‘Dream’ New Section Of Baywalk Opens In Brickell

A small new section of Baywalk has just opened in Brickell.

Politicians celebrated completion of the new stretch in a ceremony yesteday.

The new stretch of Baywalk is behind the First Presbyterian Church property, where an “iconic” 80-story tower is in planning.

The project includes 250 feet of new seawall. The seawall has been raised to a height of six feet, which is the new standard of the Miami 21 zoning code, according to commissioner Manolo Reyes.

Eventually, the new section could also be connected to the Riverwalk.

Information can be found on the City of Miami project page.

 

 

 

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BB1
3 months ago

It’s very nice. I walked it this morning. A seamless transition. The trees and benches are really nice.

Mkt Pro
3 months ago

A SMALL new section of Baywalk has just opened in Brickell.

(glory seeking blowhard) Politicians celebrated (had a circle jerk) completion of the new stretch in a ceremony yesterday.

What a joke !

Anonymous
3 months ago

My thoughts exactly. We deserve a fully connected baywalk and riverwalk. This incremental approach is a complete joke.

Anon
3 months ago

Exactly! This should be a top citywide priority, just finish it all and make it unified!!! The US federal gov can help too.

Anon Esq.
3 months ago

There are likely private property concerns s that have to be worked. If they tried to do this by imminent domain it would cost millions in legal fees and probably fail. Think it through before posting please.

Anon
3 months ago

Lol look at the fake lawyer trying to sound smart but doesn’t even know that it’s “eminent domain” not “imminent”

Anon
3 months ago

these Marxist kids own nothing and don’t care about property rights. They just want it!

Real Esq
3 months ago

Sorry, but there is no way you are an attorney. I’m an attorney too. Misspelling eminent domain is akin to misspelling judgment. With the number of times you would have written both of those terms in law school, you would know better. Try again.

Anonymous
2 months ago

^^cool spelling lesson, but he’s right anyway.

Anonymous
2 months ago

You’re right. I guess every other city with a public baywalk or riverwalk didn’t have any “private property concerns”. Silly me.

Silly You
2 months ago

Maybe, just maybe, there was always an established public easement along those other waterfronts.

Anon
2 months ago

yes, silly you!

Anonymous
3 months ago

The Federal government thinks baywalks are pointless because in “X” amount of years, it will all be underwater, while continuing to build mansions in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard.

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

100% Wrong.
The Federal Gov’t does not think.

Practical guy
3 months ago

Miami under water in 20 years!! I heard that 40 years ago from another… we global warming is going to destroy everything.

Practical guy
3 months ago

Obama bout a house in Martha’s Vineyard… 🤗…

Practical guy
3 months ago

Hey Henny Penny .. the sky is falling.. 😂

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

Wow.

Can someone please invent an investment instrument where I can short the “common wisdom” of academics, bureaucrats, grant writers, and politicians?

In 1998, these “geniuses” predicted that Miami Beach would be under water by 2010. Wrong.

Mr. Anonymous, pick a spot in downtown Miami today. I will pay for the surveyor to measure the level above mean sea level.

You put $5,000 in an interest baring account, and I’ll put $5,000 in an interest baring account.

In 20 years from now, when the sea level is about the same as it is today (and was 20 years ago) you can pay 3x the amount of our bet.

These sea level rise people have been 100% wrong for decades.
They have been 100% certain for decades too.

Measure it. Monitor it. and then pay me.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Fukk the Gables Waterway at Cocoplum circle is that elevation, at least have a clue when spouting panic

Anonymous
3 months ago

You want it to be slower, you can count on the Feds.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Why stop at the Feds? Take it all the way up to the United Nations so that things can move even slower. We really should start working on assembling an interplanetary “galactic council” so that things can move at even more glacially slow speeds

Jeremey Howlett
3 months ago

Exactly! It’s such a waste of time, energy, money to get all the equipment out for short sections.

Dana D.
3 months ago

No. They can’t.
Are you failing your 8th grade Civics class?

Anon
3 months ago

Why can’t they? If the Biden admin was truly progressive, the DOT would be more about funding infrastructure for cycling (like the river walk) and transit than highways

Anon
3 months ago

Most voters drive to work.

