Miami Worldcenter Files To Build Standalone Retail Building: Is It An Apple Store?

Miami Worldcenter has filed building plans for a new retail building.

There are also rumors that Worldcenter may be getting an Apple Store, according to a Tweet from Ryan RC Rea, citing a source.

It isn’t clear where the store would be built, Rea wrote.

The new standalone retail building is known as Block F West and is planned next to World Square, on the same block as the “Jewelry Box” retail building.

Plans were filed with Miami’s Building Department for Block F West on February 9.

It will have high ceilings, the filing shows.

Block F West is planned as a 1-story building rising 27 feet, with a total of 16,629 square feet of retail, the filing states.

Total hard construction cost for Block F West is estimated at $12M.

The flagship Apple Store in Aventura is said to be 21,600 square feet.

 

 

The newly filed construction permit is for a retail building at Block F West:


 

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Anonymous
7 months ago

I dream for a Starbucks reserve!! Or an Eataly!!!

Anonymous
7 months ago

Omg yes!

Anonymous
7 months ago

Yes to both!

Anon
7 months ago

There’s one about a block away at the base of Vizcayne.

There’s a new LuLuLemon at Worldcenter, though.

Anonymous
7 months ago

I thought Eataly would open in Brickell. Not sure tho

anonymous
7 months ago

There’s a new two-story lofted retail space on SW2 in Brickell setup with rows of market style racks. It looks huge and modern. Looks like it’s getting ready to open. Wonder what it will be…

anonymous
7 months ago

This space is being primed and looks like the interior of an Eataly.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Do you know the exact address? Thanks

Anonymous
7 months ago

18,000 square feet is too small of a space for Eataly. They usually have 50,000 SF+

Anonymous
7 months ago

Welcome corporate flagships in central downtown, but keep authentic mom and pops all around.

anon
7 months ago

Downtown neighborhood is becoming way too corporate. Why are middle aged men with little understanding of Miami sitting around making videos about downtown and trying to sound hip on TikTok?

John Testo
7 months ago

I hope it’s a sarcasm.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Apple should also get the Arena’s name rights and make it the Apple Arena.

Anonymous
7 months ago

From triple A to double A. I like it🤔

Anonymous
7 months ago

And from an airplane to an apple.

Apple Music Arena
7 months ago

Maybe Apple Music Arena? They just sponsored the Super Bowl, it has a nice ring to it.

PUT DOWN THE APPLE TREE
7 months ago

This is the WORST name EVER. GROSS.

Anon
7 months ago

I think something more Miami/Florida centric would make more sense…

Melo, the true giga chad
7 months ago

Wait wait wait, so all those passage ways between the buildings are pedestrian only streets? If this is true, Miami is set to become something very unique with these types of developments…

anonymous
7 months ago

I hope the development of western Brickell and Riverside includes pedestrian only ways like this. We have it in BCC and MBV by why stop there?

Anon
7 months ago

Yes. They’ve been built for over a year now.

Anon
7 months ago

There’s a lot left to build. I was baffled by their announcement this week that MWC is “50% complete” when they have built just 3 of a planned 16 towers.

In terms of the retail, block E and block C east have not even broken ground.

Very excited for this development, but it is nowhere near 50% complete and will probably take the rest of the decade to finish in it’s entirety. Personally, I think a phased opening (MWC Phase I, MWC Phase II, MWC Phase III) would have been smarter in terms of getting the public to understand what will be built and when. Best of luck to them! Hope it’s Apple.

Anonymous
7 months ago

I was thinking the same when I saw that announcement too!

Anonymous
7 months ago

See what you mean, the Brickell City Centre is still in phase one I believe. I heard there’s more phases to connect to the riverfront.

MiamiArchi
7 months ago

It always looked like an Apple Store in the rendering.
Even if it doesn’t end up being one, the intention of the developers was obviously to go after Apple as a flagship tenant

Anon
7 months ago

There’s certainly the demand for it; even with the BCC location. If they do build an apple store here it will be swamped 24/7.

