Midtown/Edgewater and Omni/Arts & Entertainment District

[FrenchyMiami]

well he has been talking for a while about adding some park spaces and/or playground...anybody has more info on the fight against wall mart coming to midtown?

[deambulante]

I know, I know is not going to happen ever, but it would have been cool if the metromover extended all the way to the Shops at Midtown, not along Biscayne but along N. Miami av. Would integrate the area with the downtown much better. Oh well.

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by deambulante

I know, I know is not going to happen ever, but it would have been cool if the metromover extended all the way to the Shops at Midtown, not along Biscayne but along N. Miami av. Would integrate the area with the downtown much better. Oh well.

A few weeks ago, I met some tourists who wanted to take it to the Design District. I think this is happening more frequently.

[FrenchyMiami]

A few months ago people from the government asked the residents of midtown to be more vocal about details of the green spaces they wanted...Residents should use blogs like this one or all the other existing ones to voice their ideas . I also have been advocating for a long time that there should be a transit system that links south beach midtown/design district and downtown. I strongly believe that when Midtown was sold that was the idea and people believed it because of the strong subsidy of the government for this project: the concept at the time was an electric streetcar and i do believe that it will happen not because residents have been waiting for it for 8 years but because the design district is developing fast with brand names and tourists from south beach will come there everyday and people from downtown will want to shop/eat there too when they go to work without their car.

Consequentely and because the miami government doesn't want its tourists to think that they are a third world country i am almost convinced, say 95%, that the streetcar will happen. Indeed the hotel industry wouldn't be able to push for 500$ plus per night without this kind of convenience for tourists.

[DeeDub]

Originally Posted by FrenchyMiami

A few months ago people from the government asked the residents of midtown to be more vocal about details of the green spaces they wanted...Residents should use blogs like this one or all the other existing ones to voice their ideas . I also have been advocating for a long time that there should be a transit system that links south beach midtown/design district and downtown. I strongly believe that when Midtown was sold that was the idea and people believed it because of the strong subsidy of the government for this project: the concept at the time was an electric streetcar and i do believe that it will happen not because residents have been waiting for it for 8 years but because the design district is developing fast with brand names and tourists from south beach will come there everyday and people from downtown will want to shop/eat there too when they go to work without their car.

Consequentely and because the miami government doesn't want its tourists to think that they are a third world country i am almost convinced, say 95%, that the streetcar will happen. Indeed the hotel industry wouldn't be able to push for 500$ plus per night without this kind of convenience for tourists.

Expansion of the existing trolley routes seems pretty easy. It currently does up to 17th and the remaining drive up to Midtown and the Design District is pretty short. I don't know what the ridership numbers look like, but it does get used (although I*'ve never seen it full). A South Beach route would make sense, perhaps with a route that connects the mainland routes with the South Beach route.

[FrenchyMiami]

New York-based investor Sam Tawfik has purchased 27 units in Miami’s Midtown Miami development, according to Douglas Elliman. The purchase is in two phases: the first, which closed last week, included 12 units totaling $4.87 million. The remaining 15 will close on Nov. 28 for a price of $11.74 million.All of the units are located in the Midtown 4 condominium tower.“Midtown is another segment of New York City in the making,” Tawfik told The Real Deal. “The art district, the makeup of the area, reminds me of SoHo 15 years ago — we’re liking it very much.”Midtown 4 had already sold more than 100 units in less than two months. Bucking the general trend in Miami of foreign and specifically Latin American buyers, more than 60 percent of the property’s sales have come from Floridians.Tawfik said he was “actively looking” for more properties in the area.Chad Carroll of Douglas Elliman represented Tawfik.
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[CF221]

Aren't trolley's those cheap, look-alike but not it alternatives to real streetcars? Why then provide tourists and residents of a sub-par system of transportation when we can just give them one that meets the standards of today's highly-conencted cities? Even more when we think about the fact that Miami had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in the world before they were egregiously torn down.

[FrenchyMiami]

streetcar is bound to happen there it is the only fit for this neighbourhood-it will give it the edge everyone is looking for. everyone understands this clearly in the city transit department, project is only delayed until taxes go up again.

[CalleOchoGringo]

Hopefully they will read this article before starting on it.

http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2...traffic-works/

[CF221]

Yeah Hopefully... first we would have to convince our mayors and politicians to rebuild the streetcar lines. I wonder how FDOT would react to a proposition introducing street cars.

[CalleOchoGringo]

Also while were on the subject:

http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2...is-urban-core/

[xerxesjc28]

Just wondering, are condo/apartment developers required to have some affordable units in their buildings?

