UDRB Approves 45-Story Tower With Perfect Transit Score

Miami’s Urban Development Review Board voted this month to unanimously approve Downtown Miami’s First and Fifth tower.

The location for First & Fifth features a rare perfect transit score of 100. MiamiCentral with Brightline, Metrorail, Tri-Rail, and the Metromover, is directly across the street.

Developer Oak Row Equities said in a statement that transit-oriented developments are critical to the company’s long-term thesis.

The design of the tower by architect ODP is said to pay homage to Miami’s turn-of-the-century Venetian architecture.

The new structure features arches that embrace history and blend with the project’s historical portion, drawing inspiration from the Doge Palace in Venice.

First and Fifth is planned to include 526 luxury multifamily units, along with amenities.

There will also be 6,638 square feet of commercial and 161 parking spaces.

Oak Row is also co-developing Wynwood Plaza, which recently secured Amazon as an office tenant. The company is also in contract to buy a property on Brickell Bay Drive for $520 million, which would be a record price for Miami. Other Oak Row projects include The Oasis, 2600 Biscayne Boulevard, and 2900 Terrace.

 

(image: Oak Row Equities)

 

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anonymous
10 days ago

over 500 units with only 6,600 square feet of retail space. seems pretty low considering its so close to metrorail/brightline

anon
10 days ago

retail is taking a shit, just ask Family Dollar, Macys, JCPenneys, CVS etc. More and more are buying online now and also lots of retail saturation as is

Anonymous
10 days ago

Not to mention, the only retail ends up being restaurants, vape shops, and cell phone stores that come and go.

Anon
10 days ago

guys, your text is outdated! “The new structure features arches that embrace history and blend with the project’s historical portion, drawing inspiration from the Doge Palace in Venice.” that was the old declined version, the new one replaces the arches with squares. This is TOO LAZY cut and paste BS

Guggenheim
10 days ago

Why would they decline the arches? It was the best part!

Is the design board helping or not? Do we need this government board involved in the decision making process, if it’s not serving its purpose to improve the design of the city?

Anonymous
10 days ago

The UDRB is as useful as teats on a bull, or in this case detrimental and those teats lactate spoiled milk.

Anonymous
10 days ago

It is amazing the amount of crap the wrote to make it sound something that is not.

Anonymous
10 days ago

But is it “a vision for the future of urban living?”

Please
10 days ago

Bring back our arches!

Taxed Out
10 days ago

More of this…

Anonymous
10 days ago

Normally I would call this parking pedestal solid as far as screening treatment is concerned, but it’s absolutely abhorrent that the UDRB though it would look better without the arches.

Turkish tobacco
10 days ago

Yeah it’s no longer a Kool design

sadly
10 days ago

Transit score counts one line of each transit type the same as if there was really a whole network nearby. It counts a one line station the same as if it were Times Square station.

Wanda
10 days ago

Is this in Overtown?

Anon
10 days ago

No it’s in downtown

Anonymous
10 days ago

Overtown starts north on NW 8 St.

museum of ice cream is not in ot
10 days ago

The border is more Avenue and longitude here than north south.

Anonymous
9 days ago

OK… NW 8 St and NW 2 Ave.