520-Room Airport Westin Hotel Connected To Terminal Set To Break Ground

Construction is about to begin on new Westin hotel directly connected to the terminals at Miami International Airport, according to CBS Miami.

Groundbreaking is planned for January 2025, with completion in December 2027.

Passengers will be able to walk from MIA’s terminals to the new hotel via a pedestrian footbridge.

The hotel will have 520 guest rooms.

There will also be a “jungle like” pool deck and a rooftop bar and lounge with 360 degree views, including of the runway.

A 26,000 square foot business conference center and an approximately 4,000 square foot fitness center is also planned.

A partnership between a company controlled by Miami Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross and Fontainebleau owner Jeff Soffer is developing the hotel.

Arquitectonica is the architect.

 

An updated rendering:

 

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Anon
1 month ago

Nice hotel for such a crappy airport

Lamont D Sanford
1 month ago

If you only fly the low budget airlines, you get the low budget terminals.

Terminal D and J are fantastic, and the rest are getting better.

N/A
1 month ago

Terminal D and J are horrible. On J there.are no.restaurants and places to seat if you have a gate by the end of the terminal and there is only 2 small lounges (delta and turkish) and they are always full. D lacks lounges as well.
Anyone traveling overseas know that MIA is a horrible airport

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s beautiful, bold, and modern. I wish the terminal was the same. Its time to demolish the central terminal and the old hotel. However, it will never happen.

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

its going to level up the entrance to the airport big time

Anonymous
1 month ago

The same building should be built downtown, except ten times the height.

Andy Spades
1 month ago

The access to MIA is outdated and congested. No shortcuts between NORTH and SOUTH terminals for both, vehicles and pedestrians. It’s a long OVAL shaped terminal, not round, where you can have a loop. Finding that secret bridge to the MIA metromover is like a going on a quest and it’s a long walk for AA and DL passengers. Still no plans to simply set up walkways through garages from north and the south terminals. It costs pennies o break a wall in a garage to the station… NO! lest invest billions into shiny new things and private interests with no infrastructure to support it. Typical Miami approach.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yes. Seriously, how long? How many years does it take to fix moving sidewalks and escalators at MIA and throughout the MetroRail MetroMover stations…. our basic daily infrastructure is a total Third World situation. But, true to the tag line- “It’s So Miami”.

Anon
1 month ago

Wow this is really different for ARQ.

80% voted for this
1 month ago

Now connect the airport to the Hardrock stadium and South of 5th via light rail.

Andy Spades
1 month ago

At ground outdated tech like light rail can’t work in this area. Floods. Metrorail can be transformed to driverless operations like the Skytrain in Vancouver. Let’s not go back in time. The transit tech is there since the 80’s. Light rail, diesel trains like Brightline/Trirail is a 100 year old technology. all outdated.

HWR2701
1 month ago

Thought this was gonna be a miami beach convention center thing. This looks very nice. Can Arq and florida contractors actually pull this off?

HWR2701
1 month ago

The render is already somewhat fake. It shows the sun setting to the north.