Three Edgewater Towers Submitted To FAA For Height Approval

Plans have been filed with the Federal Aviation Administration for three new towers in Edgewater.

The site where the newly filed towers are planned is the Beitel property at 3333 Biscayne Boulevard.

According to the September 22 filing, the three towers proposed include:

  • East Tower, rising 501 feet above ground, or 509 feet above sea level
  • North Tower, rising 481 feet above ground, or 491 feet above sea level
  • Office Tower, rising 228 feet above ground, or 239 feet above sea level

Beitel purchased the property earlier this year. The developer has previously said they would partner with Aimco to build over 600 apartments, ground floor retail, and office space above the retail.

Aimco is also planning multiple apartment towers on the same block.

 

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Melo is sigma and chad
5 months ago

Finally that wendys is developed, but what will ever happen to the massive lot south of it.

Bye bye Wendys
5 months ago

Isnt the parking lot part of the Wendy’s property? It should be included in this building plan

wanderer34
5 months ago

I’m pretty sure that the Wendy’s will be included in the plans as a part of the complex. Besides, there should be a lot of Wendy’s all over Miami-Dade.

Biggie Smalls
5 months ago

City planning is should play a more critical role rather than letting developers buy land and just build, developers are just looking after their profits. The city needs to implement more mixed used structures allowing less need for private transportation and implement a better public transportation such as a light rail, for every tower built a percentage of available land should be used as a public park etc.

Not Anonymous
5 months ago

Great to see the inland part of Edgewater developed. About time.

Anonymous
5 months ago

I wouldn’t call it inland, given that this block is literally on the water, but yes to more development.

anon
5 months ago

its not on the water…….

Chris
5 months ago

Biscayne Blvd and surrounding Miami infrastructure can no longer handle these mega buildings. Every time is see on of these buildings going up, I also see another 1000 cars on Biscayne.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Biscayne Blvd needs way more of these mega buildings. Of course we also need the MetroMover extended up in this direction and less people to be reliant on their cars for every minor outing. But the development of this neighborhood is just getting started.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Um, Metromover isn’t even going to even leave a dent of an impact in traffic, especially when it’ll require a removing a lane for giant flyovers that will spoil the streetscape anyway, making it less feasible for human-scale street interaction. You need a commuter service along the FEC, streetcars with shared R-O-W to make any impact, and MetroRAIL through longer distances existing where railroads don’t permeate and density does not warrant streetcars.

Anonymous
5 months ago

^
Haha.. the “flyover man” is here…

Anonymous
5 months ago

I think Biscayne needs both more mega buildings and medium-sized buildings. As the neighborhood becomes more dense, less people will drive from point A to point B (assuming points A & B are both within the neighborhood). Just look at Brickell. Sure people drive their cars when leaving Brickell but nobody drives from their condo to Publix or for their other daily errands.

anon
5 months ago

You’d be surprised….Miamians would rather drive 15 minutes than walk for 5

Anonymous
5 months ago

^
Lol.. he knows that because he’s eveywhere and sees everything at once!

anon
5 months ago

You’re right! Miamiams love to walk! They walk everywhere! This is a super pedestrian focused city. How silly of me.

Anonymous
5 months ago

^
Well you heard that you late 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s year old people, he’s making a mockery out of anyone in Miami who don’t like walking in the heat and humidity in this city.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Because Brickell is just full of geriatric residents.

Anonymous
5 months ago

^
Uh, I thought you were talking about all of MiamiDade county?

Anonymous
5 months ago

Would rather walk for a minute. Miamians are the most lazy people who i have met in my life.

glass window are expensive..ask melo
5 months ago

exactly…just pull into any publix parking lot and notice how many cars are hovering around to scrounge up the few spots at the front door while 60ft away there is plenty of parking…walking counts as cardio for you gym types

Anonymous
5 months ago

lol true but to be fair I have seen this in other cities as well

Anonymous
5 months ago

Along Biscayne Boulevard north of the A&E District should be mid-rise with a street level retail. “Mega buildings” can be concentrated in polycentric clusters in Edgewater east of the boulevard, Midtown, and the Magic City Innovation District. Great cities are planned with these characteristics.

Anonymous
5 months ago

^
Lol, another “SIM City” player.

gravy train
5 months ago

yep…him and the other cheerleader that comments 20times per posting

Anonymous
5 months ago

Publix by car==1-2 weeks worth of groceries per trip, 2-4 trips per month

Publix by foot==2-3 days worth of groceries per trip, 2-3 trips per week

If you have lots of free time and not much to occupy that free time, then go ahead and walk to Publix

Ana
5 months ago

Let the medium sized buildings be throughout Little Havana, this area is meant for something else.

goo goo goo joob
5 months ago

just wait for the 20 ft sea wall the army corp of engineers wants to build comes to edgewater….and that ritzy neighborhood east of biscayne -sabal point or whatever gets written off by the wall….that ice from greenland is melting baby!!!!!!

anon
5 months ago

If you drop a frog in boiling water, it will jump out.
But if you put the frog in cold water and slowly bring it to a boil, the frog will boil itself to death.

Our leaders are the latter.

Anonymous
5 months ago

“the frog will boil itself to death”

Frogs can boil themselves?

anon
5 months ago

Wow. Are you actually taking that metaphor literally? LOL Miamians…..

Miamians and frogs
5 months ago

To be fair, your wording made it seem like the frog committed suicide, when in fact the frog was murdered.

Anonymous
5 months ago

I’m questioning him about that last sentence he wrote after the comma – “the frog will boil itself to death.”

To be a correct statement, he should’ve left out the word “itself.”

