Groundbreaking Scheduled For Miami Administration Building

The City of Miami will break ground next week on its new administration building at Miami Freedom Park.

The City of Miami Administrative Building will rise 8 stories and span over 382,592 square feet.

An attached parking garage will have space for up to 889 vehicles.

Arquitectonica is the architect.

Adler Development is the developer.

Moss Construction is the general contractor.

The groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for January 15, with completion in late 2027.

The 130-acre Miami Freedom Park complex will also include a soccer stadium for Inter Miami and a 58-acre park, among other development. It was formerly a golf course.

Miami’s current administrative building is in downtown Miami.

 

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Anonymous
9 days ago

Like the city hall I Coconut Grove, only a backwards city moves key offices miles away from the core, on the periphery of the city limits. Logically, city hall and administrative functions should have moved into the restored old county courthouse. SAD!

Anon
9 days ago

The priority is for Mas to get his money.

Anonimous
9 days ago

The stadium can use the 1,000 parking spaces

Anonymous
9 days ago

Why is city hall in coconut grove and why do they fly another country flag? Heller?

Antennae
8 days ago

Horrible decisions but what’s even worse is Miami Police Department is in Doral, the Miami FBI is in Miramar. Everything has been moved to outer suburbs. No wonder Metrorail is always empty, 95% of stores downtown are boarded up and most people have to depend on cars.

McManus
7 days ago

No.
Miami Police Dept. Headquarters are located at 400 NW 2nd Avenue, in downtown Miami. This is across from the Government Center Metromover and Metrorail Station.
There is probably a different reason if Metrorail “is always empty”.

Adjacent to the HQ is the Miami Police Department Headquarters is the Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial High School (LEOMHS), a specialized magnet high school focusing on law studies, law enforcement, homeland security, and forensic sciences.

I”m surprised that you are not in a tizzy about the Miami Subs in Pembroke Pines.

KenHead
5 days ago

I’m pretty sure none of that is even remotely connected but I actually ride metro rail and I often can’t find a seat so whatever you think is happening is more likely an illusion

McManus
7 days ago

Ummmm….
Coconut Grove is a neighborhood within the City of Miami limits. It is a historic and beautiful building, the former PanAmerican Airlines Terminal which was home to some of the first International Flights on Commercial airlines in the world.

It is open to the public, and sitting in on a commission meeting from time to time may not make you happy, however, if you take some action you will be more knowledgeable about the world you live in, and you will be a more informed citizen.

The three flags flying at Miami City Hall are:
1. The United States of America (which is the biggest and tallest).
2. The State of Florida Flag.
3. The City of Miami Flag.

Anon
9 days ago

I honestly hate our local government.

AAA
8 days ago

After seeing what’s going on in other cities and LA, I have found a new appreciation for our local government, however unorganized or dysfunctional it is…. Prefer dysfunctional over INCOMPITENT anytime!

Anon
8 days ago

lol….

Urbanist
9 days ago

I’m glad we’re putting this far away from where most residents in the City of Miami actually live along a toll road. Having -checks notes- nothing around the administration building is going to make all of the employees happy to be there.

McManus
7 days ago

Does it occur to anyone that the real estate department knows where the Administrators who are administrating in this Administrative Building live?

Sure, there are about 40,000 people living in the Brickell Financial District, and that neighborhood is the most dense in Miami, but I never met a government administrator who lived there. Not once. With a data set extending over 3 decades.

Common sense is not so common.

Anon
9 days ago

As far away as possible from the public, of course.

Truth Matters
9 days ago

Gorgeous building.

Anonymous
9 days ago

The new logo looks horrible

David Caruso
9 days ago

Come on a YouTuber made it.

Anon
9 days ago

They swapped something stately and historic for an app icon.

Anonymous
9 days ago

Well it’s consistent with the new building that looks horrible.

Anon
9 days ago

For a city supposedly trying to grow, this is the opposite of progress

McManus
7 days ago

Great location for the Administration Building.
Administrators do not require waterfront buildings to administer.
Administrators do not require prime real estate on Flagler Street.

The new Director of Real Estate for the City of Miami is one smart guy who understands real estate.

Given that this new Administration building is on NW 37th Avenue and the western boundary of the City of Miami is around 76th Ave, this location close to the middle of the City.

The Real Estate Director is sure to have a heat map to know where all his employees live, and where they commute from.
An educated guess is that they do no live East of the Coconut Grove City Hall!
This location will be convenient for Administrators driving East to West, from the North and South, and even those driving West to East.

Idiocity
9 days ago

The sequel to idiocracy

David Caruso
9 days ago

This looks like the police HQ building we filmed CSI: Miami in in LA

Anthony Mountain
9 days ago

Why does the city of Miami even exist? This is a metropolitan county. There should be no municipalities (except for Gables, Beach, ICV). It’s a waste of tax money to have redundant layers of government with nothing to show for it. The city of medley and Virginia gardens have zero residents, is zoned all industrial, and get millions in taxes every year. Where does all the money go? Same for city of Miami, Aventura, Hialeah, etc. Slush funds for developers and their connected puppets.

Anon
9 days ago

I agree. The entire region would function better if unified.

Anon
9 days ago

This city truly can not run itself.

Jordan
7 days ago

S&P Global Rating service recently upgraded the City of Miami”s ad valorem and non-ad valorem bonds to ‘AA’ from ‘AA-‘

Probably because the Real Estate people are smart enough to house Administrative paper pushers in a place where the rents match with the value added by bureaucracrats.

Will I Am
9 days ago

Dade county is chartered this way. All unincorporated areas will eventually become cities… if they follow the original charter.

Todd
8 days ago

Most areas of the county should be annexed into Miami. Then we need a great team to run the place.

Jordan
7 days ago

Except citizens who do not see value from either the County, or the City, can vote to incorporate as they choose.

Ever notice how North Miami Beach doesn’t have a beach?
It’s because Sunny Isles Beach residents were fuming mad with the city, so they incorporated there own city.

They up zoned themselves…and now the residents are paying to provide their own services and they swimm8ng in cash.

Mike
7 days ago

All of you haters no matter wats done you trash it. If you hate so bad MOVE

Groton
8 days ago

Where’s the wow factor ? What a missed opportunity!

GBA
9 days ago

No parking garage. This is troubling.

Miami Native
6 days ago

“An attached parking garage with space for up to 889 vehicles”…3RD PARAGRAPH . PUT ON YOUR READING GLASSES.

Anonymous
9 days ago

The State of Florida should take over Miami.

anonpingo
9 days ago

the same state of florida funding fdot to spend a wasted decade on an ugly spider leg “vanity” project that will be a homeless camp in a few years? even when global cities like rio de janeiro are demolishing urban highways and replacing them with vertical parks with light rail running through them?