Demolition Continues At Site Where 57-Story M-Tower Planned

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Demolition of a downtown Miami parking garage is continuing, new photos by Phillip Pessar show.

The 7-story garage is being demolished to make way for the 57-story M-Tower Apartment building.

Building Department records show that a demolition permit for the garage was approved in March. The construction permit to begin the new tower is not yet approved.

M-Tower is planned to rise 598 feet and include:

  • 675 apartments and
  • 10,411 square feet of retail
  • 694 parking spaces in an 8-story podium

The garage being demolished has 658 spaces.

 

(photos: Phillip Pessar)

 

The new tower:

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Much needed inventory in the core to attract young professionals and catalyze the immediate area by seeding it with people with discretionary income. This added density along with the recently completed Melo tower next door will undoubtably spur additional development and snowball progress away from the homeless hq that has plagued this immediate area.

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Name
2 months ago

Amazing to see Flagler are downtown come to life, such a great spot to develop

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Anonymous
2 months ago

We need better development than Melo-tier boxes on and around Flagler Street, however. This is only acceptable here because it’s between a Metromover and freeway flyover that don’t appear will be removed for the “grand boulevard” scheme anytime soon.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

That’s even better! You can walk freely without all the annoying time consuming (nonexistent) crosswalks in other parts of the city.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Compare this to the e11 towers – almost identical structure.

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anon
2 months ago

This is better location than Eleven too.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

This area is becoming more desirable and high end! There’s going to be so much more demand to live around the metro mover

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Nobody will move in here because of Metromover access down the street, after crossing a freeway ingress and egress point with motorists driving at over fifty miles an hour. Not to mention dodging homeless camps.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Umm there are no homeless camps. And the highways are way above ground where you never even see them. You forget they are there. It’s much better than crossing Biscayne where people speed and chaotic ground level car activity

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Sometimes I think Miami is being developed by people who have never been here and are basing billion-dollar judgments on an ariel google map views that flatten the image, and obsolete paradigms. Those areas that look walkable on the maps, actually have more obstacles than this area, which has a low of open and connected waterfront space!

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Cover the Podiums
2 months ago

Between this and Melo’s tower, the city should bring enough property taxes to completely transform that street, no excuses!

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Hope you’re right ! We have a ton of property taxes coming from Brickell but nothing is getting done, especially on the western side which are desperate need of street and sidewalk improvements, and this is where the City is doing its “best” work supposedly.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

A giant Metromover flyover over it doesn’t help. Yes, the city should clean it up, but focus on improving streetscapes where there is actually walkable potential.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Areas with above ground infrastructure ARE the most walkable areas, you don’t have to cross threatening roads like Biscayne in downtown, or railroad tracks above downtown. It’s the the only real foundation area for enjoyable walkability in Miami—and it shows!

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Actually this raised the value double, try finding a place in NYC 5 blocks from a metro compared to one next to it.

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Cover the podiums
2 months ago

Metro mover is not mass, and it’s not rapid lol

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anon
2 months ago

It’s both – it’s gets you around downtown faster than by car, and it’s for peoplle smart enough to use a free metro instead of Uber. Thank god the dumb people still drive because the metro feels fancier

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Anonymous
2 months ago

being on a beer car short bus full of self-pissing bums feels classier than driving a car …l m f a o

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Ano
2 months ago

You obviously have never been in the metro, and probably need to be off the roads too.

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Mad Dash
2 months ago

Classic Miami design with the podium, square and cooling tank on top to crown the building. Little creativity or uniqueness

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Cover the podiums
2 months ago

Yup. Literally just computer generated design

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Billy
2 months ago

Miami is so much more beautiful overall than it was 10 to 20 years ago. I’m stunned at what has been done.

The issue now is the streets really need to desperately be repaved.

Be glad for all the improvements. In the 80s and 90s Miami was a horribly violent place to be. There used to be 9 critically bad places in Miami. Now there are nearly none.

