Construction Beginning Soon At $185M Riverside Wharf In Downtown Miami

Downtown Miami’s The Wharf Miami has announced plans to close to allow for construction of the $185 million Riverside Wharf, according to multiple reports, including Miami New Times.

The developer has said that the new project will include a more permanent version of what currently exists at The Wharf.

A closing party at The Wharf is scheduled for September 15 through September 16.

Miami Building Department records show that a seawall permit for the property was issued on July 24.

A permit for vertical construction of the new project is still being processed.

The new Riverside Wharf is proposed to include two 10-story buildings, with:

  • Dream Miami luxury hotel (now part of Hyatt), with 165 keys
  • Expanded, permanent version of The Wharf Miami
  • 16,000 square feet of restaurant
  • Indoor live performance venue
  • 12,000-square-foot event hall
  • 30,000-square-foot nightclub and rooftop dayclub with two pools
  • Private marina capable of accommodating megayachts
  • Permanent Garcia’s Fish Market location
  • Publicly accessible Riverwalk

In total, there will be 200,000 square feet of new development.

MV Real Estate Holdings in conjunction with Driftwood Capital and Merrimac Ventures are the developers.

Cube3 is the architect, with landscape design by Savino-Miller Design Studio.

 


 

 

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Complete game changer – sets a new standard for what the Miami river can become. Will also serve as a catalyst to rid this immediate area of the ever growing homeless camp once and for all. Just an incredible project and transformative in every way.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Live performance venue and yacht docks! So cool.

Anonymous
1 month ago

looks beautiful….i really hope it doesnt get value engineered to look basic….

Anonymous
1 month ago

Dream wouldn’t settle for anything less than premium.

Terry
1 month ago

Yeah ! I hope they don’t butcher the renderings as the CHETRIT GROUP did with that new 50 story tower , a few blocks south west. It was supposed to be ALL glass. It turned out to be mostly CONCRETE , like OPERA TOWER. Quite cheap looking.

Terry
1 month ago

I mean south east. I think it’s called Riverside or Riverwalk. At Jose Marti park. Just north of OKEY DOKEY.

Anonymous
1 month ago

East of I95 is Brickell west of i95 both north and south of the river is called Riverside, there’s plenty ofRiverside signage to confirm.

Anonymous
1 month ago

South of the river and west to Northwest Eighth Avenue is actually “Southside,” which prior to I-95’s construction in the 60s, was the same neighborhood as Brickell east to Miami Avenue. What do you think the park was named after? However, this is west of I-95, and north east of the Miami River. Technically, it’s Downtown on the side of the river, so “Riverside” is in a literal sense.

Anonymous
1 month ago

There is a city sign that says Riverside right on the north side west of i95. Southside is ok for one project but we don’t like it for an area.

Sven
1 month ago

Who is we?
Is there a Confederacy of Dunces that have unionized to eliminate all history that occurred prior to their birthdate?

Southside is a thing.
For anyone interested in knowing…here are some tidbits about what is currently known as Southside Preparatory Academy in Brickell.

“The Southside School is a historic school in Brickell in Downtown Miami, Florida. It is located at 45 Southwest 13th Street. On January 4, 1989, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Southside is the oldest elementary school in Miami-Dade county.”

Notice for the uniformed and unaware.
Brickell is a neighborhood WITHIN Downtown Miami. There are many neighborhoods in Downtown. Just as there are many neighborhoods in Midtown, and Uptown. That is just the way it works.

Anonymous
1 month ago

None of the glass balconies are installed yet and neither are half of the windows. If you look at the renderings closely it resembles the building pretty accurately. Not to mentioned the restaurant space there looks incredible and so will the connected riverwalk once fully completed.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Chetrit has developed one of the highest end looking buildings and it’s not even done with all the glass. Go look at ground level.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Chetrit is one of the best developers in Miami now and most impressive concept and building – super impressed by them in Miami!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Renderings can be deceiving, but a curvy tower is better than this low-rise shrouded in a brown drape with randomly poked holes.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Opera Tower isn’t a bad building architecturally. Plenty of other more recent buildings to bash for renderings versus reality, like PMG’s X Miami.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The main difference is that opera doesnt have glass balconies, is 4 floors shorter, and has no retail component thatll be incorporated within a 4 tower development along with a newly created riverwalk…that’s all

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s 2/3 glass

Anonymous
1 month ago

Dream Hotel in Manhattan is one of the best hospitality groups in the City!! Their property in Chelsea leads to Hudson Yards. Riverside is Miamis Hudson Yards!!

