At A Single Biscayne Boulevard Intersection, Over 3,000 Planned Apartments

Over 3,000 apartment units are now in planning at a single Biscayne Boulevard intersection in Edgewater.

The large number of units planned at the 18th Street and Biscayne Boulevard intersection was pointed out by Ryan RC Rea in a Twitter video this weekend.

It doesn’t end there. There are additionally thousands more units being planned going one more block from the intersection – with projects in every direction, whether its north, south, east or west.

Here are the developments planned around the 18th Street and Biscayne Boulevard intersection:

The total unit count for the above: 3,385 apartments.

Also visible from the intersection: the Grupo T&C site at 1837 N.E. Fourth Ave, where another 322 residential units are planned.

 

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Anonymous
11 months ago

Miami is growing at 1,000 MPH, while our public transit stands still.

Frustrated Edgewater resident
11 months ago

What is going on with Cava? She promised us a train to aventura with stops in Wynwood.

Anonymous
11 months ago

While that’s great it doesn’t solve anything. Metrorail needs to be expanded above the existing rail line running parallel with US1 with stops every mile or so that run at a higher frequency than once an hour and also doesn’t have to compete with freight travel

parkinghater
11 months ago

Station literally being build now lol

nondude
11 months ago

donde?

Not Anonymous
11 months ago

the commissioners don’t let her

nondude
11 months ago

Pols will typically respond after the apartments are filled and commuters start screaming. Has it ever been any other way? After all, per some poster below we may have the miracle cure of automated vehicles! Or all wfh.

Only thing that has to be certain at plan approval is sewer and water capacity.

T G
11 months ago

LMFAO. let’s put 3000 apartments at a location without a public transportation node.

oh but wait guys, try our rapid bus transit system.

smfh

Anonymover
11 months ago

The Adrienne Arsht Center Metromover & Metrobus station is just three blocks south.

Antennae
11 months ago

And……????

Socretes
11 months ago

And…
pointing out the fact that there IS a transportation node 3 blocks away when a mouth breather writes, “3,000 apartments without a transportation node….lmfao”

Instead of laughing your ass off, invest 23 seconds on Google Maps before posting something so totally wrong.

Anonymous
11 months ago

Its too far, try walking there from the new Melo 17 Plaza in July.

Anonymous
11 months ago

I make that walk all the time. Can confirm it’s not too far.

Helena
11 months ago

What about old people

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
They were definitely in better physical shape than these youngsters nowadays that feels the Metromover stop and Metro bus station is “too far, try walking there from the new Melo 17 Plaza in July.”

Anonymous
11 months ago

You can’t walk 3 blocks in 89 degrees? I guess hiking in the Grand Canyon is out for you, oh outdoorsy one.

Anonymous
11 months ago

miami it’s not always at 89 degrees

Anonymous
11 months ago

^it’s not always 10 below in Fargo, ND……. some days go over 100 and make a hot Miami day feel decent

Anonymous
11 months ago

Go Bison

nondude
11 months ago

Just because there is a metromover station 3 blocks to the south doesn’t mean there is peak capacity in those one-car trains that run every 15 minutes.

Artemis
11 months ago

They should extend metromover up us1 through Edgewater. There’s more than enough density.

Anonymous
11 months ago

I thought that’s what the contemplated Miami Avenue extension was people on here coom over. Biscayne Boulevard should have a streetcar, with the first phase up to Little River, and second down to Brickell and along Coral Way.

Anonymous
11 months ago

MDC can do a much better job of expanding the Metrorail along parallel to Biscayne Blvd as well as another line headed to Hard Rock Stadium. A shame the county hasn’t even talked about it yet.

nondude
11 months ago

Metrorail runs along US1 all the way to Dadeland. In Brickell and Downtown are transfer stations to the metromover.

Anonymous
11 months ago

What happened to the 36-story tower that will go behind Quantum? This area is going to be even more packed in 2-3 years.

Antennae
11 months ago

doa

Anonymous
11 months ago

I was wondering about that as well…something will eventually be built there if it originally allowed…right?

Brooklyn
11 months ago

A massive increase to supply should help keep rent growth in check but too bad all of these developments are likely underwritten at top of market rents

Anonymous
11 months ago

3000 is a drop in the bucket when the county population is nearing 3 million

Sense
11 months ago

We need all levels of units. High-end units also provide housing for people who can afford and want that, raising them out of a mid-tier unit, freeing that up, etc. etc. etc.

nondude
11 months ago

Very true, especially with high prevailing construction cost. Will need a good recession to see a rental reset.

Antennae
11 months ago

So glad to see all these developments in Edgewater. This particular area has way too many empty lots and some of the ones that have some stuff desperately need revamping.

Anonymous
11 months ago

This particular area and a lot of other areas just north of downtown and I-395 has way too many empty lots and is in desperate need of development and revamping.

