Sales Center Permit Filed For Brickell Key Supertall Site

There’s more activity at the Brickell Key Supertall site.

On April 25, a construction permit application was filed with Miami’s Building Department for what is listed as a temporary sales center.

Even though it is temporary, it won’t be cheap – the hard construction cost is estimated in the filing to be $7 million.

The facility will be 15 feet tall, and will have 6,873 square feet of space.

The permit application was just submitted yesterday, and the full plan sheets haven’t yet been filed, so review isn’t yet underway.

Swire Jadeco LLC C/O Swire Properties Inc is listed as the owner on the permit filing.

In December, an FAA filing was submitted requesting approval to build towers on the property rising 1,049 feet and 700 feet.

In January, a tree permit application was filed with the Building Department for the site.

 

(photo: Phillip Pessar)

 

 

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rainey411
1 month ago

Really hoping Swire recognizes the value this land provides as a community gathering place and has some sort of public space component. Brickell needs open space!

Anonymous
1 month ago

The city needs to require more setbacks, wider sidewalks and open space. All the other areas in Miami have these guidelines, Brickell is being exploited for the downtown development agenda. Stand up Brickell owners!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Oh god. Please don’t tell me BHA is channeling its NIMBY outrage toward this project too. #SecondHandEmbarrassment

Anons
1 month ago

Brickell isn’t a place for NIBYISM we just want smart urban planning and modern maintained parks in between high rises. Higher intensity, calls for improved amenities and park/public space.

I already got mine
1 month ago

That reads as “I wanna limit future growth to increase the value of my current condo”.

Socretes
1 month ago

Who is “WE”?

Socretes
1 month ago

This comment seems to be oblivious to the fact that the Brickell site referenced in the article is part of one of the largest waterfront bay walk in all of Miami-Dade County.
There are setbacks.
There are wide sidewalks.
There is open space.
Furthermore, there is a National Park immediately to the East.

Brickell owners are pretty smart people. In fact, you may notice that the Brickell Neighborhood has a very high percentage of educated people.

This comment seems to emanate from someone who is pulling that average down…..or lives in a place WEST of SW 1st Avenue.

Aristotle
1 month ago

Yes, Brickell owners are bright and love the mix of greenspace and urbanism in Brickell. This site is on a beautiful bay walk, but the entrance to Biscayne National Park is a 10 hour walk from Brickell. The State Park at the tip of Key Biscayne is 3.5 hour walk.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Then ask the government for it, not the developers. You are fighting the wrong enemy.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nobody is an enemy. It’s in all our interest. Maybe developers can ask help ask the gov to do this too. Taxpayers and voters want it. Hear it nearly every day from different neighbors and friends.

Anonymous
1 month ago

If there’s such value to the public then the city should buy the land. You can’t expect private owners to do things at a financial cost to them out of the goodness of the heart.

Socretes
1 month ago

True.
You can not EXPECT owners to take on additional public burden, however, when give the choice to develop Brickell Key with extraordinary freedom, Swire, under the leadership (from 1976 and for over 40 years) of Stephen Owens, chose to develop Brickell Key with an open Bay walk with public access.

Kudos to Swire for developing Brickell Key so well. Kudos to Swire for choosing subterranean parking and public access to all of Brickell Citicenter and between city blocks both east to west, and north to south.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Kudos, but we do require setbacks and river/bay walks in a dense urban city with common development scheme. If someone wants to build anything they want they could buy land in central Florida farmland, unpopulated, and create an entire world as they see fit, but we are in a city where development impacts the surrounding zone, county, and hundreds of thousands of stakeholders.

liliana shather
1 month ago

Swire bought Brickell Key in 1971; not in 1976

Jane
1 month ago

The baywalk is open to everyone living in Miami. In exchange, Miami maintains the bridge to Brickell Key.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Good luck with that one. The land is too valuable to have too many open spaces. The park at the southern tip of Brickell Key is a beautiful place. However, it’s going to be loss forever with this project.

peej
1 month ago

of course Swire recognizes the value, that’s why they’re building on it!

