400+ Residential Units Planned On Alton Road In South Beach

There are at least 400 residential units planned in four developments on Alton Road in South Beach, according to the SFBJ.

The developments would be built under Florida’s Live Local Act, the report said.

The buildings would rise 31, 27, 18 and 16 stories in height.

They would each include parking, with a combined 364 spaces. There would also be a small amount of retail in three out of the four developments.

Four separate sites in the 600, 700, 800 and 1500 blocks of Alton Road would be developed.

Affiliates of Crescent Heights and GFO Investments are said to be the developers.

 

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Drew
12 days ago

The population of Miami Beach has gone down by 13,000 people since 1990. The city needs good new housing that people want to live in

Anon
12 days ago

Wonderful but they really need that transit link to the beach

anonymous
12 days ago

Miami Beach politicians are going to fight to never have that happened despite the economic benefits it will provide. They claim that “criminals” are going to use the train to come over or the noise from the train will be too loud. its really just a few wealthy people south of 5th ruining it for all the other citizens of Miami Beach. if the residents were smart they would vote the clown politicians out of office there for representatives that actually want to improve the city for its residents

anon
12 days ago

YOU NEED those wealthy people you despise for the huge property tax bills they pay to support your dream train in the 1st place

anonymous
12 days ago

It seems like Miami Beach is where criminals go to party. If anything, this would help tourists and earnest working locals get there better to help improve atmosphere of Miami Beach.

Balthazar Bratt
12 days ago

Exactly what benefits, and at what cost?

If you have ever looked around at the way Miami-Dade County maintains the Government Train stations, there is no reason why the City of Miami would want to have to host these urine stations with broken escalators in their city. Tourists would not know the difference between the entities who are responsible for the sanitation and operations of the government train stations.

Balthazar Bratt
12 days ago

Transit links already exist. There are Miami-Dade County buses that link the City of Miami to the City of Miami Beach, and they have been doing this for over 50 years.

Developers are developing without any additional transit offerings.
The 400+ bus trips seem to be servicing the City well enough.

Since at least 1992, the Hotel Rates keep going higher, the supply of hotels continues to grow. The City of Miami Beach is fantastically wealthy and they are continually adding convention center additions and improvements, boardwalks and baywalks, public spaces, and services.

Anon
12 days ago

Traffic routinely reaches a stand-still in much of Miami Beach, so thats false. Also important to note that prior to those 50 years a highly efficient streetcar system served the beach and the entire region, but was torn out for the bus-system you are now claiming is successful.

Balthazar Bratt
12 days ago

Wrong.
The Miami Beach Railway Company was owned the Florida East Coast Railway.

Not only was it not “highly efficient”. it was the opposite of “highly efficient”. It was not sustainable.

Dade County started using busses to Miami Beach in the 1930’s and has expanded significantly over the last 90 years, while no new train or “efficient streetcar system” has ever connected the City of Miami to the City of Miami Beach.

The Miami Beach Railway Company went bankrupt, and when the useless train ceased operations, the privately owned tracks were sold as scrap metal.

Anon
11 days ago

You are incorrect. Big government and big oil bankrupted streetcar systems and railways across the nation to implement their “new world”. They shoved these systems down our throats and now we are stuck with them while ill-informed masses claim its actually “freedom”

An American
5 days ago

It is a myth that anybody intentionally bankrupted the streetcar systems and railways. They were simply unprofitable because being on a fixed railway made them too inflexible and inconvenient.

ABC
12 days ago

Pedestrian Bridge approved and started construction in leu of metro mover connection.
No happening…

Anonymous
12 days ago

Make it MetroRAIL, and via tunnel from the cruise terminal to South Beach.

Anon
12 days ago

South Beach is DESPERATELY going to need the transit link to the mainland and probably inside the beach as well. There will be many more such Live Local Act projects coming I’m sure.

Anatomy lover
12 days ago

Miami Beach is becoming a true residential community

Rio
12 days ago

for part-time residents? The abysmal traffic from 3-7pm on every artery leaving the beach has more to do with hospitality workers now unable to afford to live close to their jobs. You used to be able to live on Miami Beach and work at the hotels, restaurants, and shops. Not anymore.

Anonymous
12 days ago

It needs to stop growing and just accept what it’s meant to be, Miami’s natural park leisure spot for city residents and tourist beach attraction.

Victoria
12 days ago

True ❤

anon
12 days ago

yeah back in 1982 south of 15th street when it was a crime ridden slum

MB Voter
11 days ago

These proposed projects would overshadow and overwhelm the adjacent historic district. I would love to see those sites redeveloped but not at the proposed scale. Alton Road zoning should be no more than five or six stories. They could build very profitable buildings at that scale.

Anonymous
11 days ago

Exactly. I don’t think many people are opposed to new development especially at underutilized sites, but the scale of these buildings are preposterous

SBG
9 days ago

Agreed. We don’t need to line alton rd with high rises. 5-6 story building would be perfect.
I might have been wrong, but I thought there was a vertical cap on any building not on the waterfront in Miami Beach. Must have been wrong if they are planning 16-31 floor buildings.

Robert
12 days ago

Wynwood height would be fine. As well as full retail storefronts, nice to keeep street as a business storefronts for the community

Einstein
12 days ago

Stop building tall structures without access to a MetroMover or rail system. Property values will decline because no one wants to endure gridlocked traffic just to get in and out of their homes. Focus on keeping tall buildings in Miami along the MetroMover route for better accessibility and livability.

Balthazar Bratt
12 days ago

Want to bet?

It should be obvious that the 600, 700, 800 and 1500 blocks of Alton Road will be valued higher in 5 years from now than they are today.

anon
12 days ago

people withy bucks care about being on the beach and waterfront, not about having the free beercan chitbus squeaking under their balconies

Ann
9 days ago

How tall will the one in 1500 Alton be?

SBG
9 days ago

Doesn’t seem like great news for current residents to put in more high rises. Especially West Ave residents.

Which side of Alton are they building on? East, West, both? If West, hopefully they would not take out Canopy Park. 364 parking spaces for 400 units seems like poor planning as well. There’s also no shortage of available retail spaces on Alton Rd / West Ave now, not sure the 400 new condos will change that need very much.

Perhaps upscale low-rises would have been a better choice.

Anonymous
12 days ago

Completely out of scale

Anon
12 days ago

Found the NIMBY

Anonymous
11 days ago

Not a nimby at all. I welcome new development but it should be 5-6 stories ideally… absolutely not 30. Tall buildings like that should only be allowed on the bay

Cover the Podiums
12 days ago

There goes iconic Miami Beach.

Its own little pocket of Miami with minimal population that’s truly walkable. About to become another Edgewater or Brickell

Brickell Fan Girl
12 days ago

I live right in this Alton area and totally disagree. Alton is so dilapidated, some luxury developments (agree if they are brutally big) would make this area excellent. There is no reason why South Beach and this entryway of the beach shouldn’t be completely pristine (like South of Fifth). We are seeing record PSF prices in South Beach (that are far more expensive then Brickell, Edgewater, Gables, etc.). The city is dumping tons of money (albeit spending it poorly) on infrastructure projects along with general “street” renovations and repairs. Build ’em!

Balthazar Bratt
12 days ago

True.

Cover the Podiums
11 days ago

Did I ever say I was opposed to redevelopment? I want development too, especially all those 1950s moldy multifamilies all over miami beach.

But 30 story skyscrapers are not the answer. Lift some historic restrictions and let developers build up to 8 stories max

Balthazar Bratt
12 days ago

This should also be obvious. There are no National Historic Art Deco Districts or public beaches in Edgewater or Brickell.