FAA Filing Submitted For 700-Foot Tower At Miami Worldcenter

Height approval is being requested for a 700-foot tower at Miami Worldcenter, according to a new filing with the Federal Aviation Administration.

The application appears to be for the Abbhi Capital property.

According to the December 2 application, a maximum tower height of 692 feet above ground, or 700 feet above sea level is being proposed.

Abbhi has spent a total of $44 million on 2.2 acres at Miami Worldcenter, with the rights to build up to 2 million square feet. Two adjacent sites were purchased by Abbhi in 2020 and 2021.

According to the Abbhi website, the project is now in the pre-development and entitlements phase.

The development will have multi-family, office, retail and hotel, the website says.

Next door, the property that formerly housed the Paramount Miami Worldcenter sales center was purchased by New York developer Naftali Group. Naftali filed for FAA approval for a 700-foot tower height on that site in September.

 

 

A rendering showing a potential project on the Abbhi website:

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6 months ago

Finally Worldcenter is picking up speed!

anonlatino
5 months ago

hopefully it prioritizes the local economy, not the oligarchs and new york exchanges that hoard the money for themselves.

Anonymous
6 months ago

this is a large parcel….i really hope its something unique…and that its started sooner rather than later ….worldcenter is becoming really beautiful and i would hate to see large empty parcels sit empty for 10 years

RenRich
6 months ago

Hope they keep this design. Much better than the boring stucco,ugly jutting balconies, and overboard podium stuff being tossed as infil.

Anon
6 months ago

I can’t wait to see what they are planning for this site

Stavi
6 months ago

This design on this looks pretty interesting for a “cereal box”. Hopefully the final product is something with a bit more flair than your standard infill

Anon
6 months ago

Another one who seems unfamiliar with the fact that the vast majority of skyscrapers are rectilinear.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Not the new designs with rounded balconies and edges.

Anon
6 months ago

What are “the new designs”? Rounded balconies have been around for quite some time. They were very popular in the streamline moderne era and far earlier as well.

Half these comments scream “tell me you know nothing about architecture without saying you know nothing about architecture”

Anonymous
5 months ago

Streamline Moderne is timeless. International Style is hit and miss, with very few developments getting it right.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Thanks for upping my vocabulary! I love international style for low rises, with different materials, but on high rises it just turns the buildings into compounds and very brutal looking. Streamline modern looks more interesting on taller buildings. What about a combo? Also the new “streamline modern” buildings are much different than the older ones, they have more waves and seem to fuse both international and streamline.

Anonymous
5 months ago

They are more like unique polygons with diagonal lines to make them more reflective and look like crystals. Nobody does rectangular anymore, it gives off an eerie 70s 80s vacant corporate-building vibe.

DJ Khalid
6 months ago

Another one

Anonymous
6 months ago

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Anonymous
6 months ago

Great for modernizing infrastructure near the Downtown Business District (“DBD”).

Se me paro'
5 months ago

It totally is.
All these messages for nothing.
Ain’t happening

anon
5 months ago

I fear you may be correct

Anonymous
6 months ago

I heard a Burger King is coming to World Miami center so I can’t wait for it to open and have a delicious Whopper with french fries and a coke

Anon
6 months ago

ew.

Anonymous
6 months ago

For now you can go to Laurel Brasserie as it just opened!

Anonymous
6 months ago

lol he can’t afford that😜

Anonymous
6 months ago

great experience there…soon the window service for coffees and pastries will open early on the n e 1st ave side…this according to the manager

Anonymous
5 months ago

This area needs a ventanita badly! I moved to Edgewater lately and I miss the ventanita at Publix so bad!

anonlatino
5 months ago

i’d rather eat at an arepa bar or un palacio de los jugos

Anonymous
6 months ago

Personally, I love that chicken from Popeyes

Anonymous
5 months ago

Well you’ll have LA Fitness to burn it off, and then a low-tier sports bar to pack on twice the calories after. All with adequate parking! Frankly, for the price of vertical surburbia, you can get exactly the same in Westchester.

Anonymous
5 months ago

You have LA Fitness in Brickell too

Anonymous but you can call me Mike
6 months ago

10 years from now this area will be as vibrant as Midtown!

Anon
6 months ago

I think much more so – it has an arena, train station, multiple museums, an enormous park, opera house, nightclubs, etc…

Se me paro'
5 months ago

A gorgeous bridge and Metromover

Anonymous
6 months ago

10 years from now this area will be more vibrant than Brickell or Midtown

Anonymous
6 months ago

Hopefully also a decade wiser

Anon
6 months ago

omg same

Anonymous
6 months ago

Definitely not more “vibrant” than Brickell, if will be more buzzy with tourists like Time Square. Attracting a range of tourists to downtown will only make Brickell nicer and more high end.

Anon
6 months ago

Times Square has more foot traffic than anywhere else in New York? Not sure why you’re using that as your example for “not as lively”

Anonymous
5 months ago

The word was “vibrant” (energy and enthusiasm). I think Brickell will still be as vibrant if not more, even without as much foot traffic as Central Downtown.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Time square is also an absolute shit hole and also has the filthiest station in all of manhattan

Anonymous
6 months ago

⬆️ Same guy who downvotes Ft Lauderdale developments on every computer in the office lol

Anonymous
6 months ago

Same guy = “10 years from now this area will be more vibrant…” with 16+ votes in an hour lol

No question about it
6 months ago

This will be best neighborhood in USA in 10 years

Anonymous
6 months ago

Number two neighborhood, next to Brickell.

Anon
6 months ago

Brickell is already developing a stuffy, old vibe – similar to Upper East Side of New York, while Worldcenter and the northern neighborhoods are emerging as the future of the city.

Anonymous
5 months ago

More like a renaissance of its “old money” vibe it had prior to the 1960s. Frankly, I don’t see an issue, because the UES is (or was until recently) a classy place.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Brickell has one of the youngest and most enthusiastic vibes in Miami. It is and will always be the gem of Miami. It’s almost too young and enthusiastic, I had to move to a quieter street within Brickell. We don’t have to take away from something that is already amazing, to justify adding to it around Miami. Central Downtown can clean up its transient vibe without trying to beat or be Brickell.

Original
5 months ago

The plan is to not to outdo each other, the plan for Miami is to become one big cohesive juggernaut. The object is be the leader in tourism and one of the best places to live in the United States.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Agree! We should all work together. For example, we need a vibrant core and gateway to the city (Downtown), a world-class financial and residential neighborhood (Brickell), a hip art and design neighborhood (Wynwood and Design District), additional residences (Midtown and Edgewater), and a natural and historic destination (Miami Beach). We can all work together to build up the City together and develop The Next Miami ™️.

anonlatino
5 months ago

we have too much tourism and transplants that it is becoming an unaffordable hellscape. we need to prioritize local culture and cut back on the degenerates who think they own this place with their e11even gold pass and alcohol abuse

Pleezzee
5 months ago

^
Have you checked the flow of Latinos trying to get to this country lately?

Anonymous
5 months ago

LOL when was the last time you were in the UES. Besides your wealthy twn house owners and some retirement buildings, there’s nothing stuffy about it.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s already more vibrant than midtown. Midtown is new and getting built up.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Considering the announced tenants so far (except Sephora, I suppose), sadly you’re right.