New York-based hotel owner MCR, under the M2 Miami Airport Blue Lagoon, LLC, has unveiled plans for two new hotels adjacent to its Hilton Miami Airport Blue Lagoon. The proposal filed as a pre-application with Miami-Dade County officials concerns the 20.6-acre property at 5101 Blue Lagoon Drive, which currently hosts the 14-story, 508-room hotel developed on the waterfront site in 1983.
Construction has started on Wellspring Apartments, a senior housing development in Opa-locka. The six-story building will offer 99 residences: seven studios, 81 one-bedroom units, and 11 two-bedroom units.
Toronto-based Blutrich Holdings, led by Israeli-Canadian real estate investor Gil Blutrich, has filed plans for Clear Residences, a 60-story mixed-use building at 130 Southeast 1st Street in Downtown Miami. Designed by Kobi Karp Architecture & Interior Design with KEITH as the landscape architect, the nearly 690-foot-tall structure would yield approximately 666,432 square feet of floor area, including 549 residential units, 3,622 square feet of ground floor commercial space, nearly 40,000 square feet of amenities, and parking for 157 vehicles. Miami’s Urban Development Review Board is scheduled to review the proposal for the project on May 15.
An affiliate of Dallas-based Trammell Crow Residential has filed a pre-application for the second phase of Alexan Kendall, the first phase of which is still under construction in West Kendall.
Bay Racket Club, LLC, led by William Jacome and Orlando Medellin, has submitted a pre-application for developing the Babylon Racquet Club, a 23-story mixed-use building planned at 240 Southeast 14th Street in Brickell, Miami. Positioned on a pie-shaped lot approximately 19,164 square feet (0.439 acres) in size, where SE 14th Street meets Brickell Bay Drive along Biscayne Bay, the project is designed to become downtown Miami’s premier racket sports and health/wellness center. The building aims to serve as a central recreational hub featuring indoor sports courts, a gym, a wellness center, dining facilities, hotel accommodations, and residential units. Rotterdam-based MVRDV is the design architect, with ODP Architecture & Design acting as the architect of record. The pre-application was filed on April 24 and is progressing through the approval process with Miami-Dade County.
