Foundation Pour Complete At 62-Story Aria Reserve; $90M Sold In Jan.

A massive foundation pour has been completed at Aria Reserve, where condo sales are also said to be at a record.

Shell contractor L&R Structural Corp. wrote over the weekend that they completed a 2100 cubic yard pour at Aria Reserve’s south tower.

Aria Reserve is planned to have twin 62-story towers – which the developers say will be the tallest dual-tower waterfront residential project in the United States.

Groundbreaking for the south tower took place in May 2022.

Over $90M worth of condos were sold at Aria Reserve in January 2023 alone, breaking records, according to the Instagram account of John Reza Parsiani.

Melo Group is the developer. Bernardo Fort-Brescia of Arquitectonica is the architect.

Additional photos of the construction site taken this week by Ryan RC Rea can be seen here.

 

(photo: L&R Structural Corp.)


31 Comments
most voted
newest oldest
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Anonymous
7 months ago

Another beaut by Arquitectonica!

Anon
7 months ago

Facts

anan
7 months ago

Ditto

Anonymous
7 months ago

Don’t you have mangroves to cut down, Bernardo?

Johnny
7 months ago

Why isn’t the surrounding neighborhood depicted in the renderings?

Anonymous
7 months ago

Because it’s their rendering and they did what they wanted. Duh.

Anon
7 months ago

Melo typically doesn’t add much context to their renders.

Anon13
7 months ago

It’s right on their website –comment image

Anonymous
7 months ago

This type of height and width surely will block views for a big part of Miami. Will there be a baywalk to activate pedestrian activity?

Anon13
7 months ago

I totally agree the mass feels too large. But here we are. Regarding the baywalk, yes, there will be a baywalk component.

Anon
7 months ago

Is it too late to require it be tapered up?
Concerned this type of mass could severelt stunt growth in wynwood midtown and edgewater which are just getting started.

Hope Miami learns not to put this type of mass along the water. Florida is flat. When you look at coastal cities with mountains you can build up the mountain and see the water as you go inland, afraid miami will not have this if we don’t reverse course and stagger our skyline up as it goes west.

Anon
7 months ago

The allure of Wynwood is certainly not waterfront views…

Anonymous
7 months ago

If you want waterfront views, you’re gonna have to cough up the extra money to live in a waterfront building. What you propose has zero bearing in economic reality. This ain’t Sim City.

Anon
7 months ago

If properties were set back with staggered waterfront views, they would be just as expensive – it would create more high value buildings and blocks staggered throughout multiple location blocks rather than just one high value building on one high value block.

Also most cities have public spaces throughout each neighborhood for public enjoyment of the water. It’s one of the maintain of the 2025 Miami masterplan too.

Anonymous
7 months ago

^they never will be because the waterfront land is more valuable than the non-waterfront per sq ft., so the taller and more expensive buildings will be built on the waterfront so the developer can recoup their higher land costs outlays. It’s Econ 101.

Anon
7 months ago

It’s high valued because it’s zoned high. Zone low and land value will moderate, and zone up staggered back and the waterfront monopoly will be balanced, dispersing values evenly around the core?

Anonymous
7 months ago

Hey Anon, Instead of downvoting my post and leaving no reply like a chickenshit, show WHERE my assertions are wrong. You can’t.

Anon
7 months ago

Damn, Aria is *massive* – I didn’t realize it was that bulky

Anon
7 months ago

The trees in the rendering without the other buildings seem really tall, it makes the scale look less ominous. In the skyline rendering you can see the trees are much smaller… does anyone else see a difference?

Anon
7 months ago

Because it shows the impact on all the undeveloped land west of it?

Anonymous
7 months ago

They don’t want prospective buyers to know it’s next to a ridiculous, upside-down telescoping piece of crap, ironically also by Arquitectonica.

Melo is sigma and chad
7 months ago

Melo at it again, can’t wait till the development across from publix.

Azarius
7 months ago

Melo don’t be playing

Anonymous
7 months ago

Cant stop wont stop

Melo is sigma and Chad
7 months ago

Melo being my user name once again.

Melo, the true giga chad
7 months ago

Walked by there the other day. There’s actually already cranes installed. Lets get it! the only thing I wish they would taper a bit towards the top. This is too much mass in my opinion

Anonymous
7 months ago

Zoning should be lower by the water and stagger high inland, where views would otherwise be blocked, to prevent sprawl only directly the coast and to preserve quality of life for urban Miami.

Joe CARollo
7 months ago

The city should do a lot of things…

Anonymous
7 months ago

It’s like the City doesn’t realize it’s worth. We could benefit from stronger negotiators.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Welcome to the Miami sky

Anynymous
7 months ago

The skyline is filling and it’s beautiful