393-Unit Apartment Tower Planned At 2000 Biscayne

The original design is 100x better. Its a shame they scraped it

This has now become the Miami Prototype…a generic stucco tower with some color accent trim on top of a parking garage with some random steel mesh panels and a feeble attempt at some street level commercial space. Urban Design anyone?

Please, don’t show what could have been for that hideous tower. The new rendering could get lost in Tampa or Jacksonville.

A shame about the scrapped design. It was a refreshing change from the generic concrete boxes that we’ve got popping up all around. Add another to the list.

Traffic is going to get much worse not better in Miami if the code requires excessive parking. How about some light rail on Biscayne from downtown to 79th Street?

BOY WHAT A DOWNGRADE!!

They scrapped that beautiful tower for this ugly tower, what a shame!

lol, even Melo probably goes “wtf is this?”. I think they are building more architecturally appealing stuff in North Korea these days.

From the sublime to the utilitarian. There ought to be an “aesthetics clause” that must be met before anything gets approved here.

Can’t say that I am surprised. In the past 10 years I have seen many beautiful proposals fall through. The only one that is actually being built is 1000 Museum… sad!

tremendo platform bro

This new design looks just ” to flip the property to a new investor” and sale it as a rental project …

I never held my breath about Verzasca Group. Obviously these people are over their heads. Chances are they won’t build anything at all…just flip the land and get out.

This is a unique lot. Even though it is west of Biscayne blvd, it will have full water views of Biscayne bay thanks to the fact that Cite’ in the front is a low rise of 15 floors only. As such this should have gotten a treatment of a waterfront lot rather than a interior lot. They should have kept it as a condo tower and people would have still bought it even in this market cause there are not that many buildings with water views. Not a smart decision.

If you look more closely at the renderings, the building is actually very interesting. They addressed the open views to the East with Full height windows that wrap around the entire eastern portion. The East, South, and West sides of the garage are actually using a unique metal panel. (the north could use some work). And the large bands of windows floor to ceiling break up the elevations nicely. I did like the previous building, however, I think this one will also fit in nicely. First time of heard of Dorsky + Yue, but Kudos to them.

It’s not a bad looking tower, but still a downgrade considering what we could have had. I’ve seen worse, like 1836 Biscayne Boulevard.

with regards to the ghastly boring design.. at least when they eventually convert to condo’s they’ll be more on the ‘affordable’ side rather than luggggsurrry….

It was to good to be true.

What neighborhood is this considered? Edgewater? Midtown? Wynwood?

And they dropped ODP too.

New – boring.
Old – amazing.
Too bad. We already have a lot of this but it is understandable.

Hoping Braman fights this thing

Nice looking apartment building. Miami needs hundreds more like this to fill in all those empty lots in that area and beyond.

1100$ one bedroom apt glut coming to Miami real soon…