Miami-Dade County is considering building a rail line, be it Metrorail, Tri-Rail, or whatever, to the planned American Dream Miami mall, which will be the biggest mall in the United States, reports the Miami Herald.
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One Park Grove, the first and most boffo of the three ultra-luxury Park Grove residential towers designed by Rem Koolhaas in Coconut Grove, has released new interior renderings of the building’s public spaces as well as individual units.
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Some Miami gallerists and even artists are bucking the traditional pattern of art district gentrification, where artists and galleries find big, cheap places to rent, move in, jazz up a neighborhood, then move out when their rent is inevitably increased beyond affordability. These people are now buying their next spaces. Three of Miami’s leading galleries, Emerson Dorsch, Gallery Diet, and &gallery purchased spaces along one street, NW 2nd Avenue in Little River/Little Haiti, and are transforming that drag into a new and permanent arts neighborhood.
Property Markets Group’s Echo Aventura is done. Residents are moving in to the 190 unit high-end building, taking possession of their units and beginning the inevitable wave of interior alterations and upgrades that begins when affluent owners finally get their hands on their brand new luxury condos. To help with this ‘second phase’ of construction, the developer has announced that a four person full time contracting team will remain onsite for a year “to assist homeowners with any contracting work needed within their residences.”
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The Residences by Armani Casa, which is already over half reserved, has just unveiled its brand-spanking-new $10 million sales center complete with a duplicate of the $1 billion project’s best penthouse (which itself is on sale for $15 million).
Before the City of Coral Gables was anything else, it was a gabled house faced in the local stone known as coral rock but more precisely called oolitic limestone, on a farm. That house, owned by city founder George Merrick, inspired the construction of a number of others in the same distinctive rock in those early days. This house, built in 1925 at 3903 Granada Boulevard, and now on the market for $1.696 million is one of those.
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Having been given a preview of KAR Properties’ proposed ultra luxury tower designed by world-renowned architect Rafael Viñoly on the Miami River, One River Point, a friend of Gridics drooled over the service, saying it would be unlike anything else found in Miami. Hong Kong, yes he said, where a condominium or hotel’s staff really knows how to make you happy, but not Miami.
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By recording ten years of Flickr photo geotags and drawing lines between them, Mapmaker Eric Fischer has used the Flickr API to create The Geotagger’s World Atlas, a beautiful map of the most photographed places in the world. Aside from comparing global cities (the map of London is a beauty), his map shows what Flickr users find most interesting about Miami through clusters of lines.
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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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