Plans Submitted For Three Towers At Biscayne 21 In Edgewater, Rising 649 Feet Each

A developer has submitted plans to Miami’s Urban Development Review Board for a three tower project in Edgewater called Biscayne 21.

Sales for one of the towers, known as Edition Residences, is already underway.

All three of the towers are proposed to rise 649 feet above sea level, which is the maximum permitted by aviation rules in the area. Two will have 56 stories, and one will be 55 stories.

Biscayne 21 is proposed to include a combined:

  • 606 residential units
  • 8,433 square feet of commercial
  • 971 parking spaces

The developers are requesting a 30% TOD parking waiver.

Biscayne 21’s East Tower (Edition Residences) is planned to have 186 units, with 210 units in the South Tower One and the South Tower Two.

A baywalk open to the public is also part of the plans.

Arquitectonica is the architect.

The UDRB hearing is scheduled for March 15.

 

 

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Vincent
6 months ago

These look awesome. I just wished Edgewater felt more like a “neighborhood” and less like an agglomeration of high-rise buildings.

Urban Planners
6 months ago

Developers are ruining Edgewater. It’s lifeless.

Bruno
6 months ago

True…in oder to maintain the Edgewater character, these developers should add a DIY oil changing amenity in the front yard.

Anonymous
6 months ago

That’s bullshit. Spend literally 5 min in Margaret Pace Park — Downtown’s best park– and you will see how much life Edgewater has. Since we moved from Brickell to N. Bayshore Dr, it feels much more like a neighborhood.

wanderer34
6 months ago

I honestly believe that the towers will give Edgewater more density and eventually life amongst the neighborhood. I would’ve loved to have save a lot of the old houses but something has to give and in this century and beyond, as Miami grows, the city needs more residential (especially affordable) units and if it means staking those units in a very high dwelling such as these skyscrapers just to maintain growth within the city as well as the county and the state, then so be it!

Anon
6 months ago

I just think the towers should be set back and stagger down to the water. Brickell did this nicely. The communities become so sterile and lifeless and the main attraction is one column of supertall along the entire waterfront.

Private Loves Public
6 months ago

That’s what happens when you let corporations take over urban planning. We need more public / private partnerships. Lesson learned Miami!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Let the markets decide, not some pencildicked urban “planner”

Anonymous
6 months ago

These look awesome.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Sleek project, but the Edition Residences fronting the bay to the east it’s spectacular.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Stunning…and the baywalk just keeps getting closer to full completion!

Anon
6 months ago

I don’t think there is a baywalk, there’s no connecting land. Can you show us?

Anonymous
6 months ago

False.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Another beaut by Arquitectonica!

anan
6 months ago

You didn’t let me down

Anonymous
6 months ago

Lol

Anonymous
6 months ago

Arquitectonica gave up after the first tower.

samo
6 months ago

dont worry if you dont like the design it will almost certainly be much cheaper than this

Melo, a former giga Chad
6 months ago

This is almost a metaphor of the rich saying they’re more important than everyone else. Blocking all access and views to something that belongs the public…There should be zoning laws that limit the amount/height of towers on the bay. You really limit the possibilities for any future development behind these canyons

Anonymous
6 months ago

The public can use the PUBLIC baywalk.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s called baywalk, Bernout.

Jordan
6 months ago

There are laws limiting buildings on the bay.
The developers are in compliance with those zoning laws.

Anonymous
6 months ago

the land and the views from that land belong to the owners, not the public, Fidel

Anon
6 months ago

Why did the public sell all that land?

Anonymous
6 months ago

the public never owned it 🤣

Anon
6 months ago

Actually the views are under state Florida airspace and they are free to the public. Furthermore nobody is asking to own the land just right to egrresss and walk to the water which is a right that cannot be denied in a locality like this. For evacuations we need to be able to exit quickly and it’s not a big deal for the developer to pitch in a tiny bit.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Before you didnt have access and views either.

Melo, the true giga Chad
6 months ago

I don’t think you guys understand the impacts of a 650ft wall that stretches the entire coast of edgewater. No wind needed cooling, no sunlight during sunrise, no views for ANY future development behind these towers, and what makes it even worse is that the developers are not even making a walkable community in the surroundings. There is ZERO urban planning. What’s the point in even living in edgewater at that point? might as well live in wynwood or midtown. Edgewater is becoming no man’s land…

anonymous
6 months ago

Agree 100%. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that edge water was done with absolutely no urban planning. Its just a bunch of high rises with garages facing biscayne and little to no retail or activation of most streets. Huge missed opportunity. And yes, blocking wind and sun from the bay will have a negative impact for everything west of all those high rises lining up on the bay. Royal fck up imo but wouldn’t expect anything less from this banan republic city officials

Anon
6 months ago

Yeah it was a college building at Opera for the art schools. Close to strip malls and Miami Beach and club space, it’s nicer buildings but inorganic plannjnf

Anonymous
6 months ago

^^then buy into a waterfront building. Problem solved.

