Miami=Dadeland

[brickell]

I could have swore we had a Dadeland development thread here, but oh well.

The Fairfield project is converting to condos and will be called Toscano.

http://www.toscanocondos.com/

[brickell]

Here's a Dadeland update a posted a while ago at Urbanplanet...




The promised Dadeland Update from the print edition of the Miami Today 05/12/05 edition

3,000 units in the pipeline with 500 available by this summer

Towers of Dadeland (1st and 2nd phases ??) - 335 units ready in 4 - 6 weeks.

Metropolis (tower 1) - 207 units ready by the end of summer
Metropolis (tower 2) - 197 units ready by the end of the year - designed by Nichols Brosch Sandoval.

Downtown Dadeland - 416 units designed by Spillis Candela.

Dadeland Park village - 783 unit "complex" (not sure where this one is) architect: Bermello Ajamil and RRevuelta Vega Leon

Fairfield at Dadeland - 403 units planned as rentals but is being converted. First phase incorporates a room to go at ground level has been topped off. The tower portion will rise to 25 stories with one level of underground parking.

The Colonnade - 4 ten story towers, 555 units total. Permits have yet to be pulled for this project at time of printing but I believe they have recently got those. A little worried that this project is going so slow. Architect - Bermello Ajamil

New...

Dayco Dadeland - 25 story 255 unit condo tower is in the permitting stage. designed by Nichols Brosch.

City Furniture Dadeland - in the permitting stage. Designed by Garcia Brenner Stormberg.

Dadeland Hotel - 15 stories. designed by J. Scott Architects.

Archstone at Dadeland - 10 story residential project is in the conceptual stage. Designed by Gabriel Salazar.

[dave8721]

About Dadeland Park: I know someone who lived in one of the rental apartments that is being torn down to build the tower. They got their eviction notices 6 months ago, with a move out date of either this month or next month. So demolition could begin soon.

[brickell]

here's an ad with rendering for Dadeland Park Village.

[nimbyhater]

like this one... nice and dense... luks like theres lotsa units packed into there... in how long can we expect construction of this one to start?

[ChuckScraperMiami#1]

Originally Posted by nimbyhater

like this one... nice and dense... luks like theres lotsa units packed into there... in how long can we expect construction of this one to start?

Nimby , my friend, just like the Colonnade, in about 5 years, lol. The Colonnade is still shifting dirt hills from one site to another , and the sales trailer still have more stray cats under the office than people on site, lol.

[renner01]

05/23/05 started about a week ago - delay was due to permitting issues says carolina at lennar. Hasn't started vertical yet. but they supposedly had picked out Moss & Associates as the general contractor

[streetscapeer]

great news for DT Kendall

[dave8721]

Some Dadeland news below. Does anyone know anything about that project mentioned at the bottom: Renaissance at Dadeland, 245 units at 8100 SW 72nd Ave. Is that Dadeland Park?

