Demolition Permits Applied For At Site Where 104-Story Tower Planned

Three total demolition permits have already been applied for at the Downtown Miami properties where a 104-story supertall tower is planned.

Yesterday, a pre-application was filed with Miami-Dade planners for the supertall. Multiple properties are being combined to create the development site.

The three pending demolition permit applications submitted to Miami’s Building Department are for 316 NE 2 Street, 141 NE 3 Ave, and 130 Biscayne Boulevard.

AlliedBean Demolition is listed as the contractor on all three permits.

The development site is two blocks south of the Waldorf Astoria site, where another supertall is under construction.

Affiliates of New York-based RFR Realty acquired the properties in 2022, and had them added to Miami-Dade’s Rapid Transit Zoning area later that year.

The new project will be a “responsible and forward-thinking development” that “will bring a greater sense of activity to this stretch of Biscayne Boulevard,” according to a letter sent to Miami-Dade planners on Monday.

Preliminary plans show it would include 1,074 residential units, 252 hotel keys, and 1,013 parking spaces. The gross square footage is listed at 2,294,293 square feet, with the net square footage at  1,498,802 square feet.

The adjacent 30-story New World Tower, owned by the same developer, appears to be preserved under the plans.

Zyscovich is listed as the architect for the new tower.

 

 

 

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Amazing! I don’t care how long the planning process takes for this supertall, I would much rather look at an empty lot in pre-development phase than that hideous Yve Hotel any longer.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’d rather look at what the building looked like prior to the 1960s, because in that case, it would be the Biscayne Wall’s most beautiful building.

Casey
1 month ago

Can’t wait for the renders!

Anonymous
1 month ago

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Other cities put their Super talls multiple blocks back from the water. Follow this model for more robust core blocks and ease of access. Our Super talls should be along the river near I95 to guarantee water views, accessibility and prosperity that radiates outward around the entire core.

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Anon
1 month ago

It is absolutely ridiculous that you think developers should ignore zoning / minimize their profits just so that people who live in older, less expensive buildings behind them can have a water view. Please tell me you don’t actually think the world works this way.

Anonymous
1 month ago

No I’m saying build nicer taller buildings in place of the older buildings in the center or in all the empty lots. Why do you think growth is stomped behind Biscayne? Because of backward zoning.

Bruno
1 month ago

What are talking about?
What growth is stomped?
Where is “behind Biscayne”?
Can you provide the specific Zoning Code that is problematic?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Change the zoning! Before it’s too late!

Bruno
1 month ago

What zoning code, specifically, prevents you from building this project that you are imagining?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Along the water should be zoned lower. It will still be a premium price, and allow for more expensive development behind it.

Anonymous
1 month ago

They can all by high end, expensive, safe with luxury retail and promenades of pedestrian activity, all multiple blocks spanning from the bay to I95, if zoned properly to stagger the Highline westward, not north/south like failed policy in place

Scaryshit
1 month ago

this is TNM, real world thinking does not apply to many posters

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

Miami doesn’t have any smart urban planners like that. They just approve anything. Behind all these fancy towers will remain a dead downtown

Anonymous
1 month ago

It was already dead from Covid, the whole lawyer crowd doesn’t hang out around the courthouse anymore. That was the big draw when the downtown area was buzzing, that and the jewelry district. But times change. Most of that work can be done anywhere, not downtown.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Chicago and Singapore don’t have giant parks and areas taking up the bay. If anything the John Hancock Center is set back from Lake Michigan at around the same distance as tower frontage along Biscayne Boulevard to the bay seawall.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You’re mistaken about Chicago. It has a larger park called Millennium Park, located along the waterfront. In Miami, urban planning seems profit-driven, lacking consideration for rising sea levels. Zoning for Super Talls should be prioritized around the Miami river and I95 and the government station area. Unlike downtown, Brickell enjoys water views in multiple directions. Park West’s upward reach poses potential limitations for future development. To ensure Miami’s sustainability, long-term impacts must be considered in planning decisions.

Bruno
1 month ago

“Zoning for super talls should be prioritized”?
What ARE you ralking about?

Are you aware that there is no zoning height limit in the places you think that you understand?
Go ahead, build your supertall…
you will need a lot of cash, because smart people won’t work on stupid ideas unless you grossly overpay them.
Good luck with your Utopia.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Build supertalls in Riverside.

Bruno
1 month ago

You really do not know what you are talking about.

