Lights Now On At Five Park, Miami Beach’s New Tallest Building

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The lights have now been turned on at South Beach’s new Five Park tower.

The 48-story tower broke ground in 2021 at the entrance to South Beach.

It is said to be taller than any other building in the city of Miami Beach, at 519 feet.

When complete, it will include 280 luxury residential units, in a tower designed by Arquitectonica.

Terra and GFO Investments are the developers.

 

 

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BB1
13 days ago

Massive improvement from what sat there for years. Both the building and the park.

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Sterling Cooper
13 days ago

Great point of view BB1.

Without looking first, I predict that there are going to a dozen comments that WE NEED more this or that, and WE NEED more than a 5 acre park, or the pedestrian bridge should have come first, or that entire water purifcation and sustainability feature of the park…

Whoops thinking as I type…The WE NEEDS do not even know about that state of the art sustainability features in 5 Park or the park.
The WE NEEDS only want taxpayers to buy them a free government train to 5 Park.

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Anon
12 days ago

But there’s already so many free government roads?

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D.B.Cooper
12 days ago

fixated much?

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Analyst
13 days ago

I hope they will expedite the construction of the pedestrian bridge over 5th Street.

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anon
13 days ago

It’s 4+ years behind schedule already

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Anonymous
13 days ago

I hope they will extend Metrorail here.

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Ex-Londoner resident in 33132
13 days ago

You mean Metromover

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Sterling Cooper
13 days ago

Promise….I didn’t look first.

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Anon
13 days ago

Actually looks like the renderings – glass and all – well done

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Anonn
13 days ago

Classy and Perfect location for it.

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Nice
13 days ago

Beautiful glass cylinder! Thank god they did not cheap out with stucco – looks great!!!

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Bilbo Baggins
13 days ago

Probably a worthwhile tradeoff, a giant edifice for a very large and beautiful new park in that neighborhood.

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Realtalk Reilly
6 days ago

The park is not “very large.” It is well-landscaped and nice to look at as you drive by, or overlook it from your balcony at the Waverly. But that’s about it. It’s not big enough to be functional, in terms of there being anything to do there other than stroll around a little bit.

Wasn’t there supposed to be some sort of miniature amphitheater or performance venue? I don’t see it. There is a little kids’ play area, but I never see any kids in it. Not many live nearby.

As mentioned in an earlier comment I drive by the park frequently, along West Avenue on the way to the Causeway. For the most part the only activity I see in there are people walking their dogs.

As also mentioned earlier, perhaps part of the lack of appeal is that the new Five Park building adjoining the park to the south looms over it and casts a shadow over it for much of the day. All in all, it would have been aesthetically and functionally better to put the park on the south side of the plot and the building on the north.

Perhaps the park’s lack of popular appeal and consequential under-utilization is a feature, not a bug.

The developer still owns the whole parcel, right? I don’t believe they donated the portion that the park is on to the City. If I’m correct I suspect it’s just a matter of time before this park goes the way of the one on Brickell Key, that was owned by Swire.

“Well, doesn’t look like too many people are using this park that we generously made for you folks. In that case, might as well put build another big tower there instead!”

And that’s the Realtalk, baby. You read it here first.

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David
4 days ago

I live in the neighborhood and I can confirm that the park is heavily used and and I often see kids in it. using i can also confirm that 5 Park does not cast a shadow on it most of the day.

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Realtalk Reilly
1 day ago

This time of year, when the sun is gradually getting higher as it tracks across the sky each day, the building’s shadow over the park is getting shorter. By July when the sun is going almost directly overhead, the shadow situation won’t be too bad. But that’s peak summertime, when shade is welcomed!

In the wintertime, when temps are cooler and the sun is lower towards the southern horizon as it passes, that park will indeed be in the shadow of the building for “much” of the day (which is what I said), if not most of the day.

Regarding kids playing in that park, which you say you see “often,” I’m curious where they are coming from? If you live in the neighborhood, you know there aren’t many kids who live around there. In fact a lot of the kids who attend South Pointe Elementary are the children of hotel and domestic workers who live elsewhere but use their employers’ addresses for qualifying residency purposes.

The park was a deal proposed by the developer to help persuade the City to let them build so high. They’ll be proposing to replace the park with another tower within five years. In the meantime I bet the City has to sue them to get them to build that pedestrian bridge across 5th Street.

