New Renderings Released Of Riverwalk Planned Behind Hyatt Supertall Site

Developers planning a three-tower redevelopment of the Hyatt Regency site in Downtown Miami have released new renderings of public space planned, including a riverwalk.

The developer are requesting city commission approval for a side yard setback waiver. Commissioners are permitted to approve a waiver if it is determined that public benefits are provided.

The city commission meeting is scheduled for May 11.

The $1.7B development is planned to include three towers, with the tallest at 95 stories, or 1,049 feet.

There will be 1,806 apartments, a 615-room Hyatt Regency hotel, and 190,000 square feet of meeting space.

 

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Anonymous
7 months ago

I’ve you’ve ever walked down the stairs that are currently in place as shown in the first pic, it’s plain nasty: bad lighting, muddy unpaved ground, and leads under the pool! It’s incredible this was ever approved in the first place! These rendering are stunning and shows how much potential this lot has – the river is a priceless asset it’s finally time we get to experience it as such on public land!

Anonymous
7 months ago

That’s actually me walking with my head down in shame and embarrassment at the current state…

Anonymous
7 months ago

The Miami River is one of the biggest assets for building out a modern world case city core. Thrilled to see it being realized.

Miami River Frontage
7 months ago

Time to stop turning our back on the Miami River. The Miami river should be the FRONT of buildings not the buildings backside after thought. This project does exactly that and will help set the trend!!

Azarius
7 months ago

Let’s get the shovel in the ground!!! The public park and new facilities is the best part of this agreement

Not Anonymous
7 months ago

My favorite project in the city. This project is in the best location in the city, and will replace old, crumbling buildings in underutilized land. Can’t wait to see the full renders and for construction to start!

*Name
7 months ago

The improvements to the area will be amazing. Really looking forward to this project and its revitalization of the riverwalk.

Anonymous
7 months ago

I couldn’t love this more. The area under the stairs by the bridge is filled with garbage and homeless. It’s a crime scene waiting to happen. It’s hard to believe it’s taken this long to do something about it.

Jorge
7 months ago

Definitely needs more tree cover than what is currently shown in the renders. It’s funny how the renders always have the sun low in the sky and not directly overhead like how it is most days.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Such a beautiful improvement! Miami-Dade winning!

Cover the Podiums
7 months ago

So are they going to open up the area underneath the drawbridges so that it connects both sides?

SW30
7 months ago

You can currently walk through to the other side. I do it all the time. I think the Brickell side of the river under the draw bridge is the side that’s closed off.

Anon
7 months ago

I am very pleased to see the splash fountain added. Glad someone agreed with this idea, thank you🙏

Analyst
7 months ago

Miami is growing up!

Alpina
7 months ago

It would nice if we had a uniform paver for the river walk, i wonder if they are going to keep letting developers to use their own design for each portion of the river walk and bay walk

Anonymous
7 months ago

Fantastic new development for downtown Miami coming soon.

Anon
7 months ago

To go off topic a bit I appreciate the addition of the ‘existing’ photo for comparison by the author

Miami Winning
7 months ago

Let’s get this project going ASAP!!

Anonymous
7 months ago

What happens if DeSantis succeeds at stripping Hyatt of its liquor license? Will that disrupt plans? Tax payers don’t want to keep paying his legal fees to fight businesses that bring in tourism and entertainment.

Anonymous
7 months ago

DeSantis won in a landslide. 60% of the vote

Anonymous
7 months ago

DeSantis is great!

Anonymous
7 months ago

Yeah and at least 25% percent of us regret it. He flipped. Never again.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Right, “never again” yet he’s term limited.

Anonymous
7 months ago

DaSantis is finished

Anonymous
7 months ago

You said that in 2020 when every other governor was forcing people to play hide and seek.

Me
7 months ago

Adult entertainment is not for children!

BOB THE BUILDER
6 months ago

It isn’t. But drag queens performing with ug ly makeup, is pretty tame to what kids are finding on tiktok, and various adult sites. But Ron isn’t going after google or internet companies for allowing kids to fnd that stuff

Anonymous
7 months ago

Simple, it can switch to another flag like Sheraton.

Get it done
7 months ago

Can’t happen soon enough.

Pete
7 months ago

I really hope they will consider the idea of keeping a theater, like the current one at the James L K Center. Is important to have other venues, as the arena location is extremely crowded. That Brickell part of town could welcome more art shows.

Otto
6 months ago

The project looks amazing. I hope they will maintain the trees that are currently there. They are huge and will be so positive to have so much shade.

Casey
7 months ago

LFG!

Anonymous
7 months ago

Please no bait and switch like the Riverside Center proposal…

Axel
7 months ago

Where is the bike path?

Anonymous but Famous
6 months ago

SHADE, SHADE, SHADE! THIS IS NOT NEW YORK!

EPIC Kimpton Hotel
6 months ago

Don’t block our views.

PBJ
7 months ago

I beg them not to install any type of fountains/waterworks. Miami does not do well with those….

