Developers Breaking Ground Soon On Two Additional 39-Story Towers At Metrorail Station

The developers of Link at Douglas announced that they are now moving forward with plans for the second and final phase of the project.

13th Floor Investments and Adler Group are partnering on the project.

In a press release this week, the developers said they plan to break ground in late 2023.

Miami-Dade records show that the second phase received planning approval last year.

According to plans submitted to county planners, the upcoming second phase is planned to include two 39-story towers, with approximately:

  • 870 multifamily units
  • 81,885 square feet of office
  • 1,620 square feet of commercial uses
  • 1,012 parking spaces on levels 2 through 9

Both towers will top off at 443 feet above sea level.

The first phase included the 22-story Core apartment building (312 units, completed August 2021) and 37-story Cascade apartment building (421 units, completed January 2023), along with a Milam’s Market and 708 parking spaces.

When both phases are complete, there will be a combined 1,603 residential units and 1,720 parking spaces – all newly built since 2021.

Arquitectonica is the architect.

The developers are also completing more than $17 million in public infrastructure improvements, including a fully renovated Metrorail station, and the development of a public plaza that connects with a section of The Underline linear park.

The developers entered into a ground lease with Miami-Dade for the publicly-owned land, in exchange for privately-funded transit and infrastructure upgrades around the Douglas Road Metrorail station. All told, Link at Douglas is expected to generate $800 million in new revenue for Miami-Dade County over the life of the lease.

“As Miami-Dade County’s population continues to experience rapid growth, we need to come up with forward thinking ways to reduce road congestion and that begins with connecting people with alternative forms of transit,” said Arnaud Karsenti, Managing Principal of 13th Floor Investments.

The completion of Link at Douglas’ first phase was commemorated at a celebratory event on Monday, February 27, 2023.

“Link at Douglas is a model for the future of development and mobility in Miami-Dade County. The project will enable more residents to live, work and play without having to worry about traffic or parking, while helping to offset expenses, reduce emissions and promote increased ridership on our Metrorail system,” said Eulois Cleckley, Director and CEO of the Department of Transportation and Public Works for Miami-Dade County.

 

The final version of renderings for the second phase plan approved by Miami-Dade:

 

 

 

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Anon
6 months ago

This is great. We should be building dense housing at every metro rail stop

The next vice city
6 months ago

The area directly surrounding the Okeechobee and Palmetto is so underutilized it’s sad. Would love to see development like this in those stations

N, N
6 months ago

They’ve had a lot cleared and leveled for construction at the Okeechobee station for maybe a year. It’s supposed to include TOD and a Ped Bridge to Springs

Danny
6 months ago

Thank the peers that be. It’s frustratingly under utilized and inaccessible around that station

Melo is sigma and chad
6 months ago

Interesting its the Hialeah stations with no new projects other than the trirail metrorail statin

anan
6 months ago

Since the Okeechobee station is in an industrial area with very little else it may be a hard sell to people. Lot’s of other buildings going up in Hialeah but with more retail around them.

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

I love the density and remodeling of the Metrorail station, but I wish they had put more thought towards the design, because those towers are seen for miles and are not… let’s just say “marvels of architecture”

wanderer34
6 months ago

It’s not necessary for every building in Miami to be “a work of art”. Look at New York & look at Chicago. For every Freedom Tower, & Sears Tower, you’ll always have your high rise & low rise subsidized housing. Either way, I’m happy that Miami is growing!

Jordan
6 months ago

This is great. “We”?

Smart capable people are building dense housing at every metro stop. Smart, capable people will continue to do so if the gov’t and the “we’s” get their collective nonsensery out of the way.

For every dope that thinks it’s a good idea to have “wider sidewalks”, you are making it more difficult for men of action to create more housing.

