Mystery 709-Foot Tower Proposed In Brickell

An application was filed yesterday with the Federal Aviation Administration for a previously unannounced tower in Brickell.

According to the filing, the tower is proposed to rise 709 feet above ground, or 711 feet above sea level.

Location data attached to the filing shows it will be located on riverfront land next to the under-construction Lofty Brickell tower. The Lofty tower was previously submitted to the FAA at 574 feet above ground.

Plans were sent to Miami’s UDRB last month for the twin-tower One Brickell Riverfront, rising 43 and 44 stories, which includes the Lofty site.

The land where the new 709-foot tower is proposed is owned by the same developer.

 

One Brickell Riverfront, just west of the site where the new tower is proposed:

 

The location of the new 709-foot tower:

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Anonymous
8 months ago

Lofty is not actually currently under construction – no equipment on site yet

Melo is sigma and Chad
8 months ago

theyre digging out the current parking lot

Anonymous
8 months ago

When I walked by this past Sunday nothing was happening

Stavi
8 months ago

I walked by there yesterday and didn’t see any construction equipment either

Anon
8 months ago

They’re doing un cazz. Tore up a 5ft piece of slab for the ground breaking ceremony and zero activity since

Antennae
8 months ago

What about OKAN? E11leven? I guess ceremoies for these projects were just a façade?
Forgive the pun

Anonymous
8 months ago

E11ieven is about to start foundation…..workers there every day except sunday

SW30
8 months ago

They were actually digging at E11even the last time I saw. But yes no activity in months at Okan

Anonymous
8 months ago

So that small riverfront park in the rendering… is going to be another high rise?

Melo is sigma and Chad
8 months ago

Maybe they just want FAA approval to flip it

Anonymously Anonymous
8 months ago

So going by the rendering provided, the building will rise on that flat piece of parcel where the people are standing/walking on the bottom left of the image.

Anon
8 months ago

Yes, appears to be the space which now occupies a cordoned-off parking lot.

Ben
8 months ago

Waiting for that guy to say this is not in Brickell LOL. He thinks Brickell is just east of Brickell Avenue. He wants us all to change our names and go along with with his plan. We aren’t dumb!

Anon
8 months ago

says the same ppl who label little havana as “west brickell”

Anonymous
8 months ago

Brickell is Brickell. Little Havana is Little Havana. Period. I don’t say “west” for either. “West” is fake realtor talk.

Anonymous
8 months ago

Yet they call Brickell Key Claughton Island, which was its original name, yes. But “Brickell” west of Miami Avenue used to be called “Southside” and East Little Havana north of the Miami River curve “Riverside”

Anonymous
8 months ago

That’s not true. We have the original map and we have done extensive research.

All of Brickell south of the river was “Southside” (aka south side of the river). Mary Brickell developed a small community of single family homes—only East of Brickell Avenue.

Todays Miami Avenue was called Avenue D, and the letters went up as you go west. and “Brickell Plaza” was Miami Avenue (and before that Avenue C). Avenue B was renamed Brickell Ave.

The first use of Brickell as a neighborhood name came decades later. Eventually the financial high rises connected the Brickell name further west to todays Miami Avenue. When Brickell Station was built in 1994, and when Mary Brickell Village was built in 2006 the neighborhood identity really evolved, and the area we are referring to here became incorporated into Brickell.

Ten years later in 2016, Hong Kong based Swire developed the Brickell City Centre, at the same time as numerous condos on 2nd Avenue had been built or were going up, that also adopted the name Brickell. And why shouldn’t they?

It’s a small area only one or two avenues that are along the Brickell Station stop and cut off by the highway to the west, and people build and live here to be in Brickell just like all the people on Miami Avenue who changed the name to Brickell Plaza.

People have been calling the area from I95 to the bay Brickell for decades now, and it was never a separate area. The tracks rise above ground purposefully so that this could be one combined neighborhood without division like you see in other parts of Florida.

Richie
8 months ago

What does it matter what an area was called 100 or more years ago? Yes tie in history to redevelop areas that are drastically changing, but this part of Brickell is about 75% newly developed with private high rises with Brickell in the name, and lots of luxury buildings rising with Brickell in the name.

Another Anon
8 months ago

Miami circa 1935, all of Brickell together as Plat 12 before I95 split it to two with Little Havana to the west.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3934m.ct003156/?st=image&r=-0.48,0.879,1.217,1.805,0

Anonymous
8 months ago

So sad! We keep getting promised a substantial riverfront with open promenade and bike paths in exchange for density.

Anon
8 months ago

Someone really said this isn’t Brickell? lol whoa

Calivalle
8 months ago

Iam all for it the higher the sweetest views…🔥🔥🔥

Anonymous
8 months ago

Wasn’t this area supposed to be a part of BCC phase 2 or something? What ever happened to that project I haven’t heard about it in years?

Anonymous
8 months ago

No, that’s a different lot. BCC owns the lot with the 2-story commercial building housing the Thai restaurant, coffee shop, etc.

Anonymous
8 months ago

Yes. A bit confusing- is Lofty on 7th and this proposal is north of it on the River?

SW30
8 months ago

This looks to be *east of it and yes on the river

Anonymous
8 months ago

Maybe it’s the FPL land.

Zz01
8 months ago

No

Vincent
8 months ago

Wtf I thought this was the Lofty site.