Miami Dade’s 2025 Courthouse & 1928 Courthouse

A photo shows Miami-Dade’s new and old courthouses.

The new courthouse is replacing the older one across the street.

The older Dade County Courthouse was completed in 1928 and became the tallest building south of Baltimore. It was also the tallest municipal building in the United States.

GFO Acquisitions LLC, which is a subsidiary of GFO Investments, has reportedly submitted a bid of about $52.3 million for the older building.

 

 

 

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Anonymous
18 days ago

The older building is classic, iconic. The newer one has a facade that looks like it was designed by a committee, i.e, it’s ugly as shit.

Anonymous
18 days ago

852 million for a building that shouldn’t cost more than 30 million

Jones
18 days ago

I remember seeing this headline number. Why is the cost so inflated?

Anon
18 days ago

The construction cost was $290 million ish. The higher number included the debt service and operating cost for 20-30 years

Oso Maloso
18 days ago

The old one is more nicer to look at.

Oso Maloso
18 days ago

*much nicer*

Anon
18 days ago

Absolute disgrace to architecture

anon
18 days ago

One of the very few instances where I prefer the older building over the new one.

Harry Carey
17 days ago

The old courthouse certainly looks fantastic from the outside. I love it.
However, the asbestos, lead based paint, lack of Americans with Disabilities Act compliant spaces, antiquated elevators, water leaks, and other problems don’t make it feasible as an ongoing courthouse.

With some luck and vision, this courthouse could be redeveloped in the same way the Federal Courthouse in the LeMeridien in Tampa. That would be phenomenal. Great hotel rooms, great dining experiences on the terraces, and some meeting spaces.

Question
18 days ago

What will happen to the old one?

SW30
18 days ago

the county is exploring putting it up for auction – starting at $52.3M. Crescent Heights has submitted a bid but i’m not sure who else or if anyone else has.

Question
18 days ago

I hope it won’t be demolished but simply repurposed and kept as is.

Zz001
18 days ago

I read previously that it’s a historic landmark.. and therefore can’t be demolished. So you get your wish

Anon
18 days ago

whoring it out like they do with all their priceless structures

Anonymous
18 days ago

Should have become a consolidated city hall, but go figure… City hall is miles away in Coconut Grove, and the city offices at Riverside Center are being moved to a glass box at Freedom Park. This new courthouse and the proposed offices at Freedom Park are a testament to the lack of civic pride when it comes to architecture. Even Government Center looks like the Taj Mahal compared to this mess.

Harry Carey
17 days ago

So so wrong. I was in Government Center yesterday. It is the colossal mess.

Even imagining that the escalators and elevators worked, and there were not barricades everywhere, the “skylights” plexiglass is more faded than a 1987 Camry’s headlight lenses, and the marble stairways have not been cleaned or treated since Tubbs and Crockett were a thing.

PBJ
18 days ago

idk if I’m seeing correctly, but that sidewalk on the entrance side is so narrow I can’t get myself to believe that’s the end product – especially for a “state of the art” brand new county courthouse. You guys need to check it out and lmk if I’m loosing it….

Anonymois
15 days ago

I thought the same thing. I can’t imagine card and a side walk could co-exist so I am wondering if it will be pedestrian. This perplexed me also.

politics
17 days ago

Thank former commissioner Sally Heyman for this location and end product due to site constraints

Anonymous
18 days ago

Where did we go wrong?

Anonymous
18 days ago

With those irregular windows, it looks more like a jail that our actual jails. SAD!

Fettie
18 days ago

There should be a price for the ugliest building in town !! Who was the architect who committed such crime ? ! Hard to believe it was approved. What a missed opportunity!!

Anonymous
18 days ago

…and you wonder why DJT signed an Executive Order that all new Federal buildings must be designed in classical architecture. Too bad the State Legislature didn’t follow suit, and require State and local governments the same.

Anonymous
17 days ago

May the new courthouse receive Gods glory and blessings. I will be down there when it opens to lay my hands on the walls and direct the Holy Spirit into its foundation. Proverbs 21:15 “When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.”

Anonymous
17 days ago

The new one has one of the worst sidewalks I have ever seen in my life. The sidewalk is probably at most 5′ wide and then there is a row of palm trees in that sidewalk leaving only about 3′ for people to walk next to a 15-20 story building. Talk about AWFUL……. Miami Dade county and the architects should be ashamed of themselves. What a crappy design.

William
18 days ago

Easy to criticize the look. But the building has allot of uses and is key to a successful county court system. Cheers to that and to Miami!

Anonymous
18 days ago

You can design a nice building with a lot of uses….

Yan Jammer
18 days ago

Technically it has more glass than the old one, but that’s comparing to an antique masonry facade..
also it was pointed out that there’s a much taller municipal building in NYC that predates 1928.

Anon
18 days ago

More glass? Not sure what bearing that has on anything – more glass does not automatically equal a nice building

Harry Carey
17 days ago

Did that same person know that when The Next Miami writes, “The older Dade County Courthouse was completed in 1928 and became the tallest building south of Baltimore”, that authors know that Baltimore is south of New York City?

Because if the person that pointed that out does not know that Baltimore is south of NYC, then please tell them, then you will both know.

Anon
18 days ago

The building looks great – need some better photos of it to really see though