Miami Worldcenter Gets Utilities For New Retail Building

The developers of Miami Worldcenter have signed a deal to connect a new standalone retail building planned next to World Square.

The agreement was dated March 8.

According to the agreement, a total of 15,000 square feet of retail will be connected to the county’s water and sewer system.

The new building will be built at Worldcenter’s Block F West, the agreement states.

Nitin Motwani signed the agreement on behalf of developing entity MWC Retail F West LLC.

The proposed standalone retail building went into construction permitting on February 1, and is currently undergoing corrections.

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

Total hard construction cost for Block F West is estimated at $12M, according to the permit filing.

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

 

Screenshot from Miami Worldcenter website, showing the site of the proposed standalone retail building:

 

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MiamiArchi
2 months ago

$12 Million for 15,000 SF.
That all but confirms its an apple store.
No one else would be spending that kind of Money on a building that small.
Great News!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Nothing confirms that until there is an official press release. I’m not believing the Apple hype until it’s official.

Anonymous
2 months ago

The source for all the Apple hype was based on hearsay from a “tech influencer” with 14k followers who posts to promote MWC every 15 min.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Wasn’t the rumor that it would be the largest Apple store in the world? Google says Dubai store is 50k sq ft and NYC 5th Ave store is 77k sq ft. This 16.6k wouldn’t live up to the rumor then.

Azarius
2 months ago

The store in Aventura is 21,000 sqft

BB1
2 months ago

Could be Nike

Anonymous
2 months ago

Gov. DeSantis today moved to revoke the liquor license for Hyatt Regency for allegedly allowing children at a drag show (citing to one blurry photo that does not show the age of the individuals) and costumes of drag performers that are no more revealing than the Rockettes.

Drag is a part of Miami’s culture and local art forms, from originate as far back as the Birdcage (which was an R rated movie shown to children with parents present in movie theaters across Florida 20 years ago). The material described seems available to people of all ages on beaches, movie theaters and music concerts today.

This is relevant, because the land Hyatt Regency sits on is leased by the City of Miami. The People of Miami recently voted in favor of a new development project that would connect and beautify the Miami River Front. Government action like this could inhibit Miami’s growth, identity, and success, and drive art and culture out of Miami and Florida.

I hope that our state leaders stop attacking freedom, parental rights, the LGBT community, the first amendment and real estate rights.

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article273137760.html

Anonymous
2 months ago

It would be as a Starbucks Reserve

MMN
2 months ago

I’d like an SB Reserve much more then an Apple Store.

Anonymous
2 months ago

I’d like both.

based
2 months ago

IM GONNA CONSOOOOM

Anonymous
2 months ago

That would be amazing, way better than Apple.

Not Anonymous
2 months ago

Nice to see the project moving forward! Lot of money for the size of the building, hopefully higher end stores. Wish there was more retail space though.

Anonymous
2 months ago

More bookstores! There’s buy a book and coffee.

Name
2 months ago

Books are banned in Florida.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Hope they try to get Nordstrom men’s store like in NYC!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Would be nice, considering the new Macy’s store and Bloomie’s were axed for “high-street retail,” as if Bowelero and an overpriced sports bar fit that description… Nordstrom is one of the more healthy department stores, as it’s still controlled by the founding family.

Anon
2 months ago

15,000 SQFT is not that big – what will this be??

Anonymous
2 months ago

A croqueta stand

Melo is sigma and chad
2 months ago

By mid 2025 this area will be name dropped in the average conversation in Dade.

Anonymous
2 months ago

“Miami Worldcenter” is still kind of a word salad with little information about what it is – no longer really a “world center” more of “Park West Plaza”

Anonymous
2 months ago

I think world center is a dumb name… not even close to some of the great neighborhoods and districts around the world. I think most people will simply call this area downtown

Anonymous
2 months ago

It’s a bit dramatic for what it is.

Brickell Bucks
2 months ago

I’m routing for it to live up to the name. It could be a great supplement to Brickell.

Not Anonymous
2 months ago

judging by how much people like to shorten place names, it’ll probably be “Worldcenter” or just “Paramount” or “World”

Anonymous
2 months ago

It will be Worldcenter for sure

Anonymous
2 months ago

It’s just Downtown.

MMN
2 months ago

Downtown @ Worldcenter is what I tell people when they ask me where I live in Miami.

