A new affordable housing community could soon call Lakeland, Florida, home. Sources report that the 60-unit development will focus on helping people with insecure housing. LKLD Now notes that the venture is dubbed “Griffin Lofts of Lakeland.”
Sources report that a new multi-family development is slated for Okaloosa County in North Florida. Get the Coast calls the neighborhood “Forest Shore Villas.” The community will offer 53 rental villas on a 10-acre plot.
Plans have been filed for RD Rio Vista, a 30-story mixed-use building at 409 Southeast 8th Street in the Rio Vista section of Fort Lauderdale’s downtown corridor. Designed by Cohen, Freedman, Encinosa & Associates with Botek Thurlow Engneering, Inc. as the civil engineer and Rhett Roy as the landscape architect, the 337-foot-tall structure project would include 267,135 square feet of residential space across 328 units ranging from 510 square feet to 1,225 square feet with an average unit scope 814 square feet, 3,000 square feet of ground floor retail space, and 440 structured parking spaces. The developer is a joint venture partnership between Related Group and Alta Development under the 409 SE 8th Street, LLC.
6940 North Beach LLC, a joint venture between entities controlled by Rainer Viete, Jose Boschetti, and Eduardo Otaola, has filed an application requesting design review approval to construct a new 10-story mixed-use building at 6940 Abbott Avenue, the site of a former BellSouth office and parking lot that is no longer in use in the North Beach section of Miami Beach. Designed by Arquitectonica with Biscayne Engineering as the land surveyor and civil engineer, the 130-foot-tall structure would yield 134,573 gross square feet of space, including 96-unit multi-family units, of which 21 would be co-living units, 2,192 square feet of ground floor retail, and 90 parking spaces. The property spans roughly 24,800 square feet and is bound by Byron Avenue to the west and Abbott Avenue to the east. Christopher Cawley Landscape Architecture is the landscape architect, and David Plummer & Associates is the traffic engineer
Soleste on the Bay is a 28-story luxury tower slated for North Miami Beach. The venture will comprise more than 700,000 square feet of new construction, featuring 363 units. The apartments will range from about 550 square feet to 1,200 square feet, featuring studios to three-bedroom units.
