One of the epicenters of Miami’s current real estate boom has been, unquestionably, Brickell. Just as it was before the crash of 2008, Brickell has seen furious construction, almost unrecognizably transforming the neighborhood yet again.
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Significant changes, including a few new multifamily residential infill projects, are coming to Coconut Grove’s Bird Avenue—the extension of Bird Road east of US-1—with land available for more, as the road gears up for a redo. Pelican Grove, a ten unit development of luxury townhouses is under construction at 3258 Bird Avenue, while just down the street at 2955 Bird Avenue the six unit L’Uccello project is nearing completion. Meanwhile, lots at 2961 and 2967 Bird Avenue are for sale, possibly meaning more multifamily development could soon come to the Avenue.
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Last week the City of Miami Beach painted the bicycle lane on 16th Street green, a move that should make the lane more visible to motorists and safer for bicyclists.
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The Residences by Armani/Casa project in Sunny Isles Beach officially took the top off its sales center with a big ol’ launch party Miami-style last night. The project is being designed by big-deal architect Cesar Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, and interiors are by Armani/Casa, with Giorgio Armani’s sleek, cool, modern look slathered absolutely everywhere. Enzo Enea is doing the landscape architecture.
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An idea that has been floating around for a whilte, to bury both I-395 and Biscayne Boulevard in a part of Downtown Miami, has just gotten the look-over by the Florida Department of Transportation, which prepared a report on the feasability on their version of the plan. That version would only bury a few blocks of I-395, replacing the ‘signature bridge’ which FDOT is currently planning, as well as the bloicks from the northern edge of Museum Park to the opposite side of the Arsht Center, actually widdening Biscayne in front of the park to accomodate extra lanes leading to a local road and traffic circle above.
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Just two days after ride-sharing service Uber won a big victory in Miami-Dade County, another service, Car2go, has decided to suspend their operations in South Florida, according to an email to members. This will take effect on March 1st, just under a month and a half from now.
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Claiming your project will have the ‘next Lincoln Road’ is a popular pasttime among Miami developers. Craig Robins has said that the Miami Design District’s Paseo Ponti will be Lincoln Road meets Bal Harbour Shops. The Related Group’s plan to pedestrianize South Miami Avenue through Brickell is modeled after Lincoln Road, with its mix of shops and restaraunts. Miami Worldcenter’s pedestrian streets have already been described as copies of Lincoln Road, while the planned Mall at Miami Worldcenter, now that it has been converted from a traditional enclosed mall to an exterior pedestrian mall, sounds even more Lincoln Road-ish than ever.
Centered on miles of condo towers stretching up and down Biscayne Bay, the Downtown Miami skyline visible today is an incredibly recent creation. For almost forty years the tallest tower in Florida was the Dade County Courthouse, a 28 story granite monument of a building on Flagler Street and NW 1st Avenue.
The Babylon Towers, an iconic pair of postmodernist ziggurats on Brickell Bay Drive designed by Arquitectonica in the late ’70s/ early ’80s could be demolished and replaced by a condo tower with up to 184 units, if its owners, Babylon International, get their way.
This absolutely gorgeous, and very subtropical modern house at 3667 Park Lane in Coconut Grove, just off Biscayne Bay, has been on the market since September and is listed at $2.49 million. We don’t know the identity of the architect for certain, but Alfred Browning Parker, one of the lions of Miami architecture who designed in this style, is a distinct possibility.
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