Revealed: 47-Story Office Tower Designed By KPF Planned Near Midtown

Plans have been submitted to Miami’s Urban Development Review Board for an office tower called Tower 36.

A Shell gas station is currently on the site where the new tower is proposed. Vacant land and a multifamily building behind the station are proposed to be unified with the gas station for a larger project site.

The new tower is proposed to rise 47 stories, or 635 feet, with 32 habitable levels (some levels exceed 14 feet in height and are considered two levels).

Tower 36 is proposed to include:

  • 312,058 sq. ft. of Office
  • 29,109 sq. ft. of Commercial Use
  • 671 parking spaces

A restaurant and roof terrace is planned atop the parking podium. A rooftop garden is planned at the top of the tower.

Kohn Pederson Fox is the design architect. ODP is the project architect.

No Miami 21 zoning waivers are being requested. The project is proposed as of right, thanks to new revisions to the Miami 21 zoning code.

One Thousand Group is the developer, with the entity Tower 36, LLC listed as the contract purchaser. One Thousand Group is led by Kevin Venger, Louis Birdman and Michael Konig.

The UDRB hearing is scheduled for October 18.

 

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Azarius
1 month ago

SMASH The APPROVAL finally a building that’s a little different!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Midtown is now the cool part of Miami

Anon
1 month ago

It’s the midtown/design district/wynwood triangle but yeah it’s picking up steam big time

Anon
1 month ago

Heard a lot of them are backing out – over saturated

Anonymous
1 month ago

Any examples?

Anon
1 month ago

No because he made that up lol

calivalle
1 month ago

Awesome beauty for the hood

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s the least cool part and outside the city.

Anon
1 month ago

Whatever makes you feel better!

Fact Checker
1 month ago

Tell us you’ve been in Miami for 5 minutes without telling us.

Anon
1 month ago

This is technically in Edgewater but yea Midtown is awesome

Anon
1 month ago

Lol at this getting downvoted. You can literally pull up a map. This is Edgewater

Anononymius
1 month ago

The target shopping mall?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Midtown is all car dealerships and desolate huge areas of rubble. Sure it’s easy to fix up a block but it’ll be decades before it’s even remotely close to how advanced and walkable Brickell has become (which still has a long way to go too).

Nony
1 month ago

There aren’t any car dealerships or desolate huge areas of rubble in Midtown. Are you referring to the area around Biscayne & 20th St? That’s not Midtown.

Conrad
1 month ago

You are absolutely correct❗️Midtown looks like a dystopian scene from the first Mad Max movie. This office tower should have been built in Brickell

Anonymous
1 month ago

You don’t smash an approval. You crush it.

tacky covers
1 month ago

The mural looks like a Kanye West album cover

Anonymous in the Area
1 month ago

TOO TALL – WAY TOO DENSE – out of place. never going up here.

Dopes.
1 month ago

Yup. Too big for that site.

Anon
1 month ago

Beautiful proposal – looking forward to watching this area grow! The Design District continues to cement it’s reputation as Miami’s Rodeo Drive / 5th Avenue and is attracting fantastic architecture.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Beautiful tower, approved!

Anonymous
1 month ago

One of the best podium designs ever proposed/built in Miami

Anonymous
1 month ago

Would be better without the mural pieces. You don’t need murals or clumps of sheet metal. Frankly, that part of Miami21 should have been revised, too.

Anon
1 month ago

Miami 21 is outdated – update it please

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

There’s no liner units. This is the worst podium design

calivalle
1 month ago

Its a beauty

Anonymous
1 month ago

BEAUTIFUL! And a perfect location!! More buildings like this and less single story retail/gas stations, please!

Anonymous
1 month ago

ODP constantly brings the fire.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Looks to me like KPF is bringing the fire.

Anon
1 month ago

Looks to me like both are bringing the fire

Paul Bunyan
1 month ago

They just chop the wood

ANON
1 month ago

ODP hasn’t designed (1) built building. They couldn’t design themselves out of a box.

Anon
1 month ago

They have an office building in Hollywood, Miami Station is under construction, and VILLA Miami has construction fencing in place. That is just in the past year.