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

But there is a very large number of “voters” who “vote by mail”.

The fact that President Joe Biden received 81M votes and President Obama only received 70m in 2008 is extraordinary.

Either, President Joe Biden has more charisma, more gravitas, and more appeal by 16% than Barrack Obama……or the vote by mail allowed for the laziest or the most fraudulent ballot collectors to tip the scales.

My friends voted for Biden because he said that he would forgive their student loans.
I said, “Don’t be stupid. Castro said things like that to gain power. There is no way that a US President can do that. Think more deeply.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Biden is all about trains, they’re going to give billions to amtrak in order to waste the largest amount of money possible while ensuring no improvements to train or any other transit in the nation

Dana D.
3 months ago

WE NEED
WE need people would know better if they either got off there arses or made an effort to understand how the world works.

This area has been a parking lot since at least 1992.
It has never been a problem.
Granted, the politicians are celebrating a few hundred feet of new landscape…so what.

Clearly, WE didn’t NEED anything, because the Brickell neighborhood has boomed without it, and all these WE NEEDS haven’t lived in Brickell until after the iPhone hit the market (if ever).

The Banana Republic
3 months ago

A dozen feet everyone look at what we accomplished!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Feet is too inaccurate a measurement at this small scale, most would suggest inches instead but any normal non-American would say go with centimeters here

Anonymous
3 months ago

Exactly my thoughts. Something that should have happened so long ago

Anonymous
3 months ago

I’m not an engineer but maybe we should be elevating it more and adding barrier islands and have some storm surge system

Anonymous
3 months ago

They need to do like they did decades ago on the opposite side of Florida with the “10,000 islands” barriers that were put up there, that’s why that side never gets issues during hurricanes and other floods

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

Ummmm…..right.
Hurricane Ian…sure….no issue.

Anon
3 months ago

10,000 islands is nature made, not man made.

Jeremey Howlett
3 months ago

If they built subways underground they could be used as drains during flooding events.

Anon
3 months ago

and you could get a job unplugging those subway drains. Sort of like an aqua Ed Norton.

Dana D.
3 months ago

Not an engineer or even a dog walker who has stood on this site evidently.

Anonymous
3 months ago

and those people weren’t even the ones who physically worked on it! lol, I bet they even shafted half of the undocumented workers who helped put this together too

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

MKT PRO.

Compared to any initiative that you have personally led, how does this compare?

I’d agree that making a video and show of adding to pavers, knocking down mangroves, and adding a seawall with taxpayer dollars is not worthy of a celebration. It is not extraordinary. It should be done and no knucklehead politician should need to leave his office for this photo op.

Having said that. If you aren’t doing ANYTHING, just relax. Save your bitchy angst for something else.

Anon
3 months ago

Great. Maybe in another 20 years it will be finished. In the meantime I’ll continue enjoying Fort Lauderdale’s beautiful completed riverwalk.

Zoom Miami
3 months ago

By the time you’re done with that 45 min drive to Ft Laud, I’ve already had a couple Mojitos and feeling just fine.

Anon
3 months ago

I don’t understand how broad can do it, and Miami with all its budget hasn’t hired creative American engineers to make a beautiful connected, organized and inviting riverwalk!

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

My friend….
History did not begin when you started paying attention.

Kimley Horn put together a Miami River Greenway Masterplan in the early 2000’s and was winning awards for it in the late 2000’s. You can find more about that here….
http://archive.miamigov.com/capitalimprovements/docs/ProjectPages/LummusPark_LandingProject/Miami_RiverGreenway_rev_12_11.pdf

Sooooo…..even after knowing these facts, and reading these plans, it is possible that you may still not understand. Fine.

You will appreciate your community more if you take an active part in making it better, and/or learning about the efforts that more productive members of your community are doing for you whilst you sit around and complain and wonder and whine.

Dana D.
3 months ago

The Ft. Lauderdale Riverwalk is great….especially the Cheesecake Factory part.
Those Zuma, Cipriani and Il Gambiano restaurants on the Miami River Greenway/Baywalk are nothing compared to Ft. Lauderdale’s Cheesecake Factory.

