Zoning Waiver Decision Issued At Empire Brickell, Demolition Permit Pending

Empire Brickell continues to move closer to groundbreaking.

According to Miami Planning Department records, a final decision on Miami 21 zoning waivers needed for the project was issued on January 30.

Building Department records show that a permit for total demolition at the site was applied for in August 2022, and was actively being worked as of last month.

A construction permit for the new tower was also applied for in August, but it does not appear to be in active review since the full plans haven’t been filed.

According to a UDRB filing, Empire Brickell is planned to rise 26 stories, or 310 feet and include:

  • 250 residential units
  • 2,452 square feet of ground floor retail
  • 344 parking spaces in a 6-story garage

Grand Peaks is the developer, with Corwil the architect.

 

 

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anon
7 months ago

This is like any stucco building that has been built in Florida since 1980. Truly unimaginative.

Love it or Hate it
7 months ago

Hate it

anon
7 months ago

I don’t hate it, it’s just a nothing building. Not bad, not good – just completely bland. The white bread of buildings.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Hate it too. This would ruin Brickell. If our City fails us on this one it would probably push us out. It’s a critical lot.

Anon
7 months ago

There’s plenty of buildings like this in Brickell already. It’s not that bad, it’s just a plain, boring building with nothing to say.

How Brickell Almost Lost it’s Luster
7 months ago

Infill is fine for the center off Brickell but this is the gateway to our neighborhood. It should be something memorable and inviting otherwise all of Brickell will eventually loose its luster.

How Brickell Almost Lost it’s Luster
7 months ago

Infill is fine for the center off Brickell but this is the gateway to our neighborhood. It should be something memorable and inviting otherwise all of Brickell will eventually lose* its luster.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Gateway? It’s a block south right next to a freeway. The gateway to Brickell is a McDonald’s and a Wendy’s. Save your energy for good architecture on both those blocks.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Hmmm. Okay good point, those are even more valuable locations. I promise you though, if we get something like this in place of the Wendy’s / McDonald’s on 8th, I’m buying a Big Mac and moving out of Brickell/Downtown.

Ugly Design
7 months ago

The facade looks like the skeleton of a building. All bones and no meat ☠️

anon
7 months ago

“This would ruin Brickell”. R E L A X

BAHAHA Brickell!
7 months ago

Looks like Soviet Era ghetto block construction. Good luck Brickell. Fort Lauderdale is waiting for you!

Lol
7 months ago

The only salvageable part is the diner and the planters outside (but unfortunately those are placeholders.)

360 Brickell
7 months ago

What if it just has a rounded extension at the western facing side? It’s the short side so wouldn’t cost much extra. That would make a world a difference.

360 Brickell
7 months ago

Even just the skinny balcony along the center could be rounded, give it some character to live up to the name.

Design Advice
7 months ago

Slant the top peaks to match the design of the school next door, rather than being flat. It’s a low cost change that will help the design.

Anonymous
7 months ago

The Brickell World School next door. Please disregard the Related mural (“drugged-out girl on stucco”). She has to go, but the school looks cool.

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Anonymous
7 months ago

It’s hard for me to hate it, considering the absolutely awful apartment building that this will replace, but I agree it could be better designed.

Anon
7 months ago

Agree about the awful building it will be replaced regardless if we hold out a year or two. It’s better we get this right than fast. We can at least allow the owners to demolish the existing structure for a temporary park until a better design comes along.

Anonymous
7 months ago

You had me at “build a temporary park.”

Nina
7 months ago

The parking podium should be a giant waterfall or something to liven up this block.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Like the idea, but you know what happens when Brickell gets a temporary park. The residents become super entitled and then cry when the owner of the property decides to develop on the temporary park.

Anon
7 months ago

Don’t worry…When the park that are under construction are done there will no longer be a need for a temporary park here, but there is such a need for this now and it’s next to a school.

Brickell Needs More Professional Housing
7 months ago

The developer could add glass, nice finishes, design embeléseme también, waterfalls, fountains etc, and be able to charge 3k for a studio, 4K for a one bedroom and 5k for a two bedroom, just as a first year special, and people would be waiting in line to live here in Brickell.

