About two months ago I was headed to North Miami and decided to stop by Coconut Grove South Miami...I made loops around a few blocks and snagged some cool pics!

coconut grove is a nice, quaint pocket of urbanity for Miami

This place gets uber-packed on weekends and if you're in a car, it can take 15 min to go a quarter of a mile! Keep in mind I took these pics on an early Tuesday morning!




The Coconut Grove Playhouse

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There are many office and residential skyscrapers along S Bayshore Dr

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There is a beautiful park on the right side of Bayshore Dr that fronts the beautiful Biscayne Bay

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Dense townhomes/condos being constructed on a parcel right on the bay (the park is also going to be renovated with walkways, and artistic peices.)

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Going off of S Bayshore Dr...a Borders Bookstore

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Low-rise condo in the distance with lush terraces...this neighborhood is urban and green

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I love these twins!

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The way parking should be done! ...Also the Improv Comedy center on the right

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Isn't this building amazing

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LOvely!

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I'll just give a sampling of some of the buildings S Bayshore Dr.

The twins again

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Some of Key Biscayne off in the distance in the Bay

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Entrance to Vizcaya...a castle on the bay

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There are many projects going on in the area too

like the Lofts at Mayfair

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or the Grovenor House (32 stories, u/c), or the Grove Garden which is 5 stories

Here are some night pics!


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Questions/Comments.....?!

no doubt one of Miami's best hoods. Nice pics.

This is one of my areas of town. I work here and explore the area frequently. It's a nice place with a lot of potential but it's been and is being overbuilt and over comercialized.

Coconut Grove is a charming place that loses more and more of that charm every year. Hopefully somewhere along the line we can regain it.

Nice pics by the way, as usual.

no doubt one of Miami's best hoods. Nice pics.

indeed!

just a little note...
the "amazing" building with the lattice work above the shops is the mayfair. It was a luxury hotel that is now converting to condos i believe. Behind that lattice and plants are the balconies, complete with hot tubs. Now you know why the privacy was needed.

the twins are the ritz-carlton coconut grove. One tower is condos the other the hotel.

Great pics, it just may be time for me to take a trip to Miami for a photo tour.

just a little note...
the "amazing" building with the lattice work above the shops is the mayfair. It was a luxury hotel that is now converting to condos i believe. Behind that lattice and plants are the balconies, complete with hot tubs. Now you know why the privacy was needed.

the twins are the ritz-carlton coconut grove. One tower is condos the other the hotel.

just a clarification for some who might not understand....the mayfair is different from the Lofts @ Mayfair....the mayfair is coverting to condos....and the lofts at Mayfair is another condo project all together!

thanks Brickell for the info!

thanks for the pics.

The Grovenor House condo is under construction on Bayshore as well. It's a 30+ story condo building, built by the same developer who did the Santa Maria and is doing the Dupong Plaza. Suprised you didn't get a pic of that one.

Nice pics. I love that area. Definitely one of the best in the city. What i also love is that free Grove Circulator that takes you to the metrorail!

hope you dont mind if i add this here.

Click here to Check out the Coconut Grove pano (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=134843) i recently entered in the urban pano contest

that's a nice pan. love how south beach peaks over the horizon like that.

you have more pics to add?

just one more thing to add, any of you that are going to visit the Grove, should definitely check out The Barnacle Homesite. It's a state park on the water. The house is a great example of early Florida vernacular architecture.

I just had dinner in Coconut Grove ( I think at Mambo which is the restaurant in the 2nd pic ) last night. It is SOooo nice there. Always a great place to stop at when in S. Florida.

Nice pics. I love that area. Definitely one of the best in the city. What i also love is that free Grove Circulator that takes you to the metrorail!

hope you dont mind if i add this here.

