Photo by Lucas Lechuga.
As of yesterday, one unit had closed at Newgard Development Group’s Centro, in Downtown Miami. The condo in question is Apartment 2502, a 2-bedroom unit. Residents of Centro have begun moving in, but unsurprisingly, (because that’s just how these things go in Miami) a few months later than planned. Centro includes 352 total units.
With funds in place, its grand Downtown Miami station under construction courtesy All Aboard Florida, and expectations of daily train service beginning “as early as” December of 2017, Trii-Rail has launched a website for its latest and greatest expansion into Downtown. The site includes data on the project as well as a video simulation recorded on Google Earth of the route into the urban core. Check out the video below. As it shows, this is a very significant step toward rail expansion in Miami. It’s also a reminder of just how much underdeveloped land there is in what really is the heart of the city. If we really want things to change, why aren’t we building more there?
Photo by Sean McCaughan.
Following a “groundbreaking block party” back in June, construction is underway at the apartment rental tower being developed Downtown by Property Markets Group between the Miami-Dade College Wolfson campus and Biscayne Boulevard. The site has been cleared and construction workers are driving foundation pilings now. When news of the building originally went public, a year ago (boy some of these buildings take a while to get going, don’t they?) PMG was planning on calling it ‘Vice,’ and now the are apparently not. The flyer for the launch thing just called it the ‘300 Biscayne Rental.’ The building will have small, pricy units with fancy finishes, meant for high flying, well paid young professional types who aren’t ready to buy yet. Or who like blowing their money.
The tower formerly known as Vice.
During the storms over the weekend patio furniture rained over Biscayne Boulevard and Downtown Miami. And we’re not talking one or two pieces, we’re talking entire patio sets picked up by the wind from condominium balconies along the Boulevard and strewn across the city, Museum Park, and Biscayne Bay bellow. YouTuber Eric C took two incredible videos from Marina Blue in Downtown Miami, recording furniture flying off of neighboring buildings to the street below. According to the New Times/Wunderground, the highest wind gust recorded in Miami on Saturday, the day the videos were taken, was 37 mph, but that was at Miami International Airport. Isolated wind gusts along Biscayne Boulevard may have been higher; as high as 55 or 60, which sounds plenty fast to pick up a plastic patio set.
Of course if Eric C had joined it, then it would be raining men, and that would be a sight. Hallelujah!