A park is nice, but so are profits. This has certainly been the plan all along since Swire built up the island starting in the 70’s…

Anon
1 month ago

Change the system. People before unlimited profits. Miami is losing. And it will lose people and profits if we don’t change course.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Correct! And if you bought a property in BK you should have done your homework first, instead of expecting it’s developer to turn their business to satisfy your desires. (I mean “you” as in everyone criticizing).
It’s Swire land they can do whatever they planned for it. That’s gonna increase the value of all properties in BK.
If you don’t like it, sell and buy in Doral or Kendall.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The island HAS a space. Its called the Village Green. That’s where they do an event every month 🤷🏻‍♀️

liliana shather
1 month ago

They are 5-6 events in the year; not every month

RnO
1 month ago

Brickell Key has green space, in the center, as part of the urban design. There is a larger space in front of the Kaseya Center (also bayfront) owned by the County–which serves as a parking lot. Great space to increase a contiguous green area from Bayfront Park. There is a City of Miami park between Icon and the First Presbyterian Church. Crazy question: why doesn’t the City buy the 1st Presbyterian church site (150,000SF) and expand the existing park, fronting Brickell Avenue and servicing many more residents that won’t even have to cross the bridge? Why do citizens fault private property owners when municipalities are responsible for parks?

Azarius
1 month ago

Lets get these tower built!!!

Anonymous
1 month ago

It will create jobs too.

Anon
1 month ago

It sucks that the green space is going away but it was never a really a “park”. It was just beautified private land. The fact they face resistance building on it now is probably why more developers don’t beautify their vacant lots. Imagine if the Citadel property on the bay in Brickell had been transformed by developers to a tree filled green open space on the bay rather than a stark parking lot for the last 20+ years. It would have been great in the mean time but then it would have been tough for them to pull the plug and finally build on it when they wanted to.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The city need to buy whatever remaining lots are available in Brickell and hold on top them forever. We need to create more parks!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Sounds like some suburban kid who grew up and moved to the city and now realizes that city living means living amongst less open space. Go figure.

Anonymous
1 month ago

People left other cities and came to Miami to have open green space. With the projected plans this city could end up with less open green space than those other cities… that is a problem, right?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Are you kidding? NYC, with all its problems, has tons of open green space. Absolutely nobody leaving NYC coming to Miami thought that Miami would have more open green space. They came here for the tax benefits and a better year-around climate.

Socretes
1 month ago

Is there any major city with a National Park to the east and a National Park to the west?

Personally, I left a very very green state and city with lots of lakes everywhere for Miami for a great job. I stayed because of the exceptional quality of life, upward mobility, and to be a part of a new and vibrant city.

It is highly unlikely that Miami will ever have as much “greenspace” and parks as Detroit, Michigan in my lifetime or in the next 100 years.

An honest study just might prove out that there is a law of diminishing returns when it comes to park space. An honest study would also show that Miami has a lot of park space already.

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s a good point. Miami has the National Everglades park so close by, people can jog there in the morning and enjoy the wildlife 🐊

Socretes
1 month ago

No….not “we need”.
it is more like “YOU want”.

Anonymous
1 month ago

How much more taxes do you plan to pay so “the city” can afford to buy???

Anonymous
1 month ago

Excited for this development!

Howard Roark
1 month ago

Does anyone think Brickell Avenue will be a viable artery for cars by the end of this decade?
I’m all for supertalls. Stack them as high and deep as you can.
But just think of the traffic with 10+ buildings on Brickell taller than 900’ (and another 10+ on Biscayne) when the Miami River Bridge goes up.
I’ll be walking, using Metromover, or driving on Miami Avenue.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Good for you.

NYC Transplant
1 month ago

Actually no. Having lived in DC, Chicago, and NYC, I am convinced that Brickell’s street and sidewalk breadth are both inadequate to handle the population density that is coming. I really don’t see much that can be done. Creating more one-way streets will help, but isn’t sufficient. Brickell will feel like lower Manhattan in a decade.

Socretes
1 month ago

Unlike NY, the sidewalks of Brickell do not have garbage bags stacked up and ooozing with restaurant waste. Often times, there are alleys, or at least loading docks and air conditioned garbage rooms.

What will need to happen is all the daisies that say “it is impossible” to walk on Brickell sidewalks will have to learn to walk better.

Perhaps there is an opportunity for someone to open a school that teaches people how to walk on sidewalks, and how to cross streets. I realize there are only a few able bodied people in this market, but there seem to be weaker and weaker people moving to Miami that just can not handle the challenges afforded with putting one foot in front of the other.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I agree about the garbage. Miami is a far cleaner city than NYC. We love Miami and appreciate the work of our leaders. The city has never looked better and crosswalks and road designs are being updated well 👏

Miami
1 month ago

Half the units will be bought and sit empty traffic won’t increase like u foresee

Anonymous
1 month ago

True. Half buyers use Brickell properties as second homes.

