40-Story Shoma One Towers Planned At Douglas Road Metrorail Station

Shoma Group has filed revised plans with Miami-Dade planners for Shoma One, with two 40-story towers near the Douglas Road Metrorail station, according to the SFBJ.

Shoma One is planned on a site that is just a few minutes walk to the Metrorail station, with Brickell just 8 minutes away by train.

The new development will also be directly integrated to The Underline .

Shoma One is planned to have twin 40-story towers atop a podium with:

  • 748 rental apartments
  • 18,000-square-foot Shoma Bazaar food hall
  • 718 parking spaces

Soundproof double thickness glass is planned in lower level apartments facing the Metrorail.

Shoma Group paid $34 million for the 2.5-acre site in 2022.

Originally, the developer had plans for two 18-story towers. The site was later added to Miami-Dade’s Rapid Transit Zone, allowing greater intensity. The developer is also reserving 12.5% of units for workforce housing.

The developer aims to break ground in mid-2024.

Bermello Ajamil is the project architect.

 

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Azarius
1 month ago

This is one of my favorites because along with the recent development this will really transform this area. Encourage more ppl to ride the metro and better access to the city

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s only about 10 minutes from the heart of Brickell at Brickell station. Plus you got Coconut Grover and Coral Gables all around which are some of best areas to live in Miami.

neoaptstripmallshoppers
1 month ago

The best thing would be getting rid of old deteriorated plazas for new ones down South Dixie Hwy.

DC
1 month ago

Love the design, very not typical Miami box. Keep em coming!

Anonymous
1 month ago

If anything it is more Miami than any Arquitectonica box that could be in Los Angeles or Bangkok.

Komodo Bro
1 month ago

Love the subtle art deco look

Choo Choo Miami!
1 month ago

This is a substantial improvement over the old design, likely thanks to the new RTZ and Live Local zoning. I expect more innovative designs to follow, especially around here and Brickell Station. Some of the uninspiring designs announced may have also been planned before the zoning changes. The architectural possibilities are now nearly limitless along the metro line.

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Stellar! 💫 The new neighborhood developments around the metro rail are revitalizing the city’s urban core, creating a more walkable environment. Additionally, the crown design adds a distinctive touch to Miami.

Anon
1 month ago

Is the era of Apple Store-wannabe cigarette boxes and McModerns finally coming to an end? Bring back the tasteful ornamentation, baby!

Kitty w
1 month ago

Is there really that much demand for these 10s of thousands of apartment units coming online? Rents are starting to come down and immigration is slowing.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yes, there is a demand.

Anon
1 month ago

“there is a demand”…but is there THIS much demand to meet all these units coming online?

Anonymous
1 month ago

There’s more demand here than midtown and Wynwood. People need to train to work – out of town era Down realize how fucked the roads are above downtown. It’s unlivable. This is next best option after Brickell and Downtown because of the public transit core connectivity

Anonymous
1 month ago

there is nearly unlimited demand in the gables, way safer than the north east of miami

Sven
1 month ago

Not today.
But these buildings won’t be finished for about 24-30 months.
The pace of apartment construction in the coming months will be slowing significantly.

Sven
1 month ago

In today’s CoStar News:
“There are outliers, like downtown Miami, where there are 13 new units underway for every unit of demand in the past year, and Cape Coral, where that number rises to 24, but nuance is needed. For example, the construction pipeline in downtown Miami is set to expand total inventory by 60%, while in Cape Coral, it is set to grow by 27%. But the fact remains that there will be short-term oversupply issues in both areas.”

Anonymous
1 month ago

According to this prediction, it appears that there won’t be a sufficient demand for new towers in the New Park West area, which could temporarily slow down. However, Brickell represents a separate market with limited supply, suggesting that it shouldn’t face any issues with oversupply.

Anonymous
1 month ago

How Downtown 5th or Link at Douglas should have looked. More of this, especially in the historic core of downtown please!

Anonymous
1 month ago

One of these towers would look great on the site in Brickell instead of Dumba** Flats II.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Certainly! I agree that we should veto and ban subpar architectural designs like the prison-grade Domus plan. Instead, we should insist on Manhattan-level design standards for areas like Brickell.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Show me the Shoma! Love it. Hope Shoma buys out Domus and Empire projects so we can get better designs in Brickell.

