Proposal Submitted With ‘Signature Towers’ Rising Up To 50 Stories

An application has been filed with Miami-Dade County that could see multiple towers rising as tall as 50 stories near El Portal.

The combined proposal (most of the site is overseen by county zoning, with a small portion under city purview) would include:

  • 4,276 multifamily units
  • 121 live/work units
  • 312 hotel keys
  • 293,043 square feet commercial
  • 5,219 parking spaces

‘Signature towers’ rising as tall as 50 stories are proposed. There would also be a new Soar Park and community center, pedestrian shopping street, and anchor retailer.

Residents of a mobile home community currently on the site would eventually be relocated into the new project, a presentation states.

Gensler prepared the presentation on behalf of property owner.

The property owners have filed a request with Miami-Dade for a Comprehensive Development Master Plan amendment to create of the Soar Mixed-Use Housing Special District.

 

101 Comments
most voted
newest oldest
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Register to Vote in FL
3 months ago

That’s why a train stop is a must around 79th St

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

You have better chances of getting hit by a Brightline train than that happening.

the_swamps
3 months ago

LOL!

Azarius
3 months ago

Definitely agree this area has too much potential for high density and is well connected to the beach side north and south Biscayne Blvd. also moving West. So yeah another dropped ball for Miami Dade officials but it’s not too late

Cover the podiums
3 months ago

As an urban design student, this makes me so mad. No transit considerations really? Also it makes no sense to be that crowded/tall when you’re surrounded by single family homes. 50 stories really?? Greedy developers are getting away with way too much these days

Brooklyn
3 months ago

go to the public hearings and voice your concerns.

Azarius
3 months ago

This will help with home prices and give developers more areas to build luxury apartments/condos plus we need to densify the area just like NMB and Aventura

D.C
3 months ago

They will purchase the SFHs, giving residents a handsome payout and opportunity to move, bettering their lives.

anonymous
3 months ago

they will def need a metrorail / brightline stop if this goes through

Anonymous
3 months ago

Thought it said el portopotty

anon
3 months ago

79 street should have one
not 62 street

Register to Vote in FL
3 months ago

Both are needed

Anonymous
3 months ago

B-but, I want Metromover cuz it free!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Not because it’s free, because it’s fun and air conditioned, and anywhere that has one feels like a real modern city! It drives up business and livens up the fabric of our growing metropolis.

Anonymous
3 months ago

But there’s plenty of Metromover stops that are very under developed and we should first invest in upgrading those areas with trendy hip spots and residences, since the infrastructure is there.

Fuacata
3 months ago

typical of most U.S. cities that were built for cars. Unfortunately, we are the worst country when it comes to functional mass transit.

Anonymous
2 months ago

well we’re the best at most everything else, so yeah, Go USA!!!

Anonymous
3 months ago

anywhere that has a beer can short bus 35+ year old form of public transit is made to feel like a real modern city, plus it’s “fun (standing shoulder to shoulder with bums and other assorted strangers is fun!) and air conditioned (when the AC actually works)”. It also livens up the fabric of our jockstraps.

Name*
3 months ago

I see professionals and normal fashionable people on the metro mover, it’s much nicer and safer than the subways in NYC. You get fantastic elevated views of all the architecture in downtown and Brickell – really a selling point and even should be marketed more as an attraction for visitors in Miami.

anon
3 months ago

Come on. Over 5,000 parking spaces? This kind of garbage urban project needs to go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. This is poster child for greedy developers.

This belongs near transit, not in a transit desert. BTW, there should be a stop at 79 Street for the NE Corridor rail line, not 62 Street.

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

You seem to forget Miami is in the Southeast, not the Northeast…

Anon
3 months ago

But the more southeast you go, the more northeast you go in spirit.

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

Culturally and demographically speaking yes, which is a good thing, but on an urban planning level we are no better than your Atlantas or Houstons of the world.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Yet the northeast is flocking to the Atlanta, Houston and miamis. Wonder why

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

Still doesn’t change the fact Miami has had poor urban planning from the start. 100 years ago (and still today) NYC was a global cosmopolitan city while Miami was still swamp and gators. You should be glad they are flocking here, otherwise we would be just another yee-haw Jacksonville.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Jacksonville is booming too, pal.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Have you seen the highways around New York? They’re a cluster fuck and make Miami highways look organized. New York is a mismatch of all kind of failing planning and still is very much so.

Name
3 months ago

Jacksonville is still the largest city in Florida by population and size. And now it’s booming with an influx of new residents and businesses poised to surpass 1 million residents and the only city in Florida with 1 million residents. Enjoy your paltry 450k city population.

Fuacata
3 months ago

1M residents in a city the size of Dade and Broward counties combined. Wow, great superlatives.