Anon
6 months ago

I got two

Anonymous
6 months ago

^^yeah the guy that wants private property confiscation says he owns 2 condo units—no sale for that load of bull

Bruno
6 months ago

When Edgewater used to be a great half way place when you leave prison and re-enter society.

Not just bikes
6 months ago

The issue with Miami, it seems that there’s is not master plan to develop a city. It’s hard to create a sense of community where there’s no walkability, no mixed use businesses, no proper mass transportation and etc.. Its basically a greedy developer’s dream, no big oversight by local government, just bring your money, capitalize on every sqft and take care of your city commissioner’s pockets and the world is yours. Welcome to Miami Papi

wanderer34
6 months ago

The only way to diversify Edgewater is to petition the city and the county to build more high-rise affordable housing á la NYC. It shouldn’t take much to build high-rise apartments and especially co-operatives within Miami, and they’re not as tall as one would imagine. Co-Op City in the Bronx is about over 300 ft and the tallest co-operative, Harlem River Park Towers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_New_York_City#Tallest_building_by_borough) are about 428 ft.

Another city Miami should consider is São Paulo. Miami will never be as big as NYC or São Paulo, but it can be almost as dense if you place the buildings closer to the city center and scatter the rest around the city so long as it’s not at the flight paths of MIA nor if the buildings destroy the aesthetics of the neighborhoods in Miami.

Bruno
6 months ago

Diversify Edgewater?!
Take a walk in Edgewater after dark. Pick a street…any street. Start at Biscayne and head east.
There is a tremendous diversity of architecture. SfRs, duplexes, triplets, apt bindings, and people from all walks of life.

Anon
6 months ago

Edgewater is I. Desperate need for affordable housing to give it a community feelings and not so corporate plus people really need that in the city now and it’s more possible there.

Anonymous
6 months ago

In my opinion, a city is more attractive when affordable housing is mixed and integrated into nice buildings and dispersed throughout the city, rather than blocked together to form a ghetto. Creating inner city ghettos could make the nice areas unlivable.

Anonymous
6 months ago

^so, spread out the ghettos into nice areas so that there are no nice areas neither….brilliant move

Bruno
6 months ago

If anything that you wrote was true….I might agree with you.

Anon
6 months ago

Truth, they will say you sound entitled, but as a city we are entitled to a view of the reason we are all here. We came here when non of this was here and it’s not really a city if only a few people can see the view anymore… it’ll become a ghost town.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Edgewater will have a gorgeous waterfront skyline

BDub
6 months ago

I hope the commercial space includes a restaurant, spectacular location for one.

Miami4Life
6 months ago

wow that edition building, did not realize it was curved around the back from the original renderings. looks amazing!!

Dale Jeffries
6 months ago

There is more wind not less produced by these skyscrapers! For now riding a bike east of Biscayne Blvd. requires weaving between bay walkways and alleys from the Tuttle at 36th to Venetian Causway at 15th. Like it or not they will have to build a bay wall as the sea rises, there is already flooding all around the bay during King Tide (alignment of moon and sun gravity adds a 6” to 12”). With $2 trillion in properties at $500-1000+/sq.ft. Miamians will spend the billions it will take insurance or not.

Anon
6 months ago

Truth, everyone told me it floods a lot here sadly. Is there plans tied to these developments to redo the infrastructure? Otherwise we need evacuation plans in place.

Not just bikes
6 months ago

Beautiful, sleek towers and would be seen from across the bay. But what will happen to the any future development behind these towers, where I’m I going to walk to, where’s my restaurants, my convenience stores, cafes, salons, daycares, park(s) a community etc …? Where’s the true neighborhood?

Name
6 months ago

The dual box towers are just OK but the other high rise looks nice and sleek. Let’s also start doing away with “twin towers” all over this city. 1 is enough.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Very sleek design. Thumbs up!

Mizzykane
6 months ago

absolutely beautiful!

Sharlene
6 months ago

That building behind.. isn’t that the one that’s like 60 million a unit with a butler? ..and these are going up in front of it completely blocking it’s ocean view from all angles?? lmao imagine spending that only for this to happen wth lol

Jeremey Howlett
6 months ago

Something is not right about these three towers. They are essentially creating a wall, taking away most of the view for future developments behind these buildings. Taller heights and smaller footprints could solve that problem. Every room in each unit doesn’t needs to have the best views. They should figure out a way to make two story units with one area of the condo having west views, and the other area with east views.

MiamiArchi
6 months ago

I honestly don’t understand why the garage is separated from all three towers.
Or why they only have one bridge to each tower on one level. Sounds annoying to me.
But otherwise a great project.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Legend has it Arquitectonica was inspired by the twin towers when goaste was circulated around the office.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Arquitectonica stop, please.