Phased Vertical Construction Permit Issued For Namdar Tower

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A phased vertical construction permit has been approved for a major downtown Miami apartment tower, according to Building Department records.

The phased permit was approved on October 12, and issued on October 13. It was originally applied for about a year ago, in October 2022.

According to the main building permit it is attached to, a total of 680 multi-family rental units are now being built in the first tower, along with 5,356 square feet of retail and five floors of parking. The main construction permit is still in review.

Eventually, the project will include two 43-story towers, according to a UDRB filing, with a combined:

  • 1,394 apartments
  • 7,984 square feet of retail
  • 336 parking spaces

John Moriarty is listed as the contractor on the permit.

 





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Cover the Podiums
19 days ago

These blank walls are going to make Miami so damn ugly from a street level. The first 5 floors is what people see when walking down the street. We are going to be the least architecturally significant city especially when compared to places like NYC, Paris, Vancouver, London

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anon
19 days ago

Just look at NE 2 Ave from 11 Street south. It’s terrible. Turned that street into a super highway devoid of street life.

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Howard Roark
19 days ago

The base is a kinetic wall that will move with wind and create random patterns. Miami 21 is the culprit for what you see as parking podiums for high-rises because of the parking requirements relative to program and density and the fact that subterranean parking in Miami’s aquafer makes it cost prohibitive thereby making these massive podiums widespread and the mainstream in Miami. Furthermore, when Henry Flagler, the father of Miami proposed the grid for what is downtown Miami over 100 years ago as a development strategy more akin to mid-western town grids (his place of origins) versus NYC or Chicago as a precedent, it hampered Miami’s potential for elegant urban solutions. Maurice Ferré, Miami’s mayor in the 70’s and 80’s and considered the father of modern Miami was fully aware of these pitfalls and created Special Area Plans (SAP) to have pockets of density and developments, or cities within a city to mitigate the tight knit canyon effect that would follow and would lead to a potential bifurcation of the waterfront to the rest of the downtown. The subsequent mayors and city officials did not follow up with comprehensive planning until Miami 21, which embraced more SAP development but also enforced the podium solution based on parking rather than encourage solutions that would incentivize rapid transit solutions and would reward developers accordingly as you see in well thought out solutions in other cities. As Miami is growing exponetially, the City of Miami needs more civic engagement from its citizens and needs to address the housing and rapid transit issues head own and provide guidance and leadership for pragmatic and sensible solutions.

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Ayn Rand
19 days ago

Spot on Howard

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Native Floridian
19 days ago

A “WE ARE FULL” Campaign is what we need ASAP!

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Cover the Podiums
19 days ago

So what exactly is Miami missing that NYC and Chicago have? Because if we are talking about the grid design, most city blocks in the core of Miami are well over 200ft wide, which is the minimum width required for a full size parking garage (120ft ) plus liner units on both sides (60ft) plus 10ft sidewalks…And there’s plenty of developments where the developers did just that and incorporated ABOVE ground parking garages with liner units. See Sentral in Wynwood or Modera in Edgewater. And those are on the smaller plots of land in Miami. Downtown and Brickell have much larger city blocks.

Unfortunately it comes down to the developer not wanting to spend extra on engineering and materials to incorporate liner units. It affects their profit margins. Its a more complex design due to the support columns and plumbing, etc….but its NOT impossible.

Also Miami21 does talk about liner units, they even have a sketch showing exactly what they are and when to use them. The thing is that developers always find ways to avoid using them and obtain waivers..

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Howard Roark
18 days ago

Miami is more than just its downtown and how it is platted is important in the marco-scale. Henry Flagler pushed for a tighter grid than NYC and Chicago but essentially Miami is made up of four cardinal quadrants, separated by Miami Ave running N-S, and Flagler St. running E-W. It is a graphic method of way-finding, where one can locate an address without having to know block numbers or street names by heart. It also created a bold system of development, long before there were more than 10 buildings in the city.