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

What!?!?! Are you dissin’ the Cheesecake Factory?
Or the women who order potato skins and “Mexican Egg Rolls”?

I’ll bet you fancy Miami people think that just because Cipriani, Zuma, and Il Gambiano have super models and business titans you are somehow better than the girls in comfortable shoes who frequent the Ft. Lauderdale Cheesecake Factory….

Well…..that’s just your opinion, man!

Anon
3 months ago

I cannot fathom this here jive talk. I sit in my 1 bedroom rental condo and eat canned tuna and Hungry Man’s. Where is my due?

Anonymous
3 months ago

But can you walk from anywhere outside a few hundred feet to get to any of those amazing “riverwalk” restaurants you mentioned? Your comment proves our point.

Anon
3 months ago

yes…lol..you can walk all over downtown, flagler village, FAT village, Las Olas, the Riverwalk…

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

Are you talking to Ms. Jackson (if you are nasty)?
Ummm….

A “few hundred feet”? No….my apartment was on a city block that is more than a “few hundred feet” from corner to corner.
Of course not. Restaurants are in my building, Casa Tua is across the street and next to Sax Fifth Ave.

Komodo is in my office lobby, Cipriani, Il Gambiano, Zuma, and many better restaurants are within a couple of blocks.

I used to live in Ft. Lauderdale…off of Las Olas. It is great.
Rocco’s Tacos is far better than ANY restaurant on the New River.

There is no restaurant, not even Cheesecake Factory, that is better than Zuma, Il Gambiano, or Cipriani.

Cover the Podiums
3 months ago

Great now do this along the entire bay and river. This should have done since the 50s. Almost every other city allows for this

Anonymous
3 months ago

It’s crazy that even Tampa has like 3 times the riverwalk and river itself than Miami ever will

Anon
3 months ago

Only in Miami would they have a party for building a tiny section, open the champagne when its finished guys!

Anonymous
3 months ago

I could be wrong, but weren’t there some protected mangroves there?

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

You are correct. There were mangroves.

However, if those were retained it would have effected the lighting on the politicians faces when the “City of Miami Television Network” filmed the elected leaders and their new pavers.

Anonymous
2 months ago

there were Brazilian pepper-trees not mangroves.

Jeremey Howlett
3 months ago

It would be nice if the sea wall was terraced. The new height makes you feel disconnected from the water.

Tampa Tony
3 months ago

Tampa riverwalk>

anonymous
3 months ago

Dont understand why they only go the bare minimum on the sea wall. Seawalls usually last 40 years so it would make sense to go even higher to avoid having to tear it down later on

Name*
3 months ago

6 ft above high water is pretty good.

Anonymous
3 months ago

they should make it like 20 feet high just in case and then make it a standared regulation that condo lobbies be at least 20 feet tall, then no view of residents on floors two or up will be blocked. So simple and yet these politicians can’t figure it out

Anon
3 months ago

It’s not that they can’t figure it out. It’s that they see 20 ft tall baywalks as a dumb idea.

Anonymous
3 months ago

So it’s connected to the finished Riverwalks on each side?

Anonymous
3 months ago

Not yet, but it’s projected that by 2034 they should be able to complete those extra two feet of construction on either side for the continuous baywalk to be fully realized across a few blocks at least

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

Yes, sort of…except this is really the Baywalk part (with Brickell Key protecting it).

This parking lot was fully open and the Baywalk was connected here for decades. It is not like it is “opened up”. In fact, this parking lot used to have a handful of Food Trucks, a dozen picnic tables and a strong local following.

It is a strange photo op.

These knuckleheads should be focusing on Parcel B and/or the connection between Bayside and the Miami Heat Arena (or whatever).

Anon
3 months ago

It still does Ms. Jackson, apparently you aren’t part of the following.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Parcel B?! I’m still waiting for Parcel A!

Name*
3 months ago

Oh wow! The glass facade on the renovated Corvusier building on Brickell Key next to the Mandarin Oriental really is as bad as that commenter said a few weeks ago!!!

Link Pace Park to Museum Park
3 months ago

Big question, seriously if anyone can answer. If this can be done before the 80 story building is completed what is stopping them from doing the baywalk in Miami Herald site? Why do we have to wait till the Miami Herald site is developed to be able to get the Baywalk? It is a critical piece to link Pace Park with Museum park and will be done before we all get old?