Cut corners and people may not notice it or think it’s old construction. If the developer jazzes this up, people will drive by and call the leasing office in seconds, and the developer can retire early and build another building in Brickell.

REDeSIGN or RESIGN - UDRB
7 months ago

Omg are those metal balconies!?!? Where is the glass railings!!! This isn’t Hialeah – it’s at the most visible spot in Brickell. Who is in charge of approving designs? Gilbert Bonkers Godfrey?! Redesign or resign!

We need an organization or government that represents all of Brickell with a central vision. This would NEVER happen in Miami Beach.

Helpful Design Feedback
7 months ago

I think Brickell could live with it if it had adjustments:

– Greenery and gardens above the garage, so it does not look like a big concrete block.

– If the elevation gets split at the middle with some differentiation between the top and bottom halves, it won’t matter if its stucco. (Any new buildings in Brickell should not be allowed to be stucco AND a big rectangle.)

– Add some curves or break up the adjust the overall silhouette so it is not a big stucco silhouette.

– Also don’t be afraid to add some wood panel siding, to add an earthiness that is lacking.

– Some type of water element, like a floor to ceiling waterfall at the entrance.

Ano n
7 months ago

This isn’t sim city, your little list means nothing

So Confused
7 months ago

The UDRB should have a list like the one we posted. Isn’t that the point of a a UDRB review process..

Apologies, we thought the City of Miami has an Urban Design Review Board for that very reason….

My bad, it’s actually the Urban DEVELOPMENT Review Board.

Wait, there is a reason we are so confused. The City refers to the UDRB both ways on its website (links below).

https://www.miamigov.com/My-Government/Boards-Committees/Urban-Development-Review-Board-UDRB

https://www.miamigov.com/My-Government/Boards-Committees/Urban-Development-Review-Board-UDRB/What-Projects-Go-to-the-Urban-Design-Review-Board-UDRB

Sim City Playa
7 months ago

No this is Miami City. We decide what is built in our city. We elected a Government to represent US, and fund a UDRB to ensure that “little” lists like this get followed. Developers are lucky it’s a little list and not a huge one.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Miami Beach literally approved demolishing Al Capone’s former residence for likely another ubiquitous concrete box spec house, and mutilating a brilliant example of MiMo architecture at the entrance to Lincoln Road.

Bruno
7 months ago

This is West Brickell, directly accross the street from I95 off ramps.

Glass.is expensive, and a pain to clean.
Keeping housing affordable is a great idea, and this location is a great place for this product.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Thanks Bruno. People know how to clean their own glass or hire people. Stop assuming we are all poor here. Moderately rich people want to afford to live in Brickell too. It can’t be all billionaire and workforce housing.

Luxury Brickell Grows Miami
7 months ago

Build more affordable housing in central downtown by the train station where property values can’t go up. Nobody is going to pay top dollar to be next to some of those government buildings, but they could be very nice affordable options and only one stop from Brickell on the train. Build luxury here at Empire Brickell and surrounding blocks, along the last remaining parcels in Brickell where the property values have nowhere to go be up! Even if you try to make it affordable the limited supply is going to make prices skyrocket regardless, so build it nice!

Anonymous
7 months ago

This dated ugly design has absolutely no place in Brickell. Write and call the UDRB and City of Miami.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Tell them to stop approving Arquitectonica’s juxtaposed balcony, parking pedestal monstrosities while you’re at it.

Anon
7 months ago

Tell me you know nothing about architecture and development without saying you know nothing about architecture and development.

Anonymous
7 months ago

To be fair, it looks better than many other buildings in West Brickell. At least the windows and balconies are symmetrical, tjhere’s some street-level interaction, the parking garage isn’t plastered with a hideous mural, and has an interesting feature at the top.

Sorry Brickell
7 months ago

This is in Brickell and may look better than the buildings on Claughton Island, but the design feature on top is hardly that… It looks like a smokestack in a factory or an awkward pergola with no function. It would be better WITHOUT that design flaw.

