The River District Phase 1 Reaches 30th Floor Of Construction

In Brickell, the first tower at The River District has reached level 30 of construction, according to contractor G.T. McDonald Enterprise.

Developer Chetrit Group has said that The River District will “create a riverwalk experience for the first time in the city.”

The apartment tower now under construction is planned to top off at 54 stories, or 648 feet above ground.

Eventually, a total of four towers are planned at the complex. Two will be rental buildings, with the other two planned as office and condo.

The next tower is also planned to have 374 condos and will rise to the same 54-story height. Groundbreaking is planned for early 2023.

The fully built out complex is planned to have 4 million square feet and include:

  • about 1,600 residences
  • Class A office space
  • 30,000 square feet of retail
  • a boat marina that can accommodate 60-foot vessels
  • 2,000 covered parking spots

David Grutman’s Groot Hospitality is partnering on “culinary and residential concepts” at the development. Grutman’s concepts will be featured across residential, restaurant and entertainment spaces, a press release said.

Kobi Karp is the architect. Rockwell Group is the interior designer of the condo tower, with Rockwell and IDDI doing interiors at the apartment tower lobby and restaurant.

Chetrit Group is the developer.

 

 

(photo: GT McDonald Enterprise)

(image: JORG)
(images: Kobi Karp)
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Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

I noticed how fast it was growing when I was on the bridge headed to Brickell. Hope the other towers start soon.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The views of this tower are phenomenal from the new Brickell roundabout on 3rd Ave / 13th St. It’s starting to look iconic.

Professional Engineer
6 months ago

Gorgeous. I think this will the tallest building that close to I-95. That will bequite the sight!

Brickell Gateway
6 months ago

Finally the gateway Brickell has been waiting for, starting to rise! And this is just the first of four 🤩

Anonymous
6 months ago

Looking at it daily I’m still surprised at how tall this will building will look with another 24 stories to go! A definitive anchor to Brickell that will activate the river and catalyse the redevelopment of Jose Marti Park and the rest of the riverfront in the future.

Trolling
6 months ago

And it should be low scale in Riverside, according to all the brilliant people on this site, low-scale 2-3 floors, development in Riverside to appease people who want low scale, because low scale, ya know. Keep it small on the Little Havana side, sounds good. Make it a carnival of wealth on one side and keep it poor and dilapidated on the other side.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Zone certain areas to have air rights at a certain time in the future? That way the infrastructure gets built first with the investment in mind for future high rise pocket near the upscale low rise masterplanned areas.

Trolling
6 months ago

Not a terrible idea, in fact thats a good idea…. OH WAIT, MIAMI 21 ALREADY HAS AN UPZONING SCHEDULE, BUT THE ANTI-GROWTH CROWD STOPPED THAT SCHEDULED ZONING CHANGE IN 2015/2016 FROM HAPPENING IN LITTLE HAVANA. So now we’re waiting for an upzoning, we’re a full decade behind where the land use should be, and we have a supply shortage. “upscale low rise masterplanned areas” LOL, you wanna plan that area around low rises that are unaffordable/upscale? have you been around there? its low end, thats not going to change. That’s part of the charm of Little Havana, its cheap and central to the city.

Anonymous
6 months ago

How about creating the upzoning contingent on certain low level development improvements… macys in City Place in West Palm was the anchor tenant and 20 years later it was torn down for a brickell style condo. This way you incentivize the low level masterplan and triggers a block for future air rights in thoughtfully consider locations that don’t distort the historical character and can be handled by an infrastructure plan.

Pol
6 months ago

You are right. It should be T6 24 going west up to 12 ave that would help with some affordable housing.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The mob on this site is penny-wise and dollar foolish about Little Havana and Riverside though. They have this grand plan to keep it “low scale”. Why? Just cause they wanna feel important and say they contributed. Great people see a skyline and say “I wanna leave my mark on the skyline and put a building up that adds to the view and the legacy of the city”…. the anti-growth in Little Havana group says “I wanna leave my mark on the city by leaving emptiness and nothingness in my wake”

Anonymous
6 months ago

What does that have to do with keeping the area poor?

Anonymous
6 months ago

less development, less livable units, less businesses, less food options (really none in riverside on the little havana side) less opportunity. There is a billion dollar development on one side and broken down four plexes on the other side of I95.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The Casa Florida is a hidden gem for that area and should be preserved. That type of key west “River” old Florida and colonial architecture should be the theme, leading into Spanish little Havana Calle Ocho.

Anonymous
6 months ago

To to “upzone Little Havana and Riverside” crowd, the current zoning already allows considerable height and density, meaning mid-rise as a transition from downtown, which still has many opportunities for high-rise development in the foreseeable future, to the low-rise single-family neighborhoods, notwithstanding along major thoroughfares. The infrastructure in place currently cannot even accommodate high-rise development, or you end up with another Edgewater with massive parking pedestals, flooding every time it rains, and more stop-and-go traffic.

Anonymous
6 months ago

No it doesn’t have midrise zoning. Look at a map! Its T-4R, that means 2-3 floors max with only residential and no commercial allowed. YOURE WRONG

Magic City Winning!
6 months ago

Magic is happening in Miami and Brickell. Props to Chetrit and the construction workers. Their making cranes look like wands waving in the sky.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Another beaut by Kobi Karp!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Beautiful Brickell bookend, and transition to Riverside.

Anonymous
6 months ago

This tower it’s on Viagra, and way on its way of been fully erect.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Very glassy in the render – lots of stucco in real life.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s not done and glass isn’t installed yet. All glass looks like an office building. This is gorgeous.

Anonymous
6 months ago

True. Really disappointed

Anon13
6 months ago

If you look at the render again it actually is pretty honest about the lack of glass. But I totally agree, there are way too few windows, it feels 20 years out of date

Anon13
6 months ago

Refcomment image

Anonymous
6 months ago

The render is honest? Er….the render shows three almost all-glass buildings. The reality is mostly stucco with glass windows and *hopefully* glass railings, but those have not started to be installed yet so they could be metal mesh picket. We’ll see.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Buildings looked better 20 years ago than the boxes with cluttered windows and balconies within the last ten years.

Anon
6 months ago

Yes, hopefully all glass railings will help, but the construction pictures make it look like it’s heading towards a competition to look like Opera Tower (which is not a good thing)