500-Foot Tower Cranes Approved For Link At Douglas

Two construction cranes were recently approved to build the third tower at the Link at Douglas complex.

Approval by the FAA was issued last month for the two cranes to rise 509 feet and 471 feet above ground.

The work schedule for the cranes was estimated to begin earlier this month, on April 1.

Tower 3 at Link is planned to rise 39 stories, or 443 feet above sea level. There’s also another building, Tower 4, planned at the same height.

The two new buildings were planned to include 870 multifamily units, 81,885 square feet of office, 1,620 square feet of commercial uses, and 1,012 parking spaces, according to a 2022 filing with Miami-Dade.

The first phase included the 22-story Core apartment building (312 units, completed August 2021) and 37-story Cascade apartment building (421 units, completed January 2023), along with a Milam’s Market and 708 space parking spaces.

 

 

 

 

 

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Anonymous
8 days ago

US-1 can not sustain any more congestion.

Yan Jammer
8 days ago

The straight 57 mile per hour Metrorail south Dixie corridor can handle about 10 to 20x it’s current ridership.

Anonymous
2 days ago

Except when we put City Hall and other essential services and spaces outside of the city and rail lines, people just drive by default. And this area already can’t hold the car traffic.

The South Dixie Chicks
23 hours ago

The only non-city employees driving to city hall are losers and flakes. Normal people are busy with their lives. Go online or pick up the phone in the rare instance you actually need something from them.

Jordan
8 days ago

Yes it can. Watch.

B.S. Sr.
7 days ago

Amen

John Duns Scotus
7 days ago

People have been saying that since 1992.
They were wrong then, and you are wrong now.

Jam
4 days ago

They weren’t wrong what are you saying? US1 is literally girdlocked in that area during rush hour.

John Duns Scotus
4 days ago

What am saying?
I’ll do my best to explain in a way that you can understand…

Claim: “US-1 can not sustain any more congestion.”
Response: “People have been saying that since 1992. They were wrong then, they are wrong now.”

That seems straightforward, but here is more detail.
1992 was 33 years ago.
Seems like US-1 has been sustaining just fine since 1992.
My evidence is, that if US-1 were not “sustaining” (whatever that means) then there would not be ANOTHER announcement for ANOTHER few hundred homes being built for people in such close proximity. My evidence is that it is there and functioning as it should, and has been for over 33 years.
I drove on a few days last week, and over the weekend. Seemed fine to me.

If were something like those railroad tracks between downtown Miami and South Beach, that failed miserably, and were torn up, I’d understand the “can’t sustain” argument.
The evidence on the rail line to South Beach is, the idea failed, and they scrapped it.

US-1 has been “sustainable” since well before the Overseas Highway connected Miami to Key West in 1938. Almost 90 years, or older than most commenters grandfather.

“Literally” gridlocked. Okay. Traffic is slow for a couple hours in the morning and couple hours in the evening.
Being generous, that’s 4 out of 24 hours a day. 17% of a day gridlocked, 83% of day NOT gridlocked.
But there is no rush hour on Sat or Sun. So, it more like 20 hours out of a 168 hour week. 12% a week gridlock, 88% NOT gridlock.

What I am saying is…..US-1 is just fine.

Anonymous
2 days ago

But the only time people need to use this corridor is during those times, and then it’s ghost down – move City HALL back to the CITY and everything else start to improve both culturally and in terms of quality of life in Miami

Not an Issue
1 day ago

Nobody G A F where city hall is except for the people who work there. Normal citizens don’t visit city hall. Only losers and flakes go there in person. Everyone else is busy with their own lives

Anon
53 minutes ago

The entire city works there including its citizens, it’s where we get to decide on policies and improvements – that’s why so many streets are neglected in the city

Woody
1 day ago

Not true.
US1 has cars 24/7 for 365 days a year.

More cars use US1 in NON rush hour than during the 2-4 rush hours.

John Duns Scotus
20 hours ago

100% wrong.
It is not just because I use it, and have been using it, for decades…it is because there is data to back these thoughts up.

