Demolition Permit Approved At 57-Story M-Tower Site

A 7-story downtown Miami parking garage is set to be demolished to make way for a 57-story apartment building called M-Tower, after a demolition permit was approved.

A demolition permit for the garage was approved on March 2, Miami Building Department records show.

A day later, a request was submitted to attach The BG Group LLC as the demolition contractor on March 3, the records show (that request was still pending as of this morning).

Another demolition permit for an adjacent surface lot has also been approved by the Building Department.

The 7-story garage was built in 1966 and has 658 spaces.

The new M-Tower development will replace those spaces (and add more), with 694 parking spaces in an 8-story podium.

M-Tower will also include 675 apartments and 10,411 square feet of retail. The tower will top off at 598 feet above ground.

The construction permit for the tower itself is still undergoing corrections, records show.

Lions Group and Fortis Design Build are co-developers of M-Tower.

 

To be demolished:

The new tower:

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Melo, a former giga Chad
6 months ago

This has to be the laziest/greediest way to design a skyscraper. Visible parking garage, no ornaments, not human scale, no roof detail, etc. Just concrete slabs with some paint thrown at them. How can they get away with this?? This is going to be around for the next 100 years come on..

Rufus.
6 months ago

I totally agree. This building is not attractive. We can’t just keep dismissing ugly, generic buildings as ‘infill’, as if it’s ok. We have a one-time opportunity to build a city from the ground up. This is Miami – it’s beautiful, and it should not compromise on bad design and ugly buildings. Tear down the parking lot, and tear up those hideous designs and start over!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Agree, this is a make or break moment for Miami

Anonymous
6 months ago

Not all investment comes with Miamis best interest in mind, be careful not to quickly take the bait. Miami is not desperate

South Beeyotch
6 months ago

Maybe so, but that current parking garage is ugly AF. Even by parking garage standards it’s ugly. Virtually anything that replaces it will be an improvement.

Anonymous
6 months ago

This building is an eyesore replacing another. New is not always better. Miami has such a momentum that whoever is in charge should be more selective in what’s being allowed to be built. Let’s make Miami great!!!

MM305
6 months ago

Miami has so much momentum because the city refuses to get in the way of every project like this…. Thats one of the things holding up SanFran, NYC and Chicago. Too much red tape leads to more red tape and no new housing supply.

El Nalgon
6 months ago

Not even close. San Fran is a nightmare bc of zoning laws that don’t allow for anything over 7 stories outside of downtown. Please educate yourself

Anonymous
6 months ago

Strange you disagree so vehemently with him…actually you’re both right.

It takes literally years to get permits for even a moderate sized apartment building in California, hence their supply crunch. And yes, San Fran doesn’t allow neighborhoods to modernize and increase height and density to meet modern demands, and that brings additional pressure on their supply.

Name
6 months ago

With all due respect, NYC, SF and Chicago are doing quite well despite the high crime rates.

Name
6 months ago

The next 100 years? I highly doubt it. Nothing appears to last that long in Miami these days.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Can’t wait to see this this drop…much needed units in the core and will continue transforming this immediate area

BB1
6 months ago

I hope this has some trees planted around that base. If there was a building that needed it, it would be this one.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Lots of trees, around every building, with places for animals to pee so the sidewalks stop smelling ranker by the day. It’ll be NY level rank if we don’t fix this.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The Downtown Distributor and Metromover flyovers provide plenty of shade already, especially for local homeless.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The homeless and parkless can gather in one premiumly covered City space that has it all, concrete everything, why even think of improving it?

Anonymous
6 months ago

“Local homeless” they were probably sent here from another locality in the state or country. I noticed after the hurricane on the west coast there was an uptick in homeless.

Anonymous
6 months ago

the Melo tower and this Building will transform sw 1st street

Anonymous
6 months ago

This building as about twice the floor area as the Melo tower with about the same number of apartments.

Anon
6 months ago

Another stucco rectangle

Anonymous
6 months ago

those stucco rectangle have helped attract lots of investment and that’s why we have so many nice buildings that are planned or under construction like Waldorf astoria , e eleven 1 e eleven 2 , Legacy , one Bayfront plaza , 888 Brickell , west eleven residences , one river point and many more

Anonymous
6 months ago

very few people on these message boards get that you need to go vertical to create more housing option and to ease the lack of supply – chief among them Anon

Anonymous
6 months ago

There will be NO demand if you don’t spend as much time elevating the streetscapes wirh lighting, redesigned crosswalks, landscaping and regularly spaced out parks.

Anonymous
6 months ago

^^already got lots of lights, crosswalks, trees, and parks. You just want something to gripe about

El Nalgon
6 months ago

You’re not very smart my dude. Some simple architectural details don’t increase the price that much. Plus these apartments are not workforce…so…

( . Y . )
6 months ago

Miami creativity

Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

Glad its adding retail and density to this area of downtown. Thanks for Melo for completing their project two blocks east of this.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The Melo buildings is 50 feet from this one.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Glad to know we are going to get rid of this horrible building, but it is a missed opportunity for a more beautiful building. That penguin… are cleare a direct reference to Miami wildlife lol

Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

its infill

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s against highway off ramps and a metro mover repair center, how luxurious were you expecting?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Not sure if its a placeholder. Hopefully the result is not spattered paint, LSD trip, or billboards.

Name
6 months ago

That “horrible” building that took your gf is actually a parking garage because not everyone takes the train into Downtown.

Anon
6 months ago

These things always look worse than the renderings, and the renderings are hideous…

anonymous
6 months ago

feels like the retail square footage should be much bigger

Anon
6 months ago

There’s no one walking around in this area.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Not yet but there will be tons. Think ahead. There’s a masterplan going in here with a Central Park style community space.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Not yet – do you think it will forever be the way it is currently?

Robin Stan
6 months ago

Well there’s going be about 1000 more when this tower is complete, not to mention the recently opened Melo building next door with just as many people…

Bruno
6 months ago

Says a guy who doesn’t walk in the area.
I do.
There are thousands daily.

Name*
6 months ago

Ironically it will be a same size garage with another 8 stories podium.

Downtown..2nd?
6 months ago

Sucks to be the residents of the newly built Downtown 1st who reside facing west lol