Anon
1 month ago

Few ppl at these buildings actually use the transit that is there, and you can tell by how much worst the traffic on US1 has gotten.

Bldgs like these should charge huge fees for resident parking or find other ways to push people towards mass transit.

Azarius
1 month ago

Ppl who can afford to live here would just pay it because they are not the ppl who wants to wait in this unpredictable, Miami weather going to work or even just a night on the town and have to deal with Miami Public. they rather get in their private vehicle.

Anonymous
1 month ago

If anything, Miami weather is amongst the most PREDICTABLE in the U.S. Warm, with sunny mornings with isolated afternoon rain, followed by more sun. Unpredictable is the Midwest or Northeast.

Antennae
1 month ago

Best comment of the day.
You can say that again:
Hot, humid is right 95% of the time.
Given the infrastructure we have, definitely, not apt for walking.
Even Metrorail was built for the automobile. Not for pedestrians.

Anon
1 month ago

Our county-wide streetcar system was doing the job just fine until it was torn out. And it was most certainly built for pedestrians.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Let’s add it back and remove some pointless roads

Anonymous
1 month ago

…..which is better than subfreezing temps and snow/ice, and about the same as 105+ degree desert days. Which is what most of the U.S,. contends with. So, that isn’t the real reason why public transit sucks in Miami.

Anonymous
1 month ago

If A/C didn’t exist, subfreezing temperatures. At least you can huddle up, somewhat.

Anon
1 month ago

what if heaters/furnaces didn’t exist? Can’t bundle up comfortably for much below 40 degrees

Anonymous
1 month ago

We have AC in all our trains and everything is a 5 min walk from the train so you never feel the heat in the Miami core. Legit the best city lifestyle in America in Miami.

Anon
1 month ago

It doesn’t get that hot here Florida is cooler than the west coast dessert – always a nice breeze flowing in Because the City core is located by the water

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s very nice walking everywhere in Miami. Could never live anywhere that requires a drive in this part of Florida. The core is the best lifestyle only these areas are presently a part of the pedestrian core:

Douglas-Station-BrickellStation-Downtown Station.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Umm I’d rather be on a predictable train schedule than the unpredictable mess that is US1

Anonymous
1 month ago

You can’t travel on US1 anymore. It’s untravelable south of this location. We need a Seperate major north/south highway to Dadeland

Azarius
1 month ago

They already have this 826, 874, and 878

Hello
1 month ago

Build one on top of the metro rail line

Anonymous
1 month ago

It would be two lanes max. Even local streets have higher capacity. About at ridiculous as putting the Metromover on top of the FEC, or expanding it anywhere outside of Greater Downtown Miami.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I thought about that. They’re so much wasted space and could have a highway above the metro line.

Anon
1 month ago

Why is the metro rail above ground outside of Brickell if it’s not walkable, it’s all fenced off on both sides… it might was well be ground level?

Sven
1 month ago

The area underneath the MetroRail south of Brickell is called the Underline. It has pedestrian paths, bicycle paths, parks and gardens.

Anon
1 month ago

It’s great, but an Underline would be better utilized along the river walk in Brickell and Downtown where people live densely and need infrastructure like this . Nobody walks in these suburbs, but if you’re planning to turn these suburbs to an urban core then it’s worth it.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The mansions in the south of Coconut Grove are surrounded by traffic as people avoid US 1, congesting the residential roads near these luxurious homes. Why invest in a mansion in a traffic-congested area when you can enjoy the luxury of living in walkable traffic-free neighborhoods of Brickell or the outer core of Coral Gables?

Anonymous
1 month ago

cause you wanna have kids and a family

Anon
1 month ago

People have kids and families in the City

Anonymous
1 month ago

…just like kid-less singles live in in suburban single family houses too. But you’re talking about outliers.

Anonymous
1 month ago

US1 should be a double decker.

Sven
1 month ago

Untravellable for a certain type of person maybe.

If you were to hire a really smart private detective, a really really really smart one, and sent him to US1 and asked him to investigate this idea, “Is US1 Untravellable?”, he would take some notes, pictures, and video on all the traffic and travelers driving on US1. He’d probably go back to some Super Really Smart Detective Computer (probably one with that AI stuff in it), feed all that information into his Super Really Smart Detective Computer, and it would spit out a result.

RESULT: 10’s of thousands of travelers travel on US-1 everyday, therefore, US-1 is travelable.

Anon
1 month ago

Sucks for they have to endure such harsh conditions to survive when they could live in the City core. Reminds me of the people who commute two hours from New Jersey to Manhattan every day, except they don’t have a highway and have to travel a little boulevard for hours.

Anon
1 month ago

Not everyone wants to live in the city core. Not all US1 commutes involve commuting into downtown either—take note of how bad morning rush hour traffic is going south on US1 away from downtown and into Coral Gables/S. Miami.

Anon
1 month ago

100% agree. Can’t tell you how many people I know that live at the Lifetime Coral Gables that have never stepped foot on Metrorail. “Transit oriented” is just a buzz word in Miami.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Which is why upzoning current single family houses to hi rise apartments along Metrorail is crazy—will just lead to even more car traffic.

Azarius
1 month ago

It works for affordable and workforce housing because those are the ppl who need Transit the most and would use it

Anonymous
1 month ago

…which exists at stations north of Government Center, but of course everybody demanding “affordable” housing doesn’t want to live in those places. I wonder why?

Duh
1 month ago

Because they are trolls from other areas trying to ruin the nice neighborhoods

Anonymous
1 month ago

Not really. Poor people usually drive in Miami. It’s a luxury to be able to train everywhere.

Anonymous
1 month ago

How truly poor are you if you can afford a car? 1st world problems…..

Anon
1 month ago

People in Miami drive beat up tin cans held together with dental floss and the cops say nothing

Anon
1 month ago

You DO realize that anywhere they build will lead to more traffic. What you’re compliant about is more traffic near you, so you’d rather make it 10x worst for EVERYONE by requiring new city neighborhoods be built miles apart rather than directly next to the core. That’s selfish.

Anonymous
1 month ago

^^so if anywhere you build will lead to more traffic, then building next to the core as you promote won’t help traffic either. So you have no valid point.

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s only because it’s the first of many buildings to develop around it. They will ditch the cars – it’s such a luxury lifestyle to train to brickell and Downtown without dealing with the road range and accidents caused by the poors who drive Miami dade roads

Anonymous
1 month ago

Riding Metrorail is “luxury” 😂🤣😅

Hello
1 month ago

The metro rail doesn’t go to every location, blame Miami for not even building half of the actual metro rail line. But even then the point of this is to have people who work downtown or along the rail line commute. Either you move into this building and are stuck in traffic or you take the metro rail.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The metro rail goes to all the city core destinations. The places outside the route are very much still developing areas with lots of rubble.

Duh
1 month ago

Better than being in area like Wynwood or Edgewater where it’s more desolate and sparse and no metro

Anonymous
1 month ago

Well, maybe it will encourage transit use, as well as expansion i.e., the Orange Line up Douglas Road connecting to Miami Airport station with stops in between for a great transit corridor.

Duh
1 month ago

There’s already a train to the airport.

Anonymous
1 month ago

He wants a train from the airport straight to his apartment at Douglas and US1. As if that is the best use of scarce transit expansion funds.

Anon
1 month ago

I want to see a street car from
City Centre in Brickell to the Marlins Stadium, end the 8 street traffic with a street car to the most underutilized area in Miami around the Marlin Stadium

Anon
1 month ago

A street car to take 16 Marlins fans from their upper class digs on Brickell to see an occasional ballgame, while eliminating working class people from driving to work on 8th street—congrats, your idea is even WORSE.

Bruno
1 month ago

You could take the CitiCenter MetroMover to MetroRail to Civic Center and there is a Marlins Stadium shuttle from that stop For about $5.
Or you can take a Bus for $3.

Or, if happen to go to Baseball games with friends or family, you can take an Uber XL door to door for about $5 each.

ParkingHater
1 month ago

The site would be much better off of people sourced their arguments and didn’t rely on random anecdotes.

https://www.thenextmiami.com/more-than-half-of-residents-dont-have-cars-at-1600-unit-transit-oriented-development/

anon
1 month ago

Cause 1 station every mile is not city transit it’s suburban, plus there’s a giant highway next to it. No one is walking along/crossing a highway for half a mile to get a cheap metro that goes to brickell??