AADT (Annual Average Daily Traffic) is how you know.

Analyze that data, hour by hour, and you can see what is obvious to most people who do things in this city.

NO. 100% Wrong. Rush hour is NOT the only time people drive on US-1.
(“D’uh”….thinks every person with more than a 70 IQ.)

Even if rush hour congestion comes as a big surprise to you, and your experience with major cities is limited, you would have know that adjusting your travel times around rush hour is smart.

People have been saying that US 1 is too congested and is not sustainable since 1992. They were wrong then, they are wrong now.

Anonymous
2 days ago

City Hall should be in Riverside or Brickell

New Charter Proposal
1 day ago

Agreed. I propose we establish TWO city halls: one located in the INNER city and another in the OUTER city.

Miami would be divided into FIVE districts, that reflects reality:

(1) Two inner-city districts: one centered around Downtown and another around Brickell; and

(2) Three outer-city districts: representing the North, South, and West parts of a Miami, which are less densely populated.

This structure promotes balance, as the two inner-city districts would need to collaborate and secure the support of at least one outer-city representative, fostering harmony and cohesion.

Woody
1 day ago

This has nothing to do with the post.
Zero.

Miami Voter
52 minutes ago

City Hall should be near Lumus Park 💯

Anonymous
2 days ago

Its fine when you’re asleep, that’s enough to disregard your comment to someone

Anonymous
1 day ago

Guess what? Noise pollution isn’t an issue when everyone is asleep—that’s when we checked. Meeting adjourned, actually cancelled before you’ve shown up. Do not collect 200 as you pass Go.

The Boyfriend of Tony Robbins
1 day ago

So at times when nobody needs to use US1, the traffic’s fine!

tard

Woody
1 day ago

#1. Nobody needs US-1?

Almost 100 years of history proves you 100% wrong.

Anon
7 days ago

Has anyone heard of remote jobs? They are still a thing

anon
3 days ago

Not anymore. Ever hear of Layoffs and Weakening Job Market and Lost Leverage?

Woody
1 day ago

Another great jobs report yesterday. Get educated. Keep up.

anon
23 hours ago

^^wait another 6 months when the higher taxes, oh they mean “tariffs”, fully kick in. You won’t be able to find even a job chipping wood, Woody.

anon
23 hours ago

…and why is it that the dumbest posters always say “get educated”? Zero self awareness.

John Duns Scotus
20 hours ago

🙂

Anonymous
1 day ago

Yes some people have multiple remote jobs and salaries and live in Brickell

Si se puede
4 days ago

Well good thing there’s a metro station attached to the building

Anonymous
2 days ago

Neither can US1 above the city in Edgewater to Miami Gardens (even worst) pull the city back to center

John Duns Scotus
4 days ago

“Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.”

-Thomas Sowell

Anonymous
2 days ago

So you’ve done nothing, get to the bench and uphold the first amendment! It’s why you were appointed…

John Duns Scotus
19 hours ago

If that is your best effort at an educated guess as to who I am and what I do…you need to become better educated.

Yan Jammer
3 days ago

For all this TOD, transit ridership is still way, way down from where it was, let alone where it should be with all this ‘growth’ in the area. Even in 2025, Metrorail and Metromover are down by more than a third compared to their peaks in the mid 2010s from 2012 to 2019. Bus is down, too but not as dramatically. Metrorail and Metromover are at half what they should be compared to their ridership growth in the 2010s. The new rail cars didn’t make a dent compared to uber and cheap gas starting in 2015, and then wfh, covid, and post covid trends.

anon
3 days ago

Plus, unemployment was much higher back in 2010, and Dade’s population growth also stalled out around 2005. The traffic complainers/can’t afford both a car and the Miami rents crowd either have to deal with it or move on to Port St. Lucie or Orlando or Atlanta like everyone else in Miami is doing who isn’t either a billionaire or a boat person refugee.

