Archives

  • www.xinsurance.com
Advertisement
The Newspaper for the Future of Miami
Connect with us:
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin
Front Page » Real Estate » 92- to 100-story downtown tower work to begin next year

92- to 100-story downtown tower work to begin next year

Written by on March 13, 2018
  • www.miamitodayepaper.com
Advertisement
92- to 100-story downtown tower work to begin next year

Florida East Coast Realty plans to demolish its downtown tower at 100 S Biscayne Blvd. by 2019 and build a new 92- to 100-story downtown tower to open in 2023.

The building at 1,049 feet above Biscayne Bay would be the tallest in the area with 360-degree, panoramic views and over 3 million square feet of office, residential and hotel space.

“We are starting to put our tenants on notice about our intent to demolish the building,” said Jerome Hollo, manager of Florida East Coast Realty. “Sometime by the second or third quarter of 2019 is when the leases will end and at that point we’ll look to demolish the existing building and start a new project.”

Once the building has been evacuated, a building permit will be needed from the city.

“We’re in the process of preparing our construction documents, which will be submitted for permit, and once we receive the city’s building permit we’ll start the construction of the new building,” Mr. Hollo said.

Initially, the new project was supposed to comprise of two towers with 4 million total square feet, but as planning developed further Florida East Coast decided to go with a singular building.

“It will have a 210-room hotel, 500,000 square feet of class A office space, 1,300 residential units and 120,000 square feet of retail space,” Mr. Hollo said. “From the original plan to now we went from 4 million square feet to 3.2 million square feet, so the overall size of the project has been reduced some. The height is where we picked up some extra stories, and we figure we’ll be within the range of 92 to 100 stories.”

The company has started reaching out to retailers and businesses for tenants.

“We have commenced discussing with people, but we’re still a little far out now,” Mr. Hollo said. “We wanted to put it in front of the larger out-of-market companies that are out of the area, though.”

In terms of completion, Mr. Hollo said the company has predicted it will take four years of construction, with the new tower completely done sometime in 2023.

“It’s a wonderful plan and it will really be an iconic landmark for the city,” Mr. Hollo said. “We’ve actually been talking with FDOT (the Florida Department of Transportation) and the county to connect by a bridge to the peoplemover station that’s adjacent to our project. This will help our people that are living and working in the building to easily use the city’s circulator system.”

5 Responses to 92- to 100-story downtown tower work to begin next year

  1. DC Copeland

    March 14, 2018 at 9:49 am

    Hope “Dad” Hollo lives long enough to see this. Me, too. Good to see they are back to the original plan of connecting the building to Metromover. At one time, they chose to listen to county “experts” who didn’t want them connecting to the elevated station, saying it would diminish foot traffic downtown which is something they wanted. Crazy but true.

  2. Michael

    March 15, 2018 at 2:07 am

    Zoning in downtown has a building height limit of 1,000 feet because downtown Miami is located on a flight path. They got a variance to exceed that, not by much, but there’s a reason for the limit.

  3. Oscar

    March 15, 2018 at 8:42 am

    Why take the elevator from your office / condo / hotel room on the 100th floor all the way down to the 1st floor to cross the street like a schlub when you can take the elevator down to the 3rd floor (YAY!) and cross on a bridge in style?!

    I’m all for pedestrian bridges when they make sense — crossing unsafely-wide streets, providing direct access to high-traffic retail complexes (Brickell City Centre), connecting transit centers — but does this building really need the elevated bridge? I’m sure the final plans will give a better sense of what they’re doing but I’m skeptical.

    • Michael

      March 15, 2018 at 9:53 am

      The idea is to make the city vibrant which doesn’t happen if skybridges steal pedestrians from the street. It’s ok when the sidewalks are overcrowded, but it’s not at that point yet.

  4. Hollo Promises

    March 23, 2018 at 2:12 pm

    Another Hollo promise….this thing’s been getting ready to start development for a decade now.

  • www.miamitodayepaper.com
Advertisement