Tower Cranes Rising Up To 891 Feet Approved At 1 Southside Park

The Federal Aviation Administration has approved a plan to install two temporary tower cranes to assist with construction at the 1 Southside Park megaproject.

Approval was issued by the agency on March 15.

According to a letter sent to the developer, two cranes are permitted to rise up to 891 feet and 834 feet.

The permanent height of the tower is planned to be 62 stories – 754 feet above ground, or 766 feet above sea level.

Foundation work is already underway.

Miami commissioners voted this month to approve a plan for a temporary fire station at Southside Park to help expedite construction of the tower, Miami Today reported.

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

SHoP Architects is designing the project, with hotel interior design by Rockwell Group, landscaping by James Corner Field Operations, and residential interiors by Krista Ninivaggi of Woods Baggot.

JDS is the developer.

 




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Anon13
6 months ago

Looking forward to this one going up

Anonymous
6 months ago

Great move City Commissioners! This is a game changer for Brickell and Miami. 2nd Avenue is going to be poppin soon, and bluster nearby established areas.

Anonymous
6 months ago

I ran up 2nd Avenue recently from 15th to north of the river. The number of cranes is astonishing. It reminds me of how Chicago’s downtown expanded west from Wabash Avenue over the past couple of decades.

Anonymous
6 months ago

^bolster (typo)

Casey
6 months ago

god i love this weirdo project

Joseph
6 months ago

Brickell winning!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Instead of one basketball court surrounded by useless pukey colored pavement that will chip and fade within a year, how about two multi-purpose courts that allow two basketball and tennis courts, and four pickleball courts?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Agee, a group of us raised this prayer for the County, City and developer on this site, and there was wide consensus among local residents. I hope someone can bring an official resolution for this…

Bruno
6 months ago

Pickleball is the new Rollerblades.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Let’s bring those back too. People in NyC still rollerblade.

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

Honestly, the city should work more to require developers building massive towers to create public spaces like this. Love this project! With the Riverside towers also under construction, this will be the new hip area in Brickell.

Anonymous
6 months ago

You know, by now I have made peace with the podiums. It may even be used as a miami thing, like the windows in the bakeries. What I don’t get is when they don’t make the street level active and engaging(not talking about this project specifically), but in general.
2nd ave needs the lines buried, NOW. it looks so ugly.
I love this building, incorporating the fire station, keeping a park and connection to Underline. Awesome

Anonymous
6 months ago

This podium seems to be incorporated with the actual architecture and blends in perfectly well. SHoP is a mega architectural firm of today (unlike Arquitectonica which is Miami 98% and not considered a real design firm now after the 80s when it had 5 young designers)……

Anonymous Hippo
6 months ago

The spa is nearly 3x the fire station. 😂

Anonymous
6 months ago

This influx of inventory will alleviate rental prices…in 5 years

Ano
6 months ago

LOL I hope you are right

Anonymous
6 months ago

In other dense areas but prices likely will increase here at a healthy rate, with offices doubling up in Brickell. It is a luxury to be so close to work and everything else.

Anon
6 months ago

Brickell isn’t centrally located. It’s the furthest Miami neighborhood (besides Coconut grove) from Wynwood, Design District, South Beach, etc

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

What did you just say??? I’m sorry to break your bubble, but brickell and Downtown ARE the center, if Brickell is far from a neighborhood, that it is the one that isn’t centrally located.

Gil
6 months ago

Wynwood, old warehouses,too much graffiti, far from metrorail and mover

Anonymous
6 months ago

Wynwood is the new South Beach. AKA: yikes / hot mess / avoid it all.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Growth will slow as this is still early stage it’s unrealistic to expect the same rate of growth in perpetuity. And not everyone coming to Miami especially will stay – I’ve met numerous NYkers who are leaving after only a year or two…

Miami to Stay
6 months ago

I meet people moving to Miami every week from NY and other parts of the country. I don’t know NYers who have left. NY friends say there is no comparison to quality of life. Nobody wants to leave.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Offices? I thought the SVB collapse due to people now working from home- was a negative and less offices are necessary? I guess, we shall see.

Juan
6 months ago

Only if they keep building like crazy, supply and demand economics moves slow in Florida

Anonymous
6 months ago

Nope.

Bruno
6 months ago

Provided new high paying jobs stop being offered…and there is no sign of that sliwdown.

Anonymous
6 months ago

So refreshing to get out of the 2-min design of an Arquitectonica for a clients payment, …. ‘I am bored……. “next client come into my office and its done in 2-mins” design……’ next client

Melo is sigma and chad
6 months ago

This tower is moving slow compare to every other one in Brickell

Anon13
6 months ago

As a brownfield I’m guessing it required a whole site remediation process which significantly slowed things down

Anonymous
6 months ago

But also is significantly improving Brickell and downtown Miami, I’d rather see quality than something rushed for this staple project.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s larger than all the others and they’ve been doing road work, possibly to drop the lines. It’s two connecting towers and a fire station in there. There’s nothing like it in Brickell yet.

Anonymous
6 months ago

There are some sewer components sitting out by the fire station, and boring equipment is in place. A lot of infrastructure is required before vertical construction.

peej
6 months ago

These renders aren’t current, the entire exterior was VE’d and is much more mundane.

Still glad it’s moving forward though!

Anonymous
6 months ago

False until proven! Cite your source! These match the website.
https://jdsdevelopment.com/portfolio/1-southside-park

Anon
6 months ago

He speaks the truth. It is known.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Is it less schizophrenic, meaning doesn’t look like ten Arquitectonica boxes stuck to each other?

Anonymous
6 months ago

It will probably be an updated better design, true to original character. It looks like it’s turning into a much more high end project.

Anonymous but Famous
6 months ago

Does anyone realize this is the sole bit of recent architecture worth mentioning in all of Brickell (and yet there is much to criticize). But ok, let’s let it rise.

anon
6 months ago

Massive traffic jams according to a recent study
Also: Another 1000 car parking gargae

Bruno
6 months ago

When they say “massive” what exactly is the mass?
Or was it anther dopey study orchestrated by dopey 25 year olds, that would only be taken seriously by 21 year olds?

Professional Engineer
6 months ago

another brutal parking podium

Anonymous
6 months ago

Stop whining about parking in every post please