With new, slightly relaxed Federal Aviation Administration restrictions affecting planned and under construction towers across Miami’s urban core, the height of SkyRise Miami was approved yesterday by the FAA at a taller height of 1,045 feet, reports The Next Miami.
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According to the broker, and to the fact that the MiMo District just doesn’t have very many penthouses, this four bedroom, three bath penthouse at the ’70s-era Flats at Morningside is the largest penthouse in the MiMo District, and it’s on the market for $1.275 million. The MiMo Historic District is a long, thin commercial corridor extending along Biscayne Boulevard, next to other, mostly residential historic districts of the area, like Morningside, Belle Meade, etc. The 3,232 square foot unit looks out over historic Morningside toward unobstructed bay views, and includes a very large living room, sauna, rooftop terrace with cabana, hot tub, and Astroturf, and 100 feet of floor-to-ceiling windows.
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A condo tower that’s literally wider on the top than the bottom may not seem like a good idea in hurricane-prone Miami, but Elysee Miami is proving to be a more surprising building than one might have expected. And here the engineering is balanced by really elegant interiors by designer Jean-Louis Denoit, which the project has just unveiled in new renderings.
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Town Square Neighborhood Development Corp., a nonprofit chaired by developer Armando Codina that advocates for the master planning of the neighborhood around the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, recently unveiled plans for a public plaza directly to the center’s south designed by local architecture firm PlusUrbia that would connect the Arsht to the rest of Downtown Miami and serve as a public front door to the institution. The Herald unveiled the plans on January 29th, but additional renderings that Gridics received from PlusUrbia (which were approved by TSNDC but not published) give a closer look at the design.
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Extremely wealthy people Patricia and Phillip Frost have stepped in to save their financially embattled namesake institution, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, which is under construction in Downtown Miami. Having run out of construction funds, and run short of its funding goals, the museum was desperately looking around for cash and in talks with Miami-Dade County government to temporarily bail them out, although almost all of the $160 million pledged by the county had already been spent.
That bailout, however, has apparently been replaced by the intervention of the Frosts themselves, who have agreed to give the museum a bridge loan, according to The Real Deal. They have also requested the replacement of the museum’s entire board, which is the group ultimately responsible for the whole funding situation. The new board will initially consist of Patricia Frost herself, Cesar Alvaraz of Greenberg Traurig, and Richard Pfenniger, previously CEO of healthcare company Continucare. The amount of the Frost’s loan was not published, but it’s definitely a pretty big wad of dough.
Art collector Gary Nader has been in talks with Miami-Dade College to take over their prime Biscayne Boulevard-facing land on which he wants to build a museum to house his world-renowned Latin American art collection, a hotel, facilities for the college, a theater, a sculpture garden, and two luxury residential towers where units will be designed with art collectors in mind Mr. Nader has just revealed to Miami Modern Luxury Magazine that the 1,600 seat theater is being designed by the great Emilio Estefan.
In the future your garbage will be on the internet, and guess what? The future is here. The City of Miami Beach has installed 20 high-capacity Big Belly Waste & Recycling Stations around town in a pilot program to try out the newfangled trash bins of the future. Activist Michael DeFilippi posted in his Facebook group ‘Clean Up Miami Beach’ that the big grey bins have been spotted on Ocean Drive, Collins Avenue, Washington Avenue, and Lincoln Road.
City of Miami Commissioners gave the green light for a pair of 12-story residential, office, and retail towers called the Wave of Shorecrest by approving zoning and land-use changes for the area.
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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.
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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