Giant Transit-Oriented Development Nearly Complete At Coconut Grove Metrorail

Right next to the Coconut Grove Metrorail station, a large mixed-use project called Grove Central is getting its finishing touches.

The project will be anchored by a Target, which signed a lease for 49,658 square feet of space in 2019.

There will also be a Total Wine, Sprouts, Club Studio, and Five Below.

A residential tower is planned to include 400 apartments, with pre-leasing now underway. The least expensive unit currently on the leasing website is a studio apartment listed at $2,099 for a 408 square foot unit.

A 5-story parking garage was also built, and was planned to include 898 spaces.

 

 

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Grove Central is planned to include:

  • 400 apartments
  • 172,000 square feet of retail
  • 898 parking spaces

 

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Mmmm
28 days ago

All metro rail stations with new developments next to them should also get updated stations with new escalators and elevators. Lord knows they’re always breaking down.

Anonymous
28 days ago

The Brickell Station too – it’s no better

EJS
28 days ago

Yeah, I agree, the metrorail is its own worse enemy. They’d prefer spending 100’s of thousands on more transit studies instead of making a clean, easy-to-use system. But hey, if Miami can find a way to fund transportation studies and not spend a dime on the infrastructure, they will!

Anonymous
28 days ago

What’s there to study? Just maintain and update our existing stations. We don’t need anymore, if people desire living close to the stations.

Anonymous
27 days ago

They spent millions on new Metrorail trains with the same stations falling apart. Conversely, they spent millions refurbishing the Metomover beer cans when the entire system needs to be upgraded to accommodate longer cars and trains if expansion is ever seriously considered.

Anonymous
27 days ago

Why does it need longer cars? Just have more frequent ones. I like the single car system.

Al Czervik
27 days ago

What a headscratcher.
Government transportation costs more and more with little improvement.

My car gets me anywhere I want to go in complete comfort and safety.

WE NEED more government transportation.

Anonymous
27 days ago

You’re the reason we have ugly drive through restaurants in our urban core. Are you afraid you’ll be booed for your unpopular positions if you went out in public or something? Our metro system is safer than driving in Miami.

Al Czervik
27 days ago

Yep it’s a failure.

WE NEED more of it!

Anonymous
27 days ago

I really hope you’re not making the decisions here.

Anonymous
28 days ago

One exciting and fitting piece of the puzzle to ultimately encourage mass transit and reduce traffic.

Anonymous
28 days ago

Yes much better than wynwood- which is over hyped and outside the Miami city transit zone

Anon
28 days ago

400 units, 900 parking spaces. Too many parking spots right next to a metro rail station. Could be used for more housing/public amenities/commercial retail space

Anonymous
28 days ago

Those spaces are for retail so people won’t need to drive to midtown/downtown/brickell

Al Czervik
27 days ago

Thanks.
Common sense isn’t as common anymore.

Breakfast Diner Man
27 days ago

Go South Dixie Highway Traffic Stops!

Anonymous
28 days ago

Its got retail shopping. Probably needs more parking.

Anonymous
28 days ago

A ton more parking. There’s no way to get there without a car

Al Czervik
27 days ago

No way? As in impossible?

Would you pay $1,000 for any superhuman who could achieve such a feat?

My toddler and I will take you up on your amazing challenge and donate proceeds to the School of Kids Who Don’t Think Too Good, and want to be Good at Other Things Too.

Anonymous
28 days ago

Never mind, I thought this was Wynwood. It absolutely does NOT need more parking. It’s not like Wynwood where you need a car.

Name
28 days ago

The parking is for the metro station. It is built on the former parking lot for the station.

Anonymous
28 days ago

Nobody drives here to transfer to the metro mover when it’s a few more minutes to drive to Brickell . Scrap the parking! It’s meant to be a pedestrian area

Anonymous
27 days ago

Nobody with a brain gets Metrorail mixed up with Metromoober.

Anonymous
27 days ago

Just call it all the same thing and have one map, use different color lines like NyC

Anonymous
27 days ago

Doesn’t fit Coconut Grove.