A macro 1 mi by 1 mi grid was set up of streets and avenues occurring every 16 streets and every 10 avenues as a blanket across the city. These major roads generally pass through obstacles such as highways, trains, parks, and waterways, allowing even access across the city, while allowing for “chaos” to occur within each of the larger grid squares. This is the “super-block” version of Architect/Urban Designer Rem Koolhaas’ vision of the unbiased grid as outlined in his seminal book “Delirious New York”. In New York, it acts on the block scale, and in Miami, it acts on the neighborhood scale. This allowed for early developers and newly incorporated cities to assemble larger pieces of land and plat them at will. This created variation in the grid while allowing for generally even access across it. This relationship between macro and micro-urbanism is the story of the development of Miami. Early developers and city planners were able to work with seemingly blank gridded squares. Today’s developers and land assemblers must work within the decisions of platted lots made when those first pioneers created them decades before. There are a number of elements that break the grid, and these sometimes create “hot spots” or “isolated spots,” depending. The first were geographic, being the Miami River, where the first settlements of Miami began. The second were transportation related. involving the railroad, highways, and federal roads like US1.The development of these “super-blocks” have created a diversity of neighborhoods within the larger grid. Little Havana, for example, has small platted lots, creating a dense fabric of small multi-family and retail locations. However, just across the river, Allapattah has larger platted lots, used for industrial and warehouse shopping types. Coconut Grove has small lots, creating a vibrant community for townhomes, small multi-family, and a slow pace of development with a few larger parcels. Wynwood has large platted lots, allowing for larger projects to take over. These larger plots in Wynwood have inspired a series of “internal block” projects that look into the blocks to create large social spaces of courtyard.

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Cover the Podiums
17 days ago

Not sure how that has anything to do with what I mentioned

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Howard Roark
17 days ago

Podiums are a large part of the “super grid” (identified by Koolhaas and adopted by DPZ, the urban planners for Miami 21) ) that was adapted in Miami 21 as outlined in trying to be more like NYC but at a tighter geometry.

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anonymous
17 days ago

Problem is most people living in the city don’t care. Look at the voter turnout for district 2 seat where Covo, who has been mostly useless, won by a large majority.

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Anonymous
19 days ago

I’ll take the consistency over SLS or CitzenM-tier mural in Brickell, or poked holes like Swiss cheese and random chunks of sheetmetal.

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anonymous
17 days ago

we’re already halfway there. Blame the useless commissioners, zoning, in these districts that just cater to developers and their profits with an absolute disregard for the future of the city

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Downtown Vagabond
19 days ago

Why not 53 stories? That lot is zoned for it and we need the added units. Really makes no sense.

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Anonymous
19 days ago

They should change the name of that hotel to “the holdout”

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Name*
19 days ago

Miami Shade Hotel

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Anonymous
19 days ago

…or back to the Hotel Pershing, and restored to its 1920s appearance.

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Anonymous
19 days ago

If you’re gonna build it boxy, then this is pretty good

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Build Miami
19 days ago

I get why people are upset about the base but excited to see more development near Flagler Street in downtown! Hopefully this area booms after they finish repairing the street. It’s perfectly located between Brickell and MWC and I love the mixture of old and new buildings.

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Anonymous
19 days ago

Flagler is nicer than Mwc

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Miami greed
19 days ago

Our current cohort of politicians are mostly power and money hungry. They couldn’t care less about making things nice for us. Get involved and vote. It’s the only way to make a difference.

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anon
19 days ago

There has to be a better solution than all these blank walls which do not add to street level life.

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Anon
19 days ago

Vote to eliminate parking minimums like Austin just did.

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Anon
19 days ago

Put it up for vote.

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Cover the Podiums
19 days ago

Its not about parking minimums dummy…is about covering the parking garages with liner units or going underground

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Anon
19 days ago

That’s not possible in many cases.

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Cover the Podiums
19 days ago

specify please…

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Rob
19 days ago

I think anon means. Underground due to the water table in. Miami. Line up units I do agree.

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Name*
19 days ago

They could have done liner units, this is a large site.

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Anonymous
19 days ago

The same piece Commiefornia in the middle of Texas that also voted to defund the police. Frankly, the only thing I want in common with Austin is a tallest tower of stacked boxes, and only for a while because hopefully it will be overtaken, maybe before it’s even topped out.

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Name*
19 days ago

This project does not require any residential parking.

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Cover the Podiums
19 days ago

nobody seems to care its sad

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Archinerd
19 days ago

We do care. But you are talking with the wrong audience, dummy. Read the room. This is a bunch of procastinators keyboard office lagging employees reading the web. Go to the City and voice your concerns with the Zoning Board for zoning code changes. You will not get any results by complaining in TNM.

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Cover the Podiums
19 days ago

these are private developers so they can pretty much get away with whatever

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Anon
19 days ago

You have no idea what you are talking about and it shows.

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Archinerd
19 days ago

Is the one story building in NE1st Ave and NE 3rd Street ro remain? it has not been demolished, and they are boring for footings already. is that a historical facade to be kept?

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