Originally Posted by FrenchyMiami

streetcar is bound to happen there it is the only fit for this neighbourhood-it will give it the edge everyone is looking for. everyone understands this clearly in the city transit department, project is only delayed until taxes go up again.

Don't hold your hopes up too much. The fact that one of the densest, most walkable, most tourist filled area of the county, Miami Beach, still has no mass transit other than buses says a lot. There isn't even anything in the planning stages, which makes no sense since I believe more than any other area of the county Miami Beach has the most people who don't have cars and use transit the most.

[casamagda]

Originally Posted by DeeDub

Expansion of the existing trolley routes seems pretty easy. It currently does up to 17th and the remaining drive up to Midtown and the Design District is pretty short.

It has already been planned and should begin in the next couple of weeks.
The Brickell/Biscayne Trolley is used extensively by the people that live/work downtown.

[casamagda]

Originally Posted by CF221

Aren't trolley's those cheap, look-alike but not it alternatives to real streetcars? Why then provide tourists and residents of a sub-par system of transportation when we can just give them one that meets the standards of today's highly-conencted cities?

Cheap is in eye of the beholder.
Me, the people that I work with, and the people that I call my neighbors love the Brickell/Biscayne Trolley. It is clean, cool on hot days, goes right where you want it to go.
I hope that charm, safety, character, and cleanliness stays with the Trolley as they increase the reach out of downtown and up into the neighborhoods north and into Midtown.

[CF221]

It's funny, because the trolleys are actually designed to look like the trams we used to have dozens of years ago.

[pawnmaster]

Originally Posted by casamagda

Cheap is in eye of the beholder.
Me, the people that I work with, and the people that I call my neighbors love the Brickell/Biscayne Trolley. It is clean, cool on hot days, goes right where you want it to go.
I hope that charm, safety, character, and cleanliness stays with the Trolley as they increase the reach out of downtown and up into the neighborhoods north and into Midtown.

Ive taken it more than 10 times but they need to 1) increase how late they run (even if it means they start charging a quarter like they should do for the metromover again) and 2) remove or limit the brickell key stop to one way. Really with they had their own designated tract tho. This is why metromover runs quicker specially in rush hour.

Dunno, if money was there id opt for metromover extensions (port, to design district) and a revamp of the system to start charging again with pay stations for those who do not have cash like the ones seen in vegas (all day passes or one way trips)....darn things are packed.

[DeeDub]

Originally Posted by casamagda

It has already been planned and should begin in the next couple of weeks.
The Brickell/Biscayne Trolley is used extensively by the people that live/work downtown.

That's good news.

I like the trolley and use it periodically. My only real "complaint" is that there is no way to know when the last one left the stop or when the next one is coming and they seem to run something less than every 15 minutes (especially when there are Heat games or other events at AAA). It's not so bad now, but in the summer waiting 15-20 minutes at an uncovered stop and not knowing how long the wait will be is pretty rough and sometimes deters me from using it. It would be great if they could do a mobile app that tracked the trolley and gave an estimated arrival time for each stop.

[FrenchyMiami]

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/ripti..._will_exte.php

trolley extension for art basel ...good test for the future

[DeeDub]

Originally Posted by FrenchyMiami

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/ripti..._will_exte.php

trolley extension for art basel ...good test for the future

For permanent trolley expansion, I'd like to see it be organized as several different loops/routes connected by transfer hubs, rather than a single very long route.

A Brickell route that runs a loop around Brickell and N. Miami Ave and as north as the Bayfront Park/Met area.

A CBD route that runs from that Bayfront/Met area hub up Biscayne to around 18th-20th Street, west to N. Miami Ave and then back down and around to the Bayfront/Met area hub.

A Wynwood/Midtown/DD route that runs from Biscayne and 18th-20th or so to NE 2nd Ave and up to 40th, west to N. Miami Ave., south to 20th and back east to Biscayne.

Ideally, there would then be a route across to Miami Beach that would connect up to a few MB routes up and around Alton, Washington, 17th, 5th and the street down by Joe's.

The nice thing about this kind of trolley is that the infrastructure requirements for the routes are minimal (just a few signs and maybe some benches) so the routes can be easily tested and altered based on ridership needs and trends.

[pawnmaster]

Hey guys not sure if this should go under the new train thread or world center as I have no clue who purchased it (maybe one of u guys know and can move this?). But the Central Grand Station has been sold. hey there since I am not sure who bought the central grand station I was not sure where to place this but ITS SOLD. Hmmm world center or new station?

http://therealdeal.com/miami/blog/20...r-4-6-million/