78-Story Tower At Burger King Property Across From Brickell City Centre Resubmitted To FAA

Plans for a tower to replace the Burger King-anchored strip mall across from Brickell City Centre have just been filed with the Federal Aviation Administration, again.

The Federal Aviation Administration already granted approval for a tower on the property in both 2016 and 2019, but those approvals expired.

According to the new filing, a tower height of 954 feet above ground or 950 feet above sea level is planned – identical to the height last approved by the FAA in 2019.

In 2017, Miami’s Planning & Zoning Department granted approval for a 78-story tower on the property called 18, designed by architect Nichols.

The plan included 392 residential units with four levels of retail at the base.

 

 

 

 



 

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BUDA - Brickell Underline District Advocate
7 months ago

This is a stunning building and prime location for a world-class high rise!

Let’s get this going soon, Miami. Brickell needs more top-tier high rises around the Brickell Gateway on the main street (8th street). Hopefully the McDonalds and Wendys will be replaced too.

Brickell has grown to be an urban mecca and there are no need for drive-through restaurants along this gateway and main street in Brickell .

Real World Advocate not Sim City Playa
7 months ago

Buy out the franchisees and landlords, then it’ll happen.

BUDA
7 months ago

They are being bought out by the day….

If you know anyone who is considering funding this critical Brickell area, we will make sure it has the quality design and neighborhood aesthetic and public relations to thrive.

Anyone who wants to make a name for themselves in Miami should look here first. It’s the last few pieces of the Brickell puzzle and could transform the Miami skyline.

Anonymous
7 months ago

That’s the easy part.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Yet the McD’s and Wendys are still there.

Anons
7 months ago

Change the codes to make it more expensive for fast food drive throughs in Brickell.

Anonymous
7 months ago

The tower should be 950 feet above ground and 954 feet above sea level , not the other way around.

Anon
7 months ago

All of Brickell should be developed with such modern and quality design features as this. Replace the strip malls and seedy housing units. Love seeing Brickell mature into a world class architectural city hub!

Mukuun
7 months ago

world class architectural HUB? Maybe if the standard is a favela. This city has a long way to go as only a few buildings here are even worth mentioning. If it looks like this it will be a step in the right direction.

anonymous
7 months ago

now THAT’S a whopper!

Not Ronald McDonald
7 months ago

AT BK HAVE IT YOUR WAY

Keep building
7 months ago

The renderings look fabulous.

permitting
7 months ago

Approved. Built it.

Anonymous
7 months ago

I dunno if I was only one but I have been waiting for so long for this building to restart again

bob - art guy
7 months ago

This project will mark a milestone in the transformation of Brickell. – soon to be Hudson Yards in the South

Anon
7 months ago

So true! Brickell has so much potential. In 10 years it went from a strip mall with 1950s motel-style sheds to a worldclass residential and business neighborhood.

It is just now turning into a major hub, and there’s so many streets to fill in Brickell to make it worldclass and elevate the neighborhood to a true metropolitan center.

Of all the areas in Miami, Brickell shows the most potential and has so many opportunities to improve!

Anonymous
7 months ago

Hudson yard south makes absolutely no sense

Miami’s Underline Rivals Hudson Yards
7 months ago

Sure it does. All the abandoned and shanty town structures are being redeveloped into gorgeous ultra lux towers and the Underline is being expanded to a brand new monument and waterfront district at the Miami River. Any old abandoned industrial parts of Brickell will soon become modern and luxury.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Hudson Yards, as its name indicates, was the redevelopment of a railyard, not an existing neighbrohood. The closest comparison would have been if the Design District was in the place of Midtown, only high-rise.

Anon
7 months ago

Way too literal. Hudson yards is about being on the underutilized riverfront border of a modern city hub like Brickell.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Do you even live in Miami? Brickell was never industrial. Brickell was a wealthy single family home neighborhood. And what brand new monuments are you talking about? I think you’re in the wrong city lol

Anonymous
7 months ago

Those mansions were in just one small area on the bay in South Brickell, not present day Brickell. Look at present day under I95 and under the metro line and all along the river in Brickell is getting better and when it’s redone this entire area will be a more modern and spacious Hudson Yards style experience.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Yeah I mean minus the public space…? Hudson Yards has massive amounts of public space while Brickell has almost none, except for the highline-ripoff if you want to count that…..

