Construction Permit Applied For At Downtown 6th, 824 Apartments Planned

A construction permit application to build the 54-story Downtown 6th tower was submitted this morning to Miami’s Building Department.

According to the May 2 construction permit filing, the project will include 824 residential units on levels 2 through 54.

There will also be 2427 square feet of ground floor retail, the filing states.

Total hard construction cost is estimated on the permit at $189,334,780.

Melo Contractors Corp. is listed as the construction contractor.

6 Plaza LLC, an affiliate of developer Melo Group, is listed as the owner.

The full building plans haven’t yet been filed since the permit application was just created today, so review isn’t yet underway.

The project was unanimously approved in February by Miami’s Urban Development Review Board.

The February UDRB filing showed there will be 639 parking spaces, in a garage masked with habitable liner units.

Melo recently completed the 58-story, 560-unit Downtown 1st apartment tower a few blocks away. The developer’s 441-unit URBAN 22 apartment project in the Edgewater area also appears to be nearing completion.

 

 

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Thanks to Melo for providing relatively affordable units in key areas throughout the city – much needed inventory that need to get built asap.

Azarius
1 month ago

I can bet it will be the first building on that block to be completed lol

Mkt Pro
1 month ago

Isn’t he already 5 stories out of the ground ? 😉

Melo is sigma and Chad
1 month ago

I mean downtown 5 is already completed, this will probably outpace Okan though.

Azarius
1 month ago

And both projects right across the street you have 600MWC and The Crosby which is already sold out

Anonymous
1 month ago

The Crosby… already sold our to Airbnb investors hahaha.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Good for them. Investors are people too.

Socretes
1 month ago

What is an “Airbnb investor”?
Airbnb is a publicly traded stock hahahaha…

Is your contribution to the comments to say that individual people bought condominium units to either use themselves, rent them themselves, rent them through a real estate broker, or to market their property for rent on the Airbnb platform?

Love to read your deep thinking on this matter.

Anan
1 month ago

Okan and 11Eleven are in a race.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Crane for 11 is up

Anon
1 month ago

Miami’s downtown neighborhood is more of a midtown, and midtown is more of an uptown. But wynwood look like the Lower East Side. Miami breaks all norms.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Can you stop comparing Miami to your former home and get out and explore? You will soon find there is much more to Miami than Brickell.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Not an amazing design but so much density and I love it!

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s better than Downtown 5th, at least.

Name
1 month ago

The design is actually solid for a high rise.

Melo is sigma and Chad
1 month ago

Another core infill brought to you by Melo,

Anonymous
1 month ago

We need Citi bike docks around here. The city is growing but the surrounding my environment isn’t fulfilling the needs of new residents.

Socretes
1 month ago

We?
Need?
I don’t need.

However, that may be an insightful comment. “My environment isn’t fulfilling the needs of the new residents”.
Okay. How can anyone tell if this is a real intellectual thought, or just stupid and lazy thinking?
How do you measure or monitor that hypothesis?

Citibikes have not existed in that area before YET there are thousands of new apartment units being built.

Okay….so people are clearly moving into the neighborhood knowing that they do not have Citibikes.
Your position is the WE NEED Citibikes.

You didn’t follow through, but are you suggesting that if the NEED is not fulfilled, people will move away from this area?

Okay. There is a way to test this. Let’s all watch and see if people move away because one commenter thinks that everyone needs the same things as he wants.

Downtown Vagabond
1 month ago

I thought it was supposed to be 62 stories? At least it’s Melo, so will add density rather quickly. Wouldn’t shock me if they finished by end of 2024!

Anon
1 month ago

Crane is already up

Anonymous
1 month ago

and it’s topping off next week!

Downtown Vagabond
1 month ago

No it’s not… you’re confused with OKAN

Anonymous
1 month ago

Pretty sure it was a joke…

anonymous
1 month ago

we need this box for density and affordable housing

Anonymous
1 month ago

Imagine the balcony from the top floor! Wow..

Anonymous
1 month ago

Looks like that 1970s tower.

anonymous
1 month ago

looks like a low rise office building near the airport

Anonymous
1 month ago

Looks like we have haters detected 🚨

Name
1 month ago

Good. We need more designs like this.

Mkt Pro
1 month ago

The parking podium is already built…

Alpina
1 month ago

Why does it have to look so generic Melo…? They are the shoma home of downtown

anonymous
1 month ago

Because if they actually spent money to design a nicer building the rents would be dramatically higher. Keeping things basic from a design point keeps construction costs lower which then allows for lower rents.

Alpina
1 month ago

it makes sense, all I’m saying is basic should not be boring, it is really the architects job to comply with both statics and budget

anonymous
1 month ago

the only improvements i coudl see being done is bigger balconies, more glass/less stucco. Other than that once you stop changing the shape of the building costs skyrockets. Plus, Melo is known for building fast. If they didnt do a basic box their shell contractor wouldnt be able to finish fast enough.

Flash
1 month ago

Terrible is an understatement

Downtown Vagabond
1 month ago

I think it looks great. Need more regular looking towers in the skyline, not Disney stuff. I do wish they had gone without balconies and just a wall of glass.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nine out of ten buildings have been “regular.”

Anonymous
1 month ago

Lol you sound like the soon to be out Governor with your Disney/freedom hating spin on things. Would you wish the entire state look and operate like a communist prison for the sake of density and profits?

Anonymous
1 month ago

settle down Francis

Anonymous
1 month ago

Evidently they think their buyers want balconies, not a wall of glass.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Imagine living in Miami without a balcony. So weird.

architect
1 month ago

It is really the architects job to provide the client what they are asking for. If a developer does not wish to have grander vision, it is not the architects job to tell them what to build

moray
1 month ago

designing a nicer building would be a cakewalk for a talented architect and would be an incremental cost increase. Executing the design would be expensive. NYC affordable housing doesn’t look so bad because of the brick. this stucco crap fades paint, cracks, and looks filthy within half a year.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Are you kidding? Stucco looks ten times more expensive than brick. Have you been to Stuyvesant Town or the projects in Ny? Florida mansions are built with stucco and it looks stronger and smoother than any structure in the North East.

Anon
1 month ago

Downtown is massive and needs affordable upscale housing, it just has unaffordable low scale housing.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Affordable housing does not belong in the Urban Core.

Name
1 month ago

Are you serious?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nonsense, even affordable subsidized buildings in Overtown and Brownsville look nicer.

anon
1 month ago

Love the density, hate all the parking!

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’d rather see people have a place to park than circle the block a dozen times – give people the option. That’s why NY sucks, no parking.

Jeez
1 month ago

Designed in Corel Draw

Anon
1 month ago

5th to 11th street in downtown/park west is really gonna turn into something pretty great.