miami’s largest ever developments have been revealed as part of a bid for county property in the Little River and Little Haiti area, according to the Herald. Swerdlow Group is partnering on the bid with AJ Capital Partners, which controls 27 acres in the area. Four Miami-Dade public housing projects, including Victory Homes and New Haven Gardens, would be redeveloped along with the private property (the proposal is in response to a county RFP for the[...]
Read MoreSwerdlow Group is proposing a massive, mixed-use public housing project spanning 65 acres along Miami’s Little River and Little Haiti neighborhoods. The development could cost $2.6 billion and create nearly 5,000 workforce and affordable housing units. Coconut Grove-based Swerdlow Group responded to Miami-Dade County’s request for proposals to redevelop and expand four public housing projects, according to the Miami Herald. The entire project would include private land and would be mostly privately financed. It could take nearly a decade to[...]
Read MoreA gargantuan redevelopment proposal by a prominent Miami developer would dramatically reshape a nearly mile-long stretch of the city’s Little River and Little Haiti neighborhoods, bringing big-box stores, a new Tri-Rail station and nearly 5,000 affordable and workforce apartments to a hardscrabble area in dire need of new housing and jobs but leery of gentrification. Unlike much of the redevelopment now enveloping Miami, which is focused on high-income people and luxury apartments, the plan spearheaded by Coconut Grove-based developer Swerdlow[...]
Read MoreGlass railing installation is now nearly complete at the 54-story Miami River apartment tower under construction in Brickell, according to photos by Phillip Pessar. The 645-foot tower topped off last summer, becoming the westernmost tower in Miami to surpass the 600 foot mark. The Miami River tower will have 632 apartments. The first phase under construction also includes retail space, and a riverfront promenade open to the public. There are multiple other phases planned at the development, which is known as[...]
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