Anon
7 months ago

There’s a need for a Whole Foods or Trader Joes in Brickell too near the Underline

Anon
7 months ago

The downtown whole foods is a .2 mile walk away…

anonymous
7 months ago

Yeah if you’re on the edge of the river. Brickell expands south and west too. There’s also a bridge that divides these neighborhoods. The Apple store is just as close in Brickell, but there is another location opening downtown.

Anonymous
7 months ago

So does everything that’s a glass box.

Melo is sigma and Chad
7 months ago

I mean demand is high for apple in South Florida, they should build another. The Aventura location always has lines out the door.

Anon
7 months ago

There’s one down the street at BCC; perhaps the MWC location would replace it?

Anonymous
7 months ago

With population increase, you can expect multiple locations for everything, Appel, Whole Foods etc. (look at NYC)

Anonymous
7 months ago

Miami isn’t close to the density of NYC though

Anon
7 months ago

There are pockets of the city center that are approaching nyc-level density. It will take a long time before the entire urban core is like that, though

Anon
7 months ago

Depends what part. Brickell is more dense than Greenwich Village I think.

Anon
7 months ago

Exactly. Brickell is very dense and the corner of OKAN/Natiivo/Downtown 6th/5th/ 600 MWC / the Crosby / and 501 1st will be insanely dense.

Anon
7 months ago

Agree new parts of Brickell need Wholefoods or Trader Joe’s

MiamiArchi
7 months ago

The Brickell one is always packed. It can be very difficult to get appointments there to see the Genius Bar. Given the rise in residences in downtown, wynwood, midtown not to mention tourists.
I actually think it would compliment the BCC store instead of leeching customers

Anon
7 months ago

Brickell is almost too crowded and busy, more than NYC used to be, and still developing. It’s good to have other places of commerce in neighboring area to funnel some of this successful energy.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Apple can check its own data. There’s Genius Bar appointments throughout the day tomorrow and this weekend in prime season…

If Brickell with all its foot traffic has plenty of appointments, why would Apple spend so much downtown where there’s little foot traffic? Plus a stand alone store that has to be built and maintained? Apple has the data.

I see downtown improving but not a larger customer base than existing Brickell store.

Maybe it’s a Verizon store or BestBuy?

Melo is sigma and Chad
7 months ago

The other one is also packed, due to population and tourist coming from places where apple products have tariffs on them, the demand is high in the Miami Area. The Dadeland mall location is also packed.

anon
7 months ago

BCC will never be replaced. It’s one of the most successful retail and community spaces in Florida and possibly the country.

Anon
7 months ago

Cool. No one said that it would.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Its obviously Apple

Anonymous
7 months ago

It’s obviously not Apple. Rumors are not facts 🤡 A rendering is not evidence. There is an awesome Apple store in Brickell.

Anon
7 months ago

The mall store?

Azarius
7 months ago

The big glass box In all the renders for MWC is finally getting built ‼️‼️

Anonymous
7 months ago

I would love for the data center to move elsewhere!

Anon
7 months ago

Never going to happen. And I mean never. Those cables are buried deep underground and span the length of the ocean.

Anonymous
7 months ago

If they span the ocean, I think the cables can be extended several miles relatively easily.

Anon
7 months ago

You don’t have to “think” you can just do what I did and look up “NAP Center of the Americas” on google and read about it. In about 60 seconds, you’ll learn why that building is never going anywhere.

Anonymous
7 months ago

They could turn the balls on it into disco balls and it would fit with Miami right away without moving elsewhere.

Anon
7 months ago

Love this idea. Those balls look epic.

useurhead
7 months ago

yeah they’ll just up and move 10s if not 100s of million of dollars worth of recently installed equipment because some urban planning pinhead doesn’t like the way it looks.

