Gallery At Lummus Parc Submitted For Review: New Renderings

The Gallery at Lummus Parc planned in the Downtown Miami area has been submitted to Miami-Dade planners for site plan review, with plans revised recently.

New renderings have been released as part of the filing.

Gallery at Lummus Parc is now proposed to have twin towers rising 30 stories each, with:

  • 452 apartments (220 units north, 232 units south)
  • 2,130 square feet of ground floor retail
  • 570 square feet local heritage space
  • 418 parking spaces

A parking garage will only be located in the North Building, and will serve both towers. It will be located on levels 1 through 9.

The North Building will also include the retail space and local heritage space.

The South Building will only have residential use.

CFE is the architect.

Related Urban Development Group is the developer.

 

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Urbanist
1 month ago

The parking garage fronting the river is the perfect representation of development in Miami today.

Local
1 month ago

This should be rejected. It is the worst design ever. The river is a huge opportunity for vibrant retail and I love the environment here, wish it was utilized for more than parking facade.

Bruno
1 month ago

Excellent commentary.
Miami was founded 1896.

Why haven’t you taken action yet?

Anonymous
1 month ago

faces west…

Anonymous
1 month ago

Why is all the retail and cafes facing the highway. For one, they could flip the design so the retail and restaurants overlook the waterfront – this is idiotic.

Zohar Laven
1 month ago

Agree, totally. We have a site a block away under contract. That retail and docking is key, especially with new foundation..

Anonymous
1 month ago

They should have yachts lined up behind it, by KiKi on the River. They need to do something with the river walk, mandate it.

Bruno
1 month ago

IF
If you understood, or at least read about navigational servitilude…you may be listened to…..for now, it’s a confederacy of the dances

Anonymous
1 month ago

Gallery should name its beautiful Brickell building to Gallery at Brickell. That misstep plus this design… I’m concerned about whomever is making the calls with this group.

zachj305
1 month ago

So ugly. At the VERY least the side facing the river should have liner units on the podium. The street level interaction is horrific.

guy1
1 month ago

The site is too small to have liner units for the podium.

Local
1 month ago

This lot looks huge and can have liner units. Don’t build anythjing at all if you can’t revamp the river front. Nothing is better than this.

Cover the podiums
1 month ago

You’re dumb

El Tucan
1 month ago

That Podium has to be reworked. This is incredibly lazy/thoughtless. Veto

Stand Up
1 month ago

The blight this would cost would last a lifetime if not more – JUST SAY NO to buildings that impede development and activity on the river.

Anon
1 month ago

No liner units on the podium facing the river?! What a missed opportunity

Stand Up
1 month ago

We need to strike this one fast.

Sit Down
1 month ago

“We” lol you’ve struck out, you got no seat at the table

Anon
1 month ago

Looks like they were inspired by downtown 5ths facade.

Anonymous
1 month ago

…which was inspired by the local Federal prison.

Wolfgang731
1 month ago

Hopefully the planners will reject this in its entirety. It is beyond chaotic and that podium facing the river couldn’t be uglier. It’s a striped box that flips the middle finger to those in the vicinity, be they on the street, the highway or the river. I’m not so naive as to think that every building is going to be masterpiece, at least not if you want to make them “moderately” affordable but this is just lazy and cheap looking. It’s almost as offensive as 1900 Biscayne:

http://www.thenextmiami.com/foundation-permit-applied-for-at-biscayne-boulevard-property-where-872-apartments-planned/

Cedrik
1 month ago

Massive and messy.

Rodriguez
1 month ago

Barely any thought given to the public riverwalk

Anonymous
1 month ago

Thats the usual

Anonymous
1 month ago

I promise to do my part to advocate for this to change. Whomever is holding us back poses less resistance, and we all should do our part to advocate for the Miami river to become a special place!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Just doesn’t have a river vibe at all – it looks prison like. Zero flow and super ugly. Back to the drawing board please!! Nothing wrong with a nice, clean, simple design here to complement the riverfront. Seriously disappointed with this hideous monstrosity of a “design”…it’s horrific!!