Underline Brickell to Miami's Miami River Yards
7 months ago

Brickell has 9 acres of public space at the end of the Underline at Jose Marti Park, which is being fully redesigned to an urban mecca with a monument, and possibly and a new luxury River District shopping and entertainment space… (if the City is smart) a ferry station to Miami Beach.

Anonymous
7 months ago

I’ll remember that next time you whine about the city not buying up prime real estate for a park i.e., Brickell Key.

Anons
7 months ago

There is an amazing supertall rendering for the tip of Claughton Island. If the City upgrades Jose Martí to a worldclass park it won’t need to buy the tip of Claughton Island.

Hopefully the supertall has some affordable units though. It’s the perfect spot near Brickell for an iconic supertall where people of all income levels can live.

Anonymous
7 months ago

People of all income levels shouldn’t be living in the most desirable real estate in the city. This shouldn’t be controversial.

Anonymous
7 months ago

DDA and County are putting affordable housing all across the city including in desirable areas.

Who is any ONE of us to say what is desirable property? They should be mixed into all neighborhoods not depressed and turned into man made ghettos, that’s not fair for Miami or the people who invest lots of money in highly expensive areas that some may say are “less valuable”

Anonymous
7 months ago

Keep that trash away from the bay, that’s the most desirable property.

Quit Being a NIMBY
7 months ago

Workforce housing is NOT trash. They are the most kind and respectful people and lovely neighbors. The Bay already has trash living on the block from OnlyFans, and the buildings are old with limited value in modern Miami. It is not some elite gated community that gets special status.

Bruno
7 months ago

The DDA does not “put housing”.

Unjust Government Market Interference
7 months ago

The DDA or someone with an interest in both organizations, seems to be directly involved in workforce housing because any workforce housing in Brickell keeps getting built away from the bay, and named under “separate but equal” title with “west” in the name.

It’s discriminatory government action, and nobody else in the neighborhood refers to Brickell under this false name.

Someone must be living on the bay and donating to the DDA and housing authorities with the City and County, and dictating where and how to name workforce housing, let’s see one go up on claughton island and call it “claughton island gallery”?

Maybe that day will come, or we will see workforce housing spread out rather than concentrated as proposed, because the County and City can’t continue with these discriminatory policies and unjust government takings that impact all of Brickell and Miami.

Reform the DDA
7 months ago

DDA seems to be directly involved in housing and protecting a specific few “valuable properties.” Pierce the “government veil” and Miami will see.

Anon
7 months ago

The DDA just pushes housing, anywhere outside its reach? It’s really messing up the Miami urban planning. Abolish it and everyone will have less wasted unnecessary taxes that are limiting Miami potential

Quit Being a NIMBY
7 months ago

We already have workforce housing in the most desirable areas in Miami. As areas grow like Brickell they will be next to get workforce housing. Real estate values are building specific, and having workforce housing nearby only enhances property values.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Workforce housing does not belong in Brickell and we need to push back on our legislators if they try to force this on us.

Fairly Distribute Workforce Housing
7 months ago

Workforce housing is being built right now in Brickell. It’s called Gallery at (West) Brickell, but it’s very nice design with a majority of market rate units and no cap on how long it must keep the affordable units. It’ll enhance the community but we must get the private/public partnership (County Officials and rhymes with Belated) to remove the term “west” from the name.

It’s a slippery slope, if Brickell allows this the County will keep carving out entire blocks of “workforce housing” but that’s not the issue, they will try to rename the entire neighborhood so all the values of nearby condos are impacted too. Affordable units are great, but it’s the scope of their efforts to down value half or more of Brickell with its naming and systemic PR schemes that we see on here from people like Bruno.

It’s a crazy, unlawful move by the County, City, and developers and MUST stop. Otherwise we will not see Brickell rise in status; gorgeous buildings like in this post wont be developed, instead we will see more Burger King style drive through chains go up in Brickell “Heights,” and the only valuable properties will be along the bay by the people who claim to be the only ones in true “Brickell.”