Anonymous
6 months ago

That is not true. Water features and splash fountains do well in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach and liven up community space in a hot environment. Miami is evolving and limiting thoughts like this hold Miami back from being worldclass.

This guy
6 months ago

Agree

ray
7 months ago

New rendering not exciting or inspiring. They should have a competition for designers to submit something unique and beautiful.

don shula
7 months ago

will never happen , once they find “animal bones” and “pottery fragments” then nimbys, billy corben, and random woke people from suburbs will stop it and demand a museum be put on the site to celebrate pockmarks in limestone which no one will ever want to go see

Anonymous
7 months ago

Extremists of all sides can get in the way of progress. But don’t start stirring the pot. In fact, it’s not those liberals you seem to hate that are getting in the way here. In fact, it’s Ron DeSantis who tried to revoke the liquor license of the Hyatt on this property because they once held a non-threatening private drag show. So please don’t throw stones — we don’t have enough glass houses…

Big All
7 months ago

I’m a member of the alphabet and I think those shows are for adults enterteinemnt only! and not for children. same as the books… I suggest to look and book written by Maia Kobabe for sale in Amazon and removed from schools and see the pics and tell me if that is appropriated or if you will allow your 7 -10 years old to look at… many people on my group, that fought in Stonewall in the sixties for equality don’t agree with those this new turn the society is taking base on inclusivity …..

Anonymous Gay
7 months ago

Same here. I love drag shows but anyone who would take a child there is out of their mind. It’s adult entertainment, plain and simple.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Some people like you and the legislatures keep talking about drag shows and LGBT books as though they are all X rated. They are NOT – and there are family friendly people in this category. By conflating them all as inappropriate they are suppressing free speech and fueling hate in the state. We don’t say straight people are all inappropriate because there’s some sexual burlesque show at a Miami restaurant with kids present. I don’t think we can use the most extreme examples to smear and silence an entire group of people from society, as we are seeing the Governor try to do.

Big All
7 months ago

Whoever says those books are “innocent “ and family oriented by kids needs to look in to the book from Maia Kobabe in Amazon or another book named Lawn Boy …..

Scott
7 months ago

The point though is that it should be up to the parents. Do we allow parents to choose to take their kids to an “R” rated movie? Yes, we do. This is no different. As long as parents are aware that a drag show is taking place and they choose to take their kid to the show, then there should be no issue. Not a situation of a drag queen randomly showing up – unannounced – at story time at kindergarten class. Don’t want to go back to the 1950s – thank you.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Oddly enough, DeSantis pimps “parental choice” every chance he can get. Just so long as it’s HIS choice.

Big All
7 months ago

better His choice, since so far the children are at risk to medical experiment and be irreversible mutilation, in an age of no consent and confusion, feed by “influencers” and by the way not all the books are “innocent”!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Nobody is at risk of this. I spoke with a pediatrician and he informed me that sex transitions are less traumatic when done at an earlier age. Also this is not being done willy nilly, it takes years of study and parental and medical consensus. The idea that kids are being mutilated on a whim, is FAKE NEWS propaganda. This is a very rare procedure done with lots of thought and deliberation. Quit spreading fear and smearing everyone in this community!

Kaitlyn Gender
6 months ago

Agree that there is an age that is too early. I said “earlier age.” Trust the parents and doctors. I have never experienced this first hand, but made friends in high school who transitioned and were happier. It’s not as common or extreme as media portrays.

Big All
6 months ago

Ask your pediatrician if that’s so, why all major clinics around the world, specially Europe closing the programs… ??
initials studies results were manipulated by activists including a pediatrician from Harvard. Also the 300 fold increased in few years is more a social contagion and most of those kids get sold the idea that all their problems will get solved once the transition is done .. also the reason lots of clinics are stepping down and why Florida took that decision was the amount of new research that proves wrong many of the “ concepts of “ suicide” that has been used to push this agenda. The medical reviews and medical journals used in the Florida decision are available on line for people who want to be educated and not be patronizing MSM.

P.S.
I’m gay and a Pediatrician and most of my colleagues, unless they are snowflakes or not well informed, disagree with this trend and advocate for more mental health care, that is very poor and not jump in surgery and drugs … when I was a resident we had 1-2 patients with psychiatric problems in the ER, now we had sometimes 6-10 per 24 hours shifts

Anonymous
6 months ago

If we want to solve the mental health issue, we need better doctors and leaders in Florida who aren’t pushing an agenda to control people. Trans people tell me doctors here try to gaslight them into thinking they don’t need gender affirming care. Today, the legislature passed the Gender Affirming Care Ban. It criminalizes providers who provide that care consistent with the guidance of all major medical orgs and restricts access to care for adults.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Thank you for standing up for the real science-backed evidence, Big All! Many gays like us are starting to see things for what they are. We need to stand up against the people shouting “transphobes” at anything they don’t agree with.