There is so much that could be done that would highlight the prime location than this…

Anon
7 months ago

It looks like the dated 1980s buildings in Brickell Bay not this newer designed part of Brickell. Some of the appeal of this area is the newer designs.

Anonymous
7 months ago

It could have floor to ceiling all glass corner units to take advantage of the gorgeous sunset and City views. People would love to live there. Many of the other buildings in downtown and central Brickell face other walls.

Anon
7 months ago

Isn’t west Brickell west of I95? That’s what the kids are calling it these days. I can’t keep up. They’re growing so fast.

Anonymous
7 months ago

No, that’s still Little Havana. When people refer to West Brickell, they’re basically just referring to SW 2nd Ave and the cross streets.

Anon
7 months ago

^ More lies from people that don’t live in this part of Brickell. That’s not true.

All the buildings and signs on 2nd Avenue just say Brickell. Look it up if you’d like. The buildings in Little Havana west of I95 do actually say west Brickell.

Apparently Second Avenue is so nice that people in Little Havana want to be connected to our community by adding west to Brickell.

Bruno
7 months ago

Except, for instance, 1026 SW 2nd Ave. This building is called, West Brickell Tower.

01-4138-051-0110.
Try using the Miami-Dade County Tax Appraisers property property lookup service using that property Folio.

West Brickell isn’t called West Brickell by people who lie, it is called West Brickell by developers, property owners, architects and bureaucrats because that is what it is called.

Brickell for the People
7 months ago

That’s just because you probably funded it Bruno. It’s a senior care home. Only one “gov” funded building says that. Maybe the gov is funded by you? All private owned buildings say Brickell If you care so much about this part of Brickell then stop trying to outcast it from your expensive real estate a few blocks away.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Oh you named one gov lead project that maybe you had a role in:

Here are all the others along SW2nd:

– Publix at Brickell Village
– Aloft Brickell
– SOMA at Brickell
– MIRO Brickell
– Brickell Ten
– Ace Hardware Brickell
– The Spot Barbershop – East Brickell
– Brickell World School
– Legacy at Brickell
– Brickell Road Li
– Cassa Brickell
– Habitat Brickell
– Le Parc at Brickell
– Novotel Miami Brickell
– Brickell First Apartments
– Indigo Brickell
– Brickell Station Lofts
– Brickell View Terrace Gardens
– Smart Brickell

Those are just some found on Google Maps. Are you going to try to gaslight all those developers, owners and residents too?

It’s a waste of time. I guarantee if you or the gov place any signs here that say “west” Brickell, all the above businesses and affiliated individuals will NOT be happy. You could invest in more luxury housing here though, it’s growing nicely!

And people wonder why people are starting to become skeptical of the local government? This is supposed to be a free market…

Anon
7 months ago

The community on 2nd Avenue identifies as Brickell. It’s just the DDA and “west” commissioners trying to shove a label so they can cool down this hot spot and squeeze the success out of Brickell like a tube of toothpaste, and into their own districts. Don’t buy it public! This is Brickell.

Bruno
7 months ago

???
Not true.
If you want to identify West Brickell as Tribeca, you can, but no one should take that seriously.

Anon
7 months ago

So one spot west of that avenue is a new project called “EMPIRE BRICKELL” – that makes no sense and causes confusion.

Just like the residents of 1997 who fought back against Bayshore street signs, and updated it to Brickell Bay Drive, we will not rest until the entire City of Miami acknowledges our existence and neighborhood identity.

This is the original metropolitan Brickell neighborhood.

If you want to use the name West Brickell because you woke up and thought it was cute, save it for south of Riverside.

Bruno
7 months ago

West Brickell has been called West Brickell for a very long time.
More than 30 years.
West Brickell has no part in Little Havana.

Thank You Mr. Torro
7 months ago

We appreciate the contributions of the Torro foundation but do not understand why it is trying so hard to rename an area that is in active development and known as Brickell.

By your logic, looking back 30 years we should revert Brickell Bay Drive back to Bayshore Drive, connect it to Coconut Grove, and restore Brickell Key back to Claughton Island and add affordable housing there.

