Demolition Underway At Edgewater Site Where 199 Room Hotel Planned

Two Edgewater buildings are now being demolished, on a site where a hotel is planned.

Records show that two demolition permits were issued January 11, for buildings at 229 and 237 NE 32nd Street.

The multifamily buildings being demolished date to 1925 and 1947, with a combined 14 living units.

Green Circle Development LLC owns the properties, along with the adjacent 3200 Biscayne Boulevard.

The company is affiliated with Urbanica Hotels.

Plans were filed in January 2022 with Miami’s Building Department for a hotel with 199 rooms, along with a 4,731 square-foot restaurant.

 

 

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Anon
1 month ago

This looks nice – really great to see actual stone cladding instead of the typical cheap stucco that has become almost the standard for Miami buildings

anonymous
1 month ago

Let’s sit tight. It’s a rendering. There are other locations being built now that need cladding.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Except the irregular window placement makes it look very cheap.

CityofMiami BDP
1 month ago

Makes sense that the building dept would drag the developers through a year of nonsense reviews.

anonymous
1 month ago

This is a rendering from the Urbanica Hotel in Miami Beach on 5th. I doubt they will replicate the same design in Edgewater.

Anon
1 month ago

They’re taking Miami Beaches IT?

Melo, the true giga chad
1 month ago

hey man what the hell, that’s my house!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Sorry we will rebuild you one in West Edgewater.

Melo, the true giga chad
1 month ago

🙁

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’ll be a block away, but we will carve out a special area so you don’t get public funding from downtown and we can use it on our “studies.”

Andrew
1 month ago

That is West Edgewater 😂

Jackson
1 month ago

Its the front of Edgewater!!

Andy Elisburg
1 month ago

More hotel rooms. Why can’t we host an NBA allstar weekend again?

Mi3Mi
1 month ago

Boat Show.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Better lube up those lampposts.

Anon
1 month ago

It may have to do with the fact the stadium is leased by the heat rather than owned but not sure

RenRich
1 month ago

I will never understand why they demolish historic structures with all the open lots around. A shame. Cool building though.

anonymous
1 month ago

When you can buy it you can have a say, suckers 🤡 The creators know what the bottom line will be.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Allow me to demystify your understanding—likely the developer couldn’t get a deal on the vacant land, only this parcel with the old building on it.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Which is why more historic designation makes sense, which allows transfer of development rights for the construction of taller buildings on surrounding vacant lots, while providing revenue for restoration.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Forget the 7,000 year old Tequesta. Developers are rewriting the last five years!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Just because its historic doesn’t mean its significant.

Anonymous
1 month ago

A beautiful old 1920s apartment house, demolished for a boorish box with irregular windows? Sad…

Downtowner
1 month ago

Go, Edgewater! This will be a nice addition to the immediate vicinity. A shame about the 1925-vintage building, though.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This wasn’t one of the cute, historic buildings in the neighborhood though. It was deteriorated and needed to go.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s not the building’s fault it needed some TLC. Plenty of buildings which aren’t in a state of disrepair are torn down left and right, too.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I agree, the façade had nice character it just couldn’t be appreciated because of the narrow sidewalk and street parking.

Anonymous
1 month ago

…and now we all get to look at a window grid that looks like a jail.

Anonymous
1 month ago

They don’t know about using the facades?!?!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Almost nobody in this town can do it properly. Case in point, Wynwood Bay.

Downtownian
1 month ago

Great for Edgewater, plus it’s so close to Downtown Miami! Downtown Miami is going to have world-class everything, architect designed glass buildings, across the river from Brickell, Overtown luxury redevelopment, trains, museums, parks, historic court houses, government buildings, more parking spaces, bike stations, an arena, multiple highways, and new dog and cat sculptures, to boot!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nothing about this is world class.

Get involved in Local Elections
1 month ago

Why tear down an old building when there is so much vacant land around?

Think
1 month ago

^^figure it out 🤡

Anoymous
1 month ago

It looks dated

Anon
1 month ago

By dated you mean it’s actually clad in stone and isn’t a white stucco box?

Anoymous
1 month ago

No. I mean it looks dated as dated back to 1980 or earlier

Anon
1 month ago

What about it looks dated, in your mind? The form? The materiality? Can you articulate your thoughts or are you just so used to the watered down styles of today that anything with a higher degree detailing actually reminds you of another era?

Anonymous
1 month ago

The shape of the building. The front block facade. The colors. The rowed motel style windows. The

Anonymous
1 month ago

The round logo with a simplified crest in the middle.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The fact that the design includes one small tree above the entrance, when we can imagine it will be scrapped halfway through development and look like a heavy brutalist block facing US Highway 1 with no balconies like a prison.