A former trailer park in Miami-Dade County could soon find new life as River Rapids, a 593-unit apartment complex. Homes would span from studios to three-bedroom units, with some homes featuring dens. Square footage ranges from 540 square feet to 1,300 square feet.
Earlier this month, Miami-based real estate developer and acclaimed condo king Related Group purchased a 6-acre assemblage west of the Hillsborough River in Tampa for just over $55 million from Hillsborough River Realty Corp. The recently acquired assemblage comprises 4 parcels of land and includes a 2.19-acre site at 102 South Parker Street, a 1.83-acre site at 101 South Parker Street, a 1.75-acre site at 108 Cedar Avenue and a .53-acre site at 110 Keller Avenue, totaling 274,428 square feet of floor area. Related plans on transforming the property into a massive mixed-use development with multiple buildings and yielding 1,079 residential units, 32,760 square feet of retail space and as many as 10 boat slips. The property sits south of Related’s Arabelle Riverwalk apartment complex and across the river from Downtown Tampa.
RangeWater Real Estate, a Georgia-based developer, has plans for a residential housing development in Duval County. The venture’s website notes that Olea eTown will be its most walkable development, offering 192 units for residents over 55 years old.
Miami Lakes-based real estate developer and general contracting firm LF Development, through an affiliate entity listed as Combo Group Holdings LLC, filed plans for Fontainebleau Apartments II, a two-towered multifamily development of 10 and 19 stories proposed to rise atop 4.03-acres of backfilled land in Fontainebleau, Florida. Designed by Coral Gables-based Valle Valle & Partners, the property would yield 600 residential units across both towers, a 5,200-square-foot convenience retail component and 957 parking spaces, including 20 handicap spaces and 147 spaces for electric vehicles. Witkin Hults + Partners is the landscape architect, and the engineering team is comprised of Solver Engineering, Zamora & Associates and Fineline Engineers, Inc.
The Place at Channelside is a residential complex in Tampa, Florida. Now, the venture’s getting its second phase, which is expected to cost around $70 million to complete. As it stands, the development comprises 245 units.