Anonymous
1 day ago

That’s how I feel! If you live in Sourh of fifth neighborhood and get off work early Friday you can take a free ferry to downtown! If you’re a Cuban you can take a raft right in too. Now if you’re middle class trying to Sourh Beach – you’re screwed!

Anonymous
1 day ago

Miami has a lot of foreign leaders

Woody
1 day ago

A gallon of Gas is on average 20% less in Miami than it was this time last year.
$3.70 compared to $3.01 from a quick look on Grok.

I paid $2.71 per gallon this morning. About 33% less than last year.

Anonymous
49 minutes ago

It’s 4.5 in Miami

Anonymous
49 minutes ago

Grok is propaganda

John Duns Scotus
20 hours ago

For people who value their time at all, you only have to make about $20 per hour in order for Uber to pick you up at your Point A doorstep, and take you to the Point B doorstep.
UNLESS you live in a community like the one featured above.

Holding off on another $4,000,000,000 of taxpayer money for a Metrorail extension makes little sense except for those making less than $20 per hour, and for them, only if someone else is paying to build it and operate it.
Keep making what is available to be workable. Figure out how to maintain escalators and elevators. Get Security Guards who scare young ladies LESS than the homeless guys scare them.

In Coconut Grove
7 days ago

Is this technically in Coral Gables or Miami?

A.Lo
5 days ago

City of Miami by a block, ORANGE ST is Gables.

In Coconut Grove
3 days ago

The boundaries of Coral Gables are more jagged and narrow than I thought vs simply 37th Ave etc.

Anonymous
1 day ago

That’s designed so neighbors in the middle can’t collaborate.

Landon Carter
4 days ago

Alternatively, you can click the map above the comments and below the pictures, and the “larger map” option will give you the precise address number, city, state, and zip code.

Anonymous
2 days ago

Who cares—neither are Miami

Anonymous
1 day ago

This is the Miami City Core

Anonymous
1 day ago

Yes it has a metro stop. Its core.

Dick Tracy
8 days ago

The Sandman will claim all of it.

Anonymous
8 days ago

All that’s good about this project is Milam’s. The architecture of the towers is awful to the point the glassy portion of the parking podium actually looks better.

Yan Jammer
8 days ago

Undulating Tetris towers

Tom Buchanan
5 days ago

Is that the name of your band, or are you trying to make a commentary on the new 870 housing units?

Lowbar
8 days ago

and if Milam’s is all that’s good there…..

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

I’m conflicted.
Milams’s IS great. Very good service and Morcilla.

It is not the only thing good about this project.

Housing on transit lines is an incredibly “good” thing.
Turning unproductive real estate into hundreds of new homes is beyond a “good” thing.

Anonymous
2 days ago

Milan’s sucks – over priced and all Latin-only curated brands. It looks like Publix but more foreign

Anonymous
2 days ago

Sprouts is by far better and more relatable to people around here

Anonymous
3 days ago

Noise pollution alert. Some breaking up of the wall facing the Metrorail or some acoustics on it would reduce the noise a bit that will bounce off that mural wall.

Anonymous
2 days ago

The noises aren’t bad folks, metro rail has a quiet soothing sound and hurricane windows and CBS are sound proud, this isn’t MANHATAN where you hear your neighbor sneeze and cough.

Anonymous
8 days ago

Just notice no one is saying this is out of scale and scope for the neighborhood. Things can change and should change in most of the urban corridor like this.

Nana Frijolita
5 days ago

As the neighborhood continues to develop it won’t stand out as much.

Anonymous
1 day ago

It’s one of the few neighborhoods with a direct metro stop to Brickell – downtown doesn’t even have that, has to take me to Edgewater Light and back.

Anonymous
8 days ago

I love this station- didn’t realize more is coming! Plus it’s walkable to Brickell.

Jordan
8 days ago

Everything is walkable if you have enough time.

