Namdar Towers Announced With 1,354 Apartments; Permitting Underway, Construction Financing Issued

Plans have been announced for a twin-tower apartment complex in downtown Miami called Namdar Towers.

Permitting for both vertical construction and demolition is already underway. The developer closed on the purchase of the property last week.

A $195 million loan to acquire the site and build Namdar Towers has also been issued, according to an August 25 press release from Scale Lending.

Scale said that Namdar Towers will have rental apartments, and will include twin towers with a combined 1,354 residential units:

  • 41 stories, 640 units
  • 43 stories, 714 units

The vertical construction permit application was created with Miami’s Building Department on June 15, with full plans submitted on August 1 and now under review.

The project will also have ground floor retail and five levels of parking, the permit states.

There are also several other permits now in review for the property, including for total demolition of buildings on the site, piling, site and soil work, and construction fencing.

John Moriarty & Associates of Florida is listed as the contractor for all of the construction and demolition permits, except for the fencing permit.

 

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Azarius
6 months ago

Great news on some much needed inventory, especially in this area of downtown. More density!!! And they are serious about building!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Love that the little historic hotel will be kept in the middle

EJS
6 months ago

I’m wondering if the hotel owners refused to sell, or it being saved as historic?

@#@
6 months ago

Really? It ruins the whole project IMO. Can you imagine the noise from construction on 3 sides of the hotel. It’ll never make it through it. These buildings are ugly.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Its a Hostel where you share rooms with random people. It’ll be fine

Anonymous
6 months ago

“These buildings are ugly”

Well, that hotel will go very nice between them.

Anonymous
6 months ago

I totally agree…first thing that came to mind

Him
6 months ago

I agree. I just wish they would make at least the street level portion of their building match the existing hotels design.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Well, be careful what you wish for, considering what parking podiums can look like in this city. The hotel’s facade has been altered way beyond its original appearance, but would certainly be something to see it restored.
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Anonymous
6 months ago

WOW! Thats gorgeous. Thanks so much for posting. I’m even more glad they are saving it now.

Anonymous
6 months ago

There’s nothing historic about it and its in the way of providing much needed inventory in downtown.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Um, it’s the height of the parking garage, so what net number of units?

MM305
6 months ago

Every room of that building is facing a wall now except the front. Maybe it should have just gotten torn down… not sure. Its a nice old-school building but it;s in a disaster of a spot.

Anonymous
6 months ago

What a waste of air rights in the core. Must be as stubborn as an old goat and now will have to endure 2 towers getting built on either side for years. I applaud these developers for just building around this non-historic roach motel to provide density in housing within the core and directly across MDC that’s sorely needed. Maybe the owner gets rattled out as the foundations get poured…

Anonymous
6 months ago

Same situation as the old man that refused to sell in the gables

Anonymous
6 months ago

Nonsense. It will become a boutique hotel, a coworking space, or something else and we will be glad to have this piece of history down the road. It adds interest to the streetwall, and the towers are still going up. Win Win Win all around.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Please… out with “uninteresting old” and in with the very modern looking new.

Anonymous
6 months ago

You “lets knock down history” types smh

Anonymous
6 months ago

You “let’s consider anything old in Miami – historic” types… give a break!

Anonymous
6 months ago

From the perspective of highest and best use that is nonesense…

Anonymous
6 months ago

History of what exactly? Poor construction code and material? Get real, this thing is taking up valuable air rights that could benefit hundreds of people…

Anonymous
6 months ago

I hope these people know that any structure the city tags as historic must be refurbished with money from the new owners.

Anonymous
6 months ago

LOL, MDC is a commuter school and they can’t afford this stuff.

Anonymous
6 months ago

As a former MDC student who has developed a decent career in finance for the past 15 years and is currently employed at one of the prevailing wall st firms, I’m proud to say that while I was at MDC, yes I was on food stamps, but don’t count these kids out. Anyway, that has nothing to do with why these building are being developed at this location whatsoever…

Anonymous
6 months ago

Wall St firms hire almost exclusively Ivy Leaguers…even Business grads from next-tier schools like Northwestern and Michigan have a hard time getting hired unless top 10% of class…hired out of MDCC to do something other than lick envelopes, no way unless your Uncle is a VP or higher.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Great way to start off a Monday TNM.

Anonymous
6 months ago

I remember reading about that parking lot being sold last year. Glad they are making good progress with it

Melo is sigma and chad
6 months ago

Needed infill, and MDC needs to sell their surface lots.

Pickle Rick
6 months ago

Nice design.

Anonymous
6 months ago

With the crowns/articulation at the top, and balance between the use of stone and glass, not bad at all.

Analyst
6 months ago

The name Namdar doesn’t flow…

Anonymous
6 months ago

So Related does?.. they’re related to what?

Anonymous
6 months ago

That’s the developers’ actual last name…

Pickle Rick
6 months ago

Nam-dar

Anonymous
6 months ago

It would be nice to see the old Pershing Hotel restored into a boutique hotel or something.

Giga chad Melo
6 months ago

No Pool? Where that old hotel is, is where developers place the pools and amenities decks.

Anonym
6 months ago

I think Behar Font is the Architect for this one.

Joe Blow
6 months ago

How many parking spaces for 1354 units?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Hopefully very few!

Someone That Knows
6 months ago

15… you’ll have to compete in a gladiator match to secure a spot lol

Yet Another Anonymous
6 months ago

Might be less than a thousand considering it says it’s only five stories each not 10 like many buildings.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Who cares?

Anonymous
6 months ago

I losing hope for Miami’s beauty, so many look likes buildings. Nothing new or with some design at the top or at the street level. SAD!!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Take your money and show us how its done TIGER!