It’s crooked and all under a sneaky virtue-signaling scheme to artificially secure the value to some “prime” properties,

Anon
7 months ago

That crackhead little park by the highway? Lol you Brickell people crack me up

Meeami
7 months ago

Hudson Yards was a crackhead little park by the highway. Learn from the urban innovators Miami! We can do something even greater with our public land and we are… it’s coming soon to Meeami

Anonymous
7 months ago

Urban mecca???🤣🤣🤣

Epic Miami River Yards
7 months ago

Hudson Yards is a dink done anthill public space compared to what Miami is developing with the Underline and Miami River Greenway River Front and Jose Martí redesign.

jay
7 months ago

no jobs, just apartments, hardly hudson yards

Miami 22
7 months ago

Rezone and replan Miamis Hudson Yards at Jose Martí Park – time to reform Miami 21

Anonwtf
7 months ago

Does anyone have information on Jose Marti park redevelopment? I couldn’t find much online.

Anon
7 months ago

This is a former iteration of the design which is being revamped and upgraded

https://www.curtisrogers.com/wedg

Anon
7 months ago

The overall design needs to fit in more with Brickell and appeal to a broader patron base within Brickell, too. The low-traffic pool obstructs the quality of the area and only appeals to small demographic. It could be a splash fountain that is aesthetically beautiful and cools off families in the heat and brings in crowds of spectators

calivalle
7 months ago

WOW An incredibly architecture.

Azarius
7 months ago

This is a project I’ll love to see but doubt it happens mostly a hot flip with all approvals included

Anonymous
7 months ago

If they are going to get rid of the mall, I hope they come up with an active and engaging street level.
We need to create walkability.

Vincent
7 months ago

I don’t think this thing will be built anytime soon, however, I love the idea of replacing that shady strip mall with something beautiful like this.

Anon
7 months ago

Why not anytime soon?

Bruno
7 months ago

Because it has been for sale for over 2 years…seller isn’t motivated, and costs have gone a lot.

Anon
7 months ago

So refunnel all the taxes the DDA is collecting back into Brickell incentives in the aging crumbling areas in Brickell that need to be redeveloped. Isn’t that the point of a TIFF tax?

Or is Brickell TIF tax being used to renovate other neighborhoods?
That would be backwards and crooked, and Brickell residents wouldn’t support that…

Anonymous
7 months ago

Flip-a-de-do-da b!tches

Anonymous
7 months ago

I thought this buried a while ago since there were no updates on the project

Flag ship fentanyl cakes
7 months ago

institutional money =
Build a flag ship Burger King

ComeJaiba
7 months ago

I hope La Sandwicherie doesn’t move far

No road, No rail, No future
7 months ago

Yes, totally replace the strip mall, but I don’t get this snob and elitist attitude about Wendy’s or Burger King not belonging in Brickell. Why? The are McDonald’s in the heart or historic centers of much more major world cities like Tokyo, London, Paris, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Sydney, and I could go on. Of course they are only eat-ins that blend with the aethetics around them, but as long as they do that they don’t detract from those areas so why would they here?

Just to Clarify I love French Fries
7 months ago

You don’t get it. We love fast food. And we need them in Brickell – but NOT drive through stand along restaurants. They can be in small walkable retail shops. People don’t drive into Brickell to get a fast food meal and drive off with it.. it’s a waste of space and ugly! Keep fast food, not the outdated and wasteful ugly buildings.

Kelly
7 months ago

With all these new contractions ongoing, I am wondering how many time people will spend trying to get out of Brickel… specially when drawbridge is up…

Debra
7 months ago

No more time than they spend getting out of their own building in Park West with all the Biscayne Bay traffic, let alone interior downtown without any highway access points.

Gloria
7 months ago

There’s almost no reason to leave Brickell, and if the city finishes up development of the few remaining blocks Brickell with nicer luxury buildings, boutique stores and service providers, Brickell have everything a self sustaining neighborhood needs and probably the only one in Miami.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Yea all you in brickell stay in brickell and leave the rest of Miami to us locals. Sounds like a good trade off lol

Bryan
7 months ago

I am wondering where those several thousand individual will be working. Inside Brickell? Where they will be taking the kids to the school? And so on.

