In the Design District, Craig Robins, head of Dacra Development, which is redeveloping blocks and blocks of the neighborhood into a luxury outdoor pedestrian mall, is king. Joint venture partners RedSky Capital and JZ Capital Partners, however, have been snapping up buildings bigtime in the western half of the Design District, about a block away from Robins’s developments, over the last year, ammassing an arsenal worth $233 million.
Month: February 2016
A Rare, Spectacular Chinese Village House Just Hit the Market for $2.5 Million
When Coral Gables’ city founder and developer George Merrick built his ‘master suburb’ he also commissioned notable architects to design seven themed villages within it, to encourage architectural variety within the city which was until then predominantly (and would continue to be) Mediterranean Revival in character. The styles of the villages spanned the globe, from multiple varieties of French to Chinese.
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Apple is Building its Biggest Florida Store at Brickell City Centre
Apple is opening its largest store in Florida at Downtown Miami’s biggest megaproject, Brickell City Centre, according to The Real Deal. They were tipped off by unnamed sources. Both representatives from both BCC or Apple declined to comment, which really, considering how notoriously secretive Apple is, should be no surprise.
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Proposed Edgewater Tower Prodesa Makes Neighbor Paraiso Look Gigantic
Not that Paraiso, the four tower megaproject being built along Biscayne Bay in the northern half of Edgewater, needed any help looking bigger, but a new condo tower called Prodesa that is proposed next to it makes Paraiso look absolutely gigantic. And Prodesa is no small-fry itself.
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Miami CCIM Chapter Meeting Will Discuss Money Laundering in Real Estate
The Federal Government’s new, stricter rules requiring the disclosure of the identities of secret owners of high end real estate in Miami and New York City have incited much debate about their effects on the market or lack thereof (Related Companies CEO Stephen Ross says it’s no biggie, others aren’t so sure). The membership of the CCIM Miami Chapter (that’s Certified Commercial Investment Member, for you non-Commercial real estate nerds) is delving into the issue at their next meeting with a panel of expert speakers, this Wednesday at Morton’s, over steak.
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Very, Very Voyeuristic Glass Box Hits the Market for $1.9 Million in Midtown
This bright, white Loft in Midtown 2, listed yesterday for $1,990,000, takes natural lighting to the extreme, with glossy white floors to reflect the Miami sun after it floods in through huge two-story windows, and before it shines right through the glass interior walls.
The two-level 1,400 square foot space has a master bedroom upstairs, with a large open plan kitchen downstairs, next to extra almost-as-open-plan bedrooms flanking the huge main living space. Curtains are a necessity unless having no secrets is your thing. Each of the four bedrooms is a literal fish tank, with glass walls voyeuristically exposing all to the expansive living area, perfect for showing off to your roommates, or maybe adapting the space to office use.
MiMo-Inspired Boulevard 57 Condo Tower Has Officially Launched Sales, Right on the Boulevard
Boulevard Fifty Seven, a low-slung, sling-backed condo tower planned for a wide and sort-of-triangular lot on Biscayne Boulevard and 57th Street, just across the boulevard from the historic neighborhood of Morningside, officially launched sales with a traditional (for Miami) launch party blowout at its shinny new sales center last night.
Developed by Unitas Development Group, the project was designed by architects Sieger Suarez in a contemporary interpretation of Biscayne Boulevard’s iconic MiMo (short for Miami Modern) midcentury architectural style. Taking advantage of an unusually deep lot, the main residential block wraps around the north, west, and south sides of the block, diminishing its visual impact on the boulevard and Morningside to the east. The 12-story tower will have 105 units, priced at $600,000 and up, including penthouses with private roof decks and plunge pools. Pedestrian-oriented retail space occupies the lower levels, raising the amenity and pool deck just above the tree line and opening up sweeping Biscayne Bay views.
Miami Wants to Bring a Riverfront Restaurant to Abandoned Fort Dallas Park
The City of Miami is looking to reactivate Fort Dallas Park, a hidden patch of green on the Miami River in the heart of Downtown that has been neglected and closed to the public for years.
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In the 1970s, Andy Sweet Photographed the Kitschy Vibrance of a ‘Fading’ Miami Beach
Photographer Andrew John Sweet was a boy from Miami who returned home after receiving his MFA to capture Miami Beach’s fading, but still vibrant old world Jewish culture of the late 1970s and early ’80s, from the unrestored art deco apartment buildings full of retirees that proliferated around South Beach, to the big hotels and their snowbirds up the beach.
The Full-Size Architectural Mockups of Miami’s Latest Starchitect-Designed Buildings
Around Miami, substantial new condo buildings by Pritzker Prize-winning-architects are on the rise, each going through similar processes of construction to ensure these often technically complex, creative towers are executed according to the designers’ original vision. One Thousand Museum, by Zaha Hadid, Park Grove by Rem Koolhaas/OMA, and Herzog & de Meuron’s Jade Signature, under construction in Miami boast mockups of facades, balconies, and exoskeletons.