Azarius
28 days ago

Now this is a very exciting project. Look at all the retail coming to just this one spot with transit at your doorstep. More buildings like this outside the core

Anonymous
27 days ago

With better architecture, HOPEFULLY…

Anonymous
28 days ago

Everything has a cost, but investing in better public transportation is a smarter way to use our tax dollars. We all complain about traffic, but few of us do anything about it. I decided a few years ago that I didn’t enjoy being stuck in traffic and moved from NE Dade to Brickell to be closer to work and drive less. Turns out I love so much NOT driving that I sold my car and bought an e-bike. I take metro rail to work and use my bike to get around. I have never been happier than I am now that I no longer sit in traffic for 2 hours a day. It’s not perfect, but it’s WAY better.
I understand not everyone has the flexibility to move, but we as a community can decide to do things differently than we have previously. Moving one person in one car is the most inefficient way to get around and if we decide that’s the way we want to live, then we can’t complain about traffic, because that is the ultimate result

Anonymous
28 days ago

I completely agree, I moved from Miami to Chicago which has a much better transit system and not being car dependent has been amazing, I wish Miami would invest in other modes of transportation like BRT, bike lanes, and expanding the Metrorail. Would also love some people oriented development but hey a guy can dream

Anonymous
28 days ago

We should add a bike path over the 2nd Avenue bridge in Brickell to government metro center. You have to pay to drive to the center (they don’t have online filing systems). You could metro mover there which is good. If we had bike paths, people would have more options.

Al Czervik
27 days ago

Good for you!
“We” don’t all complain about traffic.

Investing in Government Transportation is NOT always efficient. Airports, Seaports, highways, freight trains, are usually good. 1984’s MetroMover still gets derided (by the same masochists who think WE need more of the same.)

My car not only gets my family to their destination safely and directly, but when traveling alone, I travel in comfort; productively.
My time is an asset. My car time is a VERY efficient use of my time. Sitting in a Government train on the phone, is not private, and not efficient.

Granted, if I were not contributing much in the way of economic value to society, or on vacation, the Government transportation would be fine.

Anonymous
27 days ago

That’s totally fine. You and thousands of others can choose to drive, no one is taking your freedom to do so, but those of us that choose to use public transportation need a reliable system as well.
That’s all I’m saying.

Anonymous
27 days ago

These are the groups who lobby and give you money. You sound a lot like Joe Carollo.

Anonymous
27 days ago

We should based the entire city planning on this one guys personal lifestyle? Get out.

Anonymous
28 days ago

This being Miami, the parking will most likely be free with validation. Meanwhile, you’ll still have to pay for Metrorail ticket. It will be cheaper to drive if you already have a car and especially if there is more than one person in the car.

guy1
28 days ago

All these comments about parking… The real issue is “$2,099 for a 408 square foot unit” when the median income for Miami is under $70k/year

anonymous
28 days ago

i doubt the median income Miamian is going to live in this area. Just like most major cities it is expensive to live in the core area. Thats why they need to continue building more rail to allow the building of additional affordable housing

Anonymous
28 days ago

No more raíl. We have a ton of land around our existing station that is empty or blighted. Focus on revitalizing those areas first before creating satélite neighborhoods or we will continue to have a shitty core again that drives people to the suburbs, like the early 2000s.

guy1
28 days ago

If you consider this the core of Miami, you are clearly a newcomer and the one of the sources of our housing unaffordability crisis. This website is very popular with real estate agents and developer who profit on these development so I don’t expect support of my comment. Of $2,000 very is affordable for a finance bro, a web developer, or a real estate agent with a small wardrobe. But where is the development for normal people with normal jobs that are actually building this city. I bet the architectural designers that designed this building would not be able to afford to live there. That is a problem.

Anonymous
28 days ago

The core of Miami is anywhere that has a metro station, period.

Al Czervik
27 days ago

Either you are a total fool, or Okeechobee Station has a 97 walkscore.
Let me investigate and get back to WE.

Anonymous
27 days ago

Incentivize masterplanned pedestrian developments there instead of Little San Juan and Little Haiti.

Anonymous
28 days ago

I know architects who pay this much, and if they can’t yet, they get roommates.

Al Czervik
27 days ago

There are 1,000s of apartments for working people and 1,000’s on the way.
One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.

Cover the Podiums
27 days ago

would you live in Brownsville? cause we have two Metrorail stops over there 🙂

Anonymous
27 days ago

I certainly would. I used to live in Brooklyn during its gentrification phase. Additionally, Wynwood bore a resemblance to Brownsville 5-10 years ago. Most people knew Wynwood as Little San Juan. Instead of encouraging development that burdens taxpayers with the cost of building rail, let’s change our approach. Promote appealing development near our current core transportation system.

Anonymous
28 days ago

Those statistics are bogus. Prices are what people pay, and these prices are discounted compared to what they will be as Miami gets more livable.

Al Czervik
27 days ago

Guess what….Median people won’t live here.

Cover the Podiums
28 days ago

“This is great project to incentivize public transit living” said no one ever

900 parking spaces for 400 apartments and Studios going for $2100 ahahah

anonymous
28 days ago

so where do you suggest the people park that are coming for retail shopping or parking and taking the metrorail?

