decided to go downtown today to the city admin. building where the public hearing dept. is. wanted to see if i could find some renderings i haven't seen yet for various projects. let me tell you, i'm gald as hell i decided to go check it out cause it was well worth my time.

first of all, the people there were super cool & were very accomodating. gave me access to anything i could find. i asked if i could take pictures, figuring i had a 50-50 chance at best, & the lady didn't even bat an eyelash & said go for it.

she also asked if i'd seen their website, which, of course, i hadn't, so she showed it to me. the city of miami site has a page where they've started uploading all of the project docs (renderings & all) for public view. exactly what we've all been wanting. here's the link: http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/pages/ from there, click on "Legislative Hub" in the "Your Government" area at the bottom & a full screen page will open up. click on "Legislative files" & you'll get a search bar. search for projects by address or name. they're still updating projects so not everything's on there yet, but a bunch of projects are.

now, to the pics i took at the office:

Infinity 2
http://img291.echo.cx/img291/989/622050058uf.jpg

http://img291.echo.cx/img291/6/622050075cx.jpg

Cardinal Symphony
http://img291.echo.cx/img291/4008/622050085xg.jpg

http://img291.echo.cx/img291/4913/622050109oa.jpg

600 Biscayne
http://img291.echo.cx/img291/1430/622050118iw.jpg

http://img291.echo.cx/img291/9136/622050131vx.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/6103/622050144ph.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/1710/622050154hk.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/3212/622050168ls.jpg

a few i snagged from the website docs:

Platinum on the Bay
http://img222.echo.cx/img222/7466/platinumonthebay6ma.jpg

more Infinity 2
http://img222.echo.cx/img222/7711/infinity220tg.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/1905/infinity233jg.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/1536/infinity244jk.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/9495/infinity250bf.jpg

& finally, just cause it's so damn fun to save the best for last, i was able to get a pic of Brickell Citi Centre while at the office:
http://img222.echo.cx/img222/251/622050039mn.jpg

as ice cube said, today was a good day. :pepper:

EDIT: i gotta say, since seeing these new renderings of 600 Biscayne, it's really grown on me. i *might* just have to take back what i said before about it not working with the freedom tower, cause these pics make it look like it compliments it fairly well. or at least doesn't completely drown it as much as i had thought.

i usually don't say this..cuz it soundz a bit gay ....but i luv ya man.i don't know what crazy thing told you to go to that building but it has to be one of the best decisions you ever had....anyways as always i'm gracious for you're hard work.

p.s. anything else intresting

i must say that the second building on symphony,the yellow one looks taky and ugly

SCORE!!!

wow thats a great snag for brickell citicentre! finally! way 2 go sfdave :bow:

you know what it was, hatter? i actually called a couple of the phone #'s on the city report & one of the people i talked to said that all of the info was available at this office. she said i could go check it out so i did. definitely a good decision & i'm glad i went.

nothing else interesting to tell you, other than that office is a goldmine of info. they literally have boxes stacked up against the walls that have various project names written on the outside of them. inside the boxes (& there's numerous boxes for each project) there's a bunch of jacketed project presentations with all the info that the city is now putting up on the website i mentioned above. i just skimmed through them looking for renderings & snapped what i could.

i checked out the paramount park stuff but couldn't find any renderings other than the one we've all seen. there's a ton of others ( i saw portico) but i didn't wanna linger all day checking out each box. it is, after all, a working office. but the lady said i could come back whenever i like so i might just do that when new projects are announced.

Awesome, That Citi Centre, looks great.

:master: :master: you're a God, dave!!

S-C-O-R-E

u da man dave!!! what a great day..

What a poor decision on 600 Biscayne....looks exactly like 900....looks like Terra isn't putting too much thought into their projects.....come up with something different if your going to be 3 blocks away! Poor, poor, poor......

Dave, unlike Mad Hatter, I'm not gay. So let me just tell you how much I appreciate your efforts here.

Just kidding, Hatter. I love you man. ;)

And Citi Centre looks Hong-Kongish, which is not a bad thing in my book.

You could take all the pics you want. All information and materials owned by the City are Public Record. Unlike sales offices, they city couldn't stop you from hanging out there all day if you wanted to.

A screen capture of a document submitted by Platinum Bay (page 29 of "drawings submitted") showing a renderring of the future Uptown skyline. This is just the Paramount - Blue portion, it extends further south in the PDF showing the towers going up on Biscayne as well.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/dave8721/uptown2.jpg

Wow! Citi Centre looks awesome, but 600 Biscayne is as ugly as ever!

Don't Infinity I & II look tiny compared to four Seasons ? What's up with that ?

Don't Infinity I & II look tiny compared to four Seasons ? What's up with that ?

yeah arent they both supposed to be taller than 4 seasons? or at least the same height(s) there is one pic thats ok but the oranges one have them at like 40 stories tops!

yeah arent they both supposed to be taller than 4 seasons? or at least the same height(s) there is one pic thats ok but the oranges one have them at like 40 stories tops!