Slim Shady
5 months ago

Ummm…
Your statement is that Miami infrastructure can’t handle the mega buildings.
Then you give an example of Miami infrastructure handling mega buildings (whatever those are).

Credit should be given where credit is due though. You have an excellent eye for car counting. That’s a very precise 1,000 cars on Biscayne Blvd everytime there is a new mega building.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Bay Park Towers slowly being squeezed between these new developments, I think it’s inevitable…I should’ve kept that condo unit there…has anyone heard of the latest condo buyout news? I keep on waiting for the headline “Bay Park Towers Condominium Association Agrees to Buyout”

Anonymous
5 months ago

Let’s hope! Major eyesore taking up precious space on the water.

Anonymous
5 months ago

^to be replaced by another building hardly any locals can afford, and you cheer this on. Of course you’re all set living in Gables Estates, right?

Anonymous
5 months ago

I can’t afford to buy a Bentley… do you giveashit about that?

Anonymous
5 months ago

I live in Edgewater and guess what? All my neighbors are “locals”! We would like our neighborhood to be more beautiful and prosperous, which in most cities, is a good thing! Bay Park Towers needs to go and a new beautiful building with more units needs to replace it.

Slim Shady
5 months ago

NEWSFLASH: Some locals still confused as to why Miami housing prices rise, while other locals biy low to prepare for the future in order to have a more comfortable future.

Edgewater
5 months ago

That deal should be done with in the next couple of months. I think it’s unfortunate to have so many 3 towers crammed in and now Bay Parc towers will be a 4 all 2 blocks of each other doesn’t make a lot of sense to be that dense.

Edgewatcher
5 months ago

Do you have any real knowledge of a Bay Park Towers deal or just speculation?

Jon
5 months ago

another ARQUITECTONICA project or GENSLER

Antennae
5 months ago

Boring architecture

Jesus
5 months ago

Agreed. But hey, more density of people, skyscrapers.

Antennae
5 months ago

I hear you.

Melo is sigma and Chad
5 months ago

unrealistic expectations, again this building looks better than the majority of towers in Tokyo, Shanghai, Sao Paulo and even NYC. Majority of towers can’t afford to look over the top.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Look, I thought you knew his opinion always count!

lol…

anon
5 months ago

I hate when copy/paste this same lazy argument

Anonymous
5 months ago

Do you mean the “Boring architecture” comment?

anon
5 months ago

No, I mean the “YoU eXpEcT eVeRy bUiLdInG tO lOoK liKe DuBaI” comment

Anonymous
5 months ago

^
I think you’re seeing things, because I don’t see a comment about Dubai here.

lewis mumford
5 months ago

its on other articles….

Anonymous
5 months ago

^
But.. the comment mentioned – “majority of towers in Tokyo, Shanghai, Sao Paulo and even NYC.” – Who givesashit what somebody said months ago in other articles on this site?

Melo is sigma and chad
5 months ago

how am i wrong

anon
5 months ago

Because you refuse to recognize there is a “middle” between a melo building and the burj khalifa.

Anonymous
5 months ago

^
Who mentioned the “Melo Group and the Burj Khalifa” except you?!!!

Matt
5 months ago

Wrong

Anonymous
5 months ago

Except Tokyo, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, or NYC wouldn’t allow a cluttered-window monstrosity made of stacked pizza boxes along their main thoroughfare.

Melo is sigma and chad
5 months ago

hella lies

Anonymous
5 months ago

Except Tokyo, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, and NYC have more than one “main thoroughfare” in those cites.

anon
5 months ago

Ah, the cluttered window guy. Truly an informed architectural critic. Such prose.

glass window are expensive..ask melo
5 months ago

with stunning views of the backsides of other high rises….or midtown and the train tracks…similar to some near opera and that paraiso crap..the one thoroughfare!!!!

Anonymous
5 months ago

What about the 3rd island west of Borneo? Would they allow cluttered-window monstrosities made of stacked pizza boxes? Would they stack pizza boxes to create condominiums?

Anonymous
5 months ago

^
You can build a thirty story (for instance) condominium out of pizza boxes?

Dang.. I learn something new everyday.

Anonymous
5 months ago

^^probably on his way to the bank to ask for a mortgage on a pizza box

Anonymous
5 months ago

lol…

Anonymous
5 months ago

The east tower is aight. The office tower is horrendous.

Anonymous
5 months ago

The newly proposed Empire apartment building in Brickell was rejected because some commissioners think its too “ho-hum.”

Melo, the true giga chad
5 months ago

this is closer to midtown more than anything. Anyways, great project!

anon
5 months ago

I feel like Edgewater should be split in two; Edgewater and West Edge. It doesn’t make sense to call some of these lots, which are inland, on the “Edge” of the “Water”

Anonymous
5 months ago

But this lot is on the block which does front the water. Even though these towers will not be directly on the water, residents can leave their place and be at the water in like 1 min, without having to cross any street. I think the designation Edgewater is already limited mainly to the block(s) between Biscayne Blvd and the bay.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Reading comments like this put me ON THE EDGE

anon
5 months ago

Just a suggestion. Would provide an opportunity to build out a new neighborhood in-between Midtown and Edgewater. Anyone have anything to add to the convo or just going to mindlessly downvote?

Anonymous
5 months ago

MindFUL downvote for you

Anonymous
5 months ago

We don’t need anymore SoDoSoPa-tier neighborhood names. Edgewater is fine. I mean, if you’re that picky about what’s in a name, remember North Miami Beach isn’t even oceanfront.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Not necessarily picky. Edgewater is huge, and a giant chunk of it is not on the water. I feel it could be an opportunity to create a whole new neighborhood as a transition between Edgewater and Midtown/Wynnwood. It can be named anything, idc.