Anonymous
8 days ago

Not really, origin is walkable for residences, except Brickell and parts of Downtown

Anonymous
8 days ago

Nothing is walkable for residences a except Brickell and parts of downtown

Tom Buchanan
5 days ago

Nonsense….
I walked from a Grateful Dead concert at the OLD Miami Heat Arena all the way to Groove Jet in the ’90’s.
Do not underestimate how easy it is to walk.

miami 21 expert
8 days ago

“Podiums” killed the High Rise!

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

Say it so!

High rises are dead?? Either you are 100% wrong, or all these developers, their capital partners, and the 95% occupancy of these high rise tenants are imaginary.

Landon Carter
4 days ago

Which explains why two more high rises are being referenced in this post.

Fern
7 days ago

Who is are these parking podiums for actually? I’ve been to buildings like these, they don’t use all of the spots and they’re hideous and costly.

Imagine if this were to be built without the parking. More units for the developer to sell and people to live (or you could make the towers shorter), less traffic for neighbors to suffer through, more sunlight down to the street. We need to get rid of parking mandates in this city

John Duns Scotus
7 days ago

Answer:
The owner of the property that has a lot of say in what they do with the property that they own. Actually.

Fern
5 days ago

The property owners had so much say that they provided literally the bare minimum required parking(with RTZ and TOD reductions)?

Woody
4 days ago

Yes.
They chose to invest money. They chose to invest time. They risked their professional reputations.

They could have said, “No. I’m just going to whine about parking in the comments section of a blog.”

Fern
4 days ago

It’s good they invested money in our city. It’s so good that I want them to make even more money by not legally forcing them to build parking that will sit unused.

Anonymous
2 days ago

The parking is amazing,
And it’s super convenient to drive there from Brickell.

It’s the only thing holding back downtown and Brickell, not enough amenities and resources for Residents

– Downtown is becoming Airbnb hell and scam restaurants and stores like those on Ocean Drive.

Jam
4 days ago

Parking spaces don’t create traffic. A lack of spaces is not going to stop people from driving or take away people’s need to drive.

anonymous
8 days ago

this is all nice but where is the retail portion in this area? For that many buildings there isnt a whole lot to do

anon
8 days ago

2 block walk to merrick

anon
8 days ago

2 block walk to merrick

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

Down the elevator and within a 1 mile radius.

Landon Carter
4 days ago

Some retail can be found on the communities ground floor.

Anon
8 days ago

I’ve lived in cascade for 2 yrs now. They really need to work on the traffic pattern and turnout onto US1 from this building. It’s already a nightmare and now we’re adding double the units

Robin Stan
8 days ago

I live just down the street in Grove Central, and driving out of the building every morning is horrible; it takes almost 10 minutes to get from the parking garage exit to US1 northbound.

I’d love to be able to take the metro into Brickell for work, but the metro station is still closed.

Question
8 days ago

Which station is closed?

Yan Jammer
8 days ago

Coconut Grove Metrorail station is closed for a few months from January to May 2025.

Anon
8 days ago

There are no announcements on the Metro Mover

Nutty P
4 days ago

The metro mover does not run to Coconut Grove…

Anonymous
1 day ago

But they are a part of one system – don’t tell me you’re in charge of transit here!?

Anonymous
1 day ago

I think this anrticle is about Coconut Grove the inner city neighborhood not East Grove (outer city).

Bummer
8 days ago

Yikes. No thanks.

ANON
8 days ago

Use the Metrorail, thats why its a TOD development.

Anonymous
8 days ago

With 708 parking spaces.

Yan Jammer
8 days ago

Yes but those could potentially add to the park and ride aspect.

Anonymous
8 days ago

It’s not a park and ride!!!! The only people who live nearby have access to Trains at Brickell and Merik Park.

Anonymous
8 days ago

Wish us1 was wider and the lights were better

Anonymous
8 days ago

We need an alternative to us1 that runs perpendicular like a highway

Anonymous
8 days ago

1. U.S. 1 is called U.S. HIGHWAY 1.
2. Metrorail.

Anonymous
8 days ago

So biscayne and Brickell ave are US1 highways lol

Woody
7 days ago

Yes.