Name
1 month ago

It should have a river vibe!!! This is the most promising area for new development

huh, what? wait a minute
1 month ago

if you live in the south tower, you park in the north tower, take an elevator to the ground floor. walk across the plaza, take another elevator to your apartment.
That sucks

Faray
1 month ago

I see movement in Little Havana near the 7th ave bridge (the one that’s always up). Anyone know if that little area is going to be up and coming soon? I see 4 empty lots for sale in a span of two blocks. There seem to be new “shared spaces” 3 story buildings on the rise as well.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Hopefully Joe Carollo can restore that warehouse into a park and turn this area jnto a hip brand new Brickell style sister Riverside neighborhood unlike the slum it is now.

Zohar Laven
1 month ago

E Little Havana needs a lot of work but huge potential with its proximity to everything

Anonymous
1 month ago

Do they need an architect to design this? Why does miami keep getting these boxes? Not everything has to be iconic, however in Miami “iconic” seems be used very loosely, but please, don’t be so basic either.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Wow that’s bad.

Just me
1 month ago

OMG! More ugly apartment buildings. This is sadly becoming a trend. The “Miami” style of architecture. All of Melo’s buildings look like this. Arquitectónica’s buildings look like this. Its a nightmare! Where is the innovation? There are a handful of buildings that stick out—across museum park, Paramount, Flat Iron, Aston Martin. We need round buildings. Buildings with spires. Curved buildings. IDK. I’m neither architect, engineer or planner. I’m sure as hell not paying to build them. I just know Miami deserves better…even if its infill

Anons
1 month ago

Exactly!!! The problem is we have to live with this for centuries and it’s going to become a rotten mess like downtown and park west and then we will have to spend decades trying to redo it! Just make it freaking nice from the beginning! It’s a fresh landscape!

Ano
1 month ago

Sir, this is an affordable project… not an Aston Martin luxury condo

Just me
1 month ago

Yes. You are right. I get that. Does affordable have to be plain/ugly?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Viewing manatees from 30 floors up will be a Game Changer.

mlk jr
1 month ago

brickell/miami is about to look so different in 5 years

anonymous
1 month ago

Id expect to see way more retail space being thats its on the river

Anonymous
1 month ago

The architecture is still cluttered Downtown 5th meets Block 55-tier awful.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s like the ugliness and lack of urban planning of downtown without the Riverside character that makes it beautiful – HARD PASS!

Melo is sigma and Chad
1 month ago

Good more density along the river, cant wait till its lined with towers from icoc brickell too bobby trap by the river

Anonymous
1 month ago

Exciting for Riverside and so close to the new River District in Brickell at SW3rd and 2nd.

Anonymous
1 month ago

If this was proposed in Brickell, you would be the first to write a monologue about how terrible the architecture is.

Anonymous
1 month ago

True, I wrote that prematurely. It’s actually abysmal.

Mad Dash
1 month ago

Views of downtown from these towers will be amazing. Love this project as it will start to create density west of I-95

Anonymous
1 month ago

We need entertainment retail around the river, not density with nothing to do.

Anon
1 month ago

There’s a basketball court next door, and a river across the street. But you gotta spend money to be happy?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Wtf are you supposed to do with a river that has a huge wall backed up against to it? Get real. People want luxury amenities and boutique shops along the river.

Anonymous
1 month ago

boutique shops under an interstate overpass along a working river with a bulkhead littered with bums…yes, Get Real! Have you ever even walked around this area, or are you playing Sims City from your mom’s couch in suburban Orlando?

Anonymous
1 month ago

The bums will move when there’s actually security and business people impacted by their gathering

Anonymous
1 month ago

Views from Little Havana and Downtown of these towers will be horrible.

Cover the podiums
1 month ago

Love the comments on this one! Where can we voice our opinions in real life though?

Name*
1 month ago

I’m trying to appreciate it but it’s just too much stucco exterior for an area that’s trying to mature.

Town halls and voting
1 month ago

Most of those currently in power only care about staying in power and padding their pockets. That’s why we get terribly designed buildings, no long term planning, no new parks, no public walkway development. Not to mention the LED billboard that are now going to start popping up in the limited parks we have. The corruption in greed is going to take what could be a great city and run it into the ground. How many people will want to keep moving here when they realize what’s going on? Let your voices be heard at town halls and go out and vote. We need the likes of Suarez and Carollo to be a thing of the past. Time to move out of the corrupts 70s and 80s mentality.

Anon
1 month ago

“Monumental bridges” lol

Anonymous
1 month ago

Stunning views of monumental bridges!

Anonymous
1 month ago

You probably look at a federal prison in park west? These bridges are beautiful

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s a different bridge, peanut head.