This firm built up a reputation as the AOR for Zaha Hadid’s 1000 Museum, Miami World Center’s Paramount, and Norman Foster’s Aventura Apple store. Now it appears the firm is pivoting towards more design work and based on what they’ve released so far, I’m looking forward to it.

Anonymous
1 month ago

They’re better at the partnership work. The pivot design display is weak. Maybe they’ll grow into it, but they have a way to go before developers seek them out for their design skills.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Hot take and not wrong. They plagiarized one, then redesigned it, and now it’s in permitting? They know their AOR stuff, but ya, not designers.

Y so salty
1 month ago

VILLA is a beautiful building, the Hollywood office complex they designed is great, the design for Miami station is super clean – not sure why you’re so salty but it seems personal

Downtowner
1 month ago

Gorgeous.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Wow! Nobody can claim they saw this one coming lol!! Traffic will need to be thoughtfully planned as this is one of the worst intersections in Miami – anyone remember the guy smashing in a car’s back window with a baseball bat during rush hour about a year ago?

Anon
1 month ago

There’s no metro. It was designed as a suburb. How about building this near a metro stop in the urban core?

Anon
1 month ago

Unfortunately Miamis transportation system is extremely limited. It is being built in a strategic location for office workers who live in Miami Beach to have a quick commute.

Bill
1 month ago

It’s not limited, but we aren’t doing enough to incentivize development around the expansive metro system which defines the City Core

Anon
1 month ago

It has one line…..it doesn’t even go to Miami Beach…it’s very limited.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Miami Beach is a vacation spot, it is not in Miami. There’s nothing there anyway.

Anon
1 month ago

Some of the wealthiest zip codes in the nation are in Miami Beach.

Andy Taylor
1 month ago

Of Miami Beach residents are so wealthy why would they need to work in a stupid office surrounded by traffic? This is a nice building but a horrible gridlock for commuters by car, Uber, or bus.. Increased brightline service is bring this area streets to an all day parking lot with cars backing up as far as 112 freeway.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Just maybe working “in a stupid office surrounded by traffic” is how they got and stay wealthy.

Anon
1 month ago

There’s nothing in Miami Beach…..another flaming genius

Anonymous
1 month ago

Two, if you include the smidgen of what was built as the Orange Line.

Sven
1 month ago

It. What. What is it.
Do you mean it to be the transportation system?

I-395 is part of a transportation system. There are very smart developers who understand this elementary fact and have chosen to build an office building at the end of an exit ramp from I-395.

I-395 is governed by the DOT that is an acronym for Department of ….of a….of…something or another.

OH the Department of Transportation. The office building referenced in this article can connect to the Interstate Freeway system in less than a minute.

The transportation system is only limited by one’s ability to observe the obvious.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Quit screwing us over. you know DOT doesn’t care about transportation. And this is just going to make traffic unbearable. It should be a low rise. Unless it has mass transportation.

Clogged roads are NOT transportation.

Warn your commissioners. Just say no to over development where there’s no public transportation! This is not the place for this. Wake up and don’t sell out over a shiny rendering!

Sven
1 month ago

It is not limited.

IF all the dopey professors (and the kids who love them) are correct that development around the Metro_________ is so great, why does it need to be subsidized?

If it makes sense and it is profitable. development will occur around the expansive Metro________ system. No need for incentives or subsidies. I will just make sense.

(ICYMI – The Metro, as in Metrorail, goes to Okeechobee Blvd well past Hialeah, and south to Dadeland. Hardly the “City Core”.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Those are the City Core! They have more infrastructure and more attractive and safer than Wynwood. Wynwood is just a product of marketing, certainly we can do better around our metro system.

Walter Sobchak
1 month ago

The Okeechobee MetroRail stop is the Urban Core?
Have you ever been there?

The Okeechobee MetroRail Station is 10 miles from the center of Dade-County (the corner of Flagler Street and Miami Avenue.) It is not in the “City Core”, it is not even in the City of Miami.

It should come as no surprise to people living in realty, that Google Maps says that driving a car from 1 E Flagler Street to the Okeechobee MetroRail station right now takes:
16 Minutes in a car.
45 Minutes via MetroRail.

Leave on Monday at 9:30am:
14-24 minutes by car.
45 minutes by MetroRail.

