Claim: Around 150 Archaeologists Working At Baccarat Brickell Site

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A large team of archaeologists are now working at the One Brickell site, according to a prominent broker.

Broker Andres Asion uploaded an Instagram story earlier this week stating that there are approximately 150 archaeologists “digging this site daily.”

A photo uploaded by Asion showed a hive of activity at the site.

There are a total of three towers planned at the complex: Tower 1 (Baccarat Residences) at 848 feet, Tower 2 (apartments) at 550 feet, and Tower 3 (hotel and residential) at 897 feet.

 

 

 

(photo: Rob Newcorn)

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William
5 months ago

Please this is not the Roman Colosseum. Get on with building the towers.

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Keeping it Real
5 months ago

Humorous, but you’re comparing apples and oranges. Diminishing indigenous cultures is not called for here. You don’t know what’s under there, and it’s best we see what is there. Haste makes waste 🙂

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Antennae
5 months ago

Yes
They will unearth the new Tenochtitlan.

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Lady Chaterly
5 months ago

😂😂😂

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Lady Chaterly
5 months ago

May be they unearth the new Wokenochtitlan ! 🤭

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anonymoose
4 months ago

Maybe Atlantis.

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Anonymous
4 months ago

Who needs finding the Excalibur when you can find pointed sticks!

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Anonymous
4 months ago

^true lmao

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Ana
4 months ago

We’re just putting too much emphasis on the past and what has already happened. Tall is is the future of the city. To much credence is being given to 100 foolish ideas that sound smart and sensitive. Agreed William, get on with it already and stop thwarting the lives of others as your soap box.

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Test before you buy
5 months ago

Maybe the buyers should have done a soil test before purchasing the land. If they had found a tooth, they should have asked for a 10% price drop. If they had dug deeper, they could have purchased the lot at 90% off considering the risk and headaches they now have.

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Anonymous
4 months ago

I don’t get with some of the people here, you go all crazy when they demolish a building from 1920 but for make all kind of stupid, insensitive comments for this type of findings. I truly expect more from this forum, but that’s my fault.

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MM305
4 months ago

Thanks for your opinion no-name. Maybe create a consistent handle and contribute instead of complaining.

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Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

“make all kind of stupid, insensitive comments for this type of findings?”

Um, what findings?

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Gigachad
4 months ago

Ugh I know. I had to close the laptop because I was literally shaking from the insensitive comments.

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Carnival Barker
5 months ago

I think archaeologists should unionize and demand better tents.

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Drac
5 months ago

Air-conditioned tents and a dry ground to dig in.

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Slim Shady
4 months ago

Those tents are FYRE!

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Peter
4 months ago

That’s small potatoes, there are over 150,000 women digging for gold in the same area

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Anonymous
5 months ago

Just because it is not monumental does not mean that it is not important. Downtown Miami was built over the Tequesta village, and from some of the descriptions it sounded interesting. Anything that can illuminate more about Miami’s enigmatic inhabitants is great. The building will be on the site forever, but you only get a few weeks to study it. Come on! be patient guys.

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Sensible Modern
4 months ago

Exactly! Why would neutral party would object? It’s wonderful that Miami preserves some history, it will make the entire city more interesting to know what came before us. They should erect monuments, or place bronze plaques in the ground wherever they discover something interesting. People travel to destinations not just for new amenities, but also for history and culture.

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Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

Haha.. I bet he’s one of those complainers about CRT.

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Anonymous
4 months ago

There are tequesta monument on the Brickell bridge, Brickell key and theres the Miami circle park.

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Jess
4 months ago

Oh great, just what brickell always needed…3 more modern luxury high rises on the water to stomp out any remaining ancient ruins and invite thousands more cars to congest the narrow roads that are overtaken by luxury buildings’ valet parking. I can hardly contain my excitement…

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Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

There’s always the vast Everglades if you find the need to dig around for ancient ruins in this state.

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Melo, the true giga chad
5 months ago

So what if they keep digging and they keep finding stuff? this can go on for years?

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Anonymous
5 months ago

This is iconic, game changing digging.

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Anonymous
5 months ago

Ha! Good one.

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anan
4 months ago

Could be the best post ever.

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Confusion detected
4 months ago

I don’t get it

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Anonymous
4 months ago

In the meantime, maybe Related will wake up and revise the design from glorified boxes with jagged balconies, to something with curves, articulation, and/or spires worthy on this piece of prime real estate.

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Jake
4 months ago

You can tell from the comments who lives in Brickell on the River / 500 brickell and doesn’t want their view & property value destroyed

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Gugu
4 months ago

OMG…..judging by how these comments are being upvoted and downvoted…..the carnage on November 8 is going to be “historic”!!!!……poor “Mother Earth”…..

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Conno Sir
5 months ago

Sadly, the project will be delayed for years.

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Huh
4 months ago

Guess they found Jurassic Park

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Anonymous
5 months ago

Oh get on with it! There are “artifacts” of earlier peoples on every piece of this earth.

