UDRB Approves 283-Unit Residential Project Near Metrorail

A proposal to build a residential project near a Metrorail station was approved 6-0 by Miami’s Urban Development Review Board last week.

The project is proposed to rise 16 stories and include:

  • 283 dwelling units
  • 326 parking spaces (using a 30% waiver from zoning requirements due to transit proximity)

The project site is at 1428 NW 14th Ave.

Metrorail’s Civic Center station is just a three minute walk away.

An affiliate of Alta is the developer.

Behar Font is the architect.

 

 

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Anon
1 month ago

Very nice. Wish Little Havana got several dozen of these

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

yes. And less of those “slumlord” 2 story buildings

Anonymous
1 month ago

They are the WORST – looks like third world human traffic housing, and borders Miami’s nicest neighborhood Brickell. They should put more buildings like this there – will be bought up fast.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Agree. Driving through Little Havana is a mindfuck. So much shit to bulldoze.

Anonymous
1 month ago

All the abandoned boat yards are like a visionaries blank canvas walking distance to CBD and Brickell and waterfront, prime and ripe to go up.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It borders I-95 and downtown, and I wouldn’t call Brickell Miami’s “nicest” neighborhood, sorry. There is already plenty of land assemblages and vacant lots within East Little Havana/Riverside, unfortunately the owners have been playing land banker for years while trying to get the area arbitrarily spot-upzoned when infrastructure isn’t there, especially transit like an east-west Metrorail line and upgraded drainage.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Wynwood is adjacent to I95. Let’s update the infrastructure in Riverside. It’s the best thing we can do for interconnectivity around the core and would tremendously increase the amount of beautiful waterfront and city view properties in Miami.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Acquire the entire area like the Mayor of West Palm Beach helped do with City Place. If drainage is that bad it’s unfit for anyone to live there, and needs a masterplanned new development.

Anon
1 month ago

This area has the same height zoning as Wynwood. Can we update the infrastructure?

Anonymous
1 month ago

The ones built after WWII, yes. Preserve the Mission, Mediterranean Revival, and Art Deco apartment houses, and adapatively resuse them for townhouses, condos, and boutique hotels. It’s not their fault absentee landlords allow them to fall apart, and frankly it’s amazing how long they have lasted after decades of neglect.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Agree 💯

Anonymous
1 month ago

Also, Allapattah, Lemon City, and along every Metrorail stop and every major thoroughfare of the city.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yes! Let’s elevate the metro stop areas and make them tourist destinations where visitors can travel by rail not car.

Not Anonymous
1 month ago

This development will probably house the nurses and students that work in the Civic Center. This area is in great need of housing, and projects like these will have to keep popping up in the area.

Frankonymous
1 month ago

unlikely. it’s a airbnb building with no short term rental restrictions.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yeah because so many visitors want to stay in the middle of the hood.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This isn’t in Wynwood.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Oh boo hoo. Stop with the demonization of short term rentals. Some of us like to have high performing investments.

Melo is sigma and Chad
1 month ago

Wish there was more development around the Palmetto, Okeechobee , airport and Hialeah metrorail stations

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

This will rent out completely and fast! Huge demand for that area!

Azarius
1 month ago

Health district will be a nice place to stay with medium density and access to downtown and Wynwood

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s closer to Brickell than Wynwood. If they can make it nice I’d rather spend a night out here on the water than go to Wynwood

Anonymous
1 month ago

No cluttered windows, balconies, or parking podium facades, broken up massing, and human scale at ground level. Checks all the boxes for solid development.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is where Miami Dade and developers should focus on – it’ll relieve traffic if people can metrorail here, downtown and Brickell, creating more upscale destinations along the transit corridor.

BUILD BUILD IN THE URBAN CORE!
1 month ago

Agree. Instead of pushing us onto the Everglades and further south buying out farmland that is needed. There are vast areas in Allapattah, Brownsville, and NW Miami Dade along Metrorail and within 15 minutes (with moderate traffic) of work hubs like MIA, Brickell, Downtown, Health District Etc. that can not only provide viable living conditions for those already there but help with the madness of hundreds of thousands of ppl commuting on a daily basis from suburban condos and townhomes to the urban core.

Anonymous but Famous
1 month ago

Except for the airport area, I can see no better slam dunk for middle class housing than the area around Jackson….. Question: what happened to the health district for the zone overall from @ 8 years ago? Another $$$ million down the drain?

BUILD BUILD IN THE URBAN CORE!
1 month ago

There is an area just east of MIA parallel to the river that has vast land for housing (larger multi-family units) that would help with traffic and is surrounded by Metrorail and bus routes. I believe its called Melrose.

Michael1
1 month ago

It’s nice. I would like to see a bit more color.

Anonymous
1 month ago

White is better than gunmetal grey and rainbow mural colors that look like a shady day care center.

Moses
1 month ago

It’s 2023 and peeps still knocking rainbows?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Looks beautiful, we need more of these rather than the luxury condos popping everywhere. Imagine a neighborhood similar to midtown with theses buildings without the luxury price tag. Maybe the Govt needs to step in and use eminent domain for the public good, especially for the “slumlords” and “land bankers” and give them fair value for their property. This would ease up rent prices and traffic.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Agree. This area is the ideal spot for eminent domain. It’s a blighted knot that is stuck while Miami prospers. It needs to be redesigned from the ground up.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It should be luxury with some more economy affordable options further from neighborhood center and amenities.