Developer Gets FAA Approval For 853-Foot Residential Tower In Brickell

The Federal Aviation Administration has approved plans for a tower in Brickell planned to rise over 850 feet.

The project will be residential, the FAA filing states.

Approval was granted on March 19, around six months after the application was first filed.

The tower is permitted to top off at a height of 853 feet above ground, or 874 feet above sea level, the approval states.

Construction is estimated to begin in July 2023 and run through October 2026, according to the filing.

The project is known as 75 Broadway, according to the website of Ytech, the company that owns the property.

Across from 75 Broadway to the south is the Simpson Park Hammock, a nature preserve since 1913, and a remnant of what the landscape used to look like in the area .

To the north is the Cipriani Residences site, where construction on 3 towers rising as tall as 950 feet will soon begin.

Ytech is also developing The Residences at 1428 Brickell nearby. That project is further advanced, with sales underway, and demolition and construction permits in process.

 

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Anonymous
2 months ago

This will really bring out the sharp contrast between these mega towers and then the single family homes right across the street (Build the missing middle)

Anonymous
2 months ago

There is a missing middle in terms of size. Smaller does not mean “middle” in terms of value. New medium sized buildings can be valued higher since they are more exclusive.

MM305
2 months ago

LOL, you mean like in LIttle Havana next to the river where the clown community on this message board keeps saying should be 2-3 floors instead of 6-12. LOL

Anonymous
2 months ago

By 6-12, you mean a box with 6-12 floors of a parking garage? LOL, no thank you. You can already build relatively tall in Riverside anyway. Developers are sitting on assemblages and the infrastructure isn’t there, however.

Anonymous
2 months ago

You can only build 2-3 floors. Sorry, youre wrong and youre not interested in the future of the city, just preserving the nothingness of the past. Its obvious.

Bruno
2 months ago

There is a nine acre park “right across” the street.

Anonymous
2 months ago

That is a preserve, not an modern park. Hopefully it stays that way and we add modern urban parks around Brickell.

Anon
2 months ago

Wish there were more nice low and medium sized connected townhomes as a buffer from high rises to single family homes. Around simpson park would be nice with UWS / UES brownstone (or for Miami white or gray stone) style buildings.

Professional Engineer
2 months ago

Missing middle typically refers to the in- between high rises and single family homes. So around 6 stories mixed use.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Yes!! We need more of this around Brickell with high end boutique shops and cafes.

Anonymous
2 months ago

No one needs high end boutiques. Stop being so delusional. WE need a missing middle surrounding the Brickell area, in Little Havana. PLEASE SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL, WE NEED AN UPZONING THERE RIGHT NOW TO SAVE THE MIDDLE CLASS.

Anonymous
2 months ago

The Ytech website describes 75 Broadway as “boutique luxury living,” and it looks like a small lot meant for a boutique. Are they building a low rise and preserving the air rights?

Anon
2 months ago

Boutique means low unit count so likely 1-2 residences per floor up to 850 feet.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Even with 1-2 units a floor that would be about 50-120 units? That’s objectively not a boutique building. Boutiques are usually 3-10 floors and maybe even 24 floors in Brickell, given the density and height of buildings.

Anonymous
2 months ago

IMHO, I think that this “south brickell” will be much more desirable than the “north brickell’ with bridge traffic et al……..
still able to easily walk to metromover and M B Village but away from traffic
I live in south brickell and you could not pay me to live in that traffic of area of ICON etc
benefits that may change with so many new projects planned for “our” area…. ugh. CHANGE happens

Anonymous
2 months ago

We live in a 2 apartments per floor and it is 28 floors…. rather nice.
not worth now more that $1000 psf tho. Buy Out did not happen… residents now want $1500 psf or more to sell to big developers
(same as previous post Anonymous btw)

Anonymous
2 months ago

Penalty tax to deter excessive hold outs or incentives to low rise developers…

Professional Engineer
2 months ago

I had no idea that the tiny triangle lot beside Cipriani was also getting developed. This is great news!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Every lot in Brickell will eventually be developed.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Yeah, Cipriani’s views are out the window – pun intended.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Yes. Cipriani will be 80% land locked. But buyers there are buying quality , service & location. Just as high end buyers do in Manhattan.

Anonymous
2 months ago

No not just like Manhattan. Biscayne Bay is a LOT more desirable to look at than the East River.

NYC Transplant
2 months ago

As a long-time New Yorker before moving to Miami, I used to say that the view “of” the city was better than the view “from” the city. That will eventually be true in Miami for all but the eastern-most buildings.

yo yo
2 months ago

East river has human remains floating in it, so yeah I’ll take Biscayne Bay.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Yet NYC offers free kayaks along the river. Imagine if Miami offered this?

Anonymous
2 months ago

^^might as well get something from all those NY taxes other than filthy streets and crumbling unsafe transit

Anonymous
2 months ago

^imagine being so moochy that you want someone else to pay for your frivolous $15 kayak rental

Anonymous
2 months ago

Some people are so cheap. It’s called hospitality… sometimes you put a little candy dish at your front door not expecting anything in return. It probably costs little to nothing. There aren’t even any outposts for kayaks bc the land is so expensive. It could be licensed to a vendor at Jose Martí Park.