Anonymous
3 months ago

It’s Margaret Pace Park, but yes.

Jeremey Howlett
3 months ago

I think it’s because there’s not enough construction workers in this country. Many young men would rather be a big time NSA boss, making that fast easy money. Then you have all the little perfect people that just want to spy on everyone’s phone activity and report back all the disgusting horrible things all the boys are doing. Then you have tge Gen x rs that just want to steal everyone’s house. Spoiler alert for all the house squatters, the person you squatted on is missing. In the next few years the police are going to be investigating and they are most likely going to find his dead body buried in the backyard, and now all evidence points to the squatters. Hopefully you all see how you set yourself up.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Do you have the Babble course that teaches Idiot so I can understand what you wrote?

Pete
2 months ago

Looks great. I just do not understand planting big trees right against the seawall. The roots can damage it in a couple of years

Sorry
2 months ago

Also, should’ve been palm trees instead of live oaks or whatever trash trees they planted there.

T G
2 months ago

And how long did it take them to do this tiny section?

Why hasn’t this been connected to riverwalk like…. Years ago?

I swear, city projects here take ages to complete. Look at flagler street. 3 years now and its literally 3 blocks of streetscaping.

Anon
3 months ago

And the politicians contributed WHAT?!? NOTHING!!!

Time to get funding/put money aside for the city to start filling in some of the gaps. Or create better laws that force speculative land bankers to complete their sections.

It’s absolutely embarrassing that we’re going to have this amazing new River District and you won’t be able to get past Lofty if walking towards the bay. A world-class city would have completed the river and bay walks by now

Ms. Jackson
3 months ago

You would have to be a complete moron to walk from the River District and “won’t be able to get past Lofty”.

I’d bet real money that people smart enough to afford apartments in the River District are smart enough to turn right for 30 ft to the street and then turn left (Derek Zoolander notwithstanding) and continue East.

Absolutely embarrassing?

It is slightly embarrassing to me (and should be totally embarrassing to you) that there is a generation of males who are embarrassed that their mommies and daddies don’t make their sidewalks and river walks easier for them.

Open your eyes boomer
3 months ago

It’s not about knowing where to walk it’s about the walk itself. A lot of cities have uninterrupted walks along rivers, bays, etc. Miami politicians decided that it’d be better to pad their pockets than give the people they represent what they want. Get out of Miami sometime and you’ll understand what the rest of us are talking about.

Anon
3 months ago

We all jst want a continuous river walk but yeah, go ahead with the childish insults. It’s idiots like you who keep Miami stuck in the past

Anonymous
2 months ago

Meanwhile the taxpayers contributed everything, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them even volunteered to do the actual work free of charge too

Tea
3 months ago

Why did it take that long? Someone explain

Dana D.
3 months ago

Because WE didn’t really NEED it.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Well hey, at least they planted trees that will create a shade canopy when grown up.

What could have been
3 months ago

I just got back from Vancouver and it’s nice to see how pedestrian friendly and green a city can be when they prioritize people over profits. Sadly I don’t think Miami will ever get there due to the greed of those in power. If only we had the money to make things better 🙄

Anonymous
2 months ago

I’ve been there. Vancouver’s towers look like cheap shit compared to Miami’s. Plus my lux rental condo there had no AC. Dafuk it was 96 degrees when I was there.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Your “lux rental” aka his bottom of the barrel cheapest rate airbnb lol

Anonymous
2 months ago

No, it was a 2000 sq foot condo, which is 2x the size of the plana ocho you share with mama lol

SoBeMom
2 months ago

Kenny G is leaving Chicago for good reasons. But Chicago’s Lakefront Trail is one of the best urban trails in the USA. 18 miles connecting McCormack Place, Museum of Science, Soldiers Field, and more.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Time for the office towers to the south to sell their parking decks for more towers, and include baywalk extensions.

Anon
3 months ago

Then their tenants will have no place to park. But your dog will have more baywalk to shit on, and that’s what really matters.

Anonymous
2 months ago

This sounds awesome