Articles by Oscar Nunez

Vertical construction has reached 21 floors at Villa Miami, a 56-story, 650-foot waterfront residential tower rising along Biscayne Bay in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. The development will contain 70 half-floor and full-floor condominium residences and is being developed by Terra in partnership with One Thousand Group and Major Food Group, with architecture by ODP Architects and interiors by AD100 designer Vicky Charles.

Ground has officially broken on The Avenue, a mixed-use residential and retail development along Fifth Avenue South in downtown Naples. The 4.3-acre project broke ground on January 22 and is being developed by APREA, with DeAngelis Diamond serving as the general contractor. The site spans between 5th and 6th Avenues South and 9th and 11th Streets, just east of the Four Corners intersection where U.S. 41 turns toward Miami. The groundbreaking follows a December sales period that generated approximately $20 million in residential transactions.

Florida East Coast Realty (FECR) has completed a renovated lobby at 1101 Brickell, a pair of office towers totaling approximately 300,000 square feet at 1101 Brickell Avenue in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood. The upgrades coincide with a strong leasing year for the property and the introduction of new ground-floor amenities.

MSC Group’s Cruise Division has officially opened its new North American headquarters in Downtown Miami, completing a 130,000-square-foot office buildout that occupies the entire seventh floor of Block 55 at Sawyer’s Walk. The new headquarters consolidates more than 400 team members from across MSC Group entities into a single location, reinforcing the company’s long-term commitment to Miami and its North American operations.

An administrative site plan review has been filed for a proposed 56-unit townhome community planned at 24000 SW 124th Avenue in southern Miami-Dade County. The project is being pursued by Bluenest Development, through its affiliate Bluenest Princeton Park II LLC, with architecture by Pascual Perez Kiliddjian Starr Architects + Planners and landscape architecture by Witkin Hults + Partners. The development would occupy a roughly 5.2-acre assemblage of land located west of U.S. 1 in the Princeton area.