The Age of Brickell Rising
7 months ago

Yes clearly in the new state of the art office buildings and schools being built on Brickell. Why drive when everything we need is within a 10 block radius?

Anonymous
7 months ago

That will kill a spot with the only cheap food in Brickell. I love building more but please, not every restaurant needs to be fancy, let’s have some simple cheap options too. That’s how it is in NY, even in SoHo you can find affordable food

Anonymous
7 months ago

Agree but not Burger King/McDonald’s! We need more fast casual options like Panda Express.

Brickell Middle Class McFish
7 months ago

Panda Express is worst Chinese food – if anything we should get a Pei Wei. I’d like to see more in the middle food options… something above a McFish but not quite all the hype and cost of Sexy Fish. We need quality middle class and affordable healthy eateries in Brickell.

Terry
7 months ago

Panda Express should be renamed Trash Express. Worst food ever.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Geez, you people are ridiculous. I wasn’t saying Panda Express is a nice restaurant, but that it’s a little above McDonald’s/Burger King. I could’ve used Chipotle as the example, but there’s already a Chipotle in Brickell.

annon
7 months ago

Cheap food brings the homeless. home they can find someone else to go the bathroom in the street. bye!

Denser Development Means More Options
7 months ago

You don’t need a drive through to have cheap food. There could be less expensive food options in multi-use buildings that have several floors of retain and restaurants.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Realistically you won’t be able to have cheap food in Brickell as time goes on. The spaces are too large and the rents are too high for anything other than institutional money. If you want to prevent an area from being eaten up by big box retailers and restaurant chains you would have to limit the size of the retail space to 2000 Sqft, maybe even 1500 sqft. Most institutional money requires about 2500 sqft of space to build out a franchise. So if you limit the retail spaces to smaller footprints you prevent the big-money NYC Wall Street names from entering the game with chain establishments and plug in retailers. William Hardin mentioned this in his FIU Master program for Real Estate. Very interesting ideas worth looking into.

Brickell Growers
7 months ago

That’s why we have food trucks and the city needs to promote new construction around the underline. There’s SOO much foot traffic and not enough restaurants and retail space integrated into the old decaying buildings to support the growth levels.

Anons
7 months ago

Sounds smart. We should upzone Riverside with an emphasis on small retail to creative boutiques and mom and pop restaurants

Anonymous
7 months ago

There is a study that shows only 5% of people that enter a mall or strip mall go up to the second floor. That’s why the floor retail is so valuable. The business that are on the second floor and up are typically doctors’ offices, accounting firms, and lawyers. You just don’t see food establishments on the second floor typically.

Jason
7 months ago

I know from studying merchandising that yes, ultimately some people won’t make it past the first floor, which is why it comes at a premium… but 95% won’t go up? Where’d you read that? With those kinda numbers you wouldn’t see Brickell City Centres and Aventura Malls, or any other retail complexes with more than one floor. Might want to check those numbers again.

Melo, the true giga chad
7 months ago

Where are all my construction amigos going to eat lunch at?

Anonymous
7 months ago

Pack lunch into a lunch box.

Anonymous
7 months ago

7-Eleven under that temple, the same place they get their six packs at.

Burger King Must Improve Miami
7 months ago

If anyone wants fast food, they can walk over the bridge to downtown to the fast food Mecca. I remember someone poked at people in Brickell who want a Whole Foods in Brickell. They said it’s an easy walk, and people of Brickell were “whining.” We are too concerned about keeping the disgusting drive throughs that people use mostly to cut traffic.

Brickell doesn’t even have a variety of gourmet grocery stores yet – it’s all Publix and the greetings cards are all in Spanish. Is anyone going to start feeding Brickellites with gourmet food and provide gourmet retail grocery that this neighborhood needs? Who cares about Burger King a million “historic” burger kings in Miami.

Did you know Burger Kings headquarters is in Miami? If I were them I would be more concerned about making the people of Miami happy then trying to profit off a lot they bought for Pennies.