Mkt Pro
1 month ago

Technically, Midtown is Miami’s Hudson YArds

Anonymous
1 month ago

Lol technically not, it’s not on the water and it’s just cookie cutter new towers… this Riverside area leads to the Underline which is like the Highline and Will have amazing natural and engineering art along the water turning abandoned boat yards to luxury spaces so yes this is the Hudson Yards technically of Riverside Miami.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Midtown looks nothing like Hudson Yards or has any of the defining characteristics that Riverside offers to recreate the concept Miami style

Anonymous
1 month ago

The only factor Midtown had was it was a redeveloped railYARD. What railyard do you have downtown? If anything, chose a better comparison of a redeveloped waterfront and it doesn’t have to be in NYC.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Instead of a railyard, it should be a Related (Ross, not Perez) redevelopment of the Downtown Distributor and Metromover flyovers into a grand boulevard with streetcars, but oh wait… both are being proposed to be expanded.

Hmmm
1 month ago

this is so unbelievably wrong that I have no counterargument

Anonymous
1 month ago

You haven’t been to Hudson Yards? Not even close.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You obviously haven’t been to Hudson Yards ten years ago, child. I see a significant parallel except Miamis version is abandoned boat yards, rather than rail yards, both on the river.

Sven
1 month ago

I see what you are saying.

Midtown was developed on the 50+ acre former Buena Vista Railyards.
Hudson Railyards was…..Hudson Railyards.

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

I like everything about this project. Mid rise, entertainment, open air, and its open to the public along the river

Anonymous
1 month ago

This project it’s going to do for downtown what Brickell City Centre did for the Brickell neighborhood.

Anonymous
1 month ago

What are you smoking…

Anonymous
1 month ago

Agree – the river walk is going to be an enticing community hub and activity space!!!

Ana
1 month ago

Its going to be a like the court yard Marriot or holiday inn in downtown. Maybe the area will be interesting for a season – a few months, but the Warf isn’t as popular as it used to be to the kids these days.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Ana is a paid troll from NY or Asia, mind him now business.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is going to be like an elevated version of the Fort Lauderdale riverwalk with better buildings and views!

Anon
1 month ago

It very well may be, when it’s complete 20 years from now

Anonymous
1 month ago

Fort Lauderdale’s 2000-ought boom buildings > Any Related Arqueeftectonica box, or that value engineered bait-and-switch atrocity for the Riverside Center site.

Ana
1 month ago

Lol, I live right by there on the other side of the river. It’s nice enough, but its not groundbreaking. It’s one building on the Downtown side of the river, not the Little Havana Side.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Fake poster. The building isn’t even up yet. Ana doesn’t live here

Ana
1 month ago

LOL, I am sure that I do live in Miami – ALWAYS HAVE LIVED HERE SINCE I WAS BORN AT BAPTIST HOSPITAL THREE DECADES AGO. How am I the fake poster?

Downtown winning
1 month ago

Wow downtown is crushing it! So exciting to see downtown catching up with Brickell in terms of development. These two areas of Miami are shaping up to become two of the best neighborhoods in the country. Still a lot of work to be done but we are on the way to becoming a world class city.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is a Downtown ext of Brickell, more like Brickell than downtown

Anon
1 month ago

You must be new to the city! North of the river is “Downtown” and south of the river is “Brickell”

Sven
1 month ago

Wrong.
From the Rickenbacker Causeway to the Tuttle Causeway is Downtown. There are neighborhood within that.
Brickell is a neighborhood.
The Central Business District is a neighborhood.
Park West, Overtown, Edgewater, West Brickell, and many more are neighborhoods in Downtown Miami.

