More TOD: 247-Unit Merrick Parc Apartment Building Proposed At Metrorail Station

Plans were recently filed for yet another apartment building near the Douglas Road Metrorail station.

The project was submitted with the name Merrick Parc Phase 1 (renderings show that there will be a second phase).

Merrick Parc Phase 1 is planned to rise 20 stories, or 235 feet and include:

  • 247 residential units and related amenities
  • 9,485 square feet of commercial and office space
  • 291 off street parking spaces

Parking is on ground level through level 4, with the garage partially lined with residential. Parking space count is proposed to be reduced from Miami 21 zoning requirements using a 30% waiver, since it is in a Transit Oriented Development area (code would have required 389 total on and off street spaces).

Behar Font is the architect.

Merrick Parc, LLC is the developer.

Miami’s Urban Development Review Board voted 5 to 0 to recommend approval at a February 15 meeting.

The board recommended that designers of the project consider the following:

  • Evaluate the entrances and corners. Expand on the relationship to the retail
  • Articulate the roof to define the top of the Building, create a transition between building and sky

 

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Anonymous
6 months ago

Great development in nice area for more options to connect people to Brickell Station!

Anon
6 months ago

Love the Jerusalem pattern stone style detailing all the way up the center base. We need to see more of this detailing in Brickell and Miami. It fits in with the Mediterranean style architecture and can be done with a modern twist like this building at relatively low cost.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Fillers gonna fill…next to mass transit what’s not to like?

Anon
6 months ago

I think it’s nice – I just find the UDRB comments totally arbitrary.

Anon
6 months ago

Are there any designers on the UDRB?

Anonymous
6 months ago

If you knew anything about urban design, you would know the recommendations mean make the retail level more inviting rather than a low strip of glass, and make the towers look less like to boxes.

Anon
6 months ago

There are, actually

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

Definitely more appealing to look at than the Link at Douglas buildings are.

Anon
6 months ago

The UDRB in Miami is useless.

Anon
6 months ago

They allowed Empire Brickell I think. I wish Empire Brickell looked like this or better. There’s still hope 🤞

Anonymous
6 months ago

More like they allowed Link at Douglas and Downtown 5th.

Name*
6 months ago

“Articulate the roof”
Painted concrete table top.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Make the top of the elevator shaft look pretty. IDK, sometimes it is night and day for a box to have some nice little cap at the top.

Anon
6 months ago

Add a dome or something. There are pretty ones in Coral Gables. Add some modern dones to denser Miami – that would be world class.

anonymous
6 months ago

needs way more retail space. You have hundreds of new apartments going live and that will bring thousands of people

Anonymous
6 months ago

This area is booming.

peej
6 months ago

laziest branding?? Let’s change the K to a C…EUREKA! (err EURECA?!)

ParkingHater
6 months ago

someone needs to run for office in the gables and cash in on the goldmine that is the Ponce corridor. Use the momentum of Douglas exploding

don’t even need tall buildings, just zone the whole thing for 1st floor commercial and 4 floors of residential or office.

would print tax dollars.

Pollo
6 months ago

Soon there won’t be any commercial places left in that corner of Merrick park.

Willy
6 months ago

I hope the last few car repair shops in the area don’t disappear. There arent any others for miles.

Anonymous
6 months ago

huh? there’s car repair shops up and down US1 for miles and miles

ParkingHater
6 months ago

Yeah but the zoning preemtion is gonna slowly eat them up.

Not that I think that’s bad, but they’re small businesses. Hopefully someone in the city or county gov is offering to help relocate