New Renderings Of 43-Story Namdar Towers, With 1,394 Apartments Planned

Developer Namdar filed detailed plans for its massive twin-tower project in downtown Miami earlier this month in a filing with city planners.

Namdar’s towers are both planned to rise 43 stories (around 448 feet above ground when including a design feature at the top), with:

  • 1,394 residential units
  • two amenity levels, including pools, fitness, bowling rooms, golf simulators, and co-working space
  • 7,984 square feet of ground floor commercial space
  • 336 parking spaces in a five-level garage, including EV chargers. A wind-driven kinetic screen in polished aluminum will mask the garage.
  • 1,395 bicycle racks

The project is planned in two phases, with 680 residential units in phase 1 and 714 residential units in phase 2.

Apartment balcony railings will be line rail aluminum mesh, rather than glass.

Behar Font is the architect.

The Urban development Review Board was scheduled to review the proposal on October 19.

Construction and demolition permitting is already underway.

 

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anon
5 months ago

Big City vibes coming to downtown – we love to see it.

Se me paro'
5 months ago

Yes, glad to see this part getting more urbanized.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Big city vibes with efficient public transportation system and not more car garages.

Alcoholiotic
5 months ago

People need to give it a brake with the “car garages” comments.

You have a car and a garage to park it in.. so stop whining.

anon
5 months ago

Nah, we don’t. We’ll keep it up until parking minimums are changed like what is happening in other cities all over the country, allowing us to build a real live/work/play downtown with actual public transportation like we USED TO HAVE before it was all ripped out in the 50’s.

Downtowner
5 months ago

Stop. It’s 0.25 cars per unit in this development. You will be gone by the time you can live / work / and play in a manhattanized downtown. When at least 50% of downtown is developed, the minimums can be implemented. So far, your plan is to confined people into downtown with no options besides riding a guagua to go to Aventura (of course, until the metro rail is extended to the everglades and to the keys), as well as precluding people that live in the suburbs or other far areas to visit or come to work to downtown. Miami IS NOT Manhattan, get your head out of the sand.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Downtown is its own neighborhood and we shouldn’t sacrifice to make it easier for the suburbanites. If they want to come to downtown, thats fine just don’t expect your car to be accommodated at every turn

Original
5 months ago

Well expect to see more boarded up buildings then. Garages are built to accommodate and they are there to make money. Therefore, they are another form of business.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Downtown is an employment center, not a bedroom community. Car commuters must be accommodated for downtown to survive.

Downtowner
5 months ago

very well put. That until downtown is able to gain sufficient momentum to be a vibrant community. We are 20 years away from that.

Anonymous
5 months ago

I agree downtown is not a bedroom community, it’s a self sustaining “urban village”, which is precisely why car commuters should be allowed but by no means accommodated. Time and time again data shows that when cities limit and restrict car usage, businesses thrive, quality of life greatly increases, and the overall health of the region goes up.

(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-11/the-business-case-for-car-free-streets)

Downtowner
4 months ago

self-sustaining “urban village”

LOL!!!

Using data in an advantageous manner to prove a point. All the cities listed in the study are well conformed cities, where authorities are actually trying to “carve out” space to make room to place public and pedestrians. Totally different situation as of Downtown Miami, a product of single use zoning where automobile was the king, with large empty lots and no urban thread continuity at all. It is basically an urban desert, no an urban village (besides Biscayne and portions of 2nd avenue).

Anon
5 months ago

No one is angry at parking being included in office buildings, bro. There’s no need for parking at new residential buildings.

Alcoholiotic
5 months ago

^
Anon doesn’t worry about having a place to park his vehicle in where he lives.. nope, with the amount of money he paid or pays every month, he better have a spot to park his vehicle in where he lives.

Just Saying
5 months ago

Understand your pint but there are plenty of places to park and drive to work and home in Florida. In fact that’s probably 99% of the state and options. The issue is that when these places get denser, if everyone drove into to work or home, people would chose not to come bc they would need to sit in bumper to bumper traffic to get a short distance, so if we can limit this by giving people incentive to live close to work it could just make the area thrive and sustain that level of growth.

Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

^
Gee, what a scary scenario… wonder how NYC got so big?

Urban Planner Hobbyist
5 months ago

Why do they need garages at office buildings when people can walk to work or use public transportation? The new area in Coconut Grove metro station is fire and will have a target.