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Anonymous
5 months ago

Great spot for the archeological museum of miami. All the world cities has archeological museums.

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Anonymous
5 months ago

If the tequesta were a grand civilization like the Aztec or Incas then we would already have a museum like that. But the reality is the Tequesta were a very small tribe with not many remnants. Miami in general has very little history.

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Anonymous
4 months ago

The Seminole wiped them out.

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Andrew
4 months ago

Any Tequesta were evacuated by the Spanish to Cuba in their first cession of Florida. Cubans are probably more closely related to the Tequesta…

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Anonymous
4 months ago

The tequesta were gone before the seminoles came down

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anan
4 months ago

Who pays these people ?

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Drac
4 months ago

They get paid with the taxpayers of MiamiDade’s money.

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miami
4 months ago

the developer does

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Urban Planner Hobbyist
4 months ago

If it’s protected archeological site, maybe the City and developer could reach an agreement for a land swap. This could be a good spot for a public square next to the Metro Mover, and a building like this would be gorgeous to see from the highway in West Brickell where shops are opening.

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Urban Planner Hobbyist
4 months ago

I’m not sure it’s ideal for a square, would be nice to see city center expand. It’s so beautiful and well designed. It would be nice to see a square/park comes somewhere else though. Hope they can complete the dig soon so development can move forward.

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International space station.
4 months ago

Hopefully they scanned the area good, up to 5 miles away. Sometimes people put up ultra zoom cameras to make sure they get all the “DISCOVERIES “ on video. But no need to worry they have probably been there a while.

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Anonymous
5 months ago

Will be nice to have a archeological museum in that spot.

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Drac
4 months ago

And showcase what.. fish bones and decomposing wood?

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more parks
5 months ago

Low Key hope this sinks the whole project and they turn it into a huge public park instead

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Anon
5 months ago

You’re funny

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Pleezzee
5 months ago

You mean another huge doggy toilet like the nearby Miami Circle Park.

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Keeping it Real
5 months ago

The city has added dog-pick up bags under the highline, and it’s nice to see parks and community spaces integrated into the City and waterfront. It will attract residents and increase tourism to the area. If you just build high rises, it will become less interesting. Not to say stop the high-rises, but integrate public space. Problems with old parks is that they are “old” looking – we need beautiful landscaped spaces designed with function, like the incredible Underline project that is expanding. Well-designed parks increase property values and business.

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Keeping it Real
5 months ago

I honestly LOVE the high rises, but we need a balanced ration (for example, for every 9 high rises, one public park or open square nearby, every major city has open squares for people to gather).

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Anonymous
4 months ago

What do you think riverwalk is? You can have development and linear parks. LOL, make Bayfront and Museum Parks attractive before demanding more parks.

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Truth
4 months ago

Those are downtown, not Brickell and they are already beautiful. We need an expansive waterfront park in Brickell.

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Anonymous
4 months ago

except miami. Practically no open plaza’s and very few parks.

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Pleezzee
5 months ago

Uh, you mean more “public parks” (even though I don’t why you think we don’t have enough) puts more strain on the taxpayers in this city to take care of them.

“Problems with old parks is that they are “old” looking”

So, according to you, forget sprucing up these so-called “old parks,” nah.. just make these developers had over plots of land that cost them tens of millions of dollars to purchase, place another park on the spot, and “whala!!!” watch how tourist clamor to get to them (even though where they live out state already have gangs of parks in them). Yeah man, that really makes sense. Meanwhile, I guess the right next door enormous “EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK” is just one of those “old parks” that should be ignored by everyone in the county (and tourist) as far as you’re concerned? Maybe you need to check it out sometimes.

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Pleezzee
5 months ago

I meant – just make these developers “hand” over plots of land

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Sensible Modern
4 months ago

Nobody can walk to the everglades. That is a different type of park. He means like Central Park, Hudson Yards, or Union Square, or if you would like a closer example, Rosemary Square in West Palm Beach, which just had a stunning renovation.

It does not have to be crazy expensive, just designed well and centrally situated along the river. There should be a staggered approach, so we have lowrises along I-95 and the waterfront.

They have plans to make a very nice one at Southside Park, which is ideal spot for this. Also, there is plenty of empty land around the core that can be built out, but within the core just preserve some nice unobstructed scenic places for people to gather, and set back buildings from the shoreline so there is an actual waterfront to jog or grab a bite to eat.

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Pleezzee
4 months ago

^
“Nobody can walk to the everglades?”

Hmmm… I guess people from out of state are really alligators and snakes in disguise because they are the only ones who can get to this enormous park.

Lets see… nearby, there’s the Miami Circle Park, Bayfront Park, Maurice A. Ferre Park, Margret Pace Park, and Biscayne Park, to name a few.

So, where and how are the people who will live in this project lacking parks to go to?

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Truth
4 months ago

I don’t get what you mean. You need a car to get to the Everglades from Miami.