Anonymous
2 months ago

^^cheap is wanting a free kayak rental–it’s called being cheap. Your word salad changes that not a bit.

Anonymous
2 months ago

^^^pay for your own F’in kayak

Anonymous
2 months ago

It’s not about me. I would donate each time and have kayaks I can take out. It’s about making Miami a more cultural city and not just a spring break spot. Appearances matter. We have to think of low-cost ways to make the city more cultural and appealing to residents.

Anonymous
2 months ago

I’m so surprised that the 2-3 other properties in this TRIANGLE, owned by Cervera , didn’t join forces with Y TECH , to develop the entire Block . The triangular block is small. The joint lots would have been the best use. In any case , cipriani is getting extremely land locked. With 1428 Brickell to the east & surely the huge lot west of Cipriani , will soon get developed. Even the Mexican embassy lot , behind Infinity , is scheduled to become a huge tower.

anonymous
2 months ago

If you buy a place right now that has a view in Brickell and it isnt directly ocean facing than good luck keeping that view for the long term.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Skyline views are just as nice as ocean views in Brickell. There’s no view like skyline views in the state of Florida.

Anonymous
2 months ago

as nice to you, but not as valuable to most buyers. Hence the grater value of bay view units as opposed to units just looking at other buildings.

Anonymous
2 months ago

^^no they’re not, you’re full of it

Anonymous
2 months ago

It’s great to see smaller developments thrive in Brickell with variation in design. There are enough “block busters.”

Anonymous
2 months ago

Mysterious…

Anon
2 months ago

80 story towers next to single family homes…?

MM305
2 months ago

get used to it, without more T5-O and T6-O zoning in LIttle Havana thats what you’re gonna have.

Anonymous
2 months ago

False! Lots of other cities have low-zoned luxury buildings. Some are entirely just that, like DC and Paris.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Not really, the “wedge” area south of SW 15th Road and between I-95 and the Metrorail curve and the mid-rise transition between high-rise parts of Brickell and single-family residences of The Roads, along with mid-rises along SW 3rd Avenue.

Anonymous
2 months ago

is the mid-rise transition between…*

Professional Engineer
2 months ago

Welcome to the US papi. Where zoning makes zero sense.

Anonymous
2 months ago

This isn’t a US thing, papi. It’s a miami thing.

Professional Engineer
2 months ago

where is my 888 brickell at? I really hope it wasn’t all games..

Rizo
2 months ago

Broadway has been neglected for decades by the city … are our taxes ( Brickell ) most be going somewhere else🤨 by the way… what’s going on with the Broadway rental in South Miami Ave … any clue ?

SoBeMom
2 months ago

How much has and will the tax base in Miami go up? Will it lead to a lower tax rate?

Anonymous
2 months ago

Being mutilated into another glass box.

Anonomatopoeia
2 months ago

Big upgrade. 😍 Here is the remodel renderings from the architect: https://www.formgroup.net/copy-of-cima-group

Anonymous
2 months ago

That looks like 1 Broadway. This article is about 75 Broadway.

Rizo
2 months ago

Yep… like the beautiful Courvoisier at Brickell Key office building that are being converted in to an office building that belongs in Doral or Blue Lagoon …. Another victim to the Cult of Global Warming 🤨….

Anonymous
2 months ago

Mutilated? It’s lucky it didn’t get torn down. That old design was awful.

RenRich
2 months ago

Looks completely the same.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Can we update the signs for 15th Road to Broadway, since that is how it’s known? It’s more appealing and Cosmopolitan, and easier to navigate.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Wowza! Another new project in Brickell! A luxury high rise in this prime spot should add pedestrian activity. I hope it has retail and restaurants overlooking the park.

Anonymous
2 months ago

How about an actual theater on Broadway? It can be a black box theater.

Anonymous
2 months ago

they keep announcing lots of new projects in Brickell despite the scarcity of land

Anonymous
2 months ago

Meaning it’s time for existing buildings from the 1960s and 1970s to be redeveloped, such as along Brickell Bay Drive in Point View and of course, the Four Ambassadors.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Those buildings could hold their value longer being on the water. The old buildings in the mid-rise transition zone really need to be redeveloped, and would add immediate value to Brickell.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Totally agree. I’m tired of the Four Ambassadors ruining otherwise beautiful photos of Brickell. Such an eyesore!

Trolling
2 months ago

Please tell me again how its not the tall buildings, amenities, and development that makes Brickell great,… no no no, its the walkability and the public spaces – HAHAHA. Wonder how you get those walkable neighborhoods? Could it be the density from having tall buildings?

Anonymous
2 months ago

LOL with that logic, Edgewater must be very walkable.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Edgewater is walkable for those of us used to living in cities. Walking 10 blocks is not a big deal at all… unless you are one of those suburban-obsessed obese Americans who has always used a car to drive those extremely short distances.

Anonymous
2 months ago

What makes parts of Brickell great is the variety of heights and airspace, landscaping and interesting pedestrian corridors (which hopefully don’t get ignored for greed). You have skyscrapers next to low rise Brickell Village with second floor walkways, and Brickell City Centre with lots of pedestrian only walkways. Imagine now if you double that density without any of those pedestrian only corridors and just have high rises. It would not be great.