Click here to Check out the Coconut Grove pano (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=134843) i recently entered in the urban pano contest


That pano's awesome tricky kid....like South beach, Key Biscayne (far right) also looms int the background! :)

just one more thing to add, any of you that are going to visit the Grove, should definitely check out The Barnacle Homesite. It's a state park on the water. The house is a great example of early Florida vernacular architecture.

Yeah actually Coconut Grove was pretty much the first suburb of Miami and is full of ancient treasures (lol)


A church
http://intranet.arc.miami.edu/explorations/photos/coconut_grove/DSC00005.JPG



Vizcaya
http://www.vizcayamuseum.org/images/splash2.jpg



At all times of the day, there are entertainers, and sometimes artists!

http://intranet.arc.miami.edu/explorations/photos/coconut_grove/DSC00045.JPG

this is Coconut Grove in 1885 when Bahamians inhabited the area...actually when you leave the glitzy part, the Grove still remains distinctly Bahamian (in the neighbohood's architecture and people)...although this is quickly changing as the place gentrifies



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Just stare at that picture and think "Boy have times changed.."
(Imagine the next 119 years)

GREAT PICS AGAIN STREET, keep that camera rolling,LOL., Is that you with the PARROTS on ya? And how did you get those women in the car to smile for ya ?, I was driving south on S W 17th ave to South Bayshore Drive, THE Trees are so BIG and OLD, seem like CocoNut Grove has'nt had a Hurricane for almost 40 YEARS, Every Tree is still standing in the GROVE for 40 years , HOW LUCKY CAN THE GROVE GET !!!

heres hoping the area doesnt get a bad hurricane for another 40 years!

Hey, so everyone knows, Viacaya near the Grove is free next sunday(sept 26). All you show is id i guess. well you can check it out here (http://www.vizcayamuseum.org/Main_new.htm) at their site.

Nice pics. I love that area. Definitely one of the best in the city. What i also love is that free Grove Circulator that takes you to the metrorail!

yup and the Coconut Grove Metrorail Station is soon to be developed...here's the project that's supposed to start rising in the very near future!



http://www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/transit/images/Photos/jointdev/coconut_grove.jpg



The project will consist of a 19-story mixed-use transit center with the following:

23,000 square feet of ground floor retail
611-space parking garage
220 market, residential units
In addition, a 19-story office building with the following:

11,000 square feet of ground floor retail
500-space parking garage
157,500 square feet of office space
There is also a one-story, 30,000-square-foot supermarket with 201 surface parking spaces.

In addition to a guaranteed minimum rent, the County will receive participation rent generated from all commercial, retail, residential, or other uses. The County will also benefit from the cost avoidance of approximately $12,000 annually associated with the maintenance and landscaping of the leased property area.

The lease agreement will generate an estimated $16 million-plus in the initial 30-year term. Additionally, the lease agreement will generate increased ridership, ad valorem and sales taxes, impact fees, and will create jobs. The term of the lease is 30 years, with two automatic 30-year renewals.

The lease agreement has been approved by the Board of County Commissioners. Replatting and finalizing development standards are currently underway.




Check This Site For Other Metrorail Joint-Development Projects

http://www.floridacdc.org/articles/040101-1.htm

GREAT PICS AGAIN STREET, keep that camera rolling,LOL., Is that you with the PARROTS on ya? And how did you get those women in the car to smile for ya ?, I was driving south on S W 17th ave to South Bayshore Drive, THE Trees are so BIG and OLD, seem like CocoNut Grove has'nt had a Hurricane for almost 40 YEARS, Every Tree is still standing in the GROVE for 40 years , HOW LUCKY CAN THE GROVE GET !!!
lol... no not me


You mean the Banyan trees...like this one

http://www.dirk-wyle.com/ficus.jpg




They form Beautiful canopies over the cities and neighborhoods of Coconut Grove and Coral Gables


http://www.dirk-wyle.com/ficus2.jpg


http://www.tndhomes.com/phd01_images/Banyan.jpg



Also I found a really cool, somewhat descriptive (and opinionated map) of Coconut Grove