We really don’t understand the big deal and why this means so much to you, but we would love to honor your legacy as one of the great founders of Brickell.

Anonymous
7 months ago

The “West Brickell” part of Little Havana, south of Riverside and west of I95, needs new roads desperately. Two way streets turn into an on ramp to I95. This neighborhood would be benefited if people kept calling it “West Brickell” because maybe it could get roads that are not vehicular death traps.

The beautiful redeveloping block on 2nd Ave in Brickell is part of the original Brickell metropolitan neighborhood. It was called Brickell even before the Brickell Bay neighborhood and Claughton Island took the name (and now seem to be excluding it from those that originally used it). Check out this 1997 Map showing 2nd at the center of Brickell.

It would benefit all of Brickell to incorporate this area into its masterplan otherwise you risk getting failing distressed infrastructure like the leaders west of I95 have produced. Nobody in Brickell wants that, including residents on 2nd Ave, the original residents in modern Brickell.

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Residents Confirm West Brickell is West of I95
7 months ago

Yes, the neighborhood west of I95 in Little Havana refers to itself as “West Brickell.” It’s an amazing opportunity zone too!

The neighborhood EAST of I95 to Biscayne Bay, including 2nd Avenue, identifies as just Brickell and always has since I can remember.

On behalf of the entire City we apologize if you were lead to believe anything otherwise but you should urgently update any future plans and signage accordingly.

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Bruno
7 months ago

No. West Brickell is west of the Metrorail. West of W 2nd Ave.

Metrorail is and has been the Center of Brickell
7 months ago

No Bruno. We have seen your bias in many posts and know why you keep trying to rename neighborhoods. Just because you say so doesn’t make it so.

The residents here decide, which includes US the people. The residents and all the buildings here identify as Brickell. YOU don’t even live there, so please stop being so controlling about what other people identify with. Historically, this is Brickell, and the residents in east Little Havana identify as West Brickell. Don’t confuse people – the Underline is a central connecting spot, whereas I95 is a border separating West Brickell in Little Havana from Brickell.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Thank you Mr. Torro, for all your investment and work to develop Brickell and downtown along the bay, and the very first high-rise building on Brickell Avenue.

We know you have a lot of interest in certain parts of Brickell, but other people are also investing and building in Brickell along with you. Maybe the metroline seemed like a roadblock when you started in 1969 but it’s not anymore. It’s now the Underline and it connects Brickell as central hub.

Just like you, people are revisioning all the opportunity zones in Miami and we all have in common goal to improve the City. It’s all a connected Brickell neighborhood. Let’s work together to build on your vision!

Keepin it real
7 months ago

I think most of this is designated as affordable and workforce housing. Hence the lack of high end finishings. We need affordable places for those that work in Brickell and downtown to live. Not everything can or should be high end luxury seven figure condos.

Anonymous
7 months ago

That’s not true. There are a lot of market rate units here. If you are concerned about affordable housing then advocate for 4Ambassadors to remain or keep all the 80s construction on the bay and Claughton Island in tact.

Keeping the Fakers Real
7 months ago

You think this part of Bricksll is more affordable than downtown? It’s more expensive here than all of downtown, except for a few buildings on Biscayne. Given it’s prime Brickell address people will pay more to live here.

The newer buildings on SW 2nd Ave are even more expensive than an older waterfront unit on the bay IN parts of Brickell, because people highly value new construction and connectivity at end of day!

You can go on Zillow or Redfin and compare prices and see what I mean.

Keepin it real
7 months ago

If this is the building that’s attached to the new school as someone pointed out it does have workforce housing in it. I attended a town hall two weeks ago and that project came up. The county is working on and prioritizing projects that include affordable and workforce housing. There are thousands of low wage workers in downtown and Brickell. The county is improving public transportation make their commutes easier too. It’s not all about providing high end condos and shops for those of us that can afford them. What’s wrong with having a diverse mix of people living in the area. The average low wage worker is a much more pleasant and respectful person to be around than the typical self righteous Brickellite.