When will the madness stop
1 month ago

Now these Brickell fools are even trying to claim parts of downtown are Brickell and create the fake riverside neighborhood. You guys are hilarious 😂 everyone should be happy when good things happen to this city.

Cross the river sometime and you’ll realize downtown is quickly taking over Brickell when it comes to good restaurants (actual good ones not the overpriced crap you guys like to pretend is good), things to do (where are your museums Brickell), bars (that don’t have lame dress codes and play music so loud you can’t talk) and most importantly culture (aholes in Ferraris dont count as culture).

Down vote me up and tell me why I’m wrong 🥱

Anonymous
1 month ago

Aren’t you of the same logic that park west is in Downtown? So clearly Riverside can be in Downtown too.

u r the madness
1 month ago

geez, someone forgot their Xanax today. Like you have museums in every neighborhood, LOL, they are a metro amenity, not a neighborhood amenity. Why you feel the need to compete I don’t know

Sven
1 month ago

The Central Business District is great, I love Bayside, and miss Hooters.
Park West has gotten so much better recently when they moved the Camillus House homeless shelter out of there a few years ago.
Omni still has that incredible mall and the Checkers. That One-Two Punch cannot be beat by the Brickell Citicenter and Burger King.

Downtown is big, and it is great that the CBD is improving and World Center is going so well. Most people living in Brickell are absolutely thrilled with it all.

Personally, I like walking around Brickell Key at the sunrise.
The Four Seasons, the Mandarin Oriental, the EAST Hotel, and all the activity and comforts are great.

Sad but true, some of my renter friends have gotten priced out of Brickell, so it IS great to know that they will have some good offerings in Park West and they are only a short Uber away.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is Riverside and next to Brickell.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This will be the most expensive luxurious area in the core. No unhoused here. They are further up in the core.

Anonimo
1 month ago

I hope this sparks some construction across the river from it. Those 2 story condominiums need to be upzoned.

Anon
1 month ago

Excited to have this in the area. Not the most walkable with the massive spaghetti knot of highways above it but a welcome addition!

Anonymous
1 month ago

At ground level it’s all connected and immensely tranquil and scenic, kind of like Dumbo NYC

Anon
1 month ago

The Brooklyn Bridge is a historic, neo-gothic, architecturally significant suspension bridge. This is a highway overpass.

I love Miami but there really is no need to make absurd comparisons like this. Miami has plenty of things New York doesn’t and vice versa.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Underneath both bridges looks the same, except the Miami main downtown/brickell bridge is surrounded by nicer buildings and more tropical scenic waterfront.

Anon
1 month ago

You can downvote all you want – but you know that statement is ridiculous. You are comparing a typical highway overpass to one the greatest US engineering feats of the late 1800’s. Miami has great things on its own merit – pump those up instead

Anonymous
1 month ago

No, It’s not an overpass, it’s one of the most scenic bridges on the most historical rivers in the world! How dare you disrespect this sacred land and stunning bridge? The engineering and scenery here are unparalleled!

Veuvek
1 month ago

The i395 overpass’s arches appear to lack any functionality, unlike the Brickell-Downtown Bridge, which not only connects the area but also stands as the largest bridge over the Miami River. Enhancing the space will involve a riverwalk under the Downtown-Brickell Bridge, offering improved pedestrian access and the potential for an oversized monument.

Sven
1 month ago

You may consider learning more about the “Suspension” part in the signature suspension bridge.

“Lack of functionality” ???

Ummm….no…..it’s the opposite.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Under the Miami Bridge is going to look spectacular all lit up! Like the Brooklyn Bridge or something magical to go and take photos.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You’re comparing a nineteenth-century bridge that connected two major areas, to a 1960s freeway junction that bulldozed and fragmented neighborhoods? Even comparing the signature bridge is a stretch.

bob art guy
1 month ago

How Architecture Can Be Great. Congrats!

???
1 month ago

Speaking of Dream I wonder what ever happened to to American Dream Miami Mall???