Anonymous
1 month ago

In Miami generally, but Brickell has more locals than other areas because of the offices and other essential services.

Socretes
1 month ago

Yes, Roark.
Check out the newspapers from the 1960’s in Miami. People have whined and complained about too many cars for generations.

Like you, most people will be choosing alternatives to driving cars at the time when traffic is heavy, and will use their cars when it isn’t.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Please let it be a great tower, with curves and a spire!

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

If we want more urban parks, there are ‘creative’ ways to pay for them. For example an empty lot near existing and future buildings can be purchased partially by current buildings’ HOA, future building unit price and the City of Miami. Its a win win win for everybody. The future building can include that in the selling price, the existing buildings will go up in value, and the city adds a park to its city center. Which is an achievement.

Anonymous
1 month ago

…and Miami becomes even more unaffordable. Yay! Plus there’s more places for Fido to shit.

Anon
1 month ago

Developer talk, using “unaffordability” to justify gauging the city of public enhancements and still charging astronomically high prices.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Even more unaffordable? It’s the least expensive city and going to be like Detroit if developers and city don’t fix this park and infrastructure problem.

Jane
1 month ago

Why hasn’t there been a Traffic Study done prior to this project? It will be necessary to close one side of the bridge while the other side is improved to accommodate the new buildings. This will cause a traffic nightmare for Brickell Key residents.

T G
1 month ago

let’s just remove all green space from brickell, and pave every lot with a high rise. then all of our sidewalks can be covered in dog shit, and the entirety of brickell can just become a steel prison

Anonymous
1 month ago

Just like the federal prison in downtown. Brickell will all be living in a prison, and paying for the “Park West” view.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Most condos are building dog parks within their property because they understand that.

Anonymous
1 month ago

They are disgusting, and after a year, buildings stop using them as dog parks, when they realize the amount of droppings that get left and stench the building.

Developers should include this space to the public rather than an interior space that is a waste.

Brickell living
1 month ago

There was no land here 50 years ago. What was the agreement with the city when they created Brickell key? Doubt city developers thought they would put an 1000 foot building. Should not be allowed. All for development, but not anything goes.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Get your facts straight before commenting next time.

anon
1 month ago

The Bacarrat will be at the foot of the Bridge , or This Supertall will be 2 blocks away .. the bridge is nightmare now I can not imagine what it will be like when these projects are finished.
We need green

Anonymous
1 month ago

The City of Miami Mayor Suarez has an “unpaid” position at ISG World- a real estate brokerage who was hired by Swire to sell their last Brickell condo project . The City of Miami Mayor Suarez is also senior partner at DaGrosa Capital Partners LLC, a Miami-based private equity firm that recently invested an undisclosed amount into that very same ISG World brokerage.
Did anyone think this new Swire project would not sail through the government “review” process?

SoBeMom
1 month ago

SF has Golden Gate Park, STL Forest Park. NYC has Central Park, LA Griffith Park, SD Mission Trails. Chicago Grant Park. Miami has… Kennedy Park?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Drop off your kids and drive across the bay to Museum Park and Bayfront Park. Both are far prettier than any of the parks you mentioned.

Anonymous
1 month ago

They are not central or walking distance.

Anonymous
1 month ago

They are not central? They are smack dab in the middle of downtown. How is that not central? Besides, Bayfront is absolutely walkable from anywhere in Brickell.

Socretes
1 month ago

Everything is walking distance if you have enough time.

Socretes
1 month ago

Biscayne Bay National Park.
Simpson Park.
Miami River Greenway.
Underline
Underdeck
Baywalk
Yes. Kennedy Park.
Peacock Park
Alice Wainwright Park
Margaret Pace Park
Maurice Ferer Park
Jose Marti Park
Brickell Park
Bayfront Park

Those are in downtown….EAST of I-95….there are plenty of others.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Great list!

Anonymous
1 month ago

The Brickell entitled will always demand more.

???
1 month ago

What’s wrong with renovating a building for a sales center? Throwing away 7 million for a temporary building makes no sense!

Mkt Pro
1 month ago

when you’re selling over a billion worth of units… :/

Socretes
1 month ago

It makes no sense to you.
This may be why you do not developer 1,000ft buildings, Brickell Citicenters, or highrises on Brickell Key.

Rest assured, Swire knows what they are doing.