Renderings Show Three Towers At 600/700 Biscayne Square

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Anonymous

If this project is making the downtown NIMBYs who pushed ultra out angry, then I’m all for it.

Non-Nimby downtown resident.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

AMEN!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

A politician pushed out Ultra.

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8 months ago
Common sense

He sure did!!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Now he needs to be pushed out.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

a complete unhinged Psycho Joe Toyota F*ckingFreakshow Corollo, you mean !!

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8 months ago
Joe Corollo needs to go

Yes the same crazy one who hit his wife in the head with a cooking pot

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8 months ago
Anonymous

the same one who stalks Ball and Chain in the wee hours of the morning as he pleasures himself in the Little Havana back alleys

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8 months ago
Anonymous

No, he threw a card board tea box at her.
BTY,I cant stand him either.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

^^^ It actually was a Terra cotta one and don’t ask me why I remember that minute detail !

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Bc residents complained

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Ken Russell here everybody. I had to get rid of Ultra or else Joe Carollo would have been very mean to me. Now let’s go take a selfie to show the millennials how cool I am!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Suburban Miami is shining again.

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8 months ago
Gene

I love it. Fills a great void and better links Park West to Downtown .

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8 months ago
Anonymous

It’s ugly, heavy handed, no glass cladding, no spire, just square roofs. Does not stand out in a good way. Resembles something from the former Soviet Union. Look at the rendering of Biscayne Blvd in the post. Horrible!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

I actually like its Post Modern Brutalism flavor.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

i felt movement in my undies

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Nimby?

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8 months ago
Anonymous

BUILD IT!!!!!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

love the renderings. nobody has “view rights” includes the residence of paramount.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Yeah but it’s a dumb move of Paramount not to purchase this lot right in front of its million dollars units! Who wants to pay millions to have the views blocked by this thing?

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Yep. I’m sure the folks at Paramount want this article to go away.

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8 months ago
Alto

I think it won’t happen the way it is portrayed in those renderings because I went to the architects website and they describe the project as an ‘investigation’ where they ‘explore’ this ‘strategy’. I am sure Chataeu Group has plans for this site and most likely will not end up being a square simply because they need to make money out of their investment but It won’t end up being as this study. Hopefully they integrate the design well with the pedestrian needs and help to make Biscayne more appealing to residents to walk by because during day is just very uncomfortable to walk because there are not enough trees and there isn’t enough commercial activity to attract people.

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8 months ago
Money money

The developers of Paramount could barely purchase their own lot lol much less buyout Grosskopf

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Royal Palm actually owned those two lots prior to the crash but lost them in foreclosure. Local Case #: 2009-008814-CA-01

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8 months ago
Anonymous

too bad, so sad, cry me a river. boo hoo.

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8 months ago
Danny

Should’ve told them to build outside a fucking city

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8 months ago
Anonymous

They are the view!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Can we get a rooftop infinity pool? You know, something new and luxurious?

This project is serving Minneapolis skybridge circa 1980 and it isn’t fresh or new.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

I agree. The design is terrible.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

i like it. why is it terrible.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

I like the design weirdly but I think a rooftop infinity pool is needed in Miami and I’m surprised we haven’t gotten one yet. Would be nice here.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Too windy. Would be useless. And very costly.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Downtown is looking amazing by the minute! Keep em coming!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Your idea of amazing is filling up every vacant lot, never mind what is built there.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

It’s a surface parking lot… so yes absolutely anything else would be amazing

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Just because it’s a surface lot now doesn’t create carte blanche.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

DOWNTOWN FOR THE WIN!!! The Miami skyline will be totally different in 5 years

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8 months ago
Anonymous

LEAVE THE FREEDOM TOWER ALONE!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

the didn’t touch it – don’t worry

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Well that’s what MDC is doing, and it’s falling apart. Best to sell or outsource lease/manage a boutique hotel, which would be great.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

We need more office buildings and we need to attract more companies. All these residential buildings for who exactly? Plus this is pretty ugly

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8 months ago
Anonymous

i like you

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Agree about the offices but don’t think this is ugly. Maybe once all the prime real estate is built with condos they will start to infill the back lots with offices since the views aren’t as important. CEO’s move there offices close to their houses so maybe it’ll workout.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Who says we need more office buildings? Downtown has fairly high vacancy.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Downtown Office vacancy is pretty high now. Why don’t you build an office and give it a shot? Especially 7 blocks from the core, and wasting the water views.

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8 months ago
Sgt. Sapingo

This is amazing. That is all.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Define “amazing”.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

This project looks incredible, new silhouettes to add to our Beautiful group of towers on Biscayne.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

I love it. Build, build, build. There is a huge shortage of luxury condos in Miami – we need this very badly. I can’t wait.

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8 months ago
Alto

and stop complaining, this is only a study and i am almost sure it won’t happen

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Almost?
This won’t happen

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8 months ago
Anonymous

I feel that the people saying that it won’t happen are all members of the Paramount sales team???

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8 months ago
Anonymous

this won’t happen! … and please, if you are interested in a stunning unit at Paramount please private DM me now! Hurry, units won’t last

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8 months ago
Anonymous

LOL

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Who asked for units at Paramount though? Also just because Paramount WorldCenter has a stunning complex doesn’t mean you have to use biased propaganda to make others believe that other development projects will not be built. If you’re telling the truth, at least use facts from the developers themselves.

