Developer Michael Swerdlow wants to develop 5,730 multifamily units with some affordable and workforce apartments, replacing five public housing complexes across Miami. Coconut Grove-based Swerdlow Group’s project also will include 370,000 square feet of commercial space such as offices and a school; 250,000 square feet of open space and amenities and a new Tri-Rail passenger train station, according to Miami-Dade records. The project would replace the existing public housing complexes of Victory Homes at 520 Northwest 75th Street, Newberg at[...]
Read MoreAnother supertall tower has just been announced in Miami. The new supertall will be called MAJOR. and will be built at 888 Brickell Avenue. The goal is to build “the most luxurious residential tower in the world,” the developers said in a press release. MAJOR. will rise 1,049 feet – the maximum permitted in Miami by the Federal Aviation Administration. According to the press release, MAJOR. will include: 259 residential condos Hospitality use Multiple restaurants and nightclubs In the release,[...]
Read MoreDemolition is well underway at the site where Miami’s westernmost skyscraper is being built. Photos show that landscape architect Raymond Jungle’s former offices are now being demolished in Brickell on the Miami River. A former location of Finnegan’s on the River is also now nearly completely demolished. The Miami River tower will rise 640 feet above ground, or 645 feet above sea level, making it the only building so far inland in Miami to reach the 600+ foot height. Developer[...]
Read MoreBrickell’s giant One Southside Park is moving to the next phase of site work. Developer JDS has now essentially completed the first phase of soil mixing at the site, where construction began in Spring of this year. The tower will rise 64 stories, or 773 feet. The developer is now moving on to soil mixing at what was once a parking lot for the adjacent Fire Station. A temporary parking lot has been completed. One Southside Park is also now[...]
Read MoreDeveloper Michael Stern is partnering with Major Food Group to build a branded luxury condo tower in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood, The Real Deal has learned. Stern’s JDS Development Group and the New York-based restaurant and hospitality group plan to build Major, a 259-unit tower at 888 Brickell Avenue, Major Food Group partner Jeff Zalaznick confirmed. The 1 million-square-foot project will mark the first time Major Food Group expands into residential real estate. The company, led by founders Mario Carbone, Rich[...]
Read MoreFrom the gorgeous tile to the rich room furnishings to the white-washed Spanish-style paseos winding through small, sunny nooks and courtyards, the new Esmé Miami Beach hotel is a tribute to Española Way’s past — and maybe a barometer of its future. The engaging new design of the hotel on the Spanish-Mediterranean pedestrian street, which was built in the 1920s as a Bohemian artists’ colony, is not specific to one era. Instead, it harkens back to all of the history[...]
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