Mkt Pro
1 month ago

There’s nothing like taking government owned, public housing property and turning it over to another luxury developer… :/

Anonymous
1 month ago

that wasn’t public housing property—that’s next door

Anonymous
1 month ago

Glad they did. Why tf would be have public housing property with river views?

guy1
1 month ago

We can tell that you are new to Miami. 10 years ago no one cared about river views

Anonymous
1 month ago

Not new to Miami. Lol The building hasn’t been built yet and people do care about river views now. The original post was criticizing the sale of public housing land to a private developer.

Anonymous
1 month ago

10 years ago nobody cared about brickell or downtown Miami. It was a little outpost for Miami Beach and suburbanites.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’ve loved river views my entire life. I prefer walking along the river than the beach.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Have you ever walked around here? I’ve lived across the river for about 6+ years and can tell you that this corner can’t get much worse, but this design is just plain awful.

Anon
1 month ago

sounds like a smart business decision

EJS
1 month ago

The “Gallery” brand, as I understand it is Related’s workforce housing brand. Not all will be workforce housing but they will get special dispensations from the City (or is it County) for including WF housing in the devt. To me, let’s densify the urban core since NIMBYs in outlying areas are so strong and negative towards devt.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The NIMBYS are dying off or moving to farm towns.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nonsense. There are plenty of NIMBYs right here in Brickell. You should see the popular reaction to the announcement of literally any condo building in the neighborhood.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You seem to have some misconceptions about Brickell, my friend. Not all condos in the area raise concerns among residents. The real issue lies with the massive ones that fail to make a fair contribution to improving public spaces. Take, for instance, the condo mentioned in the article, which squanders and obstructs activity along the riverfront. What people truly desire is thoughtful and high-quality development that enhances public spaces. It’s not about the scale of the project, but rather the commitment to public improvement that matters most.

Anon
1 month ago

shaking down developers for money for “public space” will only further make homes here more unaffordable. Guess who they pass those cost on to? Your dog can crap in whatever you got now just fine.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Great! It’ll be less expensive in the long run when we have a city that actually functions and maintains itself, rather than paying for it later – the fuck ups have so many hidden fees people don’t realize. Quit trying to pull this “affordable housing” crisis bill shit over our eyes, we see through it! Developers are robbing this city clean and need to put in the contributions if they’re going to get the pay out!!!!

Anonymous
1 month ago

^^I can see straight through your “I got mine and everyone else can piss off” bullshit. Of course making new units even more costly will only raise up existing inventory values. That’s all you care about. Developers have a right to earn money on their developers without paying into some politico’s/local resident’s shakedown scheme. California has done the same thing over the last few decades, and now residents can’t figure out why their kids can’t afford to buy homes there. CA has a manufactured housing crisis, and we don’t need that here.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Developers have built this city. You don’t know what tf you’re talking about. Go join your NIMBY friends and start another unsuccessful online petition.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Some developers are shaking down the city, and extracting all it’s worth without giving us the framework to prosper and maintain our investments.

Anonymous
1 month ago

^^it’s not a new developer’s duty to increase your property value. LOL

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s their duty to ensure they don’t inadvertently turn a gem into a ghetto

Miami River Excellence
1 month ago

When developers invest more in the development of a property, the costs may increase for new owners. However, existing residents who were already living there won’t feel the impact of these increased costs. It’s only fair that those who arrive later would have to pay more, as it compensates for the early residents who paid less. Despite the higher costs, the property becomes a valuable asset that will be appreciated by all. The prices for new properties are already high, but in this market, quality is highly valued, and people expect excellence without cutting corners, especially in the areas they plan to live. Despite the elevated costs, the demand remains strong, and new owners recognize the significance of investing in a property that meets elevated standards.

Anonymous
1 month ago

^^yeah the “I got mine” mentality in full display here, excellence guy

Miami River Excellence
1 month ago

Another developer manipulation! That is not my intention. I believe we should focus on creating more affordable places in proximity to the key point of development, rather than right on top of it. By ensuring that the development is thoughtfully designed and aesthetically pleasing, we can avoid blocking affordable options in the area. This approach will prevent the property from becoming both expensive and unusable. Our goal should be to foster sustainable growth that benefits everyone. Let’s prioritize building something that works for the entire community.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is false. Most of the complaints about the new Swire supertall have nothing to do with public space. People are just anti-development.