Anonymous
5 months ago

^^because hardly anyone in my office of 100 downtown lives downtown or even within walking distance to public transit. Not everyone wants to spend half their take home on housing or have a roommate to live downtown. If you have to drive to a Metrorail station or bus pickup, you might as well keep on driving to the office–the time savings isn’t there, plus you’re then paying for both the car and the public transit fare. That’s reality, not urban planning hobbying.

Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

^
You know Anonymous, these people don’t have to do anything of what you’re talking about. They just sit on their tushies and whine about how they think something should be.

anon
5 months ago

Miami’s future is not written in stone and personally I believe in the incredible potential of this city.

Brandon
5 months ago

Agreed. We have to contend with reality.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Miami had busses only in the 50s, even less public transit than today. Back pre WWII there were street trolleys. Not sure what you’re on about.

Amen
5 months ago

Amen

anon
5 months ago

It will take time but we will get there. The winds of change are coming to this city.

MiamiArchi
5 months ago

I think it’s a nice design for a non luxury building. Nothing amazing but nicely proportioned.
I’m impressed they are going for the kinetic façade of the garage. That’s really nice.

anon
5 months ago

This will definitely be a luxury building…floor to ceiling glass and kinetic façade? $$$$$

Anonymous
5 months ago

Desperately needed inventory in the core 👏👏👏

Melo is sigma and Chad
5 months ago

Good infill, MDC needs more beautification efforts to make this area more desirable too.

anon
5 months ago

MDC is urban blight. Pls invest in that campus it is a slum

Drac
5 months ago

MDC is Urban Blight?

So what would you call the area that its in 25 years ago?

Anonymous
5 months ago

MDC looks the same as it was 25 years ago while the rest of downtown, except properties owned by another certain major landowner, has prospered. Considering it’s an educational institution and not a landlord, MDC ought to sell off all their downtown properties and use the revenue to redevelop the Wolfson Center into a vertical campus.

Anonymous
5 months ago

LOL

Anonymous
5 months ago

Major upgrade from the previous renderings! Downtown is developing into a full-time major city and filling in very nicely from the bay to 95, love to see it.

Anonymous
5 months ago

love the rooftop lighting…..detail like this really help miami skyline shine….

Urbanist
5 months ago

Owner of the hold-out hotel is bad at negotiation if they haven’t sold to someone who is LITERALLY boxing them in.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Enriqueta’s has entered the chat.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Maybe they’ll sell to somebody who will restore it to its 1920s glory as the Pershing Hotel.

Anonymous
5 months ago

How about some office space?

rainey411
5 months ago

Decent infill but the railing plus uninspired design is going to age pretty quickly..

Truth Matters
5 months ago

Downtown is in such desperate need of any kind of infill, I’ll just overlook the design.

Original
5 months ago

Um yeah, sure.. expert designer.

Anonymous
5 months ago

The railing is symmetrical and the towers have some articulation and crowns. What is there to complain about?

anon
5 months ago

The fact that its an aluminum mesh, and not glass. Meaning the actual tower wont be nearly as shiny as the rendering.

Anonymous
5 months ago

The railing is symmetrical and the towers have some articulation and crowns. What is there to complain about?

Big D
5 months ago

looks juicy!

anon
5 months ago

If they actually do that kinetic façade this will be amazing. Especially with that incredible classical courthouse that is being rehabbed across the street.

MMN
5 months ago

1400 units and 336 parking. Got to be a typo right? No way that is correct.

People over cars
5 months ago

No more carbrains with suburban mentality in miami urban core.

Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

I guess (in your opinion), everyone living in Miami should have wings?

Anonymous
4 months ago

Everyone talks all this smack about public transit yet all I see are empty Brightline trains, empty Metrorail… Get a grip. We like our luxury cars here.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Ever see Tri-Rail running along I-95 in Broward during morning rush hour? It’s barely half filled. Yet these clowns want more trains to every buttcrack corner of Florida.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Amazing what difference subtle crowns and parking pedestal not plastered with a queasy mural or assorted scrap metal. Please just don’t pull an X Miami like PMG did…

Rising Tides
5 months ago

Parking is going to be at a premium with 1K less spaces vs units. Are dwellers and their guests ready to abandon their autos?

Anonymous
5 months ago

Love the number of bike parking spaces!

Calivalle
5 months ago

An awesome project…💎💎💎💎

Melo, the true giga chad
5 months ago

Not a fan of the “twin tower” designs happening all over the city. Its screams cost savings and greed….

Anonymous
5 months ago

No more boxes please!

Original
5 months ago

Well, take your money and build what pleases you then.