Azure
1 month ago

Love this! Side note, the ‘closing party’ graphic on the link above is so bizarre. Like a 3 year old mashed it up with whatever it could find.

J.M.
1 month ago

I think that was the look they were going for…

Anonymous
1 month ago

Where’s the parking?

Name*
1 month ago

The only “dream” mall we’re getting.

gonna take forever
1 month ago

can’t wait to go there once it opens in 10 years

MiamiCityMan
1 month ago

Take advantage and pull down State Road 970 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_Road_970) while they’re at it.

Anonymous but Famous
1 month ago

You’ve kept the wrong info in your map for at least a year. The Lummus Park/ historic district on NW 3 St is NOT a beachfront park with a promenade. That would be the Lummus Park adjacent to Ocean Drive in South Beach (unbelievably, two different families!). The NW 3 St park can be described as “passive park with historic Ft Dallas and police stables”.

Build Miami
1 month ago

Are they going to move the Wharf somewhere else for the time being? This project looks sick but curious nonetheless

C.T
1 month ago

Regatta in the Grove

Brooklyn
1 month ago

Why are they advertising “a version of what currently exists”? Based on the images I don’t see room for anything that could resemble the current Wharf (large tent, food trucks, ample open space for activites (cornhole, ping pong, etc.)). All that’s shown here in the rednerings are sidewalk cafes and outdoor dinig.

Dwtn
1 month ago

It’s not Downtown. West of 95 is not downtown.
Cool project near downtown.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This area will be nicer than Park West.

Anon
1 month ago

This isn’t “an area” – they are building this on the only available piece of land west of 95 and beside the self storage center. It’s not a neighborhood – it’s just one building. Looking forward to it though!

Ana
1 month ago

lol, the area is anything that sits on the river and has water access. People are going to expand and contract that concept to whatever end.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s connected to a new master planned area that connects 9 acres of protected park land, multi floor retail restaurant and entertainment spaces with the river district, going to be like BCC or MWC

Anonymous
1 month ago

This area has all the infill downtown is so desperate to build, and now getting the luxury statement towers. Stay pressed!

Anon
1 month ago

Where…..?

Anon
1 month ago

I’m curious to hear your argument!

Park West includes luxurious towers like 1000 Museum by Zaha Hadid, the Paramount, and Legacy – huge waterfront parks, two museums, and a multitude of transit options including Miami Central Station. Over 200,000 sqft of shopping and retail coming online in the next few years, a stand alone timber Apple Store, public promenades and open squares. Kaseya Center allows you to walk to your favorite concerts as well as HEAT games, and with the addition of District 11 which is now included in the Miami WorldCenter district, a variety of nightclubs and day clubs will also be added.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Stand alone TIMBER Apple Store… What have I been missing all my life?!

annon
1 month ago

what is it then?

Anon
1 month ago

It’s a building by a developer on a lot. It’s not in and of itself and entire neighborhood / area. Why is this so hard to understand.

J.M.
1 month ago

It’s that weird area overlapping downtown and Overtown. It could be considered either but downtown is more sexy…

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nah bro it’s Riverside – it’s a step up from downtown and connected to Brickell on the water along the new expansive riverwalk. That’s the sexy part.

You can’t have both
1 month ago

By your logic everything along the river is the riverside neighborhood which includes all the new buildings going up in Brickell. I live downtown, at the mouth of the bay, and on the river. Is this the triad neighborhood 🙄

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is where they all meet. Brickell, Downtown and Riverside – you can go any which direction you choose, but I bet you’ll want to stay at this cross section of Miami’s finest neighborhoods.

Anonymous
1 month ago

No, Lummus Park north of Flagler Street and now between the Miami River and I-95 overlaps Downtown and Overtown. This is an isolated piece of Downtown.

Sven
1 month ago

It is one block SOUTH of Flagler Street.

SOUTH West 1st Street. “overlapping” Overtown. Nope. Not close.

It’s all there. Black and white. Clear as crystal.
You lose. Good day sir.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Most promising new area in Miami!