All but one of those parks are north of Brickell and not a close walk. As Brickell expands west and south there needs to be more close parks for residents in those communities. The river front, Southside park, and the area along I95 on 1st avenue would be the most ideal spots for parks and public enhancements.

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Original
4 months ago

^
There’s one thing I’ve noticed about some people in Miami, and that is, if it’s not very convenient to them, then what’s the sense in doing it or going there? No one who lives in Brickell is complaining about finding “park space” to frolic in except people who don’t live there. These are people who don’t travel and see how they do it in other cities, but they talk as if they’re experts and do nothing but jabber about anything because they think they know everything.

smh…

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Adopted frenchie
4 months ago

It’s “voilà”, from a French word that means “there it is” or “there you go”. Not “whala”…

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Anonymous
5 months ago

“old” looking parks? The trees and water look too old??

Seriously, property taxes would have to be raised for all this, your landlord will pass that on to you, and when you can’t afford rent around here I guess you can then live in an “old” park.

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Drac
5 months ago

lol

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Slim Shady
4 months ago

“Keeping it real. Yeah….keeping it REAL dumb!” – Chris Rock

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Anonymous
5 months ago

That would actually be a good idea.

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Drac
5 months ago

Funny.. but I never heard anyone that lives in this area complaining about NOT being able to find a park nearby to spend some time in?

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Slim Shady
4 months ago

Very true Drac. But when dopey people talk about their Utopian visions for land that they don’t own, reality is not a factor.

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Anon
4 months ago

I love how many downvotes this got. Why do Miamians hate green spaces?

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Sub Tropics
4 months ago

Green means humidity and there’s too much of that

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Brickell Resident
4 months ago

Those are probably people who don’t live in the area. People in Brickell know the neighborhood needs green safe spaces to balance the booming urbanization.

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Anonymous
4 months ago

Oh look ^, a pampered Brickell resident…

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Anonymous
5 months ago

we are now officially the most ridicuolously regulated and over run with morons city in the country….

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Keeping it Real
5 months ago

Probably the furthest from the truth. We are the most under regulated. I live in one of the only rental buildings and the elevator certificate has been expired for almost two years, and residents often get stuck and have to pry open the doors. I’ve called the local government and it goes to voice mail. I have e-mailed them and no response. No fix, very little regulation – and we need a little more without going too far.

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Anon
5 months ago

Good point…

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anon
5 months ago

This is one of the weirdest things I noticed when I moved to Miami most of a decade ago. Nowhere else in America do you see expired elevator tags. Here, it seems like the majority of them are expired. One of my favorite anecdotes from my first year living on the beach was that I literally saw more framed and signed photos of Pitbull in businesses (2) than I did non-expired elevator tags (1).

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Slim Shady
4 months ago

The elevator certification usually goes on the wall in the elevator when the elevator first enters service.
The renewal certificates are on file in the management office.
Hope that helps untwist your panties from that knot.

Dale!

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Truth
4 months ago

Slim Shady, that’s not true. Lived in many buildings in other parts of Florida and the US, and they were all up to date. That would defeat the purpose of an elevator certificate being public. It needs to be swapped out every year. Any different practice is probably to avoid negligence of being late to recertify.

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Anonymous
5 months ago

You need to be a very old tooth under a very old rock.

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Sub Tropics
4 months ago

Sometimes even in city and government buildings the elevator certificate is out of date.

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Keeping it unreal
5 months ago

You should see these so called archeologists…they all come out of their safe spaces to dig dirt to find a tooth or two, who pays them? They are digging forever…

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Drac
5 months ago

You are looking at how taxpayers money is spent at its finest!

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Anonymous
5 months ago

It is part of the Archaeologist Employment Act, designed to help out Archaeology majors who were previously only able to secure employment at Starbucks and Enterprise Rent A Car.

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Lady Chaterly
5 months ago

Our taxpayers money wasted… get a better degree, move out parents houses and y’all won’t need a job with a cardboard hat or at Starbucks! 😌

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Anonymous
5 months ago

Love it! Wish there were more funny guys on this.

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Slim Shady
4 months ago

I ain’t saying they a tooth digger….but I ain’t seen them with no______ _________.

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Anonymous
5 months ago

This guy does know what he’s talking about. The only regulation set in stone is the max 1049 ft building height. Miami gives developer variances for everything. And the amount of growth the city is allowing with absolutely no upgrade to our infrastructure is incredible.

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The Name’s Jane
4 months ago

The flooding in Brickell only started after all these sore thumbs were built.

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Original
4 months ago

Well I guess the melting of some icy place like Greenland has nothing to do with it?

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Anonymous
4 months ago

My parents complained about Brickell flooding back in the 1970s when they worked there…you’re both off base.

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Original
4 months ago

Prrrffff… I was living in Miami back in the 1960’s, so you’re the one “off base.”

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Anonymous
4 months ago

^^at what age? You were a flooding expert at age 4?

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Slim Shady
4 months ago

Wrong.
You clearly have not tried to develop anything in Miami.

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