Anonymous
3 months ago

yeah the “sophisticated” (stuck up ) Miamian probably hasn’t been to J-Ville anytime recently if at all. I was there exactly a year ago, it looked like half the town was built within the last 20 years. Lots of growth there, and stats back up my observation.

anon
3 months ago

southeast? not at all 😂 more like latin america

Anon NOBE
3 months ago

I drive through this mobile home park every-time I need to get to the highway from North Beach/ North Bay Village and its so depressing and ugly. I hope this project gets pushed though and they create affordable housing for the people living there. No one should live in those run down trailer homes.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Miami growing everywhere! Love love love!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Is the map off? Thats not El Portal

anon
3 months ago

Correct.. near, but not within El Portal city limits. Just outside city limits of Miami, too.

Dro
3 months ago

This is 5 blocks from me portal and 10 blocks from Miami shores.

mimielbuss
3 months ago

maybe the people who were born and raised here in Miami might be able to live here after all. They should build these all over Dade county. This is the most populous county in Florida and it’s continuing to grow.

Anonymous
3 months ago

50 story buildings shouldn’t be “all over”.

elbussy
3 months ago

yes they should

Anonymous
3 months ago

No they shouldn’t

Anon
3 months ago

spoken like someone who’s never owned a single family house

James
3 months ago

Never been to NYC or Chicago? If we want to be a city we need to start building like a city.

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

At our current rate it would take 75 years just to match Chicago’s public transit, and about 175 to match NY’s. By then, most of Miami will be underwater anyway with the top cube at Waldorf 5 feet above sea level.

Anon
3 months ago

Lol Miami has elevated infrastructure. It’s better off than NY or Chicago.

melo homes and gardens
3 months ago

uh no…drive downtown during a heavy rain

Cover the podiums
3 months ago

Hahaha and the helipad for the Aston Martin tower!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Not even NYC has 50 stories everywhere. If not you are clueless of how NYC looks like

Anonymous
3 months ago

To some of these posters, NYC and Chicago apparently don’t matter outside of Manhattan and the Loop respectively.

Name*
3 months ago

NYC has a lot of low rises. Miami is going down a bad path with all these high rise clusters. Keep it low unless it’s Brickell and downtown

D.C
3 months ago

That’s due to interference from politicians and rent controlled buildings. NY needs to demo and rebuild the majority of its dilapidated structures as well. If they did, supply world increase and prices would decrease.

Name
3 months ago

Why are you bring up 2 cities that have absolutely nothing in common with Miami?

Anonymous
3 months ago

You’d be more able to afford a trailer in the existing conditions than the prices they will charge for a unit here, except you don’t want to, for acceptable reasons.

Name*
3 months ago

They could live along the metrorail line in new developements! Not some random spot that has its own charm with no transit and just clog up i95. Completely against this.

anon
3 months ago

we need tall apartments everywhere like in latam and europe for more dense housing and affordable rates

Anonymous
3 months ago

Most Americans don’t aspire to living stacked like sardines–at least not long term. There’s a limited market for hi-rise living in the U.S. Miami–like LA, San Diego, etc.–will continue to become more expensive and population growth will continue to stagnate. Those that can’t afford Miami will move out or stay away, and those that can will stay or move in.

Choo Choo
3 months ago

This isn’t El Portal, its unincorporated Dade

Register to Vote in FL
3 months ago

In order for a project of that magnitude to succeed, first they must build a train station on 79th St, secondly they need to expand the Metrorail Eastbound of NW 27th Ave on the 79th Corridor connecting Miami with Hialeah (La Ciudad que Progesa) which will help redevelop all the vacant land in the corridor, and them build a light rail on NW 7th Ave connecting the Golden Gate and North Miami with Wynwood, and Downtown.

Casey
3 months ago

Let’s go!

Mkt Pro
3 months ago

meaning ???

Anonymous
3 months ago

It’s in unincorporated Dade.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Watch the “community activists” claim this is part of “Greater Little Haiti” and rage about gentrification, like they did with Eastside Ridge.

Name
3 months ago

As they should.

Petey Pinata
3 months ago

Not when they have moved to Miramar and vicinity, and haven’t lived in the area for years… and have the nerve to claim “roots.”

Azarius
3 months ago

We should still build Eastridge jus make more units affordable to bridge in the current residents with the new

Anonymous
3 months ago

The rendering is likely conceptual to the height and density proposed to be built, but hopefully better architecture ensues than more boxes with irregular window grids and balconies. Maybe the City of Miami will annex it, too.

crypto-saurez
3 months ago

with stunning views of the presidente grocery and trailer park roofs….get real…..and will be overpriced and half full no matter what the cheerleader/density sim city crowd want..

