Articles by Oscar Nunez

Miami’s Building Department has issued a site work permit for Santander Tower, a 41-story office development planned at 1401 Brickell Avenue in the city’s Financial District. The permit, issued on August 14, allows for excavation, piles, site and soil improvement work, and lists an estimated total cost of $3,000,000. Applications for a phased vertical permit and a master construction permit remain under review. Demolition of the existing office building began in July 2024 following the issuance of a demolition permit. YIMBY last visited the site a few months ago, when demolition had progressed and the main tower was shrouded in netting.

UHealth at SoLé Mia is preparing to open this fall within North Miami’s 184-acre master-planned community. The seven-story, 363,000-square-foot ambulatory campus will be the University of Miami’s largest outpatient medical facility, designed with patient experience and long-term quality of life at the forefront.

McDowell Housing Partners has broken ground on Ekos on Evans, a new affordable housing community in Fort Myers. Located at 3501 Evans Avenue, less than two miles from the downtown core, the development will deliver 144 apartments across five garden-style residential buildings.

The hammerhead tower crane that had loomed over the Milman-Kover Cancer Pavilion under construction at Sarasota Memorial Hospital (SMH) was dismantled this past Saturday, marking a major milestone as work advances on the 7-story, 220,000-square-foot facility on the north side of Waldemere Street, steps away from the Jellison Cancer Institute Oncology Tower. Designed by EYP Architects, now part of Page, the pavilion rises on a site once occupied by the former Cape Outpatient Surgery Center and a smaller SMH-owned building at the southwest corner of Floyd Street and U.S. 41, both of which were demolished to make way for the new building and its adjoining parking garage.

13th Floor Homes has completed two new single-family rental communities in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, adding 346 townhomes to one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country. Known as Villas of Torino and Tredici at Central Park, both communities are now welcoming residents with leasing activity already well underway.