$1B Transit-Oriented Development Planned Near Metrorail

Developers have announced plans for a massive transit-oriented development in the Health District called Highland Park Miami, according to The Real Deal.

The developers are said to have acquired around 50 properties over a 10 year period for the $1b project.

Highland Park Miami is planned to include “half a dozen” buildings rising up to 22 stories on around 7 acres, with:

  • 1,000 apartments
  • 500,000 square feet of medical office
  • 150-key hotel
  • retail
  • rooftop green space with fitness areas

The project is planned to be built in phases, with the first phase to include 250-300 apartments and 250,000 square feet of medical office.

Groundbreaking on the first phase could take place next year, with site clearing to begin this year.

Arquitectonica is the architect. Oppenheim Architecture is the architect for the multifamily rentals.

Black Salmon and the Allen Morris Company are the developers.

 

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Mad Dash
2 months ago

This is a beautiful project and it’s just the perfect recipe to tie in downtown to the Health District. It will eventually become one unified downtown area.

Pesestrian
2 months ago

W👀W!!!

leslie glassblock
2 months ago

I so love this for this area! Build, build, build!!!!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Eventually all these neighborhoods will be connected to one another and it will all give a unified feeling like in Manhattan

Anon
2 months ago

I live in Brickell and want to move here. I like being in a new clean area but it’s really important to me that our neighborhood centers all connect along the metro rail and movers

Chris
2 months ago

To be Manhattan we need more public transport. That metromover should be going way further north and west.

Anonymous
2 months ago

We have the public transportation! We just need to stop following the trendy spots (which are just cheap areas that don’t have transportation infrastructure) and build up and promote our valuable public transportation hubs!

john
2 months ago

fact is that the majority of developers are looking for large swaths of cheaper, open land to push their projects = not near metrorail stops. this is what is driving the creation of disjointed development pockets throughtout the county.

Anon
2 months ago

Exactly! The city needs to step in to tax all those “cheap” land so the city develops in a way that is less expensive for the public in the future, where we have a worldclass transit system already built. It’s much less expensive to revamp existing structure than add new lines.

Anonymous
2 months ago

The land is already taxed. They pay more in property taxes than you make in a year.

MmmUm
2 months ago

We have a ton of metro stops. How about YOU move THERE and practice what you preach.

Anonymous
2 months ago

The Metromover is the most important expansion, but turning the trolley system into an actual reliable system would actually help a lot. The main two things that need to be accomplished are an increase in frequency (more vehicles) and making sure that the transponders on top all work so they can be identified on the app. If they ran every 5-10 minutes they would be quite useful given the routes. In particular, the Brickell route which runs from Coconut Grove to Brickell Key and the Biscayne route which runs from the Brickell Metrorail straight up Brickell and Biscayne to the southern end of the Design District.

Anonymous
2 months ago

None of which can be accomplished with more dinky little refurbished beer can free rides.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Haha, comparing with Manhattan again, and calling the Metromoober your savior…

Anonymous
2 months ago

Manhattan and Metromover don’t belong in the same sentence.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Metromover is better than Manhattan. It’s a better experience than subway trust me

Anonymous
2 months ago

Not sure we want to be Manhattan. Theyre not doing so well right now.

Anon
2 months ago

Manhattan is back and growing. But it’s not for everyone. people who like the upgraded amenities will continue to flock to Miami

Mr. MIAMI
2 months ago

Another slob! Six post in! Chris, get a life! These wack jobs move here, and are stunned that there are other places than new york. We don’t care dude! What don’t you understand?

Mr. MIAMI
2 months ago

Three post and there you have it! Some slob has to mention new york. We don’t care about new york. Move on dude! Nothing for you to see here.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Fantastic news! This area provides quick access to the interstate for convenient commuting, and it’s only a 20-minute walk from/to Brickell via the Metrorail. It also has waterfront landscapes to utilize. The streetscape is visually striking, especially the thoughtfully designed crosswalks. Congratulations on this assemblage 👏

Anonymous
2 months ago

This is the core! Why? It’s a few stops from brickell and Downtown in metrorail. It’s been upzoned and will be the next premier destination in Miami. Love the country’s RTZ focused development scheme. Miami is becoming more functional and beautiful!

Anonymous
2 months ago

County. “Country” meaning current Federal government is more concerned with bridges being wayciss for being too low for buses taken by pee o’cees.

melo in my cheeks
2 months ago

premier destination sandwiched between a highway that is always congested and getting a second level and metrorail and ambulance noise??????do you like the smell of hot exhaust from highways int he summer time???

Anonymous
2 months ago

Pure transformation…incredible!!