Miami
11 months ago

I like empty lots! We don’t need to build everywhere. Stop wanted to be a mini-NYC. This is ridiculous.

Drac
11 months ago

“Stop wanted to be a mini-NYC?”

wtf…

Who cares
11 months ago

It’s true. Miami is being destroyed with so much over building. Would be way better with less sky scrapers and more green parks. Go to NYC or Chicago if you want to live in a tall building. Leave Florida natural.

Not Anonymous
11 months ago

Empty lots with dead grass is not natural

Not Anonymous
11 months ago

and Downtown has plenty of parks (Margaret Pace park is a block away form this intersection)

gravy train
11 months ago

that park is already crowded as hell after 4pm til close wait till 3000 more units open up

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
Good.. that means that park is the place to go, be seen, and mingle in that area.

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
A lot of people in Miami are still stuck on a magazine article that said the population of Miami is under served by the amount parks it has and needs more. They don’t take time to realize that they read that BS in a “MAGAZINE!” And publishers are in the business to sell “MAGAZINES!” They are not concerned about whats really going on in Miami.

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
“Miami is being destroyed with so much over building”

Well somebody better tell Russia they’re destroying Ukraine the hard way.

Ciparoo
11 months ago

This ain’t the place for u brush. The thirst is real in this comment section

Anonymous
11 months ago

There are plenty of empty lots in Nebraska! Leave Miami to us urbanites.

nondude
11 months ago

when all the parking lots get developed the question is whether there is sufficient infrastructure, primarily transportation, to handle the demand for services.

By the way, sewer capacity is not the greatest in this part of the city.

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
A worried person with many questions…

Melo is sigma and chad
11 months ago

This lot been empty since the Omni was opened, glad it finally gets developed.

Anonymous
11 months ago

Time for the Omni to be redeveloped, casino or no casino.

nobody
11 months ago

bring back the carousel

Melo is sigma and chad
11 months ago

I remember it, it should be taken out and restored if its still in there

Anonymous
11 months ago

Yes! Remember that! LOL

Anonymous
11 months ago

Look nobody, you already have the “Iconic Ferris Wheel,” so Miami doesn’t need a Carousel.

nondude
11 months ago

Omni purchased for too much to justify apartments.

Anonymous
11 months ago

Um.. what?

Adrian Diaz
11 months ago

There should be a tally of the amount being built or somewhere in the development process I feel like it must be above 20,000 units in the Downtown area between World Center, the Brightline supertowers, baccarat… etc.

That Miami allows this and has this and San Francisco did not speaks to how flexible we are.

Anonymous
11 months ago

“That Miami allows this and has this and San Francisco did not speaks to how flexible we are”

(scratching my head).. what?

Grammarly
11 months ago

Exactly, weird something sentence about.

Anonymous
11 months ago

Not weird. San Francisco has extremely low height limits therefore artificially keeping available housing units small and increasing housing costs.

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
San Francisco also has a habit of being hit by earthquakes. Trust me, if you’ve ever been in a skyscraper or lived in a highrise building when an earthquake hits, you don’t wanna go through that again.

Faiz Ahmed
11 months ago

Plenty of the World’s tallest buildings are in earthquake zone. We have the technology already.

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
Tell me Faiz Ahmed, how many of those “World’s tallest buildings” in earthquake zones have you worked in or lived in?

Anonymous
11 months ago

Quite so. I’ve lived in a West Coast high rise, taller than most in the area, and experienced an earthquake. Building was fairly new and held up exceptionally well thanks to good engineering. Only a couple of coffee cups suffered in my unit. Learned to respect the cat regarding aftershocks.

Anonymous
11 months ago

Um, the tallest buildings tend to be the priciest.

Not Anonymous
11 months ago

That is not true, the Salesforce Tower is taller than any tower in Miami. the real reason there is so little towers is that the NIMBYs don’t want their street have a building that isn’t a single family home.

Anonymous
11 months ago

And what’s so weird about it is, it makes sense to some people.

Faiz Ahmed
11 months ago

Basically San Francisco has all but made construction illegal. Despite a decade of record housing costs SF hasn’t built anything.

Meanwhile a property value boom in Miami is resulting in a huge boost in housing construction to bring prices back down to equilibrium

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
“Meanwhile a property value boom in Miami is resulting in a huge boost in housing construction to bring prices back down to equilibrium”

Construction in housing developments does not bring prices down for housing so stop believing and spreading that myth.

Anonymous
11 months ago

^^you’re the one speading myth…. ever hear of the law of supply and demand? Today’s skyrocketing home prices are due to a lack of supply.

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
Look, cut it out that 1960’s economics class teaching about rivets. We are talking about living quarters. The prices it cost to build a house in 2022 no matter the size is much more than it cost in 2020.