Anonymous
1 month ago

In theory, having the super tall towers up front will create better wind sheer in a hurricane scenario for the buildings behind. Just saying, flooding aside, it will help.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Can we have both?

Anonymous
1 month ago

You can have both if you have the central western area to develop higher and more luxurious than the bay will naturally follow. Old Miami lack of thought leaders have it backwards and jump at dollars without thinking about sustainability and longevity. Reverse the policy now!

Scaryshit
1 month ago

buildings are built where and how developers think their buyers will want them. Broke kids playing Sims City need not apply.

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s why we need government policies to keep the market from ruining itself forever

Anonymous
1 month ago

The market shouldn’t run itself because of?

Anonymous
1 month ago

The government should NOT dictate private development trends—the consumer knows better, not the government or Sims City players

Anonymous ^._.^
1 month ago

The government already dictates development by enforcing lower building heights in some areas but permitting supertall structures along the bayfront, setting a precedent for more. It’s reasonable to question the effect of continuous super-talls along the bay and its long term impact.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Its no coincidence though, that the areas that don’t have zoning for height are Little Havana and overtown. It’s a double edged sword, if you upzone those areas there will be gentrification, if you don’t upzone you make it so that there is a very slim and exclusive strip of land to build upwards… Personally, you gotta upzone widespread and just let the chips fall where they may to help ease demand and foster organic birthrate growth.

Anon
1 month ago

The demand for a supertall in Little Havana or Overtown is zilch. There’s enough demand to get Waldorf vertical, and it’s across the street from the Bay, but not anything else so far even in Downtown/Edgewater/Brickell.

Anonymous
1 month ago

So prohibit heights to 40 floors on parts of Biscayne so people will go higher behind it.

Anonymous
1 month ago

What? What are you talking about prohibit height so that people will build higher behind it? Little havana could use a modest neighborhood wide upzoning from 8th ave eastward to the river, from T4R to T6O. Thats all the additional height needed

Anonymous
1 month ago

How is it reasonable to question the effect of continuous super tall buildings? Its the only area that has that zoning, its the only street in America that has that positioning and zoning, it’s the only area in the Southern US that has buildings over 80 floors. Not sure what there is to question, this is the experiment and you’re just a spectator.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I only by in a few blocks in so I don’t have to deal with flooding and tourists – more desirable and exclusive for wealthy

Anonymous
1 month ago

Prices are higher along the water, and you can’t afford it. Be real.

Dale
1 month ago

That’s Singapore’s first super tall.

Anon
1 month ago

Looks like this one may be rising alongside the Waldorf. Big things coming to this part of town

Anonymous
1 month ago

I just hope they put a glass bottom observatory on top of this!

Anon
1 month ago

That’s really specific.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This area will have a ton of super-talks, right next there will be an amazing Worldcenter once all buildings are up…and if whomever purchases the $1B lot by the bridge builds an incoming structure, like the Vegas Sphere or something like the old renderings, the whole downtown will truly be amazing!!

Anonymous
1 month ago

We need more landmark buildings and monuments, both here and throughout the city

Anon
1 month ago

We don’t even take care of the monuments we *already* have…

Anonymous
1 month ago

There’s a great supply of statues being taken down in the cities feeding Miami’s growth. Fitting tribute! Maybe we can pick up an Abraham Lincoln statue on the cheap.

Names
1 month ago

I love Abe Lincoln. wish we had more American figures to honor. This is America too.

Anonimato
1 month ago

Give us a spire please. It’s time to brake the flat top skyline curse!

Anony
1 month ago

Add more architectural “crowns” at the top! Keys, cutouts, modern flying buttresses, make it three dimensional and not so flat.

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

make it a modern Art Deco please

Anonymous
1 month ago

Anything classical. I will even settle for modern if is has the curves, articulation, a spire, and symmetry, but seeing the massing model yesterday…

Anonymous
1 month ago

Agree “art deco” skyscraper is the Empire State Building, not concrete blocks with randomly placed square frames haphazardly placed with zero balance or composition. We need more robust design details on our facades.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Well damn

Get Involved
1 month ago

Hopefully the crooks at the Parking Authority will remove the parking on Biscayne Blvd and re-landscape the median.

Anonymous
1 month ago

“Responsible and forward-thinking development?” Let me see a rendering that isn’t a glass and/or stucco box then, please.

Anonymous
1 month ago

There is nothing wrong with boxes. A 1,000′ missoni bai would be amazing here.