Anonymous
7 months ago

a game changer for the neighborhood… and the whole city

Anonymous
7 months ago

How the whole city? There’s already one in Brickell

Anon
7 months ago

An enormous, stand-alone apple in the city-center is a big deal. Apple is also known for working with world-class architects. Norman Foster designed the one in Aventura. The one in BCC is nice but it is a mall store, not a stand-alone location.

anonymous
7 months ago

The Brickell Apple store is not a “mall store.” It’s visible from the street and part of unique outdoor pedestrian only thoroughfare, kind of like MWC. A stand alone building and square will be nice for MWC.

Anon
7 months ago

Don’t take offense – I was merely communicating the difference between an architect-designed, site specific standalone retail store and a retail store that leases square footage in an existing retail building.

anonymous
7 months ago

Okay! It is cool to have separate buildings that are not connected. I hope we get more of those. I also love the architecture and experience of the Brickell City Centre, it’s like a hybrid of a futuristic city within a city. It always feels safe and clean but it’s all outdoors and integrated with the streetscapes.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Aventura, Brickell, and Worldcenter are hardly working class. You talk like it’s proposed at the Westland Mall.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Good point, it’ll help central downtown dig itself out at least.

OG of Brickell
7 months ago

The Brickell Apple location is beautiful and always packed. Hope Brickell gets more masterplanned pedestrian-only retail and entertainment corridors on the last blocks.

Anon
7 months ago

Yes it’s great! And it’s always packed! Hopefully a new Worldcenter location will help alleviate some of the foot traffic.

Anonymous
7 months ago

There are a few busy pockets in Brickell that keep growing and plenty of room to adding around Brickell. If companies want Brickell foot traffic there are more properties for sale and luxury retail spaces being built now.

MWC seems too far to attract foot traffic from Brickell but can be it’s own Time Square style train hub. Will there be a red lobsters there?

Anons
7 months ago

Great for downtown Miami!

Anonymous
7 months ago

When are they going to build the building with the soccer field on top?!

Anon
7 months ago

When they find someone to build something there.

Anon
7 months ago

This is a big deal, I really hope it’s happening. I haven’t seen anything definitive yet so I’m a bit apprehensive to believe this.

anon
7 months ago

It’s good news but not surprising. Six years ago, Apples opened the largest store in Florida in Brickell for a reason… Miami is awesome!

Anonymous
7 months ago

Worldcenter has been a disappointment along with Edgewater and Maurice Ferré Park. The Flagler street project is not looking any better. The fountain on bayfront is a reminder of lacking in miami, the Guzman Center, the tower theater and the coconut grove playhouse are pretty much gone. Let’s see what happens with the plaza under the signature bridge.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Museum Park is great (minus the homeless sleeping on our benches). Edgewater is just getting started but I already love what it is and more so what it’s becoming. Same for Worldcenter… it’s just getting started. Try being more optimistic.

Anon
7 months ago

Worldcenter has completed just three of 16 planned towers (as mentioned above). Unless you have a crystal ball I’d take a seat, MWC is just getting started.

Anonymous
7 months ago

that fountain was just appropriated 5 million dollars for refurbishing….should be up and running after we do 30 years of studies…….

Transparency
7 months ago

Common theme by commenters. Who is studying? Are they salaried? Do the publish their reports and have public announced deadlines? This type of transparency will be essential as Miami moves forward.

Anon
7 months ago

Are you implying that the 5 million will be used to salary a campaign employee for 30 years?

anonymous
7 months ago

Brickell is still growing too, and way further along with proven success. I don’t think these areas will be competition. They are complimentary destinations.

Disappointed
7 months ago

I really had high hopes since I live in the area, but as far as I can tell it’s really just two blocks of shops with a couple expensive restaurants and condo buildings. Someone please convince me otherwise!

Hella
7 months ago

I think you are right, the hype was there, the final outcome is a half mall….they just killed it putting a gym right on the middle of the development.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Hey, I just read in MiamiToday:
“ 33-acre Underdeck has a plan but not the money”
So Miami!!!

where there is smoke there is fire
7 months ago

spoiler alert, it is Apple

Anonymous
7 months ago

Where there is smoke, there are mirrors 💨🪞

Anonymous
7 months ago

Meaning Apple, Inc. or an overpriced apple craft beer bar?