Developer Planning 7,500 Units In Little River, Will Build New Tri-Rail Station

Swerdlow Group is advancing plans for a massive project in Little River, according to Multi-Housing News.

The development will include approximately 7,500 residential units, with a mix of affordable, workforce and market-rate housing.

The affordable units will be higher end and look like market rate apartments, similar to Swerdlow’s recently completed Sawyer’s Walk, the developer told Commercial Observer. Units there each have floor to ceiling windows and washer/dryer units.

The Little River development will also have 602,562 square feet of retail space, and 205,076 square feet of outdoor green space open to the public.

A Tri-Rail station will be built by Swerdlow, in order to save on parking spaces and to help unclog the roads, the report said.

Arquitectonica and PlusUrbia are designing the new development.

 

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anonymous
25 days ago

Whie the location is a little far from urban core at least they are adding in the construction of the trirail station so that people have an option other than car to get around

anon
25 days ago

I just wish they’d focus on filling in the urban core rather than creating sprawl.

Anon
25 days ago

There is no “they”.

Cover the podiums
25 days ago

I don’t think this is considered sprawl when it’s high density with transit options

Anonymous
25 days ago

No, “sprawl” is every time the county chips away at the UDB. This is the epitome of infill.

Fern
25 days ago

The sprawl is already there, buddy

Anon
25 days ago

You have Brickell all the way up to the Design District that is pretty dense and city like in most area but still needs work in some parts but then you have Buena Vista and Little Haiti before Little River which are suburbs. So then creating this new urban area here makes no sense right now. By sprawl I mean patches of urban areas surrounded by suburbs. Real cities are connected and walkable. I wish the focus was on doing that with Miami.

Anonymous
24 days ago

Ridiculous. So the “downtown” areas of Coral Gables, the Grove, Dadeland, Doral, etc. are OK? The renewal of South Miami is a waste according to you? The city should force developers to build city block by city block one at a time? La gente habla por hablar. Developers are going to build where they see money. Period.

Anonymous Four
23 days ago

The guy you are responding to above is 13 yrs old.

Anon
22 days ago

Literally go to any other major US or international city… I get the city can’t force developers to build block by block but I am just saying building something so large scale near nothing in any direction isn’t as valuable as actually filling in the existing areas given how Miami is currently made up. I recommend you study urban planning. Miami has been known for having issues with this.

Azarius
24 days ago

It’s going to build out where eventually 65% of the land east of 95 is going up

Anon
25 days ago

Does the tri-rail even run on those E-W running tracks by 75th ST?

anonymous
25 days ago

i think eventually it will when they have the newer trains that go make it into Miami Central station where brightline is

Wake up, Pearl
25 days ago

Yes, they’ve been running the Tri rail to MIA Central for a few months now.

Anonymous
25 days ago

Yes. I get stopped by the train going by on occasion.

Fern
25 days ago

This is precisely the amount of the development that should be around all our currently existing rail stations.

Intermodal in a bad way
25 days ago

This is on the east west tri-rail Iris connector? It looks too far north.

Anonymous
25 days ago

Yes. Just north of 71st.

Cover the Podiums
25 days ago

I love this project trust me. But could potentially cause induced demand?

Anon
24 days ago

More people coming down there population keep going up. Needs more 5 car trains

Intermodal in a bad way
23 days ago

The Iris connector most likely makes no sense for a station since it’s only a temporary patch. Once the coastal link is built trains will stay on their line, there will be West tri rail and East tri-rail, they might not criss cross much at all to this station on the iris connector.

Uncle Joe
25 days ago

7,500 units in one development?? What is this china? 😂😂

Anon
25 days ago

Miami finally becoming a real city and not an endless sea of single family homes. Now we just need light rail and to expand the metromover as well as median bike lanes protected by a buffer zone with shade trees.

Paul
25 days ago

7500 units?! Is that a typo?

Rendering looks more like 750.

Muhammad
24 days ago

This project is in Little Haiti, not Little River. Little River is across Miami Ave. This is 75 Street and NW 5 Ave.

Anonymous
24 days ago

Gentrification. West Little River.

Anonymous
24 days ago

All east of the highway. Nothing is being granted to the people westward

Omit
23 days ago

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Anonymous
25 days ago

Hopefully these are conceptual renderings, and the actual buildings aren’t cluttered-window boxes which look like French social housing.

NYanon
25 days ago

At least the buildings are of varying heights and colors, not a Miami version of Stuyvesant Town or LeFrak City.

Bunch of BS
25 days ago

This is never going to happen.

Fighting for the Future
25 days ago

Man do I hope you’re wrong. This is the scale we need to be thinking at to even come close to making a dent in affordability!

anonymous
25 days ago

most likely it is going through. Might take years to finish but Swerdlow wouldnt buy all that land if they werent going to move forward. With Live Local Act most likely being utilized and they are adding a train station at the development it would be a good redevelopment opportunity.

Anonymous
25 days ago

This is never going to happen? There are many projects like this coming to Miami and many cities across the usa.
América is changing and cities are becoming very dense.