Temporary Fire Station Planned To Expedite Construction At 1 Southside Park

Miami commissioners are scheduled to vote on a plan for a temporary fire station that would help expedite construction at Brickell’s massive 1 Southside Park.

According to the text of the proposed resolution, site development for the 64-story tower is already underway.

The city engaged a third-party engineer to review and comment on stucco cracking at the existing fire station and the deep soil mixing excavation containment system design at the construction site, the resolution continues.

Both the city and the developer wish to temporarily relocate Fire Station No. 4 to temporary facilities within Southside Park through the mass excavation work and construction of 1 Southside Park.

Fire Station No. 4 would be temporary relocated into a 5,500 square foot space within Southside Park itself, using modular construction, an attachment shows.

The relocation would expedite construction of the project, including the delivery of the new fire station, the resolution said.

A commission vote to approve the temporary station is expected March 9.

ODP Architects is the architect of record for the temporary fire station, as well as the new 64-story tower.

1 Southside Park is planned to include:

  • 1,195 rental apartments
  • 165,000 square feet of office
  • 200 hotel rooms (operated by Treehouse Hotels)
  • 86,151 square feet of spa
  • 23,312 square feet of full service restaurant
  • 1,417 square feet of fast food restaurant
  • 5,120 square feet of banquet hall
  • 13,673 square feet of fitness center
  • 32,000 square feet of fire station
  • Up to 1,000 parking spaces

 



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Anonymous
25 days ago

It is exciting to see this new project going up in Brickell! It should have iconic status since it is very visible and prominent in the skyline. I love the design, too. SoWe2nd Ave will have many more restaurants and shop for people to explore in Brickell when this is up.

Anonymous
25 days ago

This is my favorite project in development right now. Hopefully they speed this up as I’m sure it will help increase foot traffic/density on SW 2nd Ave.

Anon13
25 days ago

They have been doing ground work on the site forever it seems. I hope this speeds the project up.

Anon
25 days ago

This may be one of the tallest and most massive buildings in Brickell. It takes time to get the foundation set right for something of this magnitude.

Anonimato
21 days ago

Almost as slow as Okan tower . That tulip has gone to sleep lately again ;(

Stavi
25 days ago

With all the new developments going on in and around “west brickell”, SW 2nd ave is going to be popping in a few years.

anoynmous
25 days ago

love this project

Anonymous but Famous
25 days ago

In my mind, the building alone ranks among the most beautiful in the greater downtown area. Add the park and it’s a winner. However we need at least one other park in park-poor Brickell before it’s too late. The Underline, Hollo and Simpson for active purposes do not count. There is a definite expansion of the public domain between Simpson Park and beyond the Underline, beset by ownership strips of various agencies. But probably an acre can be squeezed out of that.

Anonymous
25 days ago

As the western portion of Brickell becomes more walkable and connected to the rest of Brickell, people will start going to Jose Marti park. Not today, but it will happen soon. People need to remember that Brickell has sprung up virtually over night. It takes time for neighborhoods to come together.

Anon
25 days ago

Exactly what I have been thinking too. Plus the new river district and riverwalk, connected with Lofty, and we have yet to see what Citadel will be building. Brickell will have many more public options once this is all developed and it’s happening really fast.

EJS
24 days ago

Hopefully Jose Marti Park will get the re-do promised by Chetrit years ago for variances approved on their 4-tower project on the river, plus this 2nd Ave devt is really going to put pressure to upzone East Little Havana (hopefully).

Anonymous
24 days ago

How about a Merrick Park or CocoWalk river-themed, low rise / high density master planned project in Riverside, with a few pop up iconic towers?

Jordan
23 days ago

Overnight?
It is my understanding that Mary Brickell & Family settled in Brickell prior to 1896.

“People need to remember”?? Whaaaaat?

Overnight has a real definition. You can look it up. Qualifying that statement with “virtually” has no added meaning.

Stating the obvious in one sentence, “It takes time for neighborhoods to come together” preceded by a falsehood, “sprung up overnight” should not be encouraged.

Just relax. History didn’t begin when you arrived.
Welcome. Enjoy. Don’t be stupid.

Anonymous
21 days ago

That wasn’t the same Brickell neighborhood we see today that shot up after the Mary Brickell Village masterplanned neighborhood center opened in 2006. It was south and a single family home neighborhood of mansions. The relatively new city neighborhood was named after her and is filling up fast.

New Brickell Park
25 days ago

I love everything about this project, but wish the basketball court was a tennis or pickle ball court.
The Underline already has a few basketball courts nearby, but there are no public tennis courts in Brickell. A lot of people play tennis but drive to Miami Beach to play. I bet people would play tennis a lot here.
Also, a beach volleyball court would be amazing and add a fun vibe to the park.

Anonymous
25 days ago

I live right on Margaret Pace Park and the tennis courts and beach volleyball courts are ALWAYS packed. We will be out walking at 11pm and still see all courts full. lol Brickell residents would surely do the same.

Anonymous
25 days ago

Second that! Dear JDS, Mayor Cava and Mayor Suárez please help add a tennis court where the placeholder court is located at Southside Park. My friends have all been trying to play tennis nearby but can’t find a spot. It would be highly utilized and improve quality of life in Brickell.

Jordan
23 days ago

So true.
Flamingo Park was exceptional place to play tennis when I lived in South Beach.
In Brickell, my building had tennis courts, but not open to the public.

Crandon Park tennis courts are excellent, but that is a trek.

Anonymous
25 days ago

Instead of one basketball court surrounded by colored pavement that will chip and fade within a year, there’s enough space for two multi-purpose courts, meaning two tennis and basketball courts, and four pickleball courts. With recreational space being far and few and existing space underutilized, it makes too much sense.