Professional Engineer
2 months ago

agree!

Yeah
2 months ago

Sedanos and Balsan coming to MWC! Miami winning!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Whats that? Where did you hear? link?

Anonymous
2 months ago

Any word on Lowe’s or Target?

Anonymous
2 months ago

Not a chance.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Do you honestly think the market for a Sedano’s exists in a neighborhood where average rent is $3,000?

Anonymous
2 months ago

I had actually never heard of it before

Anonymous
2 months ago

^Replies can’t take a joke.

Professional Engineer
2 months ago

This square in the middle of all theses high rises will epic! need more of these throughout Miami

Anonymous
2 months ago

MWC should try to get an indoor ice skating rink. What does every Florida native and transplant wish they could do in FL? Ice skate, like in Rockefeller Center

Anonymous
2 months ago

Yes with falling snow!!

Simcity Player
2 months ago

That would be cool, I suggest a side bar/lounge with falling snow. I know they have ice bars, but a bar with snow sounds fun and innovative. Someone take this idea and skate with it 😉

Anonymous
2 months ago

Okay but where? That’s an interesting suggestion but you need an enormous amount of space for an indoor ice rink – there is a scaled map provided above – do you see anywhere a spare indoor ice rink could go…? Think, people.

That Brickell Guy
2 months ago

Yes, Block F West. Most ice skating rinks are enclosed with no views, except maybe the one in Chelsea Piers if my recollection serves me well.

Being in tropical Miami, it could be experiential to ice skate in an all glass enclosed space where people can walk by and see ice skaters like they do in Rockefeller Center.

anonymous
2 months ago

G.o t,o New York then. Idk why people want incorporate every little piece of their favorite city here. Let Miami have its own flavor and novelties. If every city were like each other, they would all be bland.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Um, plenty of cities have ice skating rinks, so why not Miami? What would you like to see, a tango stage? Go to a bar in Hialeah then.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Would be better than the low-class bowling alley proposed.

Calivalle
2 months ago

Bad idea, they could’ve put 15,000SF In any of the new buildings going up… Leave the square alone…😜😜

Anonymous
2 months ago

More mediocre architecture. Looks like somebody’s glass house in L.A. in the courtyard of a suburban community college campus.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Was in the area on Sunday, and World Square still a pile of dirt.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Are they playing in the sandbox again?

Anonymous
2 months ago

Brickell and downtown need an Amazon store.

Anonymous
2 months ago

You mean a Whole Foods Market?

Anonymous
2 months ago

I wish the design was more innovative. I love what they build in Dubai, here everything looks so basic.

What
2 months ago

The design hasn’t been revealed yet…….

Anonymous
2 months ago

We have renderings. Isn’t that what’s going to look like?

Anonymous
2 months ago

These are conceptual renderings from earlier on in the developments lifecycle. Not everything depicted in them has come to pass.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Yes, and from concept to reveal, the final product gets more boxy and boring.

A Nonymous
2 months ago

If we were sitting on 4 billion barrels of oil like Dubai, maybe our architecture would be different.

Anonymous
2 months ago

We do…but our gov doesn’t let us access it anymore because muh climate change

Anonymous
2 months ago

Miami has zero oil around it all of its in Gulf of Mexico . And also concerning climate change what does that have to do with anything.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Exactly, ask the people flying solo in Learjets to Davos every year.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Imagination and creativity are free

Anon
2 months ago

Ahh yes, 1000 Museum, the Paramount, and Legacy are just so boring…**eyeroll**

Anonymous
2 months ago

Yes nice towers, but when there are three times as many boxes… The Crosby is the most recent disappointment.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Yo did you know Burj Khalifa building in your DUBAI is not connected to the sewer system….

anonymous
2 months ago

Is that because owners are so wealthy they do not have to pee and poop ?

Anonymous
2 months ago

No, it’s because Dubai is surrounded by a giant litterbox.

Miami4Life
2 months ago

If that rendering is even remotely similar to what it will look like, it is definitely an Apple Store

Anonymous
2 months ago

Nice to finally have some more public space in this city….

peej
2 months ago

looking forward to more details from Foster + Partners, they design all of Apple’s specialty stores. The Aventura store turned out great, this one should too.

Anonymous
2 months ago

They should put something like the Vegas Sphere, now that would be amazing!!