http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/050623/story4.shtml

Large Texas developer plans to hold onto Dadeland condo project

By Marilyn Bowden
One of the nation's largest residential developers is building a condo community in the bustling Dadeland Mall area.
Fairfield Development, headquartered in Texas, has 35 years of development experience nationwide, but
Vice President Omar Del Rio said the company's focus in the Miami area has been to sell projects under construction or rehabilitation, often to condo converters.
Toscano, the company's Dadeland project, represents a departure from that strategy. Mr. Del Rio said it's the first South Florida development Fairfield will retain through completion.
"Fairfield loves markets with high barriers to entry such as Southern California, the District of Columbia and Boston," Mr. Del Rio said. "These are markets where it's tougher and more expensive to build and where it takes more time to get a project entitled. This is where we have our expertise."
Although Fairfield has been a major apartment developer, he said, "due to years of low interest rates, the rental market throughout the country lost a good deal of clientele, especially on the high end. Everyone is buying, and with construction costs going through the roof, it's tough to make a rental work."
Fairfield announced that sales have begun for Toscano, a 25-story, 396-unit community with ground-level retail that is under construction at 7360 N. Kendall Dr., across the street from Dadeland Mall in one direction and Publix in another.
The first phase will be completed early next summer, said Mr. Del Rio.
Ron Shuffield, president of Esslinger Wooten Maxwell Realtors, which is marketing the condos, said 66 were sold in the first weekend on the market. He said he anticipates a 50% sellout by the end of this month.
"We are dealing with a lot more users than most projects through the contacts our salespeople have," he said. "Since the first phase of the project is visibly under way and will be ready in a year, it's not like buying during presales."
He said units range from 687 to 2,499 square feet and are priced from the low $200,000s. Buyers tend to be younger people or empty-nesters, he said, who want to be near rapid transit and be able to walk to conveniences. The sales center is in Dadeland Mall next to Saks Fifth Avenue.
Mr. Shuffield said the Multiple Listing Service shows an inventory of only 60 existing condos for resale in the 11 square miles between Kendall Drive, US 1, 136th Street and Florida's Turnpike. "We're selling about 25 a month," he said, "so that's less than a three-month level of inventory. It shows there's a real shortage of condo units in this area."
The county's zoning department lists more than 3,000 condos planned for the Dadeland area, but Mr. Shuffield said fewer than 1,000 are under construction. "The buildout will be staggered," he said.
Toscano, designed by Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolf & Associates, will consist of two main buildings with differing unit styles, Mr. Del Rio said. The first phase, a five-story building fronting Kendall Drive, will feature ground-floor retail topped by four levels of residential units built around a courtyard. The second residential tower will be 25 stories high.
Because the county has mandated concealed parking facilities for construction near Dadeland, Mr. Del Rio said, residential units will wrap around the garage. A tri-level bridge connecting the two buildings to facilitate access to parking will house a gymnasium, he said.
Amenities include a 25,000-square-foot recreational deck with heated swimming pool and whirlpool spa, a fitness center with cardio and free-weight equipment, an exercise studio, sauna rooms and a meditation garden.
Among residential projects planned or under way in Dadeland are the335-unit Towers of Dadeland at Dadeland North Metrorail station; Downtown Dadeland, 416 units at Southwest 88th Street and Dadeland Boulevard; the Colonnade, 555 units at Southwest 82nd Street and Southwest 72nd Avenue; and Renaissance at Dadeland, 245 units at 8100 SW 72nd Ave.
Details: toscanocondos.com.

[brickell]

^ The address shows it being the complex just north of Collonade. Property records shows it being owned by "API DADELAND LLC
C/O ARCHSTONE SMITH OPERATING TRS
6 PIEDMONT CENTER SUITE 600 ATLANTA GA
30305-"

Which likely means it's the 10 story Archstone project mentioned above.

google map area just north of dadeland mall: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=kendal...7939&t=k&hl=en

Collonade is where the white buildings are. That lot is cleared now. Archland would be the lot north of that. Dadeland Park will probably be the middle apartment complex on the east side of 72nd ave. I can't confirm that though.

[brickell]

Nevermind. The middle lot is owned by Premier Urban Properties, the developer of Dadeland Park Village.

[brickell]

Here's a little map of the projects i whipped up if anybody is interested.

Red: Collonade
Yellow: Renaissance at Dadeland
Blue: Dadeland Park Village
Green: Towers of Dadeland

[streetscapeer]

thanks, brickell...I wish Colonnade would start building already...they're taking entirely too long!

[south florida dave]

good stuff brickell. that does help.

[MIAballinboi]

nice brickell

[dave8721]

By the way, Collonade looks like they are finally underway, with big holes dug in the ground and lots of activity going on.
Also, there was an accident at the Downtown Dadeland site this morning. From the news reports I saw it looks like a partial roof collapse of one of the buildings injuring some workers who had to be airlifted to Jackson Memorial.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12331881.htm

Three construction workers hurt in Kendall

By LUISA YANEZ

lyanez@herald.com


Three construction workers were injured Monday morning when material toppled on top of them as they worked on a high-rise condominium across the street from Dadeland Mall.

Several fire rescue units reported to the site just after 11 a.m. to remove the workers, trapped on the third floor of the skeletal structure at 7250 N. Kendall Dr., Miami-Dade fire rescue said.

Rescuers had to use Stokes baskets to lower the men to the ground

[dave8721]

An article about the Dadeland Breeze project on Kendall Drive just west of the Palmetto. Not sure how I feel about this project. It will have basically no pedestrian access to the rest of Dadeland (the palmetto expressway off ramp right in front of the parcel simply flows onto Kendall Dr in its own lane, i.e. no stop light or anything). Its even hard for cars to get out of the current property much less pedestrians.

http://www.communitynewspapers.com/2...le-Michael.htm

Excerpt:

Dadeland Breeze ownership seeks 640 condominium and townhome units in a redevelopment of the 306-unit Kendall Park rental complex at 7701 N. Kendall Dr. by appealing a prior Community Council 12 rejection of a rezoning proposal last May.

More than 20 homeowner associations in the East Kendall area have gone on record, organized protest rallies and directed placard-waving sidewalk groups bearing signage to urge Commissioners to vote against bringing higher-density condominium development west of the Palmetto Expressway.

Folks in that neck of the woods gaze over at Downtown Dadeland’s new skyscrapers and vow they’ll hold the line at the Palmetto Expressway, right where Dadeland Breeze and its eight-story structures are proposed, adjoining SR 826 at its northwest intersection with N. Kendall Drive.

The Community Council as well as resident activists are still burning about promises they say planners made several years ago when special zoning created the new downtown Dadeland condominiums. At that time, a rationale said that keeping high-rise in Dadeland area clusters would prevent their proliferation in Kendall, east of the Palmetto X-way.
Let’s see if government keeps its word in October!

[dave8721]

Not Dadeland area but West Kendall:

The western sprawl continues...Too bad Don Carter's bowling alley is closing down (after 40 years) to make way for yet another strip mall.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12637352.htm

Developers plan shopping centers in West Kendall

Two local developers set sights on infill development in key South Florida markets. Alliance starts with three new projects in West Kendall.

BY ELAINE WALKER

ewalker@herald.com


Finding space for more strip shopping centers in the already crowded West Kendall market seems like a tall order.

But Master Development and Woolbright Development have assembled almost 70 acres of property for three projects in the area, representing more than 700,000-square-feet of retail.

Scheduled to open within a little more than two years, the West Kendall projects will bring a combination of big-box retailers, restaurants, specialty retailers and family recreation.

It's part of a bigger plan by the two companies to look for infill development or redevelopment opportunities in areas of South Florida that seem built out.

''It's about finding unique sites and being able to negotiate with unique sellers,'' said Bob Shapiro, president of Master Development of Hallandale Beach. ``If you look hard enough and have a feel for it, there are several years of supply available.''

In West Kendall, the partnership has found opportunities in places like the old Don Carter Kendall Lanes and a 40-acre tomato and strawberry field across from the Tamiami Airport.

Industry experts say finding tenants for the projects won't be hard.

''West Kendall is a great market,'' said Paco Diaz, senior vice president of retail properties for CB Richard Ellis. ``Everybody wants to be in West Kendall. Nothing new has been built there for awhile.''

While Shapiro's firm, Master Development, is in charge of finding and creating the development opportunities, Woolbright Development of Boca Raton offers access to capital and the people to oversee all phases of construction, leasing and operations.

''We want partners like Bob [Shapiro] with local experience to get the knowledge you need on the ground, and then we bring in a much larger organization to execute the project,'' said Duane Stiller, president of Woolbright Development, which currently has a retail portfolio in Florida valued at $2 billion and expects to reach $5 billion by 2008.

West Kendall was a natural place for the partnership to start, because Shapiro knows the market well. Over the last eight years, he has developed, owned or renovated a variety of centers there, including Kendall Mall, Kendall Corners and South Kendall Square.

With more than 400,000 people living within the heart of West Kendall, Shapiro and other retail experts agree that the density continues to make it an attractive market for retailers.

''We think we can fill another million square feet if we had it,'' Shapiro said. ``There are a lot of people that want to be in this market but can't find a place.''

Developer Jeff Berkowitz, who owns Kendall Village and Kendall Gate, isn't worried about the competition. He thinks that the increasing traffic along Kendall Drive makes it viable to have more retail options in the area.

''It's still a significant drive,'' Berkowitz said. ``The additional density warrants additional stores.''

[jzquince69]

there is a dadeland thread somewhere...

[rider_of_rohan]

Originally Posted by dave8721

Not Dadeland area but West Kendall:

The western sprawl continues...Too bad Don Carter's bowling alley is closing down (after 40 years) to make way for yet another strip mall.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12637352.htm

NOOOOOO Damn it Don Carter lanes was a kick ass place to be. We used to have a lot of fun out there. I think they need to maintain some of the family oriented stuff down there.