Anonymous
11 months ago

I think he means Los Angeles. LA County is almost all exclusively zoned as single family homes, even near the downtown core

Not Anonymous
11 months ago

same with San Fransisco

Anonymous
11 months ago

And if each one has parking for two cars/unit and each owner has two cars that means around 7,000 cars will be on the road thereby dethroning 36th St as the most congested street in the county.

Melo is sigma and chad
11 months ago

Not all residents will be driving at the same time nor will there be two cars per unit. Many will just walk to publix, walk to the park and taken the metromover at omni station. Oh and take ubers.

Anonymous
11 months ago

So, magically those 7000 cars will be driving around 24/7?

Socretes
11 months ago

Yes….this is the way it works in the minds of the Utopianists.

Fast, clean, amazing trains come to your living room (right up to the XBox) and carry you exactly where you want to go. AND the people who previously owned cars will pay for it all!

Oh….and all housing will be for sale for less than it costs to build it, and EVERYTHING is “affordable”.

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
Wake up Socretes wake up!.. you’re dreaming again!!!

lol…

Not Anonymous
11 months ago

Utopianists sounds like something someone would call Mozart

Anonymous
11 months ago

More and more residential and yet not enough businesses are moving down here. Will everyone here be working from home for the foreseeable future?

I-was-never-here?
11 months ago

I just say build ins taste and balance. Over building in miam is stupid crazy right now
These developers know what they are doing as it’s just a cash cow of bullshit. Meaning soon where these ppl live will turn into downtown luxury apartments and condo that sits in water. No big lost to them as everyone wants is in factor. I just feel sorry for the true resistance of the south florida ppl verses the transplants of high end and mid income snobs with the addition Karen. Damn those Karen’s you move to a big city just to be annoyed how crazy are you really in the head.

I-was-never-here?
11 months ago

For those looking for transportation in this city that is south Florida to change. Dont worry it will all come with a huge change. In the future for every metropolitan you will not be driving a your vehicle unless its self driving or you are using the city to state transit system. Traffic will be a different breed that will change our lives forever. Like the dummies we are we will vote on this giving up another control factor to our government and the huge business that pays them to influence our change.

nondude
11 months ago

These apartments will be here in 3 years, so what do commuters do in the meantime?

Also, even automated vehicles take space on a road.

Who cares
11 months ago

Traffic is a $hitshow now. Wait till this garbage is built. Miami is officially destroyed. Worst place to live now with so many people

Anonymous
11 months ago

Then move.. “Who cares!”

Mike
11 months ago

Someday we will have a major drought. Normal here. Where will water come from? And traffic has been a nightmare for years. Logjam now. So keep asking for more density it will be worse than, Manhattan b

Anonymous
11 months ago

Water is a “Commodity,” meaning it’s sold now. And if you’re so concerned about traffic, don’t drive then!

Anonymous
11 months ago

I want to know how these new developments will affect rent & sale prices at Quantum on the Bay Condominium units with direct waterfront views…these new developments will surely secure the future of Margaret Pace Park as well…

Walsh Stiles
11 months ago

Guys don’t forget about The Boulevard just north on Biscayne next to Andiamos Pizza. Looks like they are getting closer

Anonymous
11 months ago

These additional 3,000 apartments will definitely be affordable and will solve Miami’s housing crisis

Melo is sigma and chad
11 months ago

Many of them will, and they’re over a thousand coming online in liberty city this year. But of course you whiners expect to live in the Edgewater for discounted prices.

Anonymous
11 months ago

“will solve Miami’s housing crisis”

Um, what?

Socretes
11 months ago

Adding 3,000 units of housing supply will definitely help some.

Because all these units will be NEW housing and will have new everything, it is logical that the rents in the area will increase statistically. But because there are 3,000 NEW units does not mean that the old units will necessarily increase their rents. They might…if the market wants to pay high prices for old housing stock…but it won’t be a drastic increase in the old.

Faiz Ahmed
11 months ago

https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/new-construction-makes-homes-more-affordable-even-those-who-cant-afford-new-units

Evidence shows that brand new luxury buildings reduce the rent in the nearby area

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
And there you have it folks! If you’re paying $1500 a month for a 1bd 1bth apartment now in the area you live in, just add some “brand new luxury buildings” in a nearby area and wala!.. you’ll magically see your price in rent drop at least $200.

lol…

Who cares
11 months ago

Obviously you don’t live down here. Homes in the ghetto are overpriced to what they were 2 years ago. Luxury buildings here are destroying our way of life. It was great before all this un needed development. Even the waters off biscayne bay won’t be as clear as it is now. Over development will kill our ecosystem.

Anonymous
11 months ago

^
Well, you and all your family members better not have any children, because one day they may be looking for a place to stay. And you need to be on our shores and borderlines 24/7 to stop immigrants you see washing up on whatever makeshift boats and illegally crossing them.

nondude
11 months ago

Market rate units being built now with high construction cost will likely not be affordable.