UDRB Votes In Favor Of 635-Foot Office Tower

Miami’s Urban Development Review Board voted last week to recommend approval of an office tower near Midtown Miami.

The board voted in favor of the project as presented, without modifications.

The tower is unusual in that no Miami 21 zoning waivers are requested. Instead, the project is proposed as of right and completely within the code.

The new tower, known as Tower 36, is proposed to rise 47 stories, or 635 feet and include:

  • 312,058 square feet of office
  • 29,109 square feet of commercial use
  • 671 parking spaces

A restaurant and roof terrace is planned atop the parking podium. A rooftop garden is planned at the top of the tower.

Kohn Pederson Fox is the design architect. ODP is the project architect.

One Thousand Group is the developer, with the entity Tower 36, LLC listed as the contract purchaser. One Thousand Group is led by Kevin Venger, Louis Birdman and Michael Konig.

 

 


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Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s called bucking the trend folks…where else are you seeing multiple class A office towers even getting planned to be built? Developers aren’t just planning these for the sake of planning – there are structural shifts in migration trends and looks like we’re in the early innings and rates don’t seem to be a factor as of now.

Leo
1 month ago

Very encouraging in the face of potential financial disaster ushered in by the feds. Just today we learned that nearly half of the 5 trillion in stimulus money went to China and Russia due to overwhelming corruption and lack of oversight.

Anonymous
1 month ago

No, that’s just Hunter and Pops paying it forward.

Zaddy
1 month ago

Go touch some grass

Mami
1 month ago

i’d love to touch your assssss

Anonymous
1 month ago

There’s a reason it’s a trend. Office towers that lack any residential are dead at night and at risk of being left destitute in the next major crisis. Companies can downsize their office space but people will always need a place to live. Add to the fact that they cause much more traffic because no employees can take residence in the building itself to limit vehicle trips.

You know or you do not.
1 month ago

You do not know what you are talking about “rates don’t seem to be a factor now”. Today a floating, non-speculative cobstruction loan is at least 8%, and this with low leverage, recourse, and a heafty level of pre-leased rentanle square footage.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Another beautiful tower at the northern end of Miami’s ever expanding skyline.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It needs company 🤔

Anonymous
1 month ago

Shell gas station going away?

Anonymous
1 month ago

On one hand, I’m not gonna miss the poorly maintained gas station which has been a magnet for loiterers, but on the other hand, where are we gonna gas up?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Plenty of places a little ways north on Biscayne.

MicoJones
1 month ago

Europa carwash / chevron for the win.

Name
1 month ago

All the car dealerships have room, bunch of parking lots

Anonymous
1 month ago

They would have had to been crazy to reject this one. Perfect location and beautiful design. Win win.

Melo is sigma and chad
1 month ago

Beautiful, lets get that utility deal signed and hopfulling the proposed tower where denny’s is at is also this height.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nice bookend to the furthest extent of what could be considered the “core,” and gateway to Edgewater.

Beautiful design always wins
1 month ago

What a nice design. Nicer looking than most of the stuff being built closer to downtown.

calivalle
1 month ago

Gorgeous tower…

Helicopter, Helicopter
1 month ago

traffic is horrible there

Adrian
1 month ago

Isn’t the baylink gonna culminate there

Anon
1 month ago

Dubai step aside!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Haha, cute.

Rob
1 month ago

Dubai has tall buildings. That’s it. Nothing else. Bland towers in the middle of the desserts with horrendous pollution. No thanks. This building looks neat. Would rather see it in downtown 1045 ft tall. But hey! Nice regardless.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The the UDRB tell the architect to change those silly mural holes?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Did the*

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

I’ll let the podium on this one slide even though its not covered…Very little pedestrian activity plus is near very busy roads so its understable…

Name
1 month ago

Why slide? It’s not walkable to any current transit stations.

Anon
1 month ago

Bro 90% of the city is not walkable to any transit stations.

Anon
1 month ago

And since 90% of the city is not walking distance from a station, it means only 10% is accessible by transit even when you live walking distance to a station. Only one word comes to mind… useless!

anon
1 month ago

That’s not true. The city is primarily where transit exists. The rest is Miami Dade suburbs

Sven
1 month ago

Everything is within walking distance if you have enough time.

Hello
1 month ago

It’s right next to the most walked area in Miami, the design district

Notya
1 month ago

Most walked? You have to drive to get there.

Hello
1 month ago

Where in Miami do you not have to drive?

Anon
1 month ago

Beautiful building but terrible location for a big office tower. Can we broker a land trade with like the Crosby or some other “too small” building in the CBD? 😉 There is no mass transit in that area nor will there be for maybe 20-50 years. Maybe there will be a commuter rail stop somewhat near by but that is absolutely NOT mass transit.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Stop putting down this area. You’re always posting negativity if it’s not Brickell/CBD.

Anon
1 month ago

The developers put millions into market analysis. The location is what is most profitable – period.

Consultant
1 month ago

As someone who’s done multiple market analyses and proforma for developers….millions is really overstating how much is spent on due diligence for these projects.

You know or you do not.
1 month ago

Haha, so true. If they spent $250k on the initial underwriting (excluding architectual drawings, legal, etc.) I want to work for that consulting firm.

Anonymous
1 month ago

We love our neighborhood, thank you very much. And it’s only getting better and more dense as time goes on. Stop spreading negativity.

Fax
1 month ago

A tower with 0 residential is not adding to density. It’ll add to daytime population, but that’s not the same thing as density.

anon
1 month ago

And traffic in an area where residents rely on cars

Anonymous
1 month ago

paychecks before rent checks

Anon
1 month ago

The Design District is Miami’s Rodeo Drive. It’s a great place for an office building.

Marie
1 month ago

Only thing missing is a Metromover stop but hopefully that will happen soon!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Design District clientele doesn’t take the homeless beer can, and it will ruin streets with flyovers. Keep dreaming for your free ride to Wynwood.

anon
1 month ago

This area was once known as Little San Juan. Adding a metro mover system would greatly enhance its connectivity, as it currently stands as a mall in the midst of a suburban residential neighborhood without a direct link to the city center.

Name
1 month ago

Agree 💯 no mass transit, bad spot for offices, just adds to traffic crisis of this disconnected extension area where development is spaced out a distance.

Anan
1 month ago

Don’t go there and you won’t have a problem. Next problem ?

Fax
1 month ago

You act like this isn’t smack dab in the middle of I-95 and I-195 on and off ramps. It’s going to be very hard for a lot of people to seek an alternative route. This is going to back up the exits on the 195 so badly. Those exits are already terribly backed up.

Anon
1 month ago

Lol please. Say you have a 10 million dollar condo in Miami Beach. You need new office space. You can lease here (across the causeway) or down in Brickell, which is another 25 minutes with traffic during the morning.

Easy choice – that’s why 3 office towers, including this one, are going up in this immediate area.

As for the transit? Metrorail and Metromover extensions are in the works, as well as a commuter rail.

BYE

Name
1 month ago

If theyre going to cross causeway may as well go to Brickell and be in hub of business not standalone tower

Sven
1 month ago

The things that the Mids consider a crisis is getting more and more astonishing.