GROVE EAST
http://www.sailmiami.com/_borders/grovemapwest.jpg

GROVE WEST
http://www.sailmiami.com/_borders/grovemapeast.jpg

love the maps streetscapeer...great find and pics!
btw the church is the Plymouth Congregational...one of my favorite architecturally ....here's another pic:

http://www.plymouthmiami.com/pics/Sanctuary%20front.jpg

some notes: Miami’s stunning Plymouth Congregational Church is located in the Coconut Grove area of Miami and is the handiwork of a Spanish mason, who completed the church in 1917. Highlights include the church door, with hand-carved walnut planks laid upon oak, taken from a 7th-century monastery in the Pyrenees, large grounds which include a 1926 rectory and Dade County’s first public school house, built in 1887 with wood salvaged from shipwrecks

looks like a very nice city and thanks for the pictures!!!

the map reminded me. Scotty's Landing is a great little restaurant on the water, if you can find it. It's very casual and caters to the boaters in the area, the food is decent, but the atmosphere pushes it over the top.

^^thanks CMiPSO and Brickell

I go to school about a block from almost all of these pictures... and spend alot of time at all these places... its a great neighborhood, very unique yet overcommercialized, how they managed to mix the two i dont no, but they pulled it off... scottys landing is a great restaurant, very hidden, ive gone to the grove almost every weekd for years, and i just found out about it a week or two ago..

great area... but theyre having some trouble fighting the commercialism

I go to school about a block from almost all of these pictures... and spend alot of time at all these places... its a great neighborhood, very unique yet overcommercialized, how they managed to mix the two i dont no, but they pulled it off... scottys landing is a great restaurant, very hidden, ive gone to the grove almost every weekd for years, and i just found out about it a week or two ago..

great area... but theyre having some trouble fighting the commercialism
Thats because the CITY OF MIAMI City Hall is right there in the middle of the commercial area, and the commissioners love to see buildings like Downtown. BUT, Nimby , :) like you say, COCONUT GROVE is GREAT on WEEKENDS, I love the BANYAN TREES, ITS WHAT the Grove is all About, THE TREES BLOCK THE UGLY Commercial Area from the Large Homes along TIGERTAIL AVENUE. Its SO PRETTY in that area. :cheers:

I go to school about a block from almost all of these pictures... and spend alot of time at all these places... its a great neighborhood, very unique yet overcommercialized, how they managed to mix the two i dont no, but they pulled it off... scottys landing is a great restaurant, very hidden, ive gone to the grove almost every weekd for years, and i just found out about it a week or two ago..

great area... but theyre having some trouble fighting the commercialism


Where do you go to school....ransom everglades?

Where do you go to school....ransom everglades?

I went to Ransom through Middle and one year at the Upper School before moving to Orlando. Loved it there.

ya, i go to ransom

chuck... i luv those banyans so much, no way theyre ever gonna get cut... they ARE coconut grove... tigertail im by opinion is the nicest street in all of miami, but i fear that its gonna be taken over by all these "villas" theyre building all over the grove, thats aite by me, cause they are pretty nicely architectured (is that a word, lol) and they usually tie them into their surroundings pretty well, plus like the gables, they always leave as many trees as possible, and they wont tear down the "old grove houses" that give the area real character (my friend lives between tigertail and south bayshore in a house thats 103 years old)

thos villas are killing the grove.