Keeping the Fakers Real
7 months ago

Lies! A majority of the units are market rate and will be 4000 for a one bedroom. It’s a nice building with resort amenities. It’s a public/private partnership for tax incentives with “workforce” housing for the teachers in the school, people who make like 100k a year, and a few spots for elderly people, all who help improve the community.

I lived in a ultra luxury building like this in NYC where millionaires lived. It improves the community and makes it less trashy and transient.

Brickell needs better quality buildings with a local community and luxury intermixed with moderate income housing, it adds character and identity which is lacking in other parts of Brickell!

Build Brickell’s Boutiques
7 months ago

This is not that building.

That is why it should be elevated.

There’s already middle-income housing on Brickell Key, and workforce housing all around Brickell.

Brickell is lacking new luxury family oriented boutique buildings that are walkable to work, and there is a huge demand with more offices opening up,

There are really nice quiet blocks near schools and not on nightclub rows in a Brickell. People with kids want to be close to ground level and not necessarily live in a suburb.

County and Donors “Separate But Equal” Tactics
7 months ago

We never complained about workforce units. In fact we love them. We are upset about actively trying to downgrade anywhere that houses affordable units and separate them. Why should the entire neighborhood not be allowed to grow into a special nice place to live? If people want to build nice condos next door it only helps the entire community.

What is wrong is the way the County and billionaires by the bay in Brickell and Claughton Island pretend to be “helping.”

…Notice they don’t include affordable housing on their blocks. It just needs to be close enough for people to be able to walk or train to serve THEM. They provide phony donations to affordable units as long as the building is named to be a “separate but equal” community. As a part of the donation, they require the building identify itself as another neighborhood, even when all the neighboring buildings say Brickell.

They won’t allow the people in affordable housing to say they live in Brickell because they fear it would hurt their property values. THOSE are really the self righteous people, and the County goes along with it.

Chica
7 months ago

Not anymore! That’s terrible of the county. We don’t need affordable units under those conditions.

The City and residents are calling the County out. That was something they did in the past ¡NO MÁS!

anon
7 months ago

Typical stucco building. Infill. Nothing interesting to see here really.

Anons for Brickell
7 months ago

Please try again Empire Brickell! I’d rather see the lot sir vacant until we see an elevated vision for this skyline focal point. This is prime Brickell real estate. It will set the aesthetic for the entire Brickell neighborhood when people enter Brickell.

Anonwtf
7 months ago

Why hasn’t Smart Brickell moved forward with their remaining towers?

Anonymous
7 months ago

The Smart Brickell renderings along fencing show high-end all glass podiums that are gorgeous, I hope they move forward soon with this project. Hopefully Empire Brickell adds more ultra luxury design features to its design to fit in with all the new development here in Brickell.

anon
7 months ago

Seeing that it’s already moved through UDRB, this is most likely very close to the final design.

Anons for Brickell
7 months ago

What’s the point of having a UDRB if it’s not going to enforce design standards? It looks the same as the rejected design. Are these the old designs! It’ll be much harder to replace this atrocity if we don’t adhere to the Brickell quality design standards from the start.

anon
7 months ago

Replace? This building will be here for the next 40+ years at least.

Anonymous
7 months ago

If this rendering goes up we need to defund the UDRB and elect new commissioners.

Anonymous
7 months ago

What’s the point of Miami21 is the UDRB hands out waivers like candy? Even old code buildings look better than post-2011 cereal boxes. Take Arquitectonica’s elegant Paramount in Edgewater for example, and compare it with boorish Icon Bay.

Anonymous
7 months ago

LOL what? “Smart” Brickell had giant visible blank walls covered with silly tattoos.

Welcome to Brickell
7 months ago

This will be a huge improvement and excited to welcome the new neighbors to Brickell! This building could benefit from a more refined and design-forward elevation. I believe that is why the UDRB rejected the design.

The renderings show a boring concrete box and this is the prime gateway to Brickell. The neighborhood is experience a revitalization and the owners could most likely recoup the expense of a world class elevated design from the top market rental prices being garnered in this area.

Cutting corners here would be more expensive in the long run…I believe the final product will be a huge success though!