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Kitty w
2 months ago

Tremendous amount of new product coming online north of Brickell. Should be interesting to see whether downward pressure on prices results or whether it just picks up slack from increased demand.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

I think it will reduce prices north of brickell since there will be a nicer new area closer to brickell and walking distance. Let’s bring the city closer together around the metro loops.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

It won’t effect Brickell, because it’s still a luxury not to have to cross the vehicle traffic on the bridges which go up every 15
Minutes – south of the Miami river will be a luxury but north of the river downtown will be next best option and it’ll grow together.

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spell it right
2 months ago

affect

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Anon
2 months ago

I mean, desirability is relative.

For those who desire open space – Brickell is not the best option. For those who value connectivity to the rest of Miami – Brickell is not the best option. For those who value cultural institutions – Brickell is not the best option. For those who value the beach – Brickell is not the best option. Etc etc etc.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Brickell has more open spaces than downtown and midtown. It’s surrounded by water, parks and low rise luxury areas, downtown is going to be all high rises squished together.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Who values the beach except spring breakers? You can get to the beach in 15 min from here on weekends, people don’t go to the beach daily or even weekly. It’s like a a monthly activity

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Street Smarts
2 months ago

^^Not in hotassed South Florida. The only place to be IS the beach and ocean.

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anon
2 months ago

Not really. It’s hotter in NYC in the summer and we have lots of shaded waterfront spaces and rooftops where you’re fanned and get a constant breeze – feels like 75 all years around in Brickell because of how we built it.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

“we”…you didn’t build squat, and feels like 75 in the summer my ass

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Anon
2 months ago

Brickell is much cooler than Miami Beach because of the wind channels coming off the bay, and all the shaded areas from the skyscrapers. You could be in your own hot microclimate, but in Brickell we get moderate temperatures all year around.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Brickell is best option for the beach because you can get to nicest beaches on Miami Beach and Key Biscayne in no time, but still have all conveniences and experience of living in a major City.

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Anon
2 months ago

On a busy beach day it can take 40 minutes to get to the beach from Brickell

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anon
2 months ago

I’ve been on busiest days and took me 15 minutes from Brickell to SoBe. I think you live in southern brickell or by the bay and traveling to sunny isles or something. I have some good spots which I shall NOT reveal out of selfishness as I’d hate to see them be polluted with too many people.

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Street Smarts
2 months ago

LMAO…no living ON the beach is the best option for the beach. And the beach is THE main attraction in South Florida. Restaurants, museums…child please…Toledo Ohio has those, BFD.

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anon
2 months ago

Not when you live here, it’s like how often do New Yorkers go to Central Park or see the Statue of Liberty. The people who go there every day are the die hard rare breeds and have nothing interesting to do.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

The people who eat out and shop every week got nothing interesting to do…those aren’t real hobbies or interests. Plus your credit card payments on all that bs will leave you always living paycheck to paycheck. Miami IS the beach. Shopping and eating out are for places with no real natural amenities like NYC and Dallas.

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Anon
2 months ago

There’s a ton of natural amenities in and around Brickell let alone all the places you can go from here, plus historical and cultural attractions.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

I’ve lived here all my life and go to the beach several times a week. Shopping and eating out are for NYCtards.

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Anon
2 months ago

I feel bad for your skin 😎 you all assume that the only thing else to do besides Beach is shopping and retail. Tons of other activities in Brickell.

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Get them out
2 months ago

Really weak argument you present. Best option for the beach is looking down over it and a quick elevator ride down to it.

Scrub.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

It’s only a matter of time before inventory outpaces demand as it comes online in large chunks over the coming quarters, but as long as it gets planted the ultimate winner will be the city of Miami and it’s residents.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Miami residents want values to go up and higher paying sophisticated jobs.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Of course they do and developers want to cash in on the momentum – they won’t all win.

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Anon
2 months ago

Let’s add tighter regulations on developers so we get quality buildings that last! Not cheap “affordable” buildings that cost the owners and the city more in the future.

