Moss Construction has been awarded the construction of Villa Miami, a waterfront residential development in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. The project, a collaboration between Major Food Group, David Martin’s Terra, and One Thousand Group, is set to break ground later this summer.
JDS Development Group has filed revised plans and renderings with Miami-Dade County for Brickell’s massive 1 Southside Park, currently under construction. Designed by SHoP Architects with ODP Architecture & Design as the architect of record, the project includes a residential component known as Mercedes Benz Places. The proposed changes to the project include an increase in open space, an increase in lot coverage by 6%, a reduction in residential unit count by 185 units, a decrease in office area by 11,930 square feet, an increase in commercial space by 26,129 square feet, a larger fire station, and an overall reduction in floor area by 43,453 square feet.
Oak Row Equities has acquired 49 Northwest 5th Street in Downtown Miami, where it plans to develop First & Fifth, a 45-story multifamily tower. The site was purchased off-market for $38.5 million with seller financing and is located across from MiamiCentral Station, the hub for South Florida’s major train systems. The 700,000-square-foot tower is being designed by ODP Architecture & Design, drawing inspiration from Miami’s turn-of-the-century Venetian architecture while incorporating modern amenities. Colliers Executive Managing Director Mika Mattingly, Senior Associate Cecilia Estevez of the South Florida Urban Core Team, and Vincent Pastore of Pastore and Associates represented the seller in the transaction.
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.
Crescent Heights has announced the commencement of an expansive art project in the heart of Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. Renowned artist Arturo Herrera was commissioned to create a 9,350-square-foot mural named Track & Field, which will grace the east podium façade of Forma Miami, a 39-story, 588-unit residential tower designed by Arquitectonica with ODP Architecture & Design as the architect of record spanning nearly a full city block at 2900 Biscayne Boulevard. We Are Nice’n Easy, a celebrated local art collective of Allison Matherly and Jeffrey Noble, will meticulously hand-paint the mural throughout the following few weeks.