Anonymous
7 months ago

This is more of a Fork Lauderwale design.. NOT for the beautiful Miami.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Exactly! We need new leaders, and someone to lead Brickell. Anyone want to run? You likely have a lot of votes in Brickell.

Ftl
7 months ago

Not really. Fort Lauderdale is getting an incredible grouping of ODA designed glassy towers.

Anon
7 months ago

Fort Lauderdale is getting much nicer designs than this.

Anon
7 months ago

We are thinking of selling in Brickell and moving to Fort Lauderdale. We are starting to feel bait and switched by renderings of nicer development here.

Lechozo
7 months ago

those green spaces in the renderings… are they just undeveloped lots, right? not real public space?

Anonymous
7 months ago

The greenery will be buildings. So this stucco eye sore at the main Brickell skyline will not even have greenery.

The closest parks are Jose Martí Park and SS Park, which are going to be completely redone.

anon
7 months ago

lol. Those are empty lots / parking lots.

Anon
7 months ago

There’s a state of the art school almost finished on one side and the other side is Smart Brickell. The school has a more modern design than this tower.

Anonymous
7 months ago

It’s not an empty lot. It’s the lot for the third Smart Brickell project and the other is the new World Brickell school that’s almost done – and looking amazing! It has angles and lots of glass. All the new construction in this part of Brickell has much higher quality.

Anonymous
7 months ago

You’re blind. Smart Brickell is three boxes with blank walls.

Designer Brickell
7 months ago

I could have sworn the renderings in the fence for Smart Brickell, has an all glass podium. I will double check.

Either way it gives the illusion of lots of glass and has water elements, which this area needs to thrive. From design perspective this area needs a lot of greenery, waterfalls and over hangs.

The website shows something different but still a much more elevated design Empire Brickell.

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Anonymous
7 months ago

I wasn’t seeing things. The images on the fencing show a beautiful glass podium. I really hope this is what we will see built…

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anon
7 months ago

“state of the art” It’s a mid school next to a highway.

Where is the Vision of the UDRB?
7 months ago

Where do you think all the new NYC families will be sending their kids to school? The Trump towers in Manhattan are next to the highway… so is the Highline and Hudson Yards. Have some vision…

Antennae
7 months ago

Get this project rolling. I love seeing the western part of Brickell getting developed.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Love how this chat sways from loving any stucco building to hating it.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Isn’t that “park” in the rendering actually a gas station? 🤔

Adios Gasolina
7 months ago

Love my fuel efficient Range Rover but excited to see that gas station is going soon.

The owners released plans for an ultra luxury high rise. The building probably will have Tesla electric charging station, considering going electric soon.

Downtown
7 months ago

The **BrIcKelLiStA’s** are really throwing a fit today over this building

Anonymous
7 months ago

The Brickell Booster Boys are at it again.

Downtown
7 months ago

They’re so annoying.

Anon
7 months ago

So many Brickell whiners in here need to chill out. Brickell is beautiful but you better get used to downtown, wynwood, midtown, edgewater, and design district exploding with growth and development. Brickell isn’t the only hot neighborhood anymore – get over it.

Anon
7 months ago

We want those areas to grow too. If they can bait and switch here, they can do it in those areas too. Beware!

Melo is sigma and Chad
7 months ago

Good infill for west Brickell

Anonymous
7 months ago

This is Brickell. We don’t want to see infill. Downtown has the space for infill, but Brickell does not. We’d like to see world-class designs at the Brickell gateway.

anon
7 months ago

Anonymous is correct; Downtown has ample space for pedestrian plazas, parks, train stations, stadiums, museums, and more – Brickell has almost no space left.

Build Better Brickell
7 months ago

Downtown is where the federal prison is located. This belongs next to that, not in world class Brickell.

anon
7 months ago

Well “World Class Brickell” is exactly where this building is going, get used to it.

Downtown Rising
7 months ago

Yes. Many cities have federal detention centers in their most dense parts, and Miami is no exception.

Luckily downtown is also amplified by huge parks, emerging high speed rail, museums, musical centers, historical architecture, and more!