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7 months ago
Anonymous

Will this slow down sales or bring down prices at Paramount?

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Surely they won’t be happy about losing waterfront views…

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Waterfront views?

That’s always been the problem with the thinking of a lot of people concerning Miami. Unless the thinking of what’s worthwhile and what isn’t is changed when it comes to the makeup of Miami, progress and change is always going to be slow for this city.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

People are attracted to Miami because of the water. If you think water views don’t matter here, then you have zero grasp of the Miami market.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Sadly you are right, but as I tell all my clients if you want water views you have to purchase in a building that is on the edge of the baby, even if it is only a block away, chances are you will eventually lose it.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

thank you – the only smart comment in here.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Well said and totally correct.

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8 months ago
Danny

That’s what Edgewater, Coral Gables, etc. is for. Not downtown where it’s a *********CITY**********

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Nothing new has been built in Edgewater in the people’s republic of coral gables in a decade, so don’t quite get your drift.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Evreybody knows a vacant lot is a future building…so i don’t think so.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

they aren’t on the water front. have you seen where the damn building is? it’s behind another building two blocks from the water… if you were stupid enuf to buy there thinking you’d have that view forever that your problem

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Precisely. Snake oil brokers never mention these trivial things. East side of Epic facing the same issue soon, as are others too numerous to mention here.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Sorry but you have to be pretty stupid to buy in a building with water views that has a empty lot in front of it and not presume another high rise will rise there blocking your view. Stop blaming the brokers for buyer stupidity !

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8 months ago
Anonymous

If the buyers at paramount see this I am sure they would want their deposits back. No view no resale value.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Paramount should have bought this and extend the promenade here, if I were a buyer there I’d be livid hahaha

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Imagine the 2 years of construction…. But then again they signed up for another 5-10 years of it anyway.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

1 year of approvals, 1 year of presales, 3 years of construction. 5 years minimum.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Poor freedom tower

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8 months ago
Anonymous

The area around the freedom tower should get landmark status and be a beautiful open area in the middle of the future busy and dense downtown. That’s how you make a city beautiful, by preserving some and rebuilding some others

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Awesome! Now let’s extend the metrorail to everywhere lese in Miami and to the the beach and this city could finally be a better one

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Wrong forum. This is about private fantasies, not public ones.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

“The skybridges would include event spaces and skylounges as amenities for residents, as well as the city of Miami.”

Now that’s kool. And it also appears that the Metromover will be incorporated into this project.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Scroll right…you’re welcome:

http://www.trachtenbergllc.com/600/700%20Biscayne

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8 months ago
Anonymous

No pedestrian bridge over biscayne. Put Biscayne on a diet and make it safe to cross.

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8 months ago
FuThSh

YES, SWEETIE, TELL IT

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8 months ago
Anonymous

i agree. we need this bridges over the streets – not building to building………….. but that would make sense so the city won’t do it.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

The stuff that never gets built

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8 months ago
Anonymous

We can only hope. Bad design.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Nice render but that’s all! This won’t happen not ever not in Miami… It’s to nice I’m 100% sure the board will find a reason to stop it… Some other developer will file some bogus lawsuit. After all that the render will be dumb down to nothing more then 2 square stucco buildings on pedestals as usual!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Such positive thoughts.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Why can’t them come up with super modern and unique buildings like in Dubai? what’s this thing?

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Precisely!!!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Not the market for such an expensive design.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Is that a pedestrian bridge over biscayne blvd?

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Yes. The building is clearly ugly. The bridge is the best thing about it.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Probably built in public parking for AAA events if so the bridge would make sense.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Very Nice design, but will not be built.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

I wouldn’t appreciate any tower that directly pulls attention from freedom tower. It’s our Statute of Liberty, Washington Monument, etc. should be a center jewel.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Agree 100%! Whoever proposed a Square has the right mindset. Just like any European city it would look amazing.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Miami architects don’t know how to design and build a Square. That takes a little inguinity, plus city leaders would make sure it’s watered down.

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8 months ago
Polo

MASSIVE!!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

My God! How ugly can you get!!!
So square and flat on top! It’s massiveness hurts hurts the eye! A monument to bad taste and greed!
Miami needs spires and more creative thinking in architecture . Look at the world’s 10 tallest skyscrapers!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Yes, spires are so creative. Why don’t you offer your fully integrated and compliant design, price it, and then see if you can make a decent return on your investment. Cheers.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

How are you gonna be biased about flat-roofed buildings? There’s plenty of buildings just like that including the U.S. Bank Tower, and even the Renaissance Center in Detroit. Either calm down, or please do some research before you make your claim.

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7 months ago
Anonymous

Horrible design?

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8 months ago
Anonymous

I Love it

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Way too dark.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Just as ugly as the old renderings: https://www.thenextmiami.com/chateau-considering-combining-600-700-biscayne-mixed-use-project/

They should leave walkable space in front of the Arena, I don’t think this parking lot will ever have building on it

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Someone proposed a square for that area and I think the idea is brilliant!

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Why can’t they design something nice for the site like their projects in north beach and sunny isles? This is crap.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

Wow a square would make that area so walkable and nice, that’s forward thinking. If only politicians could use their brains instead of their wallets.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

It’s the perfect site for an iconic building. Not this crap.

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8 months ago
Anonymous

The old renderings were beautiful and had crowns, spires, and articulation. Certainly a downgrade, but I suppose it could be worse.

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8 months ago