Anon
1 month ago

They’re turning that into the city core, it’s better than Wynwood which has nothing but graffiti

Sven
1 month ago

If riding transit is such a wonderful and virtuous thing, people would just decide to use it using their own free will.

No gov’t or Citizen Karen should “push people”, force people, or subsidize people to make these decisions.

That is IF, a big IF, the MetroRail is preferable to individual, customized, private transportation.

ParkingHater
1 month ago

Too much parking

calivalle
1 month ago

Anon for Miami mayor…

Fernando
1 month ago

This design bothers me. Feels like there is a villain living in a penthouse, or something. People say, “it’s not your typical box” but to me this as boxy as ever and with UFOs landing on top.

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

Don’t get me wrong this is good stuff, I like the design and being close to transit.

But I rather get 6 buildings at 15 stories high each. That way you create a more walkable district kinda like Wynwood. Rather than two massive towers with single family homes across the street. Bad urban planning…

Anonymous
1 month ago

Rezone the single family homes. There are two metro stops VISCAYA and Douglas right next to the most dense urban core, where people should be able to live in walkable urban communities. The traffic is disgusting south of brickell and everyone is angry and getting into accidents because the roads are so terribly congested. We need to Rezone VISCAYA and Douglas stops – reform Miami21!

Anonymous
1 month ago

…to add even more density and even traffic. Look, all the population growth around there has come from hi-density buildings right next to Metrorail, so if building next to Metrorail hasn’t reduced traffic and actually increased traffic, then doing more of the same would be crazy.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Lol, as if it’s not the huge amount of single-family homes causing everyone to have to drive into the city in the first place! Mixed-use buildings literally solve traffic by allowing residential in the same area as commercial and office so the amount of trips is cut severely.

Anonymous
1 month ago

There is density and traffic regardless! At least if everything is close together you don’t have to deal with the traffic as much.

Miami21
1 month ago

Umm what are you smoking? Those are are already zoned hundreds of units per acre. It’s just that developers don’t want to offer a bunch of money to buy up single family homes.

But yes, ever since the pandemic all metro rail stations have updated their zoning

Anonymous
1 month ago

If residents are angry about traffic, imagine how angry the residents around Vizcaya Station would be with a proposal to upzone an established neighborhood.

Anon
1 month ago

The traffic is all south of Coconut Grove where people drive. Where people walk there is less traffic.

Anon
1 month ago

Your wife will be happy she can walk to soul cycle.

Anonymous
1 month ago

you could also rezone little havana while youre at it – area next to the river needs it, 4th ave to 8th ave

Miami21
1 month ago

I have to agree with this statement. There’s too much damn land allocated to single homes to be putting up 40 story towers in suburbs

Anonymous
1 month ago

Why not both? Polycentric cities and metro areas with high-rise nodes work best.

Anon
1 month ago

Not in this part of Florida. Too many limitations south and west, we need to utilize the southwest core more!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Exactly like edgwater and Wynwood where there’s huge areas of cemeteries and dealerships. It will never be like brickell and Downtown there, but Vizcaya and Douglass were designed to be a part of the densest urban core

ParkingHater
1 month ago

Maybe if we weren’t in a housing crisis we could have a nuanced discussion. But we aren’t. Build more

Anonymous
1 month ago

There’s no crisis. There’s a quality and infrastructure crisis. Not housing.

ParkingHater
1 month ago

Again, that’s wrong. The definition of rent burdened is over 30% of your income going to housing, severe is 50%.

https://www.miamidade.gov/economicadvocacytrust/library/income-limits-allowable-assistance.pdf

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-renters-must-make-6-figure-salary-to-avoid-being-rent-burdened-report-finds/

You can lower housing costs by increasing supply.

nope
1 month ago

looks like early 2000s architecture. not gonna compete with singapore and dubai doing this

Anonymous
1 month ago

Early 2000s architecture that is actually nice to look at > any 2010s-present Neo-Modernist box with punch windows and irregular balconies ANY DAY.