Downtown Rising
7 months ago

It’s so weird how people in Brickell actively root against other neighborhoods in Miami – childishly downvoting comments that are excited for growth in other areas. How fragile their egos must be.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Just a theory. Maybe people see how Downtown is capitalizing on the labors, investment and success of Brickell and taking all the CRA tax money from DDA zoned Brickell to fund and promote depressed parts of downtown, rather than all of Brickell.

There are even PR campaigns going to try to call Brickell “Downtown” in order to blur the lines.

When it comes to parts of Brickell that need help the DDA does not appear to be doing anything, rather downtowners seem to be distinguishing them from Brickell, and leaving them to have to promote themselves…

Can we all just work together and promote all Miami?

Anonymous
7 months ago

This is true – Brickell is reaching full saturation, while the possibilities for Downtown and it’s available lots are endless.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Not all of Downtown, just the parts by the river and Bayside, which are mostly built out too. Riverside is still a more desirable waterfront location with less institutional roadblocks, and prime location that is more connected to Brickell in terms of walkability.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Riverside’s roadblocks to what? Spot zoning an area with inadequate infrastructure because developers are too cheap to buy infill land downtown, and would rather destroy historic homes and apartment buildings for their one-third parking, two-thirds residential boxes?

Downtown
7 months ago

Not sure if you’ve been following this site but there are over a dozen active projects all over downtown – not just by Bayside…

Anon
7 months ago

There are dozens of projects all over downtown..? Riverside is next to an interstate – it should be called Roadside – I’ll pass.

Anon
7 months ago

It’s next to the river. Better than being landlocked without direct access to a highway in my opinion.

Downtown Rising
7 months ago

Park West is the most highway accessible neighborhood in Miami….you’re in South Beach in 7 minutes

Riverside Rising
7 months ago

You can get to South Beach just as fast from Riverside, as well as Wynnwood, Coral Gables and the Grove. It’s the most central spot in Miami.

Brickell is Just Budding
7 months ago

A dozen projects in downtown is like a droplet in Biscayne Bay, and it will take decades to reach the state of Brickell.

Brickell is Just Budding
7 months ago

Full saturation? Several supertalls are being built and Citadel hasn’t even moved it’s HQ here yet.

Brickell is just a toddler neighborhood, with endless possibilities and entrance opportunities compared to how mature it will be in only a few years.

anonymous
7 months ago

I’m surprised west brickell is not getting better architecture. nothing we can do stop this from being built so I have to see the good side of it which is more density , this area will be more lively and have more economic development

Anonymous
7 months ago

It’s Brickell. We need whoever is leading Brickell to take over and monitor this valuable area, because whoever is in charge now gets a big F in urban planning.

Save Brickell
7 months ago

Redistrict Brickell, rethink the plans, and if necessary elect new leaders who care about improving Brickell to be a thriving part of Miami for the next 40 years.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Boohoo.

Anonymous
7 months ago

We have a UDRB for a reason! The Empire Brickell investors would be fools not to erect a masterpiece design to market what they are capable of doing. Everyone in Miami and Brickell will see this on a daily basis so it can either make or break the developers reputation.

Vincent
7 months ago

This will be a great addition to West Brickell. Adds density.

Anons
7 months ago

Another dig from Claughton Island, Brickell.

Anonymous
7 months ago

This prime spot in Brickell is very walkable but not a dense area. It’s zoned at 24 floors. It’s planned to be an ultra luxury boutique condo neighborhood within Brickell. The denser more populous parts are in high-traffic Brickell Heights by the BCC.

Bruno
7 months ago

“Ultraluxury” ??
No evidence exists to support this notion.

You are entitled to your own opinions….but not entitled to your own facts.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Universal Fact: This is what ultra luxury looks like – JDS new high rise being built now on SW 2nd Ave in Brickell:

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Anonymous
7 months ago

More Ultra Luxury on the Rise around Underline on 2ND Ave Brickell:

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Anonymous
7 months ago

^ Here again is the PR campaign from “west” Miami and Claughton Island trying to control a piece of Brickell.