Anonymous
25 days ago

I suggest keeping some hilly green space and splash fountain, to balance all the hard surfaces in Brickell. It’ll compliment the area well and give people a spot to relax. There’s already a bunch of basketball courts though connected in the underline, so more would be redundant. How about tennis courts and a sand volleyball court, to add some new public amenities – these are very popular in Miami.

Azarius
25 days ago

There isn’t a lot of basketball courts near by only one which was just built with the underline. They would be replacing a highly used basketball court that’s been there for years!

Anonymous
25 days ago

There are three old homes across the street on 10th/SW2nd. A huge tree canopies the entire land (maybe a banyon, with a lot of shade and greenery).

Since it is for sale, the City or County should buy this land now while it can, and convert it to a pocket park, it could connect well with Southside Park and add airspace around megasized 1 Southside Park.

Anonymous
25 days ago

Except the two-story Mission-revival house in the middle should be appropriately relocated, preserved, and converted into a community center, event space, and/or restaurant. It’s exemplary of the beautiful old homes that once made up this area before falling into disrepair and open season for a patchwork of high-rises.

Anonymous
25 days ago

Agree 💯 it could even stay there. With a little love and care from the City it could be an awesome indoor community center or event space on site or be added to Jose Martí Park.

Jordan
23 days ago

Is it good that there is a National Park in Brickell?

Not a lot of downtowns have something like the Biscayne Bay National Park in their neighborhood.

Anonymous
21 days ago

I believe Biscayne National Park is in Key Biscayne and natural preserve. People are looking for an urban designed park, in a central area to give breathing room from the high rises and add greenery to the streets. Somewhere people can meet up with friends for games or an outdoor picnic. A central spot to host events, play music or have a farmers market. Most dense spots like this every few blocks.

Bob, Art Man
25 days ago

Spectacular project. Artfully conceived. Finally, a new building that doesn’t look like every other building. Thanks for this !!!

Anonymous
25 days ago

Please, it looks like nine or ten Arquitectonica buildings on top of one another…

Eastcoaster
25 days ago

Wow! I would expect nothing less grand from JDS, with all the famous designs they have been building in New York City. This developer makes real masterpieces. I can’t wait to see more like this in Brickell.

Melo, a former giga Chad
25 days ago

yes to this, no to rectangular cereal boxes

Anon
25 days ago

But YES to several rectangular cereal boxes stacked on top of each other!

Anonymous
25 days ago

With lots of lush green scapes woven into each landing breaking up the scale and adding a design marvel to the skyline. The renderings don’t even show the eastern facing side with its spiraling structures and open paseo. Yes!

Ron D. Santis
24 days ago

Lush green scapes are easy to put on a rendering but pretty hard to maintain in reality.

Farse-ida
24 days ago

Are they really? I’ve seen thriving fields of them in Florida for decades, and in urban cores all around Florida? and all the middle class single family homes and townhomes pull it off. Why is the top 5 richest city in the world any less capable. Which golf courses are you playing at that have trouble maintaining grass in Florida?

anonymous
25 days ago

I like this building and I hope they soon start burying the lines on 2nd ave. It looks horrible

Anon
25 days ago

I know! The lines look so out of place already with the new development here. I heard Brickell requires it with each new development. If it doesn’t, it should.

Azarius
25 days ago

Big game changer for west Brickell, do the relocation and let’s get this built!

Anonymous
25 days ago

This is a game changer for all of Brickell. Along with the state-of-the-art fire station, it will add a newly designed large park in the heart of Brickell.

East of the Underline is almost full, but SW2nd Avenue has a lot yet to offer. Along with Miami and Brickell Avenues, SW2 will provide another walkable promenade of restaurants, stores and services, which will enhance the overall resident and visitor experience in Brickell. Being such a compact area in Miami, Brickell will be even more walkable when this is done!

Anonymous
25 days ago

One thing about this tower is that it’s massive.

Condo Leasa
25 days ago

Any condos? It seems to have everything else imaginable. People want condo nearby.

Antennae
25 days ago

This building is the perfect design to complement Waldorf Astoria. Most excited for this project.

Miami Winning
25 days ago

As well as the Brickell River District tower being prepped to rise soon. Lots of Grade A+ buildings coming to Miami!

Anonymous
25 days ago

Stacked boxes are Grade A+? Cute…

Anonimato
21 days ago

When is this going vertical ? It’s moving forward at a snail pace … it’s such a beautiful different looking project. It will transform the neighborhood and the skyline if it does get built !

Keko Jones
25 days ago

Leave to the commissioners to make a mess out of this. Take a drive around town and see how old and in bad shape the fire stations are in. Clearly the city’s elected officials could care less about public safety and their fire department.

Anonymous
25 days ago

Erecting a modular temporary station is really smart. I was concerned that the developer would have to build one structure at a time, but this solves that wrinkle. It makes sense since the park will be completely redone. It’s also safer for the firemen as the old station is compromised with cracks. It’s not ideal to move twice, but the new building will have a new modern station and it’ll be open faster and be a big upgrade for the fire department.

Anonymous
25 days ago

If they could care less, well then that means they still got room for not caring, so it could be worse. And most the stations are just fine.

Jordan
23 days ago

Keko….the article is about a new fire station.
Why are you complaining that no one is building a new fire station?

(my question is a rhetorical question. Please just read the article and do not feel obligated to respond).

Anonymous
25 days ago

I’m still on the fence about this project. I love the density it will add, but dont care for fat skyscrapers

Anonymous
25 days ago

Generally agree about massive structures but this one is unique. There are a lot of corridors and open “windows” in between each block to allow light and air to pass through.