Is An Ultra Expensive Condo Project Coming to Terminal Island?
Previous project designed for the site, by Lord Norman Foster.
Back in 2014, developer Harvey Hernandez pitched a public-private partnership to the City of Miami Beach to build a luxury condo tower on Terminal Island that would be designed by Lord Norman Foster. The idea was rather fabulous of course – a ship-like form perched in the middle of Biscayne Bay, right next to the cruise ships – and even though Miami is the place where fabulous things come true, it didn’t.
But something like it might. According to The Next Miami, the Related Group has now likely gained control of a 3.71-acre piece of land on the property through a series of deals made last month. Meanwhile, in a Bloomberg article announcing condo king Jorge Perez’s desired departure from Related in a few years, and his plan to hand the reins over to his sons, also mentions that son Jon Paul Perez “recently brought in a deal in the Miami Beach area that he said would be the site of the company’s priciest-ever condo project on a per-square-foot basis, with units costing more than $2,500 a square foot.” Could this be that? If so, it would be right up there with his father’s most spectacular projects.
Moishe Mana Plans Residential Tower Without Parking Near MiamiCentral Station
Miami is getting so urban! Look at us building yet another residential tower in Downtown Miami without any parking, and it’s not that big of a deal. When Centro was announced, everyone was all “Dude, where’s my car going to go” (get it, haha!) but it was still built and everything’s ok.
Developer Moishe Mana has submitted plans for a 49 story ‘luxury’ residential tower without parking at 200 North Miami Avenue, and like they so often do in other cities like New York but we almost never do in Miami when it comes to large condo towers, he’s not actually giving the building a name (like Jade, Wind, Atlantis, Paraiso, Icon, etc.) and just calling it 200 North Miami Avenue. Yes, plenty of Miami condo towers are riffs or abbreviations of their address (50 Biscayne, 1000 Museum, etc.) but this just the full street address. Weird, sort of.
According to The Next Miami, the building designed by Zyscovich maxes out on the allowable unit count on the site, at 328. It will be tall, with no podium but instead a cutout for an outdoor pool, topping out at 599 feet. Finally, the location, though not exactly lovely at the moment, will be fabulous in less than ten years, less than a block away from MiamiCentral, surrounded by courthouses and government buildings, two blocks away from Miami-Dade College’s Wolfson Campus, two blocks away from the heart of Downtown, and two blocks away from Miami Worldcenter.
Forget Dispensers, Miami Beach Needs Seagulls That Poop Sunscreen
Forget those complementary sunscreen dispensers, Miami Beach needs these robotic seagulls that poop sunscreen from a hilariously bad add campaign called “Care from the air”. The campaign was entered into the Cannes-for-advertising (it’s in Cannes), the Titanium Grand Prix, by sunscreen company Nivea, and mocked by the jury committee before it lost. In Adweek, Sir John Hagerty, an advertising legend and Jury member, said: “”You should see it,” he said. “It’s the most stupid thing I think I’ve seen in my whole life. I actually thought the Monty Python team had gotten together and entered it into [Cannes], to see if we would vote for it.”
Paraiso Construction is Going Absolutely Full Throttle
Looking at ONEParaiso. Photos by Christian Tupper, Related Group Sales Manager.
Now that they moved that sales center out of the way and the Paraiso Beach Club is underway, construction at the Related Group’s Paraiso community in Edgewater is going like gangbusters, with work ongoing at every element of the project except for the public park. That’s were the sales center is located. Christian Tupper, a sales manager for Related, updated us on the construction progress of each element of Paraiso as well as the remaining availability.
PARAISO BAY (sold out): construction currently on the 53rd floor.
ONE PARAISO (2 Penthouse units available): construction currently on the 10th floor.
Paraiso BAYVIEWS (2 Bedrooms from $580K and Penthouses avaialable): construction currently on the 10th floor.
BAY HOMES (Liner units below the Paraiso Bay and Gran Paraiso amenity deck. 5 units available): construction currently on the 4th floor.
GRAN PARAISO (1,2,3,4 Bedroom & Penthouses Available): construction currently on the 4th floor.
Paraiso Bayhomes.
ONEParaiso.
ONParaiso
Paraiso Bay.
Paraiso Bay.
Gran Paraiso.
Paraiso Bayviews.
Paraiso Bayviews.
Paraiso Bay.
Paraiso Bay.
Here Comes The Money: Miami Gets Its First Ship From the New Panama Canal
Say hello (and probably goodbye by now, it’s been a few days) to the MOL MAJESTY, the first neopanamax ship to dock at the Port of Miami after coming through the newly expanded Panama Canal. July 9th was the day the gigantic girl galumphed into the port and hauled herself over to its new gantry cranes, and Miami saw the beginning what all that tunnel digging, dredging, and etc. was all about. The ships are getting much bigger, says the Miami Herald:
“The 991-foot MOL Majesty, which has a 6,724 TEU (the equivalent of a standard 20-foot container) capacity, arrived in PortMiami just before dawn and already was offloading cargo by the time 11 a.m. festivities began at the port. The event ended with a BBQ under an old cargo crane. The original canal can only handle 5,000-TEU ships, while the new locks can accommodate ships carrying up to 14,000 TEUs.”
