Retail Shops At Newly Completed $400M Overtown Complex ‘Packed’

Retail shops at Overtown’s new $400M Block 55 complex are filled with customers, developer Michael Swerdlow told the SFBJ.

The Target store that anchors the complex is “full” and “packed” with customers, he said, while the Aldi supermarket there is also “packed all the time.”

The 1.5- million square foot Block 55 opened last year, with the retail space fully leased.

It includes around 200,000 square feet of retail, 130,000 square feet of office space (taken for a HQ space by MSC Cruises), 578 residential units reserved for limited income seniors, and 1,000 parking spaces.

SG Holdings, a partnership among Swerdlow Group, SJM Partners, and Alben Duffie, developed the complex.

Swerdlow is now working on his next project in Little River, which will include around 5,000 residential units, 602,562 square feet of retail space, 205,076 square feet of outdoor green space, and a Tri-Rail station

 

(photo: Phillip Pessar)

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Otto Carreño
23 days ago

That Aldi supermarket is the best thing the could’ve happened to Overtown and Downtown.

Anonymous
23 days ago

Agree. Much needed in the area.

reasonable
23 days ago

I love Aldi in general but the elevator situation in that building is horrendous. They are so sloooow I just end up going to publix.

Anonn
23 days ago

Shocking! Retail geared towards the average resident does numbers. Someone tell BCC…

Anonymous
23 days ago

BCC is geared toward the average resident, sometimes we want nice things sometimes we want convenient things.

Anonymous
22 days ago

As someone who works in one of the BCC office towers on a daily basis, I can tell you unequivocally that it is 90% wealthy South American tourists. So, no.

Ignatius J. Reilly
22 days ago

As someone who lived and worked within a block of BCC since it opened, I know that my friends and colleagues would eat there at least 3 times a week, and personally would entertain friends there for brunches at Quinto la Huella, and Saturdays at Putt Schack.

Yes. Lots of tourists. 90% may be a stretch, but there are not many average or below average people there.

anon
20 days ago

^^above average people brown bag lunch and keep working through lunch break because they’re too busy overachieving

Anon MIA
19 days ago

The only real way to see true retail activity is the “Shopping Bag Indicator”. While at BCC, seems most only have Apple bags and rest are simple tourists or locals hanging out in the mall. Go to Bal Harbour Shops and all you see are bags and bags of shoppers.

Anon
11 days ago

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Cover the Podiums
23 days ago

Was here about a month ago and its extremely convenient. You can go to Target, Publix, Aldi, and even some cheap clothing from Burlington, all in one stop with free parking in the core of downtown.

Anonymous
23 days ago

Now if only I could have a free Metromoober to take me to my mobile home in Homestead.

Downtowner
23 days ago

Been to that Target several times. And a Publix is across the street, so I can get everything I need from both places.

Anonymous
23 days ago

Is the target bigger than the one on the beach?

Anonymous
23 days ago

Much bigger, the beach one is tiny

Azarius
23 days ago

As it should

It's and Aldi thing
23 days ago

Shop differentli

Brickell hoe
18 days ago

It’s nice to have this here but the elevator situation is god awful. Want to scream every time I visit

M. Sense
23 days ago

It’s clear we need more major retailers on the west side of downtown and west of Brickell in Riverside. The traffic congestion and poorly designed intersections on the east side of downtown make it inconvenient to access places like Whole Foods. Can we work on bringing a Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, or even a Costco to the west side of downtown soon?

Anon
23 days ago

who are you talking to? Who are you asking? lmao

Anonymous
23 days ago

Where would they put a Costco? The land required for a Costco is massive.

Ignatius J. Reilly
22 days ago

On the waterfront, next door to where they NEED the government administrator building to go.

anonymous
22 days ago

by the hospitals in the run down area where land is cheap but is very accessible to all residents downtown and brickell.

WannaBeLandlord
22 days ago

LA is getting their 1st Costco. Ground floor store with high rise affordable housing above it. Only way it would get approved.

M. Sense
16 days ago

NYC has THREE Costco stores, and one is in Manhattan! With prices being far more expensive in Manhattan, and land more limited–even NYC makes room for retail and public services that address its people’s most essential needs. As much as we love the world-class gourmet food scene in Brickell, we also live regular lives Monday through Friday and have households to feed and maintain.

Anonymous
23 days ago

Omni mall site.

Zz001
23 days ago

What do people like about Trader Joe’s? It’s not an actual grocery store. It’s a random assortment of snacks, like honey sriracha cinnamon churro wafers.

Ignatius J. Reilly
22 days ago

Trader Joe’s is the ETSY of food stores.

They love the “craft” cheeses and the Two Buck wine with grapes pressed by authentic hippy feet.

anonymous
22 days ago

You can get novelty gourmet items at less cost than basic items at other stores, and they genuinely care about the shopping experience, not a shove in and out kind of place. Everything they sell feels curated with a conscious.

anon
22 days ago

^^I bet you order their word salad every time

Anon MIA
19 days ago

True. Its a basic package store with flowers, wines, some nice meat cuts, and alot ALOT of packaged goods.

MiamiNativeAlmost
16 days ago

Trader Joes only offers its own private label, including basic food items and more upscale/gourmet items. Its also much cheaper than Publix or Whole Foods for similar items, and its a great shopping experience, everyone is polite and helpful and everything is clean.

Grady Muhammad
22 days ago

Congratulations to SG Holding’s. Did a magnificent job.

But Swerdlow is not in Little River, that’s Little Haiti. The Victory Homes Public Housing Projects are in Little Haiti, that’s East of 1-95 in NW 75 and NW 5 Ave.

His proposed Tri-Rail Station is on the North/South side the tracks of NW 73 Street and 5 Court where I live. I don’t live in little river, but Little Haiti.

People that don’t look like us is or like the Little Haiti name is always trying to change it to make it more welcoming to the New people that they are trying to attract to my Neighborhood.

Same people that change the Native Red Man name when he discovered America. But the Natives were already here.

Question how did Christopher Columbus discover a Land that was already occupied by another people?

Anonymous
23 days ago

Still a crappy looking building. Target would have been better in the old Burdine’s building.

MiamiNativeAlmost
16 days ago

The old Burdines/Macys building needs an upscale tenant that helps drive people to the area.