Clean Up the Streets
7 months ago

I work at a desk and pack lunch. People shouldn’t rely on fast food for lunch, it’s not healthy and it gets expensive. We will still have affordable food options but in small retail spaces, not drug-den parking lots.

james
7 months ago

Lots of conversation about this in the “Brickell Living” Facebook group. It seems like local residents are demanding the historic Burger King be preserved in final renderings and it’s unclear if this means the new high-rise will be forced to include a drive-through.

We’ll see what happens!

Ignore Facebook Noise
7 months ago

That’s disgusting. Facebook trolls do not represent the neighborhood. Burger King is a trash building and nothing historic about it. People should look at the real voice of the Brickell neighborhood, which is represented here on The Next Miami.

That Facebook Post is a Joke
7 months ago

Stephen W. wrote on FB group citing to this blog:

“Is anyone else concerned that developers are ruining Brickell by tearing down historically significant landmarks such as the Burger King at the corner of Calle Ocho and South Miami Avenue? This burger king is known worldwide as a symbol for affordable late night snacks for Miami residents.

So far there is no plan to preserve this Burger King in the new development plans. Maybe one way they could incorporate the existing burger king with the new design is to create a hybrid drive-through/valet lane that drives through the building? What does everyone else think?”

The funny thing is everybody is laughing at his comment and pointing to the fact that BK is NOT historic. How in the world does he think this is some special Burger King architecture? It’s a modern suburban drive through that doesn’t fit in an urban center.

…people can get late night snacks at a walk through Burger King when Brickell is fully built out.

Anon
7 months ago

People in Brickell order late night snacks on UnerEats. They’re not going through a drive through…

if anyone is driving through, it’s drunk drivers or trouble makers who rev their engines at 3am.

We want the loud drunk drivers out, as they are a Nuisance in an otherwise refined part of Miami.

Anonymous
7 months ago

“historically significant landmarks such as the Burger King” L M F A O
He lost me at Stupid

Brickell Residents Demand New Development
7 months ago

Trust me Stephen W. Does not represent “local residents” and all the comments disagree with his phony and bias assessment. Everyone is disagreeing – we want Burger King and all the stanty old structures in Brickell redeveloped!

Anonymous
7 months ago

But don’t you dare bring up building a beautiful new tower on “park” space (i.e., privately owned space that the owner has allowed people to use in the interim). They will collectively lose their minds.

Brickell Residents Demand New Development
7 months ago

Stephen W is using the term “Calle ocho” which begins in Little Havana. This is 8th street and Brickell’s “Main Street” – he is being a bias troll and Brickell residents see right through his obstructionist agenda. Speak out again Stephen, Brickell! His voice does not represent Brickell.

Anonymous
7 months ago

He probably works at the BK drive-thru window

Anonymous
7 months ago

If it was satire, it’s kind of funny. At the same time, it does exemplify the backwards priority of this city sometimes, like all the resources to try and protect the historically insignificant Miami Herald headquarters while legitimately historic stuff it being demolished left and right.

Anons
7 months ago

A dry through burger king / luxury condo valet combo – Wtf was Stephen smoking?

Melo, the true giga chad
7 months ago

sure, we can add a BK somewhere in the building, but it has to go!

Anonymous
7 months ago

That group is a joke!! Full of NIMBY’s.

anon
7 months ago

This strip mall has some of the best (and most affordable) restaurants in Brickell. Sad to see it go.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Granted, but strip malls don’t make sense in Brickell anymore. We do have a Chipotle nearby so it is possible for there to be more affordable options even in newer buildings.

Croqueta Cowboys
7 months ago

Everything besides La sandwicherie can go.

Anonymous
7 months ago

They should keep the mall and build on top. I like how the mall looks among the buildings.

Juan
7 months ago

Strip malls belong in the middle of the suburbs, not central Miami

Anonymous
7 months ago

So does Bowlero and generic sports bars, but we’re getting them at MWC.

Anonymous
7 months ago

MWC is a Times Square common tourist mall. What do you expect?

Anon
7 months ago

Keep drinking that haterade from your couch in Hialeah