Checking in on Construction at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami
Photos by Sean Mccaughan.
As Miami’s artsy types were carousing and cocktailing (Vodka open bar. It does the job) at the summer exhibition opening of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami in the Design District’s Moore Building this Friday night, construction had stopped for the day at the ICA’s future home one block to the west and another block north. Risking showing up to the party with a dusty pair of loafers, I headed over to the construction site first to see its progress.
The three floor museum, built in concrete, has reached its full height, with high ceilings, and a lobby area that will look out onto the rear sculpture garden. Out front, the street-facing facade of the main block is windowless above the first floor, and all windows on the garden side. Just like the De La Cruz Collection building next door, the ICA galleries are exposed to the north, following a very ancient practice in the art world. Northern light (at least in the northern hemisphere) is less glaring and more diffused than southern.
Well, there goes one of the good ones. The Miami real estate boom of 2011-ish to 2016 must definitely really be over now that it’s started taking with it class acts such as Boulevard 57, a well-designed, contextual, and high quality building that was planned on Biscayne Boulevard and 57th Street. According to Hector Torres, chief operating officer of Unitas Development Group, who talked to The Real Deal, residential unit sales have been called off. Not according the Torres, however, who when asked by TRD said only that everything’s for sale at the right price, the entire site is being marketed for sale at $26 million. Real Deal heard that from “sources,” which probably just means a sales agent who is pissed they don’t have anything to sell there anymore.
On the positive side, the large site in the Upper Eastside might not have to sit fallow for years again, with deteriorating relics of a canceled condo project, because the ground-level retail is still on. After Kubik, planned for that spot during the last market boom, was shelved, a crane suspending a lit up (and eventually burned out) cube sat forlorn there for years. It probably got taken out of its misery by a hurricane or something. Thanks Wilma.
Torres said the retail portion of the project is moving forward and might even get ten or twenty thousand square feet larger. Lyle Chariff, who is marketing the retail, totally name dropped Trader Joe’s as a potential, or at least hoped for tenant, although the grammar is technically a bit vague on whether they are actually talking to them. They’ve had “interest from Trader Joe’s and Publix-type tenants” Chariff said. A courteous comma would have really cleared things up here, people.
The years of drama at this site (don’t even get us started on all the shit that went down when they pulled the plug on Kubik), just makes you wish some shortsighted bonehead had never demolished the beautiful old Northeast Miami Women’s Club’s Mediterranean Revival clubhouse to make it all happen. Read this excerpt about it from a Soyka Restaurant press packet:
Fun Fact: Garden Room is also meeting spot for the Northeast Miami Woman’s Club. It features an historic awning initially used by the organization in its hay day. Soyka purchased its main headquarters in the late 1990’s but insisted the group still host its meetings in the Garden Room, which they do on the third Thursday of every month between September and June.
1212 Lincoln Mixed-Use Project Gets Approved at Galbut’s Prized Lincoln-Alton Property
Developer Russell Galbut, the developer and ‘big man in charge’ at his development firm Crescent Heights, probably controls more Alton Road frontage than any single other individual, and he’s working on a series of infill developments that eventually may change the face of the street entirely. And that’s probably a good thing, because Alton from the Dade Canal south is really quite blah. You can already see construction bringing changes closer to 5th Street, Galbut also has a new Whole Foods Market in the works up on 19th and Alton, and now a redesigned and enlarged complex absorbing an entire block SW of the intersection with Lincoln (the previous design had been more angular). The project, which is being designed by two firms doing separate sections, Perkins+Will and Avroko, was just approved by the Miami Beach Design Review Board. This is primo, primo property, so Galbut is going all the way. The five story project includes a 447-space parking garage, a large food court functioning as a “common space” overlooking Alton Road, a 100 guest room luxury hotel, and retail.
And yes, 1212 Lincoln is obviously a riff on 1111 Lincoln, the famous parking garage catercorner to it across the intersection.
Public Meetings Will Shape the Future of Miami Beach’s Convention Center Hotel and 6th Street Corridor
Two intriguing public meetings are coming up in Miami Beach for citizens, neighbors, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, activists, and amateur (or not so amateur) architects and urban planners. On Monday, Miami Beach City Government is holding a public forum in the city hall commission chamber requesting residents’ input on the planned Convention Center Hotel. An earlier version of the hotel, planned for a location adjacent to the new convention center, was defeated in a voter referendum, so it’s back to the drawing board, and this time with hopefully better results.
On July 21, a community meeting will look at ways to improve the semi-desolate, messy, and well, sometimes downright dumpy 6th Street, in South Beach. Just north of the main thoroughfare of 5th Street, 6th is a transition between slightly higher density commercial buildings to the low-scale, leafy, garden apartment blocks of the Flamingo Park neighborhood. It’s being organized by city activist Michael DeFillipi, at Plant Theory.
