Restaurant Closes On Edgewater Block Where 5 Towers Planned

At 3333 Biscayne Boulevard in Edgewater, a Wendy’s restaurant has now closed, according to a Reddit thread.

At least five towers are now in planning for the block.

Beitel Group has filed plans for a 3-tower mixed-use project on the property where Wendy’s is located.

The Beitel project is planned to have a 41-story residential tower, 40-story residential tower, and a 12-story office tower.

Beitel is said to be working with Aimco, which also has big plans for the block. The Beitel project will serve as the Biscayne Boulevard gateway to multiple projects planned by Aimco.

Aimco recently filed plans for a 43-story apartment tower called One Edgewater.

Another Aimco apartment tower called Hamilton House is now in construction permitting, and is planned to rise 60 stories.

The company has also completed a gut renovation of an apartment building called The Hamilton on the same block, and has filed plans to convert the end of the street into a plaza with a public baywalk.

In total 1,080 new residential units are planned in the four new residential towers (Aimco is planning larger apartments and fewer units).

 

3-tower Beitel project at 3333 Biscayne:

43-story One Edgewater and 60-story The Hamilton:

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Tropics
7 months ago

This should lighten up traffic considerably

Anonymous
7 months ago

Excellent! Let’s get this district going. Nice progress for Edgewater.

Mi3Mi
7 months ago

The Wendy’s was my way of avoiding traffic on Biscayne.

Melo is sigma and Chad
7 months ago

haha I used it to jump to the street with the traffic light as well.

anonymous
7 months ago

I thought this was my secret! Fast food drive throughs in Miami are mostly used as traffic detours LOL

Bubba
7 months ago

Hands off my baconator!!

Azarius
7 months ago

Can’t wait to be driving down Biscayne Boulevard and see this massive group of buildings added to the Miami Skyline. 2025 is looking really different for the city‼️

Anonymous
7 months ago

It’ll probably be faster to walk down biscayne lol

Anonymous
7 months ago

Add low rises along biscayne and make it a walkable promenade like In Europe or Miami Beach – stagger the high rises back

Melo, the true giga chad
7 months ago

I’ve been waiting for this news actually lol. A drive thru restaurant shouldn’t be within 2 blocks from one of the most desired coasts in the world

anonymous
7 months ago

Just 2 blocks? They shouldn’t be anywhere east of I95 in an urban core.

ShouldThisBeonEater
7 months ago

McDonalds Apple Pies (the classic fried one) was my guilty pleasure – even after eating at nicer places 🙂 The current baked ones are really lame.

Melo is sigma and Chad
7 months ago

Good, east edgewater needs to be lined with highrises along biscayne blvd.

Marco
7 months ago

Not necessarily

Anonymous
7 months ago

Mid-rises, hence the office component although could be better architecture than some stacked and shifted boxes.

anonymous
7 months ago

I think it’s the other way around. Line the west part with high rises. Open up the bay to walkable low rises so more people get views. People don’t care to be directly on the water. It’s way too windy there on the water bc of wind tunnels so you hardly get to enjoy it anyway.

useurhead
7 months ago

People DO care to be directly on the water–hence the higher prices for direct waterfront buildings 😒 not hard to figure this out

Also, who the heck DOESN’T want wind/sea breeze in hot, humid Miami?

Anon
7 months ago

More low rises in edgewater! Make it like a Paris promenade or Lincoln road

Melo, the true giga chad
7 months ago

the Paraiso towers along with this entire street filled with beautiful mixed use development, could pretty much act as its own neighborhood such as Midtown. Glad to see it happening and other developers continue to add to it.

Anonymous
7 months ago

paraiso is really a beautiful development…beautifully landscaped

Anonymous
7 months ago

The bubble boxes are hardly a mixed-use development, unless you count the restaurant, which is the only decent looking component and at human scale. More like vertical suburb.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Agree they do nothing for city interaction or walkability and increase traffic. We need a Miami 22 designed with traffic and roadways in mind

Anymous
6 months ago

Outrageous, that whole area is already gridlock traffic!!!!!!

Downtowner
7 months ago

In a couple of years, I’ll be complaining that there’s nowhere to get a basic, fast-food burger in Edgewater. For now, though, I’m very happy to hear that this Wendy’s has closed. Biscayne Blvd. should be Miami’s shining star thoroughfare, and freestanding, fast-food places are not the right fit for that.

Azarius
7 months ago

I understand what your stating but as they build more I’m sure Wendy’s would open a ground location somewhere similar to McDonald’s on Lincoln Rd in Miami Beach

Downtowner
7 months ago

I wouldn’t mind that, actually. It’s really the suburban, drive-thru look that’s incompatible with what’s happening right now in Edgewater.

anonymous
7 months ago

Brickell was a few towers like Edgewater or downtown about 10 years ago, and even today it still has multiple drive through restaurants. Edgewater and downtown have a lot more drive thoughts too. I guess it will be 15- 20 years before they are all gone there.

Anonymous
7 months ago

…and nothing of value was lost.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Kind of need the Wendy’s because with how much traffic this will add, no one will be able to leave the area for food and water.

Jean
7 months ago

Yes, the area is going forward…

Billy
7 months ago

It would be fabulous to have a public private partnership where the Metro mover above ground goes by each one of these complexes into a central parking garage or entertainment district for people don’t need a car.

The Metro mover or people mover would be able to stop anywhere that has paid to have a location at their place. That could be all of the condos that could be the entertainment district office buildings whatever and build an extensive people move throughout the city

Anonymous
7 months ago

I’ve seen this visual before. Disney World – The Contemporary

Anonymous
7 months ago

sad to see the Wendys go, I hope they move to another location in one of the empty lots on Biscayne blvd

anonymous
7 months ago

We need a rooftop Wendy’s or taco bell cantina