Anon
2 months ago

Hope to see every cross walk in the downtown/brickell Miami core Get cobble stone cross walks like this! Pleas developers add this easy update and City should require it. Let’s beef up the image of our pedestrian streetscapes 🥩 📸

Anon
2 months ago

The cross walks are asphalt and painted. The sidewalks are cobblestone, but that’s just a material selection during the rendering process.

Anonymous
2 months ago

at least they are rounded!

Anon
2 months ago

They aren’t anything. These are renderings – not finalized construction plans.

MmmUm
2 months ago

If they change that it’s fucked up – nobody uses public improvements to bait and switch – that’s like third world developer shit

Azarius
2 months ago

This development with many more in this area will really help Miami housing issues and build better connected communities

Azarius
2 months ago

Major project similar being build on 20th and 12-14th Ave

Name*
2 months ago

What happened to the Miami Produce Center redevelopment?

Azarius
2 months ago

It was stalled

Bob
2 months ago

It expired.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Another beaut by Oppenheim
(Arquitectonica quit funding my postings)

anon
2 months ago

yes mr oppenheimer your atomic bomb was a marvelous invention

Cover the Podiums
2 months ago

Finally Culmer station getting the love it deserves. I love the height too.

And I hate to bring it up, but with the size of the lot…all podiums should be completely lined with units/office space….no excuses

Anonymous
2 months ago

At least the buildings are articulated to an extent, and the windows and balconies line up.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Beautiful but it should be talller!

anonymous
2 months ago

Yeah, sure transit oriented.

Car transit. Look at these renders. Half the gross square footage is car storage.

Meh.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Still better than that proposal near the Dolphin Mall with a bus terminal.

Giana
2 months ago

Trans and orientation have nothing to do with one another.

Anonymous
2 months ago

This development is overall nice, but the amount of lazy garage screening is crazy. I get you need cars, but for goodness sake the entire office tower has mesh parking below.

Cover the Podiums
2 months ago

Its getting out of hand…that’s the first thing I notice on every rendering

Anon
2 months ago

“the first thing I notice”

No Shit

Anonymous
2 months ago

It would be far worse if Arquitectonica was designing the whole development.

Just a person
2 months ago

Transit-oriented development, means integrated urban places designed to bring people, activities, buildings, and public space together, with easy walking and cycling connection between them and near-excellent transit service to the rest of the city. This is not transit oriented development. This is this is 4 large parking garages with units on top. the site is literally 800 away from a Metrorail and is within walking distance to the Health District. Yes, some parking may be needed, but at create a building to a pedestrian scale that encourages walkability. They already have the street grid.

Okanisdead
2 months ago

Podium City

WannaBeLandlord
2 months ago

Come on over to Overtown! Yah’ll welcome 🙂

Anon
2 months ago

I can’t wait to get an Overtown boyfriend.

Anonymous
2 months ago

See you on Onlyfans from an Arquitectonica cereal box balcony then. I suppose it’s convenient that Overtown is right next to the Health District, because I would suggest you get checked after.

Anonymous
2 months ago

One BILLION dollars!

anonymous
2 months ago

Another in a long list of winners. Arquitectonica is on a roll!

Go Canes
2 months ago

World class health center incoming. Pharmaceutical tech also. Interesting.

Urbanist
2 months ago

Up-zone this area and allow more height and density!

Name*
2 months ago

Mid rise cities have the most overall density.

Cover the Podiums
2 months ago

no this height is already pushing it. It should be less than 10 stories in order to encourage surrounding development of underutilized land (per Urban Planning textbooks)

Anonymous
2 months ago

I don’t expect “Urbanist” to know a thing about urban planning outside of SimCity.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Why? The mid-rise height here is perfect for as a transition zone between low-rise areas, and high-rise areas east of I-95.

Thoughts and Hopes
2 months ago

I get the need to keep a lower transitizion zone. We coulf still add a few medium to high buildings if you want a natural looking transition, plus it’s good to have a peak in center of a neighborhood where everyone can share the same view and send thoughts of hope to a landmark.

Shawn Kouri
2 months ago

Howwwww cooool

Dan
2 months ago

First we need to bus the druggies from 14th out of there

Dan
2 months ago

Then we can connect all the neighborhoods

Anon
2 months ago

oh this is great right by all the wonderful astronauts, doctors and scholars in Overtown.

No Pun Intended
2 months ago

Another beaut by Allapattah!

LITTLE HAVANA WINNING!
2 months ago

I’m moving to Little Havana!

Cheetah Chrome
2 months ago

That’s not Homestead, FL.