First Phase Of $1.5B Southplace City Center Breaks Ground

Construction is now underway on the first phase of Southplace City Center.

Southplace City Center is planned as a $1.5B redevelopment of the Southland Mall property, to be built over seven years.

A 350-unit apartment building called The Current at City Center is the first phase. It will have luxury amenities and a parking garage.

Presidente Supermarkets will occupy the entirety of the 24,000 square feet of ground retail being built in the first phase.

The Current at City Center is expected to be completed by Q3 2027.

Southplace City Center will include 5,000 market rate residential units, 500,000 square feet of retail, dining, and entertainment space, a 60,000-square-foot medical center, a 150-key hotel, and green spaces.

Miami-Dade’s new Bus Rapid Transit system will be adjacent to the property.

The retail, design, and construction team for Southplace City Center includes Urban Retail Properties, LLC, MSA Architects, RSP Architects and general contractor American Engineering & Development Corp.

American Landmark and BH Group are the developers.

 

(images: American Landmark)

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Anon
10 days ago

Great – we need to retrofit all of the horrendous land use mistakes made by the previous generation, who turned our beautiful green city into a sea of asphalt.

Anonymous
10 days ago

High class this is not – Presidente Supermarket? Sh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!t

Anonymous
10 days ago

That’s exactly what came to mind

Anonymous
10 days ago

I didn’t even think Presidente opened in purpose-built spaces. Usually they open in a closed-down store space and keep every fixture down to the interior signage. Even Spirit Halloween puts more work into their temporary stores.

PhillipP
9 days ago

I take retail history photos. I always stop in Presidente to take photos so people can see what a Grand Union or Food Fair store from 1976 looked like.

Mr. Fc
9 days ago

Generic look. Not impressed

Harry Carey
9 days ago

This property is 200 blocks from Flagler Street in downtown Miami.

Tell me Capt. Obvious, what is your favorite “high class” place from S 150th Street to S 250th Street?

Should the developers have chosen a Four Seasons Residences and a Thomas Keller eatery?

anon
8 days ago

There’s a Mercedes Benz dealership already there at the Southland Mall site🤦‍♀️

Harry Carey
7 days ago

Good call… a high class car lot. New and used…nice!

anonymous
10 days ago

Its great to see this property get redeveloped but the rapid bus stop is a joke. The area already has alot of people living there and will only go up as they build this out. This would be a perfect place to extend the metrorail to.

Anon
10 days ago

It’s also only “rapid” monday-friday during rush hour times lmao this city is unbelievable. Other cities are extending their rail systems and we can not even manage a BRT line.

Anonymous
8 days ago

If we got rid of the wasteful County jobs we wouldn’t need any rapid transit.

Anonymous
10 days ago

Metrorail must be extended to South Beach, Little Havana, and/or other inner ring areas before ever expanding anywhere developed solely with the automobile in mind. That’s why extending it to Miami Gardens makes no sense either.

Expand Metro
10 days ago

FIU, little Havana and South Beach line would change Miami and really just by that make it’s so much accessible

Harry Carey
9 days ago

Get educated on this issue.
You are not going to put up the money to build your dream transit.

There is not, and never has been enough ridership to justify building a Metrorail extension from scratch.

When/if you do get educated on this issue, you will learn that the BRT that received Federal Funding is very cleverly designed to be an easy conversion to Metrorail IF the ridership can ever prove out.
Ride it someday. It will make better sense.

Junebug Spade
9 days ago

IF more density like this continues to be added near the bus rapid transit lines south of Dadeland South, and IF those residents ride to downtown, the County will put in another application to the Federal Dept. of Transportation for more funds to subsidize the trains.

The long term plan, and the reason the BRT line was built the way that it is, is so that all the existing bus stations (which you may notice are low platforms….about train entry height) will be easily and “inexpensively” converted to train stations. The “only” money needed will fund track installation on the foundation that exists, running to the stations that already exist.

Big “IFs” of course. That should happen sometime in the future, but when the ridership increases, a funding application for tracks and a few more trains will be very compelling.

anon
8 days ago

Not gonna happen. By the time whenever DOGE runs its course, the feds will still be spending more on interest payments on the national debt than on anything else. Cutting Social Security payments versus cutting federal train funding will be the choice. Guess what will be chosen.

Harry Carey
7 days ago

The DOT budget was $143B last year, maybe DOGE finds some waste that can be re-allocated to the cause of transportation instead of money laundering.
But in any case, ridership has to increase significantly, because those days of funding “Trains to nowhere” are over.

Anon
10 days ago

5000 units, wow…it’s almost a city in itself.

Anonymous
10 days ago

This is going to be the place to be , with a presidente supermarket next to a BRT that will only be BRT 23% of the time and 77% of the time will be a regular bus

Looks decent
10 days ago

Is the plan to make this into a walkable area? Miami does not need more strip malls

anonymous
10 days ago

yes, it appears they are redesigning the entire area to add more green space. i think they said it would include a monorail type system added to get around as its developed.

https://www.cutlerbay-fl.gov/community/page/plans-unveiled-1-billion-redevelopment-80-acre-southland-mall-site-miami-dade-county

Anonymous
10 days ago

I’m surprised this Macy’s hasn’t been put on the chopping block yet, considering its proximity to The Falls and most South Dade residents go to Dadeland for serious shopping.

anon
10 days ago

not bad for south miami! get it built. maybe this presidente supermarket can serve as a flagship supermarket concept

Anonymous
10 days ago

Well it looks better than that proposed “transit” village near Doral.

sadly
10 days ago

With the double highways this is really a freeway oriented development. Even at grade commuter rail where the multiple railways already are would be better than a fake BRT, especially if they undo the signal priority element.

Anonymous
10 days ago

Should never had pulled up the railroads.

Socio
10 days ago

That where Sears was

Harry Carey
9 days ago

$1.5 Billion dollars is a great private investment. Hats off to the men who Think Big and do things in order that the mice who do nothing can whine and complain about what the men do.

PhillipP
9 days ago

Why do the renderings show a JCPenney sign with a logo that was only used in 2011-2012 and quickly discontinued? That Penney store never used that logo and if remodeled would use the current logo. Also, a Presidente supermarket?

Urbanize FL Now
10 days ago

This is way out in the burbs, where’s the density?

Yan Jammer
10 days ago

It is the density, but it’s very far out, at the south end of where the 10 mile south corridor Metrorail would reach. It would only have 6 or 8 stations, more than a mile apart, and would be rapid.

Anonymous
7 days ago

Nobody wants a Presidente Supermarket, that’s as low class as it gets. Horrible decision by Cutler Bay to allow this.

Harry Carey
7 days ago

Evidently someone wants a Presidente Supermarket. Namely, the owners of Presidente and the owners of the real estate.