Demolition Permit Issued At 1 Southside Park

A permit for total demolition of Brickell’s Fire Station No. 4 was approved and issued by Miami-Dade earlier this month, county records show.

The fire station is being demolished to make way for the 1 Southside Park megaproject.

A temporary fire station was built in the adjacent park, which will be relocated into the new development when it is completed.

Permitting for 1 Southside Park, including demolition, is being done through the county, rather than the city.

1 Southside Park is planned to rise 64 stories and include:

  • 1,195 rental apartments
  • 165,000 square feet of office
  • 200 hotel rooms (operated by Treehouse Hotels)
  • 86,151 square feet of spa
  • 23,312 square feet of full service restaurant
  • 1,417 square feet of fast food restaurant
  • 5,120 square feet of banquet hall
  • 13,673 square feet of fitness center
  • 32,000 square feet of fire station
  • Up to 1,000 parking spaces

 

To be demolished:

(photo: Phillip Pessar)

The new 64-story project:



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Anonymous
1 month ago

Looks surreal – cannot wait to see it rise!

Anonymous
1 month ago

I love this, similar to Waldorf Astoria even though I like that one better.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Really? I like this one more

Anon
1 month ago

Nicest developing part of Miami! Can’t wait to see Brickell reshape it’s skyline here

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nothing at all alike apart from being boxes atop each other.

Anonymous
1 month ago

When everything else is straight or curved, 2 sets of stacked boxes we get to call them similar

Anonymous
1 month ago

Parking and access to the metro. Win.

Anon
1 month ago

We need all new brickell station and bike paths and new 2nd Ave Facade and retail to create a more grand entrance area in Brickell

Al Czervik
1 month ago

We need?
What if “we” don’t get that handed to “us”?

Will Miami die?

Without these bike paths that We Need, can Miami ever surv8ve

(I know what the people who don’t only breathe from their mouth are thinking. “the above referenced story is about a massive development west of the Metrorail…and a place that has developed since 1896 WITHOUT the NEED for bike lanes. How can these knuckle daggers be so stupid?”

Anon
1 month ago

No we pay a lot in taxes and just want to see it used for something that enhances our area

parkinghater
1 month ago

> Up to 1,000 parking spaces

🙁

Anonymous
1 month ago

That 4th render is so depressing, Miami deserves better streets for its pedestrians and bike-commuters

Anonymous
1 month ago

yeah for all 4 bike commuters, gotta redesign the whole world

Anon
1 month ago

Yes just modify it slightly. It’s standard to add enhancements right before going vertical – maybe rounded corners or something less flat on SW2nd – it was designed before new zoning

Yes
1 month ago

Hopefully this park can actually be something nice when it is redone, not just another greenspace filled with dog poop.

Anon
1 month ago

You know every french bulldog and golden doodle in that building will be shitting in that park.

Anon
1 month ago

They’re planning it right with a dog park, so it’ll be a nice attraction for residents and visitors who want to interact with their pets!

Anon
1 month ago

Judging by the dog shit all over Brickell’s streets I find that hard to believe.

Anon
1 month ago

Brickell is cleanest area in Miami. Good luck finding an area with less shit lol

Anonymous
1 month ago

Lol This couldn’t be further from the truth. I walk often in Brickell, Downtown, Edgewater, Coral Gables, and Coconut Grove and Brickell is BY FAR the worst.

Anon
1 month ago

Amazing! can’t wait to have more cute doggies and nice new neighbors in Brickell 🤩

Anonymous
1 month ago

Let the park be ruined and go back to the drawing board with better amenities like multiple multi-purpose courts.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Just scrap the basketball and add tennis

Anon
1 month ago

Too much parking for a neighborhood already plagued by horrendous traffic

Anon
1 month ago

There’s no traffic here

Anonymous
1 month ago

No vehicle traffic, lots of pedestrians though….

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s in a traffic cove where cars don’t frequent – it’s mostly locals who walk here

Anon
1 month ago

This is the most transformative new project in Miami and Brickell. Can’t wait to see this go up!

anan
1 month ago

Is this the project that had the Crowd Funding as the financing ?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nope, it’s being developed by one of the most iconic developers in the world JDS, they have done the most impressive buildings in NYC

Anonymous
1 month ago

They did try crowdfunding at first.