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

Yes, LOL’er….
Why do you find that so hard to understand?

Anon
3 days ago

Perhaps they mean expressway?

John Duns Scotus
7 days ago

Yes. Brickell Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard are both US Highway 1.

Anonymous
1 day ago

Parallel? Yes

Anonymous
1 day ago

Take I95 direct to coco walk

Anon
8 days ago

Miami doesn’t care at all for considering infrastructure. Ours is positively third world.

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

Great observation Mensa Master.
Apart from the #1 Cruise Ship Port on planet Earth, a perennial top 10 Airport for International travelers and cargo.

The blog commenters under 30 years old and those with less than 3 years in the city will confirm what you are saying.

The producers who know the city and know what is going on, know that the 30 year Master Plan is thoughtful and robust.

The information presented above is a testament that the multimillion dollar investments are not an accident.

You may be unaware, or uninformed, and with some time, I remain optimistic that you will get a clue.

Landon Carter
4 days ago

Okay Greta. Sort of get what you are saying.
Infrastructure like Seaports, Airports, and Convention Center ATTRACT new capital to the community, and the leadership in Miami excels at the money making infrastructure.

Metromovers, Metrorails, parks, COST money.

You are saying that the leadership is making the CORRECT decisions and balancing the finite resources that are attracting new investment (like the towers referenced in this post) for the benefit of the entire community.

Got it!

Anonymous
45 minutes ago

Wtf is a Mensa – out a tempon in your Mensatration

Landon Carter
4 days ago

This post is great!

My nightmares must be next level!
Imagine if making a right turn onto a street was the problem that occupied my dreams and caused nightmares!!

Anonymous
2 days ago

I still have nightmares of when I was driving along one of our main avenues downtown, and realized it suddenly turns into a one way street with traffic coming directly at me—-it’s the equivalent of designing a main Avenue to drive off a cliff. Death traps all over Miami roadways.

Yan Jammer
8 days ago

Dadeland at Douglas

calivalle
8 days ago

Love this area as i passed it on the weekends going to downtown and ride my bike…

ParkingHater
8 days ago

Finally!

Anonymous
8 days ago

Can we get a new fire station, police station, school house and library here?

anon
7 days ago

…and a pony too?

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

I cannot confirm this.
But I think that SimCity should update to include that fact that there hasn’t been a significant high rise fire in Miami for at least 60 years.

FUN FACT: The #1 claims from Firefighter disability claims come from ankle twists on the fire station basketball courts, pulled muscles in the fire station gym, or Chili burns in the fire station kitchen.
(Probably not a fact but still fun……it’s only anecdotal…I don’t really have data!!!! 🙂 )

Anonymous
2 days ago

No, fire trucks must wait in traffic from
brickell like everyone else! Hope you got insurance

anonymousness
17 hours ago

…and can WE GET windmills and safe space rooms and a puppy hospital and train tracks for the Marrakesh Express?

Hide the Garages
8 days ago

I like how they always try to put little plants in their podium’s renderings when in reality those garages are freaking ugly without liner units

Anonymous
8 days ago

The whole project looks horrendous. As if we needed TRIPLE towers…

ParkingHater
8 days ago

The worst part about the podiums is the crazy echo chamber it makes with the metro. Makes the noise level very annoying.

Nana Frijolita
5 days ago

Noise pollution is an under appreciated urban problem.

You can sound deafen. Would’ve been pretty cool to hit to birds with one stone… like a structure that retains the noise and blocks out sun would’ve been nice.

Anonymous
2 days ago

I’d love to see more tranquil music played at our Metro Rail/Mover Transir System

anon
2 days ago

Not me. They should play a continuous loop of Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven album to get the bums off the transit and into jobs.

Anonymous
23 hours ago

Never heard of that. So no. What about weekends and religious holidays?

Anonymous
23 hours ago

On week days it shouldn’t play 9-5 Dolly Parton in both English and Spanish on loop.