Anon
1 month ago

Who would chose to live in Miami Beach?

Anon
1 month ago

Rich people.

Anonymous
1 month ago

…and rich people don’t live in all those houses along the Upper East Side and the better condos recently built in Edgewater?

Anon
1 month ago

Those houses at tiny compared to the mansions in South Miami

Anonymous
1 month ago

They’re building affordable housing on the beach.

Rob
1 month ago

I live in Miami Beach and I’m not rich.

Sven
1 month ago

Compared to the world population. I’ll bet that you are at least in the top 2% of the wealthiest people on the planet for your age.

Anon
1 month ago

People with taste and money.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The best locations have transportation system. This is all hype to expand it.

Sven
1 month ago

Yes, excellent access for the 80,000 population Miami Beach, and easy access for the other 1 million people within 30 miles.

Extremely limited?
The transportation system is great. You would not see extraordinary development in the Design District if no one could get there. Clearly, no one is strolling out of their duplex to walk 2 blocks to the Tom Ford store to pick up some duds. They are using the transportation system to get there, and it is not “extremely limited”.

Personally, I can get to any major city anywhere in the western hemisphere in less than a day.
I can get to MIA in 20 minutes, and catch one a 1,000 of flights to anywhere I want to go rapidly.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Miami Beach could use all the help it can get right now so god bless maybe this can help drive in a new crowd.

Fact Checker
1 month ago

This is in the Urban Core.

Sven
1 month ago

Do it.
Go.

Name*
1 month ago

Absolutely… random handyman got out a hammer and put an end to that shit right away.

Name
1 month ago

We need the Metromover to get there

komodo bro
1 month ago

With a design like this, it should get automatic approval

Anonymous
1 month ago

Damn 36th st is gonna become more of a cluster fuck

anan
1 month ago

Simple, don’t go there.

Sven
1 month ago

This is one of those office buildings where the “6 figure jobs” are located.
Noodles won’t level up his game “because traffic is to hard”.

If you can’t figure out traffic, and can’t figure out how to walk on sidewalks, then Academia is the only path to a a “6 figure job”.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Hence why we need a Coastal Link stop at Midtown and/or Brightline commuter stop at the Design District.

Sven
1 month ago

WE do not NEED that.

Notice Kohn Pederson Fox is building without it. Miami is growing, has been for a century, and many are prospering without the things you are confident that “we need”.

“WE” don’t “need” it. YOU WANT.

Gimmee….gimmeee……I want a Golden Ticket….and I want it noooowwwwwwww!

Daddy! Give me a Golden Ticket!!!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Try spending 30 minutes getting from one spot in Miami South and north of the core. You’re stuck for an hour getting from one shopping mall to the next. We need to focus on expanding Brickell and Downtown west so our main lines stop being so damn congested. People want to metro. They aren’t going to these other areas because they’re cool, they’re just new.

Build NEW along the metro mover and rail lines and build NEW along the Miami River to Marlin Stadium.

Anon
1 month ago

You seem unstable.

anon
1 month ago

Driving outside the core makes people upset, it’s just a frustrating experience.

Sven is a Troll
1 month ago

Sven just might be the worst troll to show up in the comments on this board in years. Literally no understanding of cities, transportation, real estate, markets, or anything for that matter. But sure, please keep commenting to everyone about how smart you are and how selfish it is for people to want transportation alternatives that are cheap, quick, and efficient.

Sad
1 month ago

He also calls people unstable for advocating for a better planned city.

Sven
1 month ago

There is nothing particularly selfish about wanting a golden MetroMover. The selfish part is having the expectation that someone else should buy it for you, and that the ride will be free.

The vocal minority feels comfortable spending other people’s money on their “WE NEEDS”, and many people understand that the CapEx and the annual OpEx costs for these expenditures are not worth the benefit.

“I want a cheap, quick, and efficient MetroMover.” For instance.

Lost on these people is that the MetroMover you have now is not cheap, not quick, and not efficient.

But for the vocal minority of mouth breathers, “Miami” needs more of this.

Sven
1 month ago

“Sven just might be the worst troll ”

If a troll is bad, and Sven is the worst at being bad.
Are you saying that Sven is good?

Diversity of thought is very important, and I’d like to understand.

Andy Taylor
1 month ago

Brightline with the new tri-rail also passing there already paralizes 36th st and Biscayne in all directions. The exit off the 112 by this site is already at standstill most of the day.

Walter Sobchak
1 month ago

Probably not as bad as you think.
That gas station on the corner is magnet for terrible drivers pulling in and out constantly and throughout the day.

The people pulling into the office building will do it once in the “morning” and once in the afternoon.

anonymous
1 month ago

Miami’s architecture will keep getting better and better

Anonymous in the Area
1 month ago

Sure, but will the urban planning around pedestrian transportation?

Anonymous
1 month ago

WOW, absolutely stunning building ! This building is going to create an even bigger traffic nightmare on 36th street intersection.

Bill
1 month ago

The reason there’s so much traffic here compared to brickell and Downtown is there’s no metro mover. It was designed as a suburb and very sparse and distinct spread out are

Anon
1 month ago

Brickell has the worst traffic in the city – what are you talking about….

Anon
1 month ago

Not really. Maybe on Brickell Ave because there no bus stops there and people are forced to drive there but the rest of Brickell everyone walks and there’s no traffic. I’ve never had to wit as long as I do when I go to Edgwater and mIdtown. It’s a nighmare deicifn there

Anon
1 month ago

It is a well-known sentiment that Brickell is the most congested neighborhood in the city. Between Brickell Key, the bridges, and it’s Hong Kong density no where else even comes close.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Hong Kong density? Not quite. Just because a Hong Kong developer put it on the map, doesn’t mean it’s like Hong Kong.

Dade
1 month ago

It’s not even dense yet, wait a few years and it’ll be just getting to be as walkable at NYC!

Sven
1 month ago

Brickell is the most dense neighborhood south of Manhattan.

Sure, there is a lot of traffic on Biscayne trying to turn into the Denny’s, Taco Bell, and McDonalds around 36th Street, but there is no doubt that the volume of traffic in Brickell is higher.

Further, with so much vertical construction, water/sewer infrastructure improvements, and drawbridge improvements in Brickell, it is a wonder that that it is not worse Brickell.

Somehow, those “6 figure job people” have a way about figuring it out without excessive whining.

Miami Voter
1 month ago

Drive on SW 2nd or 1st for a traffic-free experience in Brickell. You can also enjoy a peaceful stroll amidst the mansions with no cars in sight. Brickell Ave is the exception with car traffic due to the absence of bus stops, though efforts are underway to address this. Exiting I-95 in Brickell is a breeze, unlike the multiple highway exits required to reach Edgewater, which often result in 30-minute ramp standstills. The road layout in Edgewater can be frustrating, causing traffic gridlocks. Edgewater’s driving and walking experience needs improvement before further development.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is the exact opposite of my experience after living in Edgewater for 2 years. I am on the interstate in minutes every morning. During my many years in Brickell, it was always a clusterfuck getting out of Brickell in the mornings.

Dade
1 month ago

Brickell is the easiest area to leave, on highway in 2 minutes from the new Sentral Brickell location.

Sven
1 month ago

Why do you post if you have no clue about the world around you.
Of course there are bus stops on Brickell Ave.
There are bus stops on Miami Avenue. There are buses to the Village of Key Biscayne…there…are……uhgg.

https://www.miamidade.gov/transit/library/better-bus-network-update.pdf

Catch up.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The new Better Bus Miami Dade map does not include these avenues…

REDO the Transit Maps
1 month ago

the Map is VERY VERY unclear, they should have a magnifying glass seperate text box that shows a close up of Brickell and downtown, to sort out that god awful mess you call a transportation plan. REDO!

Anonymous
1 month ago

He’s not from here. Let him talk.

Dade
1 month ago

Miami experiences heavy traffic throughout the city. Have you visited Dadeland or other areas beyond the core metro area like Edgewater? Both are roughly equidistant from the city center. The traffic is more noticeable in parts of Miami farther from Brickell because of the greater distances between locations, leading to more time spent in traffic. Even if Brickell has traffic, it’s less noticeable because everything is within a short walking distance.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You cannot be serious that Edgewater and Dadeland are the same distance from Brickell. I have walked from Brickell to Edgewater countless times in less than 45 minutes. Do you have any idea how long it would take to walk from Brickell to Dadeland? Also, Edgewater is squarely within the urban core. Hate to break it to ya, but that’s just a fact.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Fact, Metromover does nothing for traffic.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yeah right it’s packed with professionals maybe if you wear flip flops all day you or developing from overseas you wouldn’t realize the high demand to be near the metro mover.

Sven
1 month ago

What?
There isn’t more traffic at NE 36th Street than there is in Brickell

Anon
1 month ago

It is spectacular, but traffic is already chaotic in this area half of the day. FDOT should build new ramps to the highway to improve the situation. The county should build an underpass at the nearby Brightline/FEC railway. This area will be unworkable in a few years if nothing is done.

Anonymous
1 month ago

NO!!!!!that will take 100 years of studies and another 50 to construct….this is miami after all

Andy Taylor
1 month ago

I totally agree. The increased brightline service already paralizes all Street at this location. Cars will not be able to get out of this building most of the day. There’s not way to get into it from the beach or Biscayne too. The only possible way to get in is from 112 freeway eastbound sitting forever at that exit. It’s always a parking lot and a cause of many rear end collisions as those exiting pile up on the freeway

Shawn Kouri
1 month ago

This looks like an iconic building honestly. It’s going up right next to the on-ramp to the Julia Tuttle Causeway leading to I 95. This is at the intersection where the gas station is before you turn left to get onto Julia Tuttle from Biscayne Boulevard.

Now that's different
1 month ago

iconic building

Anonymous
1 month ago

One of a kind in that area, I say build it as soon as possible

Yohannes
1 month ago

FINALLY A NICE DESIGN FOR MIAMI!

Anonymous
1 month ago

This might be the nicest proposal in the whole city.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Upvoted because I thought you said worst.

MiamiGuy
1 month ago

Beautiful new addition! Will probably actually help traffic outside of the business rush hours as a lot more people block the lane to enter/exit a gas station non stop than a high end office building

leslie glassblock
1 month ago

Yes!!!!!!!

Taxed Out
1 month ago

The intersection from hell. But I love it. Seems tall for right in the path of airplanes.

Charles E Culpepper Jr
1 month ago

This is a beautiful building! Anyone who thinks it is not, has no feeling for beautiful architecture.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The top of the tower is giving off some Saleforce Tower vibes. Obviously not exactly the same or as tall but still 🔥🔥

Yet Another Anonymous
1 month ago

‘Shell Corp Tower’

Yet Another Anonymous
1 month ago

Walking distance to Taco Bell. Or a 30 minute drive including 10 winds round the parking garage ramp, then navigating the great 36th Street and Biscayne traffic light, or making right turns then U turns from 35th terrace or street, then waiting in the drive-thru.

Oh wait it’s on the east side of the road… walking distance to Denny’s then.

@Carolinavergaramiami
1 month ago

Wow.. amazing news!! Bienvenido a nuestro vecindario!!!

bob art guy
1 month ago

LOVE – GREAT – BUILD – KPF delivers creativity. Too bad it is not on Brickell

Anon
1 month ago

Plenty of incredible buildings in Brickell. I’m glad iconic towers are gracing other areas of the skyline.

Tim
1 month ago

Not really. It does little good for Miami and Brickell if you can’t walk there.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Reminds me of one of the renditions of OBP, assuming it hasn’t been watered down and boxed further.

Sven
1 month ago

The structure formerly known as Espirito Santo Tower is Kohn Pederson Fox. One of the most interesting mixed use buildings in our city for sure.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Amazing tower and gateway to Edgewater, but… the murals in the podium are horrendous. Let’s hope that isn’t the actual commissioned “art.”

Anon
1 month ago

It’s ad space

shewearsnylons
1 month ago

That’s awesome, but where am I going to get gas now? U Gas next to Pollo is a disaster.

Anonymous
1 month ago

There’s all car dealerships and fast food here it’s not a cosmo city area

Anonymous
1 month ago

If this beauty is built, traffic will not allow me to leave the Charter Club in the morning.