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Street Smarts
2 months ago

tighter regulations===higher costs

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anon
2 months ago

Good, it’s too cheap. We need to raise money to clean this city up! It should be better when it’s this new

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Anonymous
2 months ago

^^too cheap…but you can’t afford it. Nobody with the $300k/yr Minimum job required to buy these places are posting on this board at 10AM on a Tuesday!

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Anon
2 months ago

I know many people who live in Manhattan with a 75k salary, you can live in Miami for the same and have an even better quality of life. People are spoiled and want all the bells and whistles when they haven’t even earned it yet.

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Anon
2 months ago

But better product and long term savings!! Invest now, require top tier standards now, while it’s hot

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Anonymous
2 months ago

The whole law of supply and demand doesn’t apply in Miami.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

It applies everywhere and this time isn’t different. High rates and the strong dollar along with corporations right sizing as the consumer slows spending in the face of higher debt loads will undoubtedly have an effect on supply/demand as thousands of units hit the market in the coming quarters. Don’t fool yourself thinking this recent run makes Miami immune from economic principals – the magic city has a history of booms and busts.

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Anon
2 months ago

I hardly notice any upcoming new construction projects in final stages, and we’re approaching the peak season with a significant population surge. Incentives might be more apparent in Wynwood, as it takes a particular kind of person to thrive in those conditions. While enjoying a nice dinner is one thing, dealing with the streets and the hood there is less appealing.

As for Brickell, I only spot a few new developments like Gallery, One SS Park, and River District Brickell, but I doubt they’ll be ready for tenants in time to have a substantial impact. If anything they will just make the area more desirable and increase demand, and when interest rates drop again we will see another double digit rate climb!

Why am I celebrating? Because Miami is UNDERVALUED and needs to raise the prices and deliver better maintained and amenities to continue being desirable.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

“significant population surge”—this place is LOSING people, the buyers are all investors and p/timers.

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Anon
2 months ago

I know several people and businesses moving here, it’s happening monthly

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Name
2 months ago

Miami is a live year around destination know with an economy beyond tourism and real estate. We have tech, pharma, health wellness? Telecommunication, fashion, marketing, legal, healthcare, food and beverage, entertainment, anthropologists etc

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Street Smarts
2 months ago

The TRUTH gets downvoted here…fanboys can’t have their fragile dreams shattered by reality

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anon
2 months ago

Most of Miami has a rental rate of about 1.8 percent – that’s the amount of inventory available compared to the total. Don’t hold your breath folks.

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anon
2 months ago

Quit trying to time the market. It’s going to double in short period. Get in while you can.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

^^you were saying that in 2007 too (assuming you weren’t still in diapers back then!).

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Anon
2 months ago

They also said it in 2020

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Tom
2 months ago

Thank you urban developers.. urban growth is wonderful , SPRAWL. Is not because it paves over nature and farmland …,,,

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Anon
2 months ago

Exactly! Why we need to upzoned around Martí Park and Riverside area and add masterplanned neighborhoods around Brickell and downtown where we have a metro system and walkable areas to connect

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Bike Bae
2 months ago

They need to finish the demolition ASAP. Huge dust clouds pulverize you when you bike by on both SW 1st St and W Flagler St. One time the dust was so bad I couldn’t even see one foot ahead of me.

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To tell the T
2 months ago

Fugly design but beggars can’t be choosy. This area is anguishing for development

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Anonymous
2 months ago

There’s a bunch of iconic designs going around it. I’d rather see it developed nicely, and this is a clean and simple design like those in MWC. Not every building can be iconic.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

It already looks old

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Anonymous
2 months ago

The name “M” for this tower stands for missed opportunity. However, this comment will be censored and will never see the light of day. Unless you make a positive comment, it will be deleted. I do not understand The Next Miami. My comment was not disrespectful. I was just stading my opinion just like this person.

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Anonymous
2 months ago

This area needs units and density and that’s what this provides – luxury will follow.

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Anon
2 months ago

Will there be room for luxury? I’m so afraid Miami is wasting its most valuable spaces and resources with this anrea and going the cheap way out with Wynwood.

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