Lobbyist For Icon Brickell Registers Over Church Property Where Supertall Tower Planned

Icon Brickell Condominium No. Two Association, Inc has hired a lobbyist to represent them over the church property next door where a supertall residential tower is being planned, according to a City of Miami database.

The lobbyist is from Corcoran Partners and represents the association in regard to “development of all land currently designated as parking behind the First Presbyterian Church at 609 Brickell Ave,” according to the July 11 registration.

The First Miami Presbyterian Church approved a $240 million deal last year with developers 13th Floor Investments and Key International to redevelop a surface parking lot and school with a potential 80-story supertall tower.

One church member however had filed a complaint with the religious body that oversees the institution. As of February, a settlement was being considered.

 

 

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Anonymous
10 months ago

“Entitled residents hire a lobbyist to ensure 4 food trucks selling $15 burritos remain a permanent fixture on an undeveloped lot.”

Anonymous
10 months ago

Please don’t fuck this one up, NIMBY’s. This space deserves a gorgeous tower.

David Hasselhoff
10 months ago

The NIMBYS are coming out!

Dale
10 months ago

Sounds like the nimbys are vastly outnumbered and outgunned on this one.

Urbanist
10 months ago

NIMBYs don’t see the value created.

These are more CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything).

Qtip
10 months ago

More like someone wants a bribe…..These types always wanna slow down development.

Anonymous
10 months ago

I think it’s gorgeous. Especially compared to the current state of this lot. It looks horrible now.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Agreed

Anonymous
10 months ago

LOL, maybe they should take a walk outside to their personal dog park…-I mean Miami Circle Park and look up once and a while.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Exactly. Icon Brickell has aged quite a bit and is becoming something of an eyesore itself. This new development will make it look even worse. No wonder the neighbors don’t want it.

Michael
10 months ago

People need to accept that Miami is no longer a sleepy little town with about 1,000 people. There are individual buildings in Miami that now house more people than the entire city when it was in its infancy.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Um, that was in the 1890s. This is just plain NIMBYism.

Build back better
10 months ago

I remember when I used to live in the Atlantis at Brickell and the Association waisted money with lawyers ( sharks) to stop the construction of the building next door.
Senator Annette Tadfeo ( She/Her\Ella) was the Director of the association 🙃

Anonymous
10 months ago

Ken Russell >>> Annette Taddeo

Anonymous
10 months ago

Brickell Soaring.

Tri-Rail to downtown... what a genius thought
10 months ago

These churches should give at least half of the proceeds of the lot sale to the community.

Joe Schmo
10 months ago

What a tacky design! 😂 fits in with the rest of Miami!

Anonymous
10 months ago

It’s not like we really have that much design detail. I’d reserve judgement until having a few different views of the design. What I’ve seen is basically a ground level concept rendering. Maybe I’m missing some other photos?

Robin Stan
10 months ago

As much as I would love to see the development, that has got to be one of the ugliest buildings I have ever seen. The rendering looks like it was done in 2006.

Anonymous
10 months ago

2006 had some nice buildings that were never built. What would you rather have, a recycled Arquitectonica box with juxtaposed balconies and giant parking pedestal from 2016?

Robin Stan
10 months ago

It doesn’t have to go from over-styled and veined dong to Arquitectonica box. A development site of this caliber and price could easily justify a Foster, OMA, or Stern building,

Southwest Til' I die!
10 months ago

It just looks phallic, I like phallic but it just looks too phallic.

Anonymous
10 months ago

It looks like a pecker