i think that the commercalism around cocowalk is killing it more than the villas

im not against commercial development, butt he generic stores u can find in any place in any city in any country that saturate it (gap, banana republic, old navy)

i think that the commercalism around cocowalk is killing it more than the villas

im not against commercial development, butt he generic stores u can find in any place in any city in any country that saturate it (gap, banana republic, old navy)
TRUE and YES Nimby :) , Commercial Development and VILLAS are Choking COCOWALK, BUT THE MOVIE Theaters WILL keep it ALIVE and WELL, Adding BABY GAP to Cocowalk IS the Favorite of Moms and Future Moms coming from the VILLAS. COCOWALK will never be like it was Back 20 Years ago when I worked there with the county in that Area, THE BANYAN TREES I Loved so Much are Choking from too many CARS Polluting them and Hitting them in Accidents mosting by drunken Teenage Drivers driving recklessly down TIGERTAIL AVENUE, anyone who lives here KNOWS what I'm talking ABOUT. COCOWALK has drawn a Younger Crowd to its Downtown Area at Night, Especially on WEEKENDS, Drive around there sometime at night and you'll see many Teenage :bash: Drivers driving in circles around COCOWALK.

ya, the teenagers do just go and hang out, watch a movie, and just loiter around and pack it on friday and sat nites (hey, ill admit, i do it) but i dont c the traffic choking it, i mean, i walk around the grove practically every other day, and besides maybe an hour in the morning and evening rush hours, and of course the party taffic for a few hrs on friday and sat nites, the traffic really isnt bad at all, i also went to skol on tigertail and have a few friends that live there, and i have never heard of an problem with accidents, hell, ive never heard of a drunk driver accident on tigertail, and i drove down it everyday, i wouldve noticed if a big banyan was missing

what i meant was that it was being choked of its uniqueness with those generic stores, and i didnt know that they were opening a baby gap, that like my worst nightmare, im gonna protest! or maybe just vandalize it like hell, either one, lol

i dont think the villas are choking the grove, its a nice, old, charming neighborhood, but face it, its the place to be, and people will pay anything to move there, and this is better than generic apartments

HeHe, Nimby, Same here , by I'm turning the BIG ONE, lol. Back in my teenage days , all we did was worry if I was going to VIETNAM, and Protesting against NIXON, the DICKXON, But ya , the GROVE HAS CHANGED, and I hope like you SAY, Don't TOUCH MY BANYAN TREES, Along TIGERTAIL AVENUE, That will always be the Same, even 20 years from Now when You Nimby are my age,lol.

ah! never! age will never be a factor! teenagerhood will never end! i refuse to ever believe it! lol

Your Good Nimby, That Baby Gap is on GRAND AVE. Side of COCOWALK at the New Built WEST END, You'll SEE the Store Name from the Traffic Light at Grand and MAIN and McFarlane. ITS a Good Store for Babies, lol.

NNNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aite, now is time for action, i must fight for the greater good of the grove and all of miami and the world!!!!!!

any suggestions on how i should dispense justice on this travesty, perhpaps my yellow stream of justice? a well controlled can of fairness dispensing my hatred onto the walls of atrocity?

im not being overly dramatic, i swear...

hahaha..yeah,,I'm not a fan of baby Gap moving here,,,it doesn't make any sense...do you see Baby gaps in Time Square, South Beach, or Hollywood Blvd, No Sir!

Here are more awesome renderings of the Lofts at Mayfair


http://www.preconstruccion.com/images/lofts_at_mayfair_pool.jpg


http://www.preconstruccion.com/images/lofts_at_mayfire.jpg


http://www.preconstruccion.com/images/lofts_at_mayfire_coconut_grove.jpg


http://www.preconstruccion.com/images/lofts_at_mayfire_rooftop.jpg

These where posted by Pengh over at SSP


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What kind of car is that he took the pics from? Looks kind of like an early 80's corvette.

WOW STREET :) , and YES DAVE, Great PICS and What Kind OF Great Car is that ? That's gotta be a Corvette !, THE Grove is Still a GREAT Place to Visit. Also THE GROVENOR HOUSE :) Condo Tower has Past 7 FLOORS, as its going up to 32 Floors , The TALLEST in the GROVE by UGO Colombo. :cheers:
ALSO , I see Someone LIKES taking PICs OF Blondes :) in those PICS, Very NICE, LOL. :cheers: