Groundbreaking Planned For Largest Public-Private Transit-Oriented Development In Dade History

Miami-Dade’s largest-ever public-private transit-oriented development will soon break ground after the developer secured a construction loan.

Terra landed a $170M loan for the first phase of Upland Park. The loan was issued by SCALE lending, the debt financing arm of Slate Property Group.

Upland Park will eventually be a $1B development, with over 2,000 mid-rise and garden-style multifamily apartments, about 282,000 square feet of retail, and approximately 414,000 square feet of additional commercial space.

The West Miami-Dade County’s Dolphin Park-and-Ride/Transit Terminal Facility will be transformed into a 47-acre multimodal transit hub.

Miami-Dade’s East-West Corridor of the County’s SMART public transportation plan is planned to terminate at the hub.

The first phase of Upland Park will include 578 multifamily apartments.

PPK Architects is designing the development, in collaboration with master plan architect Arquitectonica and urban planner Plusurbia Design

Groundbreaking is planned in early 2025.

 

(images: Terra)

 

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Fern
1 month ago

This whole idea of the East-West Corridor is pathetic. The route is atrocious.

Everything north of the line is industrial where no one lives. And of the people do live near it are any of them going to walk to a fancy bus stop in the middle of an active highway and wait 15 minutes for a bus? Next to deafening noise and car exhaust from the highway?

It should’ve been a proper metro line along US-41 from FIU to Government Center

Cover the podiums
1 month ago

Exactly

Downtown Miami Transit Terminal (new)
1 month ago

Yes Flagler/1st or Calle Ocho alignment.

Floridian
1 month ago

Industrial means that people WORK there. Also once the line actually exists

Truth Matters
1 month ago

To expand on your second paragraph…and to go where? Those buses will connect what area to this bus terminal?

Anon
1 month ago

“Multimodal” or a bus station with bike racks?

Fern
1 month ago

A “state-of-the-art” bus station with bike racks!

That’s literally what they’re calling it

Anonymous
1 month ago

“SMART” multimodal transit hub. Not Metrorail or Tri-Rail. ICONIC! GAME CHANGER!

Downtown Miami Transit Terminal (new)
1 month ago

Oh wow, it’s almost the East-West corridor. But it’s just BRT for now right? Hopefully with provisions for the upgrade later to rail?

Anon
1 month ago

Not even really BRT. It just basically has a big bus stop.

Antennae
1 month ago

Which will be a total waste of money. Who is the target audience for those buses? It’s too far away from anywhere. This is a car oriented area. Instead of urbanization, they continue to explore outer suburban living. No clue how to build a city. Where are the conscious urban planners?

No real transit
1 month ago

So close, yet so far away.

chango
29 days ago

look at the comments here…all cheerleaders for developers and sim city “big tits,big buildings” players…

anonymous
1 month ago

Excellent use of space to add more units. Anyone know if these will be market rate or workforce housing? There are I believe CSX tracks that run across the road from this development and could be an ideal location to expand Metrorail out west

Anon
1 month ago

This city is allergic to rail

Anonymous
1 month ago

Heck, if there are tracks already there, they might as well run Tri-Rail from Hialeah Market. Sad how it took a few years to get Tri-Rail running in the 80s, but twice as long to connect it downtown.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Looks like a 1980s Trammell Crow apartment complex in West Kendall had a baby out of wedlock with a Miami Beach McModern spec house.

ParkingHater
1 month ago

I really hope by the time this opens at minimum we have a shuttle tri rail train along Lehigh to the MIC

Dro
1 month ago

A compete joke to get approval to build more apartments

What better bus system!
1 month ago

Should have moved some of that money to South area. There are currently area in South Dade that need bus route. People have to walk a great distance to get to a bus route or wait an hour in Miami weather. Or ask for a ride to get to a traansite site.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I think commuter Rail is the option for the West corridor. Mass transit helps develop neighborhood and this project is bringing immediate development to West Miami Dade county , you build the stations first and then you bring the trains

Cover the podiums
1 month ago

2000 units inside congested expressway ramps. What a great idea.

The Snow Man
1 month ago

Love how Miami keeps building. Chicago please take note of how a real city does construction.

logical
1 month ago

What does this have to do with…anything? Chicago has amazing architecture. But why does an article on a development in Miami have anything to do with Chicago???

Tea
1 month ago

Reality Check:
“Real Cities” have real transportation systems – not sketchy busses, a pretend trolley, and aging 1960’s highways.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Real Cities have a better political structure than Chicago – which is in CHAOS.

Anon
1 month ago

And half our commissioners are under investigation.

To Tell The T
1 month ago

Precisely why they call it Chicaos

Coffee
1 month ago

I’d much rather drive a car through Miami traffic than take a train through snowy crime-ridden Chicago.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Assuming you’re driving, and not stopped for an hour in gridlock, because of everybody rubbernecking over a car parked on the shoulder of the road.

anon
1 month ago

assuming the train doesn’t break down or get delayed, or they guy sitting next to you doesn’t start playing with himself

Anon
1 month ago

lol good for you enjoy i95 – the height of urban transportation solutions hahaha

anon
1 month ago

lol enjoy Chicago! It’s 37 degrees and overcast right now, but damn those gov’t trains are awesome!

Truth Matters
1 month ago

Real cities are compact and dense something most American cities are allergic to. That’s why most US cities are regions, not cities.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Ummm sorry is that pro Chicago? or Miami? Chicago is oddly a mess due to politics.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Most Chicago’s foundations for prosperity were laid over 100 years ago. Apart from the Daley Dynasty and Emmanuel, who had connections, it’s been administrations from hell.