Mr. Harvey
6 months ago

“ Careers and higher education are leading to the masculinization of women, with enormously dangerous consequences to the home, the children, and our country. When our boys come home from war, what kind of girls will they be coming home to? And now the most DISGUSTING example of this sexual confusion: Mr. Walter Harvey of Harvey bars is presenting us with women’s baseball. Right here in Chicago, young girls plucked from their families are gathered at Harvey Field, to see which one of them can be the most masculine. Mr. Harvey, like your candy bars, you’re completely… nuts.”

– A League of Their Own, 1992

Anonymous
6 months ago

“Sex transitions” at an “earlier age”? This is heartbreaking. Please consider the evidence coming out of all major developed countries other than the US right now. Let those kids grow up to be their fab, gay selves. Please don’t make them believe they are trans because influencers on TikTok are telling them to do so.

Anon
6 months ago

Children are mostly at risk of being bullied and excluded from being acceptance in classrooms, mental health is a huge issue–and “his choice” is having a huge adverse impact on mental health and development for the full spectrum of our youth.

Market Urbanist
7 months ago

How are drag shows at the Hyatt progress?

Anonymous
7 months ago

How is it not? Beer pong festivals with hooters girls along the river isn’t progress per se either, but it is happening without government sanction. Progress is welcoming people of different voices and opening free speech. The opposite is regressive.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Nobody said anything about liberals. I am a liberal, yet detest the woke mentality that is becoming increasingly pervasive, as exhibited by Bill Corben and the people in favor of this museum. I’ll still never vote Republican though. Liberals like me are starting to speak out against the progressive wing.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Biden is a unanimous failure. As a liberal voting for Biden is voting for failure

Big All
7 months ago

Obvious!!! That voting for JB is a failure

Anti-Woke Democrat
6 months ago

He’s better than any option the R’s are presenting.

Anonymous
7 months ago

This entire drag show mess is media-generated BS. We shouldn’t even even be bothering with this but it keeps y’all voting for the GOP to spite some “woke” enemy. I’ll be so glad when you old republican farts go extinct.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Same, I am a Republican and strongly disapprove this expensive war on woke (aka everything that isn’t stamped with approval by the Governor). It is costing us money and hurting businesses and my friends and family. It seemed legit when people were nutty during the pandemic, but now seems all fabricated and bad for Florida.

Anonymous
7 months ago

The media will breed the next generation when they have enough. The same happened with boomers.

Big All
7 months ago

I teach medicine… medical schools are on the trend of being W all the way … when We go extinct and this gen Z generation takes over … good luck to have a good doctor to take care of you! At least your pronouns will be properly used by the physician

don shula
7 months ago

lol i am not a republican and this has nothing to do with pockmarks on limestone which no one will go see

Not Anonymous
7 months ago

I hope that is any remains are found, they are incorporated in the lobby or are acknowledged somewhere in the premises, but that the project moves forward.

Anonymous
7 months ago

For the sake of all involved, let’s hope they don’t even bother looking for “remains”!

Anonymous
7 months ago

Honestly you’re not wrong, as evidenced by so many of the comments on the Baccarat tower’s posts on this site. However, I’m optimistic we can beat those NIMBYs just like we just did.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Bacarrat is totally different. The plans didn’t really show any sizable river walk improvements, and I think that is what is being worked out now – I think people were advocating for more river walk facing and cultural activation by memorializing the historical significance.

don shula
7 months ago

baccarat is a huge river walk improvement, it would connect miami circle park to the rest of the river walk via under the brickell ave bridge, i walk this every day, would be a huge improvement… now on hold bc pockmarks on limestone

Brickell YIMBY
6 months ago

Not on hold anymore! We won this round.

Build it Up!
6 months ago

It’s not a yimby/nimby conflict – the river front is a valuable cultural asset that needs top tier public space designs, like this one.

Anonymous
6 months ago

False. It is a YIMBY/NIMBY conflict. Please read all the comments on the posts regarding the Baccarat tower and other two towers planned on this site by Related.

Anonymous
7 months ago

So you’re saying if they find the same type of “remains” (which they most likely will) there won’t be the outcry to preserve the land and make a museum?

Anonymous
7 months ago

You can’t compare the two… The Hyatt plans seem to add a huge cultural improvement and reimagine the riverfront as more than just a condo backyard. Look at the size of the space and social amenities for the city. It’s like a museum already and they haven’t even dug in. Also it seems like a plaque could fit nicely anywhere in this plan.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Also, this proposal, assuming it’s not a bait and switch is a legit “beaut” from Arquitectonica while Baccarat is a recycled Frankenstein’s Monster from 2015.

Anon
7 months ago

That other building also keeps getting watered down to a fortress box. This one is a beauty.

don shula
7 months ago

yeah they are both arquitectonica… as someone who lives on the brickell side, it sucks that the riverwalk is delayed bc billy corben of ft myers and his woke brigade who probably none of them live in urban core

Anons
7 months ago

One of the best parts of the Fort Lauderdale Riverwalk, is all the modern new space and parks, and a small historical pioneer home on the park overlooking the water. A little historical memorial enhances the experience, so that is what the Tequesta element could offer (not just bones as you say) – we all want the same thing here.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Not really. Only an uber woke minority of us want something dedicated to the “tequesta element”