Construction Continues At 40-Story 501 First Tower

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Foundation work continues to progress at downtown Miami’s 501 First tower.

The 40-story tower is unusual in that it is being built without a parking garage.

It will include 448 condos, with short term rentals permitted. All units were sold out as of last year.

Aria Development Group and Aqarat are the developers.

 

(photo: Phillip Pessar)

 

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iRideMDT
6 months ago

No Parking should not be unusual; it should be mainstream.

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Anonymous
6 months ago

As long as we extend the Metromover to the port, the beach, and the rest of Miami.

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Anonymous
6 months ago

And build proper bike lanes and have more Citibikes around

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Normalized
6 months ago

Yes, to the port!! That’s the easiest Metromover extension and yet nothing, not even a proposal.

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anonymous
6 months ago

should have a gondola lift that takes people over to the port from bayside – killer views on the way to your cruise

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anonymous
6 months ago

They already have a connection to airport via metrorail. All you gotta do is hop on metromover to government center and youll be to the airport fairly quickly

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Anonymous
6 months ago

Port not airport

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Not Anonymous
6 months ago

Rest of Miami is Metrorail. And the county also has to do something to make the Metromover faster. I was walking down the street and i was outrunning the Metromover above me.

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BDub
6 months ago

Dwell time at each station is 30 seconds. Reducing that to 15 or 20 would help a lot.

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Yet Another Anonymous
6 months ago

That’s a huge increase over what it used to be. Maybe they’re accounting for single car trains and rush-hour busyness that usually isn’t the case all day.

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Azarius
6 months ago

Once we have real public transit that’s assessable to the whole county I would definitely recommend more developments like this one, plus it’s attached to a huge garage lol

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Anonymous
6 months ago

When is completion date?

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Carebear
6 months ago

Most likely 3 years as usual

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Anonymous
6 months ago

I miss the purple building that was here. I wish they incorporated the design into the base.

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Anonymous
6 months ago

Time for MDC to sell all their surrounding real estate. All their surface parking lots, garages, and suburban-style campus buildings are what is holding back this part of downtown, which is crucial for connecting MWC to the historic core. The money they could make could redevelop the Wolfson Center into a vertical, consolidated campus.

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Azarius
6 months ago

or they could colab and produce a world leading University for research and development in a urban downtown for emerging tech. companyines to partner and grow. Stanford to SV

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Azarius
6 months ago

like NYC has NYU, Columbia, Cornell

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KevinNash92
6 months ago

Nah, the MDC campus which sees hundreds/thousands of people walking the area isn’t “holding back the area.” What’s holding it back would be the rows of shuttered up storefronts that fit the scale of a suburban strip mall rather than the heart of the city’s downtown. A lot of these are Moishe Mana properties he bought eons ago and still has done absolutely nothing with in the time since.

Were it up to me, that district would be upzoned and have newly built buildings that are more in line with the historical style of the area (similar to the old courthouse, olympia theatre, etc) that originally defined the area, rather than going for the standard modernist glass box luxury “dood miami” style or blank grafitti walls.

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Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

Now the old courthouse needs to be redeveopled.

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Not Anonymous
6 months ago

I think you mean repurposed, right? we don’t want to demolish one of the city’s most important landmarks

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TAJR
6 months ago

Hey Genuise, WATER&SEWER. Desalination Plants? None of you could possibly have roots here. I will miss seeing the ocean, sky and all the beauty we had in my childhood. GOOD LUCK!

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Not Anonymous
6 months ago

Parkingless Prefection!

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Not Anonymous
6 months ago

*Perfection

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EJS
6 months ago

As much as I agree that not including parking should be more mainstream in Miami development, especially downtown. I think lack of parking affects the overall value of the condo. I have to say when we were looking to purchase a condo, Centro downtown was a great option but it did not have parking and we ended up paying a small bit more for a condo a few blocks away with two parking spaces and renting one out — so I have to say that I don’t think eliminating parking makes for good resale (yet) in Miami. But, if the property will be short-term rentals then lack of a parking would probably not affect purchase price (too much). Just sayin’.

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