Aubrey Graham
28 days ago

The parking isnt just for the apartments… There’s retail and transit too. Park and rides are good when the vast majority of the are does not live in walking distance from a station. This isn’t new york. This isn’t Europe.

Anonymous
28 days ago

This park and ride concept is fine for further outside the core but this is right in the core next to Brickell.

Anonymous
27 days ago

I live in this area, and it is very suburban, and it is always going to be that way. The potential for this becoming a high-density, walkable neighborhood is essentially zero. Yes, park and ride is needed here.

Anonymous
27 days ago

I get the park and ride in Dadeland, but this project is right in the city. Where would you even ride to from here? If you drove here, you’re already in Miami, just 5 minutes from anywhere you’d take a train to. It’s confusing.

Melo is sigma and Chad
28 days ago

Target sure has alot of stores coming online in Miami

Cover the Podiums
28 days ago

Those balconies on the first few floors are literally 1950s and there’s rarely any liner units. Who designed this project??

Al Czervik
27 days ago

Literally?
This explains the rental prices. They LITERALLY combed the globe to source 1950’s balconies.

Anonymous
28 days ago

Metrorail should be free by now. We subsidize all our roads and the insane amount of new highway construction for cars in our city but my tax dollars can’t go to paying for actual public transportation?

Miami Native
28 days ago

Name a City that has free subways and public transportation. At least the Metromover downtown is free

Anonymous
27 days ago

Hence why the same brianlets on here want it expanded because they refuse to fork over a couple of dollars to go somewhere where they’ll fork over a couple hundred.

Al Czervik
27 days ago

It’s not free.

Anonymous
27 days ago

-Luxembourg
-Buffalo, NY has free Metrorail is certain sections.
-Germany, while not free, offers an extremely cheap 49 Euro a month subscription that allows people to use unlimited public transportation across the entire country. This even includes regional rail that travels between cities.

More and more places are proposing free or very cheap public transportation to encourage less car use. This is important for places that are already car dependent like Miami because spending $4.50 per person on a round trip can add up if you’re using it everyday and makes no sense when you already have a car and free or cheap parking almost everywhere.

anonymous
28 days ago

it only costs a few dollars to get on the metrorail. Its practically free

Al Czervik
27 days ago

No.
People who pay taxes pay for the Miami-Dade County Transit system.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, or a free Government transportation ride.

Anonymous
28 days ago

No ir should not be free. It should be improved and prices raised to make it more modern. We can give out discounts for monthly riders or welfare recipients.

Al Czervik
27 days ago

Everyone riding the MetroMover is a Welfare Recipient.

Okay…you’re right…that’s enough…

Anonymous
27 days ago

Come on get out of your car more. You’ll see suits during the day and dressed up patrons going to the opera or basketball games downtown. nobody wants to drive there with arena traffic. .

Al Czervik
27 days ago

Get educated.
Google “gas tax Florida” and see if you can learn something new about how the world works.

Anonymous
27 days ago

I feel taxed every time I fart these days.

Anonymous
27 days ago

Lousy architecture made worse with the splotchy paint job, especially for something with Coconut Grove in its name.

Anonymous
27 days ago

It’s truly bizarre and frankly sociopathic that people are complaining about “too much” parking. Instead of FORCING people to take public transit, like would happen in, I dunno, the PRC – ENCOURAGE people to take transit by making it a pleasant experience! I used to take Tri Rail to work, unfortunately I am back in my car – not because I want to be, but because the Tri Rail level of service and product was not worth the extra time spent on the train vs the privacy and comfort of my car. Of COURSE a shopping plaza with a Target and grocery store needs a lot of parking!

Anon
28 days ago

Great affordable new area in the Urban core!

guy1
28 days ago

$2000 per month for a shoebox is affordable?

Anonymous
28 days ago

Yes

Melly
28 days ago

Not affordable at all. This is Miami.

Anonymous
28 days ago

Exactly, that’s why it’s affordable. Its not Hialeah.

Anonymous
27 days ago

It’s not the urban core either.

Anonymous
27 days ago

Yes it’s to the urban core. It’s walkable and 5 min metro ride to Brickell.

anon
28 days ago

So much parking! 🙁

Anonymous
27 days ago

Looks worse than the Link at Douglas.

Bill F.
24 days ago

No Signage for Metro Rail users

MiamiCityMan
17 days ago

A deck for 900 parking spaces. Now just imagine 900 cars on SW 27 and US1. The line would stretch to Broward.

Fern
27 days ago

Once again it is tragic to see such a large parking garage adjacent to the metro

Anonymous
27 days ago

The area around is suburban enough (and NEVER going to change in that respect) that it needs parking spots.

Anonymous
27 days ago

It’s going to be the new Brickell.