Project With 40 Condo-Hotel Units Planned By Habitus In Brickell

A developer named Habitus appears to be moving forward with a 40-unit hospitality project in Brickell.

According to the Habitus website, the project name is Sonder Brickell.

The project will have hotel condo style units, the website says.

On October 26, the developer signed a utilities agreement with the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department allowing for 40 hotel rooms to be built.

A duplex on the site will be demolished to make way for the project, the utilities deal says.

Records show that Habitus Brickell Off A LLC acquired the property in January 2022 for $1.5 million. Novotel Miami Brickell (formerly the Atton Hotel) is next door.

 

 

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Mad Dash
4 months ago

Love the height and clean lines of the architecture.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Still boring, but not necessary bad architecture. At least it’s replacing some nondescript 1950s duplex.

Anon
4 months ago

It’s actually really nice.

MM305
4 months ago

These are the kinds of buildings that should be going up on the river and in little havana right now.

Anonymous
4 months ago

They should build denser “affordable” mixed luxury housing along the river in little Havana as an alternative sister neighborhood to Brickell with the same
waterfront appeal and connectivity.

They should build more huge-end mid/low rises in west brickell.

Anonymous
4 months ago

They should build more high-end mid/low rises in west brickell.*

Anonymous
4 months ago

This is great! This block of SW 2nd Ave has so much potential. Looking forward to seeing more low-rise development follow.

Anonymous
4 months ago

The whole “triangle” bounded by SW 13th Street, SW 15th Road, the Metrorail, and I-95 is ripe for low-to-mid-rise development as a transition zone to low-rise areas.

New Brickell Owner
4 months ago

Agree 100 percent! Glad to see others think this too.

Hopefully there is a consensus, developers see value of ROI on luxury low rises (as density rises people will want this 100%, look at NY), and the City supports it.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Very good looking building.

Anonymous
4 months ago

enough with these condo hotel schemes. We need less transient people and more year round people.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Thank you. The one thing i dislike the most about miami, this is home for me but, there is no sense of community here.

New Brickell Owner
4 months ago

I see it improving with companies moving in that promote a sense of community.

New Brickell Owner
4 months ago

Agree but maybe it gets the Airbnb people out of the actual residential buildings at least?

Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

“We need?”

I think people are more concerned about lower rent, food, and gas prices

New Brickell Owner
4 months ago

Love the sleek modern design. It’s also great to see this area develop with new luxury low rise properties. They look very exclusive.

Hope they develop the area south/west of the new Southside Park with more like this. It will be an enclave of luxury low rise boutique buildings close to the high rises of central Brickell, offering a more peaceful lifestyle for less extroverted professionals.

Also, with the tall towers of central Brickell and super tall towers of downtown, the Miami skyline will beautifully pitch upward from both the North and South.

New Brickell Owner
4 months ago

10 floors max is the sweet spot for VIP boutique buildings.

Original
4 months ago

There is no such thing as a “sweet spot for boutique buildings.” Remember, the apartment building that’s there now, a duplex on the site, “will be demolished to make way for the project.” Buildings have their time and then some are knocked down and replaced with something else.

That’s just how it is.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Like the iconic.pre-war townhomes of the Upper Eastside of Manhattan, the blue domes of Santorini, and the Notre-Dame? Glad history kept clear of this mindset for most part.

In NYC current residents were so let down that their predecessors tore down a beautiful train station to make way for the underground rat-den Penn station that is now.

Tearing down isn’t always better, esp when you get it right from the start – and there’s promise of that in Brickell.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Most beautiful neighborhood of brickel.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Sonder is an apartment hotel company. Its like AirBNB but without all the BS from the low quality owners that don’t maintain their bnb

Anonymous
4 months ago

Hoteliers say that a hotel is only profitable from 50 rooms. This one will have 40 and is still glued to another hotel. But Brickell is Brickell.

Anonymous
4 months ago

What “Habitus?” Did Frank Costanza start a hotel company?

downtowner
4 months ago

blah

Anonymous
4 months ago

Looks hideous and dated.

Melo is sigma and Chad
4 months ago

Good, hope we could get more high density buildings like this on small lots in the urban core.

New Brickell Owner
4 months ago

I don’t think this is a good spot for that. There’s so much land to develop in downtown around the super talls for high denser high rise properties.

That will eventually become the “core”. This is great for a high end low rises. The city needs something like that along the metro, and not just in Coral Gables.

Also look at NY. They built those toothpick super tall skinnny buildings along Central Park. The residents don’t like it and reported major issues, they sway heavily and make eerie noises. At what cost? They chopped up the iconic skyline.

anonymous
4 months ago

Low-mid rise does not mean low value. It’s the opposite. It does not mean boring either. Look to West Chelsea and Nice for inspiration of what West Brickell could be.

Examples of Cool Modern Low-Mid Rises:

https://ny.curbed.com/2017/8/22/16183452/zaha-hadid-nyc-apartments-for-rent (RIP Zaha Hadid whose design transformed west Chelsea)

https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/works/office-building-in-nice

https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/22/amazon-futuristic-new-downtown-seattle-hq-microsoft-nintendo

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/zaha-hadid-greatest-works-slideshow/amp

Anonymous
4 months ago

What a beautiful power grid in the heart of downtown with direct water views…said nobody ever!

que que
4 months ago

i genuinely hope i’m wrong, given that i really am not an authority to speak on such things, but this design feels like it’ll be dated in a decade or so