The “we need” people will continue to opine fruitlessly, but the men of action are the ones who solve problems. Get out of their way.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Jordan ask your self if a wider sidewalk would really make that much a difference to such a massive building? A issue we have in Miami is that the government is incentivized to build more housing, every square inch it can get, and at the mercy of developers, because it’s the governments soul source of tax revenue. The Nationalist wrote an article recently about this big issue. If we don’t build community infrastructure like well designed sidewalks, parks, and bike paths etc people won’t want to live in these massive buildings and they could sit vacant (like we saw in NYC). A developer can still profit and add housing while being mindful of the connectivity and improvement to the public space.

anonymous
6 months ago

i live up the street from this development right at douglas and coral way. Love seeing the new developments going up. The spillover from this has been great for the area and there are almost 15 new restaurants and bars opening up in coral gables this year.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Another beaut by Arquitectonica!

anan
6 months ago

Right on cue.

Anonymous
6 months ago

it says in the article that this project is a model for the future of development and mobility in Miami Dade county , I agree , the developers of this project invested 17 million in improving the douglas road Metro rail station , other developers should do the same and support public transportation because is going to benefit them also

Anom
6 months ago

Future of development and mobility with 1,700 parking spots lol

Azarius
6 months ago

The parking is needed for the ppl that may want to park and ride at this location

Jordan
6 months ago

You are correct Azarius.
But you will not impact these “get the cars off the roads people”, they are full on brainwashed in the cult of My Professor Told Me We Can Make Utopia!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Not to mention giant boxes with terrible architecture. No wonder single-family homeowners are revolting.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Every metro station should be remodeled as the land gets developed with indoor stations to make them weather-proof. They will be more universal, practical and popular this way.

Cuzco
6 months ago

The government station should air conditioned with security. To encourage people to take to the airport

Anonymous
6 months ago

It already has security, and the bay breeze keeps you cool up on the platform. Spend money on rail extension instead.

Downtown Crosswalks Needed Fast
6 months ago

There’s already so many underutilized stations, we need to make them more universal while we look into where to extend them.

I'm right you're wrong
6 months ago

^^there’s limited funding for anything, rail extension needs priority not fancy floor tiles at stations.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Downtown has the richest budget it’s ever had in history. You think 25 mil sale after sale isn’t producing a huge surplus that needs to be spent smartly and reinvested back into the City?

anonymous
6 months ago

hopefully more retail is added to this area as well

Anonymous
6 months ago

Totally,and all along the Underline so there are places to stop, shop and eat along the walk to/from Brickell / Merrick Park. Boutique chic ones since there’s homes nearby.

Melo, a former giga Chad
6 months ago

Unfortunately, the other stations up north (where minorities live) won’t receive as much love as these stations in south miami

Melo is sigma and chad
6 months ago

lmao do you know the demographics of US1. Plus west coconut groove is across the street

Antennae
6 months ago

Very well said. Development is predicated on success and profitability not an abstract consciousness.

Local Elections Matter
6 months ago

You would be 100% right if developers didn’t benefit from the local government’s concessions

Anonymous
6 months ago

Local gov doesn’t need to give concessions anymore. People are moving here and Miami has the leverage to require concessions now!

Jordan
6 months ago

What local government “concessions” exactly?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Profit is commendable, not exploration! Developers can make billions from overseas but the local buyers need to be able to maintain these additions.

Anonymous
6 months ago

West Grove has been gentrifying, and this development here has been ongoing here since Merrick Park opened.

Anon
6 months ago

It’s just Coconut Grove. Just because a place doesn’t have the same development yet doesn’t mean it’s a separate place, unless there’s a giant wall or body of water dividing it.

Jordan
6 months ago

Link rents are likely $2,600+ for a one bedroom.
There is no 1-bed non waterfront apartment for rent in Coconut Grove.

Anon
6 months ago

They will if they are upzoned and developers are allowed to build there

Anonymous
6 months ago

Overtown also is getting a lot of new development, but we shouldn’t forget about Douglas annd Vizcaya either. A lot of minorities live here too.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Relatively speaking, Vizcaya minority? LOL…

Azarius
6 months ago

Some of them already are building up like the Brownsville location and the new hard rock location will have a lot of development around them

ParkingHater
6 months ago

I mean even Bovo was talking about the need for TOD a couple months ago, I’m hopeful.

anan
6 months ago

People are hesitant to invest money until the crime in some area’s is cleaned up. This concept is not revolutionary.