Miami Mike
2 months ago

So out of place

anonymous
3 months ago

At least if they go with this development they have to include some type of connection to the tracks just east of this area.

I do believe in general that in order to alleviate the housing issues in Dade you have to allow for more units to be built. For example, i live in an area where it is mostly duplexes. There are some new ones being built now that are side by side townhomes. This area would be perfect to allow for a 4 story building with 4-6 units and ground parking. Would allow more housing without having to build a massive building

Hello
3 months ago

Not near the future brightline stop unless tri rail picks up stops on that cross over even then it’s not the exact best spot

Anonymous
2 months ago

Magic city Innovation District will be built first. So lets give it about 7 years to start.

MiamiCityMan
2 months ago

Just another 5,000+ parking garage. Can you in fact fit 5,000 cars on the roadways of El Portal?

Induced demand, anyone?

Anonymous
3 months ago

Do you have the renderings?

Name
3 months ago

The county needs to reject this ASAP.

Azarius
3 months ago

Which is holding Miami back‼️Projects like this and Eastridge in Lil Haiti and the Miami Innovation Hub in Lil Haiti would tie all this together with downtown

Jeremey Howlett
3 months ago

Looks amazing! Hopefully an underground metro rail station is planned near here.

Anonymous
3 months ago

😧underground metro station……PINGA!!!

anon
3 months ago

underground metro station.. tell me you just moved here 🤦🏻‍♂️

Anonymous but Famous
3 months ago

This proposal exposes a blind spot in this society. You don’t need tall buildings to achieve high density. It shouldn’t be just either this disaster or suburban Phoenix. Both discourage pedestrian activity and social cohesion. Note at either end the nightmares of Kendall and Aventura. Contrast with Amsterdam, Barcelona, Fez, Venice.

Kay
3 months ago

I love it! It’s going to be beautiful!

Gambit
3 months ago

Well that sucks for the people living there. Locals are being replaced by rich northerners. Sad.

Anonymous
3 months ago

It says they will be relocated. Read.

Name
3 months ago

It’s a complete lie. People as gullible and deceived as you are the reason why communist regimes have taken over other countries.

anon
3 months ago

nah it’s a bad thing if they’re relocated. ugh i can imagine the culinary scene in these areas going from arepas and delicious pastelitos to dry and soggy bagels and other ny abominations

Gambit
3 months ago

Duh. They will be relocated and REPLACED with rich northerners. I read. Now you comprehend please

Anonymous
3 months ago

Didn’t those “locals” come from Cuba and replace white people at one point? Weren’t there native Americans at some point? This is a melting pot, and if anyone thought they would move here and stop others from coming and joining are simply dumb and arrogant.

Adrian
3 months ago

Tri-rail really should work on building a station along Miami Avenue or a bit west, it seems like a pretty long stretch not to have a station.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Yo Adrian! Think before you post. The tracks run along NE 4 ct in this area–how would a station be built 4 plus blocks away from them?

Azarius
3 months ago

7th Street

MiamiArchi
3 months ago

This is a joke right?
Completely out of scale for the neighborhood
No way this will ever get approved. The existing community will be crazy against it and complain about the extreme increase in traffic. The complete change of scale for the neighborhood etc etc.
They couldn’t even get the Eastside Ridge proposal passed and that was with buildings from 8 to 12 stories tall.
This proposal is a waste of everyone’s time.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Out of scale? It’s perfect!

Anonymous
3 months ago

No it ain’t

Name
3 months ago

Nope. It’s terrible zoning.

Downtowner
3 months ago

I agree with you 100%. Something this massive does not belong in that area. Enough with the sky-high buildings already. That’s fine in the urban core, but that’s about it.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The urban core is expanding. You both lack vision.

Anon
3 months ago

You lack reality. This is miles outside the urban core. This is a trailer park surrounded by old single family houses barely larger than the trailers. No way a 50 story behemoth gets approved here.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The best cities, including from a metropolitan area standpoint, are polycentric.

D.C
3 months ago

Design District, Midtown, Brickel etc etc all looked similar prior to the changes.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Brickell had a trailer park surrounded by circa 1950 shoebox houses? Do tell…..

Anonymous
3 months ago

If they wouldn’t approve this type of development at the old INS building on Biscayne and 79th it sure as hell will not get approved for this neighborhood.

Name
3 months ago

You’re a complete fool. Not everyone is cash strapped like you. These low income residents are going to be kicked to the side but I see here that you don’t give a damn. Also, the OP is correct. 50 story towers don’t belong outside of the urban core.

Anonymous
3 months ago

What do you think was the Magic City proposal?