The sale listing for this classic old Coconut Grove casbah describes it as ‘Coconut Grove in all its glory,’ which is just about right. Listed for $2.35 million, the historic Mediterranean Revival castillo comes with a half acre of jungly grove land, 3,750 square feet of living space, and really tastefully updated interiors throughout. Do checkout the tub in the master bath.
Monarc at Met 3, a luxury apartment tower above the newish Whole Foods Market downtown, was just completed last month and opened to renters. According to property manager Michael Bailey-Tonini, the building is 35% leased so far, with an average of 35-40 move-ins a month.
These are uncertain times for one of Miami’s most historic dining establishments, the art deco S & S Diner on North Miami Avenue and 17th Street, across from the old Miami City Cemetery. Due to a lease dispute with the property’s new owners the diner, which has been open constantly since 1938, was almost evicted, and the diner’s owner, Simon Elbaz, is fighting the hard fight in court.
A condo tower called Spark, by a developer called Spider (where do they get these names?) is gearing up for a fall groundbreaking at 533 NE 34th Street, with 40 percent of its 56 condos already sold.
One Thousand Museum, designed by the recently deceased grande dame of architecture herself Zaha Hadid, has already reached the fifteenth floor, as multiple news sources have announced. These photos are from the project’s Facebook page, which also links to plenty of those articles. That rather rudimentary floor plate count is no biggie however, because you can now finally see the structural exoskeleton coursing up around the that parametric facade, supporting it from just a few key points on the exterior. We can finally see some of what Zaha envisioned all along, in solid concrete, and that’s pretty great.
Whatever other buildings they’ve done, whether good or bad, Domo Architecture is a little notorious on Miami’s architecture scene for designing some absolutely ridiculous homes on Star Island for Lennar development mogul Stuart Miller. This includes the latest and biggest, a 70,000 square foot (yes 70,000) pile of sinuous concrete forms wrapping around a private jungle. Another Domo design, however, at 6411 Allison Road on Allison Island, coming in at a ‘mere’ 8,500 square feet, is a much more subtle and even an intellectual building.
Paco Martinez, short for Francisco “Paco” Martinez, the owner of the little red building on Brickell Bay Drive called the Babylon Apartments, is not happy about what’s happened to his plans to demolish. On July 5th the City of Miami Historic Preservation Board officially designated the Babylon in acknowledgement of its pioneering postmodernist design. Demolition was averted, almost.
Miami has never been much of a player in the manufacturing industry, but all of a sudden, due to a number of factors like the Panama Canal expansion and newish food safety regulations, the metropolitan area is looking very viable for a big influx in the coming years.
In their wacky-tobackie dysfunctional ways, South Florida’s politicians are getting serious about looking for answers to our worsening traffic issues in Miami. The latest ideas being floated (floated!) are aquatic, per yesterday’s county commission meeting, when commissioners got a preview of their probe into possible water transportation solutions.
On Tuesday Miami-Dade County Commissioners officially signed off on Adler Group and 13th Floor Investments’ mixed use, 7-acre megaproject The Link at Douglas at the Douglas Road Metrorail Station.
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