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Name*
13 days ago

Miami Beach’s first real skyscraper along with Blue and Green Diamond and White Diamond (Akoya Condominiums).
Miami alone has 70 skyscrapers over 500 ft / 150 meters, out of an estimated 7,000 worldwide= Miami has 1% of the world’s skyscrapers.

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Anonymous
13 days ago

A room witn a view 360 degrees.

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Matilda
13 days ago

What a gorgeous and imposing art piece ! Better than the renderings …. The opposite of the box and rectangle towers all over the place. The only things missing is the famously marketed pedestrian bridge. Does anyone know what’s happening with that ?!

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Casey
13 days ago

Gorgeous addition! Bring on the bridge!!

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AJ
12 days ago

When Is the Foot Bridge Coming?

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Brickell Hoe
6 days ago

Looks like Opera Tower. Nothing special

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Anonymous
13 days ago

This construction is going at a good speed. With the exception of the Melo buildings, which are built quickly, as a rule the others are much slower, with, for example, Okan, Aston Martin and Una.

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Who do you work for?
7 days ago

That is not correct.The very tight spacing in this area and the lack of a staging zone hampered the pace of construction.The limits of a very congested residential made this a very slow construction process.

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Realtalk Reilly
11 days ago

Some MIGHT remember from the renderings stage that ol’ Realtalk was not a fan (to say the least) of the way this building appeared like it was going to be grossly out of scale with its surroundings.

Welllll…..I still say it casts a literal tremendous shadow and leans over the shoulder of South Beach like impending doom, but it’s not AS bad as I expected it would be. Although it is still way higher than the Waverly, it is not as disproportionate with the Icon across the street as it looked like it would be in the renderings.

It’s a good looking building as you approach on the MacArthur — it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb to the extent that I expected.

Now that it is topped off and in the final stages of construction, I don’t hate it as much as I thought I would, but I do still have two complaints.

First, like I said it looks good from a distance, but when you get right up on it as you go over the Alton Road flyover, the boring, featureless, metal-clad exterior of the parking podium just smacks you in the face. I wish they had made it more interesting.

For example, I believe at one point there was a proposal to have a waterfall coming down that side of the building. It would be great to be greeted with something cool and eye-pleasing as you make your entry to South Beach, instead of a huge wall of aluminum siding. Can they at least paint some sort of mural on that thing? Maybe a “waterfall” of tropical green foliage? Or something??

Second complaint is more pointless since there’s obviously nothing to be done about it at this point, but I think it would’ve been much better if they had flipped the position of the building and the adjoining park. Then you would be overlooking the park (which is very nice) as you came around that flyover instead of staring into the side of a parking garage.

Plus, going back to my leadoff comment, if the park was on the south side then the building would not cast a gigantic shadow over it like it does for much of the day now.

All in all, could’ve been better, but could’ve been worse. I’ll give it a B- which is better than the D that I expected it would earn.

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BBP
8 days ago

I’m curious about the pedestrian bridge, I see that the construction connecting from the building is there but I don’t see construction yet on the other side near Icon? Does anyone have news/updates on this?

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Name*
13 days ago

“just like the renderings” but without the bridge over 5th Street. always easiest to forget public benefit parts.

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Anon
13 days ago

You may have missed the part where it says the project is still under construction.

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zachj305
13 days ago

I live a couple of blocks away from this building and drive past everytime I take the Macarthur…the base of the pedestrian bridge where it connects to the building and the ramp along the garage wall leading up to it have been under construction for the past few weeks…I’m assuming this means they’re prepping to start building the bridge soon.

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Realtalk Reilly
11 days ago

I drive past it regularly too and it’s true that they now appear to have started work on the part of the building where it will connect to the bridge. As far as I can tell, though, they have yet to turn a shovel of dirt for the landing on the other side of the bridge, across 5th Street. Vamanos! Dale!

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Sterling Cooper
13 days ago

The mids in the public and below mid level thinkers, do not understand how vacant lots are not HABU of land.

The bridge may cost $1m to build. The ADDITIONAL property taxes paid by the residents of this tower will be a public benefit of a Hundred Million dollars +

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Anonymous
13 days ago

Brickell deserves something like this, tower and park, over Baccarat, Viceroy, and whatever Related names the third blob.

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Anon
13 days ago

People in Brickell seem thrilled with that proposal, at least on this site

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