Al Czervik
1 month ago

Again.
No.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Too bad instead of 9 DeKalb Avenue, we’re getting a schizophrenic mess.

Jeremey Howlett
1 month ago

Totally agree, JDS projects have all been very unique and special, it’s like they are bringing soul and character back into the world of tall buildings

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yes, it was.

Anomya
1 month ago

This building has been in the making for more than 5 years. I thought it might join the skyrise/okan club…

Mr.M
1 month ago

The view coming down on 8st west to east going to look sick.

EJS
1 month ago

Amazing building. Great to increase density in the urban core. Now that skyscrapers are pushing up against the boundaries of Brickell, why can’t they reconsider denser zoning for East Little Havana? I know they tried once but it failed. Give the landowners air rights so they can keep their property if they want to, but still profit from denser devt. And Flagler to 27th shld definitely be rezoned for more density than the current 12 stories.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Without an east-west Metrorail extension, you’re going to get cereal boxes with twelve stories of parking.

Anonymous
1 month ago

They could replace 8th with a street car

Anonymous
1 month ago

Which prison window box do you like the best?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Looks like a tropical oasis

Nope
1 month ago

3 years of digging. This isnt going to happen.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Digging was stopped. They need to demolish the fire station prior to construction.
Most of the foundation work is already complete.

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s not true. They’re digging now and have been digging every day. They have to replace 10 floors into ground to replace the soil – that said Thai is ideal spot for below ground parking because it’s so much more elevated than rest of Brickell.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Just like Flatiron and Aston Martin…

Anonymous
1 month ago

They literally started a year ago and have built a bunch of
Stuff underground

Name*
1 month ago

I hope they don’t encroach too much on the park (temporary fire station etc). Already the park is not square because two small bulidings already occupied the southwest corner of it. Too bad it can’t be expanded to the full square size, but the new buliding is using it all for the massive pedestal.

Anon
1 month ago

The city should buy Domus flats II and create a park extension since the full square isn’t open. Plus that design was ugly and this land has a huge banyon and historical cottage house that could look like Perriconez (and that beloved park is gone so let’s replace it here)

Parks
1 month ago

On 11/1/2023 the City of Miami Planning Zoning and Appeals Board will hear two park items. One is to vote to massively upzone Allen Morris Park so Allen Morris can sell the land or build
massive high rises on top. The second park item is to prevent Joe Carollo from further damaging Ferre Park. Southside Park? Miami needs more parks, not less.

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

yay! 15 story podium with no liner units…so beautiful! keep building more! who cares about NYC, Madrid, or Paris architecture when we have 150ft “iconic” walls on every corner!

have fun
1 month ago

looks great and residents are going to love the fire trucks below them everyday!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Can’t be worse than a club bumping Bad Bunny until early morning.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I moved here after living by Miami Ave in Brickell and this area is much nicer and more calm. We never hear the fire station and moved here to be in Brickell without being on top of the nightlife

lol wow
1 month ago

imagine living in a building with a 32,000 sqft station underneath lol. have fun with that. won’t be done for another good 5 years anyway.

Anon
1 month ago

You don’t even hear it. We rarely have any fires here, knock on wood. It’s less loud than the clubs on Miami Ave, and much better location in Brickell!

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is the new frontier for Miamis growth and will elevate this city so much.

wanderer34
1 month ago

It’s not the tallest project, but it’s a very striking project. Hopefully, the project serves as a catalyst for future projects in South Brickell and the Roads.

Rio
1 month ago

Another skyscraper with vacant apartments.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Name the others please. I see this comment a lot, but funny enough, nobody ever provides evidence for the claim.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Just another outsider who can’t accept reality that Miami is a new city

Anon
1 month ago

Very large, wide, and boxy

Conno Sir
1 month ago

It is indeed but it will bring high density to the western part of Brickell. But it’s taken a long time…

Anonymous
1 month ago

A long time? It’s totally different FTL a. Year ago and developing fast.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Like your mom

Al Czervik
1 month ago

I don’t have a Mom.
My Dad and I share yours.