They are both supposed to be smaller than Four Seasons but not that much smaller. Four Seasons is 789ft, Infiniti I is 604ft and Infiniti II is 736ft.

You could take all the pics you want. All information and materials owned by the City are Public Record. Unlike sales offices, they city couldn't stop you from hanging out there all day if you wanted to.

right, & i knew that going in. but these days people can be weird about visitors (especially when they're toting cameras) so there's always the chance they say get the hell out of here even if they have no right to do so.

the other thing i wasn't sure about was whether or not they'd let me get pics of projects that haven't been approved yet, but it wasn't an issue.

i must say citicentre looks like the best arquitectonica design yet....althought thats only a night renderings

Dave, unlike Mad Hatter, I'm not gay. So let me just tell you how much I appreciate your efforts here.

Just kidding, Hatter. I love you man. ;)

And Citi Centre looks Hong-Kongish, which is not a bad thing in my book.

anytime. i'd be doing this anyway for my own personal curiosity, so i'm happy to share.

i'm also happy to see hatter come to terms with his sexuality. cheers to you, hatter! :lol:

so is citi centre on both sides of s. miami ave? i know the brickell commons land is, but are they using all of that land for this?

anytime. i'd be doing this anyway for my own personal curiosity, so i'm happy to share.

i'm also happy to see hatter come to terms with his sexuality. cheers to you, hatter! :lol:


haha very funny guys,and no i'm not coming out of the closet anytime soon

^is brickell citi center, office, residential, or mixed??

^is brickell citi center, office, residential, or mixed??

All of the above. Plus lots of retail.

Found My answer, I hope its more Office/Hotel than anything else...

so is citi centre on both sides of s. miami ave? i know the brickell commons land is, but are they using all of that land for this?

Yes for two reasons: one the 700 and 701 addresses indicate both an eastern and western building (even #s one side of street odd #s r on the other side) and the rendering shows a street between the left (west) tower and then the right (east) two.
This will be a great development after passing vue/axis/flatiron/mbvillage/premieire then this then tobacco road and then the river!

i figured it was both sides of the ave. when i saw the 700 & 701 addresses, but i searched for 701 on the city's property boundaries site & couldn't find it. pretty sure they can & have created new addresses for large projects to unify the address so maybe that's what's going on here.

it's also hard to tell by this rendering if there is in fact a road between the towers, but that's what i thought too.

i'd love to see these get built cause it's a different style for miami.

Brickell citi center-- ok, the tallest tower is like 808 feet, right? what about the other two?

Some of the new proyects under construction,coral gables and panos of the city.Enjoy :pepper: :pepper: :pepper: :cucumber: :cucumber: :banana: :banana: :lock: :lock: :redx: :redx: :banana2: :banana2:
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MIAMIsunCity :righton: , Thanks, Great pics, the GrovenorHouse has topped out in the Coconut Grove PIC # 5 in the background as the Tallest tower in the grove, Very nice picture. the Picture # 4 of Coral Gables is super nice and so is the Pics # 2 and 3 of Neo Vertika Condo Tower with the newest high price of Gas at the station there, its the Highest so far, could we see 3.00 dollars :soon:
Pic # 1 , the Miami-Dade Adminstration Building # 1 :) has finally topped out, Bovis is starting soon on the second tower at 36 floors just south of this tower at 18 floors, fantastic . :applause:
in the last pic ,Downtown Miami is growing so fast with so many Tower construction cranes, its ashame it was a cloudy soggy day for that great picture, maybe in the future you could try to take another one like that last picture on a clear day, :angel:
P.S. but anyway nice Pictures MiamiSunCity m)) , Thanks again !!! :cheers:

Very cool tour. It's nice to see that finally Grovenor House is topped off.

great pics miamisuncity!

Here is a totally useless fact i found online and didn't know where else to post it:

According to a Miami-dade county document I found, There are 8,568 Elevators and Escalators in Miami-Dade county

^lol, nice fact

Great skyline pix! Miami is awesome. The MIA-FTL-WPB region is a great metro. One day we'll have one continuous skyline from MIA to WPB!(west of the intercoastal) :)
We almost have that now with the condos along the beaches.

Great skyline pix! Miami is awesome. The MIA-FTL-WPB region is a great metro. One day we'll have one continuous skyline from MIA to WPB!(west of the intercoastal) :)
We almost have that now with the condos along the beaches.

Continuous skyline, except for the surface parking lot that surrounds Freedom Tower. Aside from that, yes, a continuous skyline from Brickell to WPB.

Am I becoming annoying. :)

Here is a totally useless fact i found online and didn't know where else to post it:

According to a Miami-dade county document I found, There are 8,568 Elevators and Escalators in Miami-Dade county
Toucano :) , I like this Fact, 1,000 of them are at the Miami International Airport, lol. :cheers: