As it stands, the Mildred & Claude Pepper Tower is a 166-unit affordable housing development for seniors in Miami. Built in 1970, the 12-story complex currently offers efficiencies and one-bedroom homes.
Yet, Related Urban Development Group (RUDG) has filed documents to redevelop the complex into a 14-story tower with 398 apartments. The one-bedroom and two-bedroom units would span 610 to 970 square feet; right now, units at Claude Pepper Tower currently span 453 to 604 square feet, according to Miami-Dade County records.
The Mildred & Claude Pepper Tower (pictured) currently offers 166 homes. Image from Google Earth
The transformed Claude Pepper Tower would comprise close to 300,000 square feet of new construction, with communal amenities including (but not limited to) co-working space, a fitness center, and outdoor recreational areas.
RUDG is filing under the Live Local Act, which requires at least 40 percent of a community’s homes to be designated as affordable housing. All of the homes at the new Claude Pepper Tower would be under this classification.
Cohen Freedman Encinosa & Associates Architects (CFE Architects) designed the project. The Miami Lakes-based firm recently partnered with RUDG on “Gallery in the Grove,” a 20-story mixed-income tower, also in Miami-Dade.
Claude Pepper Tower occupies a 2.86-acre site, located at 750 NW 18th Terrace, Miami, FL, 33136, in Miami-Dade County.
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