Name
6 months ago

More big stucco boxes. Don’t you love it.

calivalle
6 months ago

Been biking around the underline of this project and its going to be an awwwmazing concept just a couple of miles from downtown…

Anon
6 months ago

It’s only a couple miles to Brickell, about five to Downtown but still a short bike ride.

calivalle
6 months ago

OMG .Correctness about.LMAO

Archinerd
6 months ago

Very Brutalist

Azarius
6 months ago

This is great it’s already a good community and it’s only go get better

Melo is sigma and chad
6 months ago

Now Hialeah, Palmetto and Okeechobee need this kind of density.

anan
6 months ago

What about Northside, MLK, Browsville, earlington, ?

Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

brownsville and northside already have them

Anonymous
6 months ago

Wasn’t there supposed to be an Aldi near here? What’s happened with that?

Chris in Miami
6 months ago

ALDI’S will soon open in the PLATFORM 3750 mixed-use JOINT-DEVELOPMENT TOD project currently being completed on the SW corner of Douglas Road (SW 37th Ave) & US 1. There is a PEDESTRIAN OVERPASS already located there, built high over US 1 which will safely connect the residents, office workers & patrons from the PLATFORM 3750 project, & the bicyclists, pedestrians & transit riders from the COCONUT GROVE side of US 1 directly to the DOUGLAS ROAD METRORAIL STATION, The LINK, the UNDERLINE, & the FREE CORAL GABLES & CITY of MIAMI’S COCONUT GROVE TROLLEYS & MIAMI-DADE TRANSIT SYSTEM BUSES which all have stops at that METRORAIL STATION. For reference, the UNIVERSITY METRORAIL STATION is located 2 miles south, & the COCONUT GROVE METRORAIL STATION is located 2 miles north.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Was this comment written by AI? LOL

AIonda
6 months ago

Lol looks like it! TG there are humans who can spot it. Also AI may be telling more truth than some humans 😂

Jordan
6 months ago

Can’t be.
Intelligence does not do that ALL CAPS silliness…artificial or otherwise.

anonymous
6 months ago

The same building X 3, so Arquitectonica

Anonymous
6 months ago

Oh great, more cigarette boxes with ridiculous step effects protruding through the middle, and atop a humongous parking garage with a loud mural as an excuse to conceal it.

Anon
6 months ago

I like the stepped planters and the helixes all glass lobby, it’s quite a beauty for this dated strip mall area

Anonymous
6 months ago

Existing uilding looks ok from a distance, and appreciate the light feature, but up close needs more love. Grey concrete whatever, it’s the outdoor carpeting in shades of green on the vertical wall that is just mind-blowingly bad, can’t they negotiate some discounted green marble slabs and put some stone or something up there if they want a green effect. Really the carpet just makes it all look like they don’t care. Please do better.

Stop
6 months ago

I’m extremely dissapoint Ed that a entire car dealership takes up prime real estate in the form of a ugly parking garage right on a main road, terrible and ugly absolutely horrible

La Mala
6 months ago

So they will build on top of the Stations parking lot. Where will ppl park?

Anonymous
6 months ago

1,700 parking spaces (more than the number of residential units!) abutting a Metrorail station is obscene.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s called park and ride.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Otherwise they’re going to keep going north on Dixie and block up traffic there. That’s the least of the problems with any of this.

Melo, a former giga Chad
6 months ago

I wish they weren’t as tall, so it would encourage more medium density construction around the area. But I guess right now with the housing shortage, this will do for now.

anonymous
6 months ago

the whole point of being in a rapid transit zone is to have the most density which typically means taller buildings

Underline Time
6 months ago

I think it should cluster down along the underline with four floor tall row of connected residential and retail to bring density to Vizcaya without offending the residences there and connect Merrick Park to Brickell

Anonymous
6 months ago

I think the County would need to rely on eminent domain to build a low rise masterplanned community around the metro lines, but it may be necessary. Land could be bought and redeveloped to serve the needs of the unprecedented growth.