Foundation Poured At 40-Story 501 First

A foundation pour has been completed at 501 First, a new photo by Phillip Pessar shows.

Vertical construction normally begins after a foundation has been poured.

The tower is planned to rise 40 stories, and include:

  • 448 residential condos (allowing short-term rental)
  • 3,198 square feet of retail
  • zero parking spaces

The ground level is being designed with wide sidewalks and greenery to provide shade and a usable pedestrian space.

Revuelta is the architect.

Aria Development Group and Aqarat are the developers.

 

(photo: Phillip Pessar)


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Anonymous
2 months ago

NE 2 Ave is looking imposing qith all these new Towers

Anon
2 months ago

Can’t wait for that glass curtain wall to reflect that beautiful building across the street

Anonymous
2 months ago

Is it just me, or does the foundation look disproportionally small relative to the renders?

Anonymous
2 months ago

No, that is the core of the tower.

Anonymous
2 months ago

I don’t think the photo encompasses the entire foundation. It would need to be done from a drone or elevation.
What is disproportional to the size of the building is zero parking.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Zero parking is the greatest feature of this building. That should be the norm.

CuriousAboutParking
2 months ago

I see a of comments that are anti parking in condos. Can someone help me understand why? I really don’t get it and would like to understand the logic.

Anonymous
2 months ago

They think that everyone wants to live within 3 blocks of their job or a Metrorail/mover station. That’s not how real life works. Plus, that close by job could disappear next month and your next job might be 10-15 miles away and then you’re still stuck with making payments on a condo with no parking for the car you now need.

Anonymous
2 months ago

More parking encourages the idea that you need a car to live here. Miami drastically needs less cars on the road, not more!

Anonymous
2 months ago

It’s not an idea, it’s a FACT.

Anonymous
2 months ago

I have lived here for over 5 years without a car and have never had a problem getting around once! I take Uber anywhere outside the Urban Core and spend much less a year with that than my friends do to maintain a car. A car might be nice to have, but it’s definitely not needed.

Anonymous
2 months ago

^^for you great, for most not the case at all.

Sven
2 months ago

Great comment and probably 100% true.
There was a nice period where I did not have a car for about 5 years in the early 2000’s and life was real nice too!

Circumstances change throughout one’s life, and it would be a shame to apply a self-centered mindset to everyone one else, and restrict the Freedom and Liberty of others.

Sven
2 months ago

Desperately needs? Why?

Because every piece of evidence that has been staring you in the face suggests that the economy, the population, the talent, the amenities, the everything is getting better AND we have more cars.
This flies in the face of what your dopey professors and your neo-Marxist friends told you about the world.

There are some people who can see with their own eyes, and use their brains to process the FACT that Miami is a magnet for people. Talented people.

Miami is magnet for tech firms, finance firms, students, tourists, remote workers, productive workers, remote workers, beach bums, and those who enjoy the arts, culture, and diversity that Miami offers.

Then, there are the few WE NEEDS who think that WE NEED to “get cars off the road”.

No one needs a car.
Everything is walking distance if you have enough time.

For those who produce at a very high level, having the freedom of public transportation choices AND a car with hands free phone allows for meetings on the go. You can contribute to many charities or board meetings when your ZOOM Meeting is in the “car” and not on the Metrorail car. Also hard to Zoom or talk about sensitive topics when you are walking down a sidewalk.

Freedom for all! If you don’t need a car, don’t use one.
Please don’t disparage the high contributors…many of them need to have the freedom to have private conversations in their cars when they move from meeting to meeting.

Empty spaces
2 months ago

My current parking deck is at 25% or so capacity and the deck of the Airbnb I stayed in when I first moved here was only around 50-60%. A lot of other condos are probably similar and the public decks I’ve parked in are never close to max capacity. There’s not enough demand for what the city requires. As others have stated, much larger cities do perfectly fine without every building requiring parking. Plus they’re ugly and restrict street level development.

Anonymous
2 months ago

you confuse AirBNBers with actual residents

*NAME*
2 months ago

Let the market decide. This building sold very fast, so parking no longer is a need for condo buyers. This thinking helps keep cars off the road.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Zero parking should be against zoning. It’s unrealistic.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Move to Homestead. We are trying to build a city here.

Anonymous
2 months ago

cities include cars, guess you never noticed

Anonymous
2 months ago

In real cities, most multi-family buildings do not have parking garages. Those people who choose to have a car find parking on the street or elsewhere.

Mad Dash
2 months ago

They are NOT talking about cars.
It’s about parking.
You should travel a bit outside the country to see cities that do just fine without parking, parking enforcement or requirements.

Sven
2 months ago

London is doing great without parking in the core.

I’m not saying it but a lot of other people are saying it…..they have these people in London called WAY NAIDs who were screaming 75 years ago about the Tube or something.

WAY NAID A TOOOOB to get the bloody cahhs off the street!!!

London is just fine, right? No parking, no requirements, no fines when you try to get into the core. Just fine.

Sven
2 months ago

For starters…the City was built long before you entered the scene.
So when you say “WE”, are you aware that your mission had already been accomplished?

(that should be a humiliating and embarrassing mistake)

Sven
2 months ago

Irony is probably the not the right word….but these same “get cars off the road” and “WE NEED no parking buildings” are often the same people who clamor for more retail in the lobby of residential buildings with no parking.

Clearly, these WE NEEDS have never run a retail business, or thought about the topic deeply.

The Miamian
2 months ago

No parking in Miami? LOL!!!!! Do you live in New York, Boston or Chicago? There is no efficient public transportation in Miami.

Bobby
2 months ago

The problem with no parking is that you will have more cars on the road circling the block looking for a spot to park. Every building should have some parking to minimize this.

MiamiArchi
2 months ago

From the picture It looks like it is likely just the foundation for the core of the building. This would be the primary structural support and would include the Elevator and stair well shafts.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Downtown is turning into a great place!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Please go back home.

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
2 months ago

The only thing I like about Miami is making useless comments on this site to try to stir people up.

Hate humidity
2 months ago

If it weren’t for AC, this is a totally inhospitable place. Unless you are an amphibian of course.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Is this in Park West?

Melo is sigma and Chad
2 months ago

The residents will enroll in MDC to get a parking space

Anonymous
2 months ago

Get on outta here!

Dale
2 months ago

Enough with the STR. We have too many of those.

Sven
2 months ago

No kidding Dale.
Who is we?
How many do you have?