Check Out Metropica, The $1.5 Billion YOO & Oppenheim-Designed Upscale Mixed-Use Mega-Project Coming To Sunrise
Across from the Sawgrass Mall, one of the largest malls in the United States, developer Joseph Kavana's KGH International Development is building Metropica, the $1.5 billion mixed-use live-work-play mega-project in Sunrise's western corridor.
Across from the Sawgrass Mall, one of the largest malls in the United States, developer Joseph Kavana's KGH International Development is building Metropica, the $1.5 billion mixed-use live-work-play mega-project in Sunrise's western corridor. The first residential tower bearing the namesake Metropica has already topped out at 28-stories in January 2018. The high-street retail project covers 65-acres with 8 residential towers and is designed by YOO Design Studio, Oppenheim Architecture, CI Design and EDSA. When complete Metropica will bring 2,250 residential condominiums to the area along with 650,000 SF of office space; 2 boutique hotels with 240 keys each; 485,000 SF of retail, culinary, entertainment; and designated green park space. Stores include Urban Outfitters; Anthropologie; an iPic movie theater; and Sugar Bowl, a home decor store.
The residential tower features residences that range from one-to-three-bedroom floor-plans that range from 740 SF to 1,379 SF start at $460,000 for one-bedrooms, $480,000 for two-bedrooms and $580,000 for three-bedrooms. There will also be a 1,900 SF+ penthouse series that start at $1.1 million. Condos feature spacious open floorplans with balconies, floor-to-ceiling windows, and custom-finished palettes and finishes. Amenities include a saltwater pool, theatre, a private screening room, a play room, tennis courts, and a clubroom. Residents will also have access to the Metropica beach club, tennis courts, a 24-hour fitness center, basketball court, soccer field, fitness & wellness facility, a spa, massage therapy rooms, and a steam room and sauna.
Metropica is expected to be completed in 2021.
Brightline to Kick Off Service To Miami Via MiamiCentral Station May 19
Brightline will officially begin passenger service from Fort Lauderdale to Miami on May 19. Tickets are now on sale for the rail service connecting West Palm Beach to Downtown Miami, priced from $10 for Smart Service which offers 19' seats; and $15 for select service, which features 21' seats, more leg room, complimentary snacks and beverages as well as access to premium select lounge.
Brightline will officially begin passenger service from Fort Lauderdale to Miami on May 19. Tickets are now on sale for the rail service connecting West Palm Beach to Downtown Miami, priced from $10 for Smart Service which offers 19' seats; and $15 for select service, which features 21' seats, more leg room, complimentary snacks and beverages as well as access to premium select lounge. West Palm Beach to Miami is available from $15 for smart service and $25 for select service. A grand opening weekend is already nearly sold out with tickets priced from $3 to $5. Brightline MiamiCentral Station is located at 600 NW 1st Avenue and features CentralFare, a 50,000 SF food hall slated to open fall 2018 complete with Einstein's Bros. Bagels, Joe & The Juice and Starbucks.
Brightline is setting the new benchmark for travel by train in America with express inter-city passenger rail service connecting Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, with future service to Orlando. Providing a travel option that lives at the intersection of transportation and hospitality, the service is expected to reduce traffic and provide South Floridians with a simple and intuitive experience from door to destination, and foster new opportunities to explore more of Southeast Florida. Brightline will be the only privately owned, operated and maintained passenger rail system in the United States.
Check Out The Dalmar, Fort Lauderdale's Newest Luxe Smart Hotel Opening Summer 2018
From Wurzak Hotel Group comes a new luxe smart hotel offering to Downtown Fort Lauderdale expected to open summer 2018, The Delmar. The Delmar will offer 209 rooms upgraded with smart home technology such as Amazon Alexa, iPad's, rain-showers, and keyless room entry.
From Wurzak Hotel Group comes The Delmar, a new luxe four-star independent boutique smart hotel in Starwood's Tribute Portfolio in Downtown Fort Lauderdale expected to open August 30, 2018. The Delmar will be the first luxury hotel to open in Downtown Fort Lauderdale in some time and will offer 209 rooms upgraded with smart home technology such as Amazon Alexa, iPad's, rain-showers, and keyless room entry. The Delmar will also offer an array of entertainment and amenities including five restaurants/ bars including Fort Lauderdale's second rooftop bar, to be known as Sparrow, which will offer tremendous views of the Fort Lauderdale skyline and South Florida coastline. Other amenities including a pool with cabanas and pool bar, 14,000 SF of indoor/ outdoor meeting space, fitness center, yoga studio, ballrooms, sky deck, and lobby bar. The Delmar is located at 299 N Federal Highway.
Dolce & Gabbana & BALENCIAGA Open New Miami Locations Complete With Solar Panel Façade In Miami Design District
Balenciaga and Dolce & Gabbana have has announced the opening of their new Miami stores located in the fast growing Miami Design District. Both stores are adjacent to each-other, located on the pedestrian Paseo Ponti across from Jade Alley, featuring Daniel Toole's iconic concrete arches.
Balenciaga and Dolce & Gabbana have has announced the opening of their new Miami stores located in the fast growing Miami Design District. Both stores are adjacent to eachother, located on the pedestrian Paseo Ponti across from Jade Alley, featuring Daniel Toole's iconic concrete arches. The openings help continue to round out Miami Design Districts link between Palm Court and Paradise Plaza with a classic, pedestrian shopping street lined with some of the world's finest retailers. Miami Design District is being led by developer Craig Robins and the next stage will feature the opening of 10 new restaurants including Ember and Kaido (restaurant by Chef Brad Kilgore), St. Roch Market (food hall), L’Atelier by Joël Robuchon (fine dining), Le Sushi by Joël Robuchon (Japanese), Le Bar by Joël Robuchon (lounge), Le Boutique by Joël Robuchon (bakery).
BALENCIAGA
The Balenciaga boutique building is designed as a site-specific project, with use of functional solar panels as part of its Façade, a unique feature in the brand’s retail network. The pale blue panels are installed above clear glass windows at street-level, with large-scale luminous BALENCIAGA lettering visible from the street.
The interior and furnishings continue the the industrial yet luxurious design which Demna Gvasalia has created for the Paris flagship stores at Rue Saint-Honoré and Avenue Montaigne. Several elements of a state-of-the-art clothing factory are integrated into the two floor layout, which presents product to customers in a direct and uncomplicated way. Balenciaga is a luxury fashion house founded in Spain by Cristóbal Balenciaga in 1919.
DOLCE & GABBANA
Dolce & Gabbana has added Miami Design District to their list of boutiques located in some of the world's finest shopping destinations. As with all of their locations, the MDD location was designed after Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The style cues of La Scala are found throughout the store including the glass and stone façade to the elegant interior which fuses old with new. Details include a selection of stone busts and statues, Baroque mirrors and counters, walnut furniture as well as gold and velvet finishes with clothing is displayed as a art. Dolce & Gabbana was founded in 1985 in Milan. The group is led by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, and is one of the leading international groups in the luxury goods sector.
Related Group & Dezer Development Sells Newly Completed HYDE Midtown Hotel For $21.8 Million
Related Group and Dezer Development has completed the sale the hotel portion of the newly completed Hyde Midtown Suites & Residences luxury condo-hotel project in Midtown for $21.8 million. The buyer was Midtown Hotel Investment LLC, which is led by Haim Yehezkel of Elysee Investments
Related Group and Dezer Development has completed the sale the hotel portion of the newly completed Hyde Midtown Suites & Residences luxury condo-hotel project in Midtown for $21.8 million. The buyer was Midtown Hotel Investment LLC, which is led by Haim Yehezkel of Elysee Investments and the agreement was first announced while the project was still under construction. The deal was financed via a $14.5 million mortgage provided by Bank of America and breaks down to roughly $363,000 per key. The deal was brokered by Hernan Gleizer of Optimar First International Realty. The 60-key hotel will be managed by sbe and is located at 4101 Northeast First Avenue in Midtown Miami. HYDE Midtown will be the first hotel to open in Midtown.
In total the HYDE Midtown Suites & Residences project features 410 luxury residential condos and 60 hotel suites. The 32-story, 480,000 SF building was designed by Arquitectonica with interior design by the Rockwell Group. Amenities were designed to be tailored towards millennials which include a HYDE Music Lounge & Piano Bar, restaurant, pool terrace with jacuzzi, putting green and tennis court, state-of-the-art fitness center and private screening theater. Hyde Midtown Suites & Residences initially broke ground in September 2015.
A Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe Architects-Designed Tower Known As 2nd & 2nd Has Been Proposed in Downtown Miami
A subsidiary of AVR Realty has proposed 2nd & 2nd, an 898', 82-story Nichols Brosch Wurst-designed mixed-use tower at 250 SE 2nd Ave. The tower would feature 266 hotel rooms, 637 residential units, 9,245 SF of retail, and 533 parking spaces.
A subsidiary of AVR Realty has proposed 2nd & 2nd, an 898', 82-story Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe-designed mixed-use tower at 250 SE 2nd Ave. The tower would feature 266 hotel rooms, 637 residential units, 9,245 SF of retail, and 533 parking spaces. The location offers easy access to the Metromover, Brickell and I-95. 2nd & 2nd would replace the current Marriott Courtyard and Whole Foods. The proposal is set to be reviewed by Miami's Urban Development Review Board on April 18.
The Team Behind Segafredo Set To Launch Esotico Miami, A New Craft Cocktail Bar In The Heart of Miami's Arts + Entertainment District
Graspa Group, the team behind the Miami mainstays Segafredo, Salumeria 104 and Spris brands, is teaming up with a celebrity bartender on a new concept at CANVAS in the heart of Miami's Arts + Entertainment District.
Graspa Group, the team behind the Miami mainstays Segafredo, Salumeria 104 and Spris brands, is teaming up with a celebrity bartender on a new concept at CANVAS in the heart of Miami's Arts + Entertainment District.
Dubbed “Esotico Miami,” the concept will be located in the ground floor at CANVAS, located at 1630 NE 1st Avenue. Esotico Miami will offer modern tropical cuisine and hand-crafted, exotic cocktails by internationally celebrated bartender Daniele Dalla Pola. It will also provide a home base for local musical talent, a cornerstone of the Arts + Entertainment District mission, featuring live music several nights a week. Esotico Miami will serve dinner and late-night cocktails with seating approximately 100.
“We’re delighted that Graspa has chosen the Arts + Entertainment District for its next venture,” said Nir Shoshani of NR Investments, the developer behind CANVAS and Filling Station Lofts. “This is the team that has made Segafredo one of the most beloved neighborhood cafés in Miami, and we’re confident that Esotico Miami will be equally magical, and become the de facto ‘living room’ for the Arts + Entertainment community. Graspa’s focus on good food and good people, combined with Daniele’s thoroughly original approach to cocktails, is a winning recipe.”
Graziano Sbroggio, founder of Graspa Group, and Dalla Pola launched Segafredo together in the 1990s. Dalla Pola honed his craft in Miami before returning to Italy to launch a restaurant and two successful cocktail establishments. He owns his own rum brand, Alamea and was nominated best bartender in the rum category at the International Rum Conference in Madrid, and one of the best bartenders in the world by Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans.
“Daniele is a true artist, and every great artist needs a good manager behind him,” said Sbroggio. “He was the first to suggest the location at CANVAS and it didn’t take long to convince me. We see a lot of people moving into the Arts + Entertainment District. It has great connectivity to Downtown, Wynwood and Miami Beach and has a really strong community of local artists and entrepreneurs. We see this as the next great neighborhood in Miami.”
Alex Acker and Frank Rodriguez Melo of Cedano Realty Advisors represented the parties in the transaction to lock up the 2,700 SF space on the ground floor southeast corner of CANVAS. Esotico Miami is expected to open this fall (2018).
Moishe Mana's Pedestrian Friendly Vision For Redeveloping Flagler Street Unveiled
Construction has been stopped on Downtown Miami's redevelopment of Flagler Street, a project which has seen over 7 years of planning, to discuss pivoting to a new plan proposed by Moishe Mana. Mana, one of Downtown Miami's major land holders, has proposed a new for the the transformation of Flagler Street.
Construction has been stopped on Downtown Miami's redevelopment of Flagler Street, a project which has seen over 7 years of planning, to discuss pivoting to a new plan proposed by Moishe Mana. Mana, one of Downtown Miami's major land holders, has proposed a new for the the transformation of Flagler Street. Mana is calling for a "curbless" street with no raised sidewalks in addition to the removal of on-street parking. The changes would allow for a pedestrian friendly outdoor, high-street retail concept with outdoor restaurant seating and entertainment. The streets would also include lush landscaping and bollards for pedestrian safety. Changes to the original plan would cost Miami-Dade tax payers $6 million with funding coming from city, county, DDA and private investors but should the project get delayed county funding may be pulled. Construction is anticipated to take between 36-42 months.
Hyatt Reveals Proposal For Three Kobi Karp Towers in On The Miami River in Downtown
Hyatt has proposed plans to demolish and redevelop their Downtown Miami hotel location and the adjacent James L. Knight Center. The proposal, which will go in front of Miami's Waterfront Advisory Board on April 10, calls for a watefront podium of which three Kobi Karp designed towers would rise.
Hyatt has proposed plans to demolish and redevelop their Downtown Miami hotel location and the adjacent James L. Knight Center. The proposal, which will go in front of Miami's Waterfront Advisory Board on April 10, calls for a waterfront podium of which three Kobi Karp designed towers would rise. All of the towers would be residential with one operating as a hotel and the other two as either condos or apartment rentals. Hyatt is also seeking an extension to their long-term leas on the city-owned land.
Retail Preleasing Now Underway For C-F Brickell's Millennial Driven Hotel Replacing Brickell's El Eden Motel
Preleasing is now live for the two ground floor retail spaces at a new Arquitectonica-designed mixed-use "millennial driven" project which C-F Brickell is proposing to replace the recently demolished El Eden Motel just blocks from Brickell City Centre.
Preleasing is now live for the two ground floor retail spaces at a new Arquitectonica-designed mixed-use "millennial driven" project which C-F Brickell is proposing to replace the recently demolished El Eden Motel just blocks from Brickell City Centre. The project is located at 115 Southwest Eighth Street, 726 Southwest First Court and 110 Southwest Seventh Street. The proposal calls for a mix of 263-keys spread between hotel rooms and micro-apartments. The building will rise 24-stories and covering 250,000 SF of total development, costing about $90 million. In March 2018 Miami's Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board deferred the developers request to rezone the site to higher density until June (2018). C-F Brickell is a joint venture between Tony Cho of of Metro 1 Development and Robert Finvarb of Robert Finvarb Companies. The developers purchased the property in 2016 for $18.4 million.
A newly completed seven-bedroom waterfront estate at 1155 Belle Meade Island Drive is coming to market with an announced asking price of $43.9 million.