Homes near Wynwood could be replaced with apartments

By Brian Bandell for South Florida Business Journal

A development group wants to replace three houses in the Wynwood Norte area of Miami with an apartment building.

The city’s Urban Development Review Board will consider plans for the half-acre site at 107, 121, and 127 N.W. 31st Street on June 20. WYN107 Development LLC, managed by Sebastian Roiter and Ian Ludmir in Aventura, assembled the properties for a combined $4.5 million in 2023.

The Wyn Mood C building would total 53,401 square feet in four stories, with 72 apartments, 38 parking spaces, about 1,400 square feet of amenities on the ground floor and a rooftop pool deck.

The apartments would range from 471 to 907 square feet. There would be 42 studio apartments, 12 one-bedroom units, and 18 two-bedroom units.

While there’s been a multifamily development boom in neighboring Wynwood, the same higher density zoning doesn’t apply to Wynwood Norte. However, neighborhood advocates asked city officials to increase density in Wynwood Norte several years ago and changes were made that permit more development, although still not on the scale of Wynwood.

Ivo Fernandez, principal and co-founder of Modis Architects, said the project meets all the requirements of the Wynwood Norte zoning, with the only waiver they are seeing being because the site is slightly over the maximum lot size. The project will include 20% workforce housing, as per the Wynwood Norte rules, he added.

The developer is seeking a 30% parking reduction because the site is near a public transit route, Fernandez said. He noted the site is near employment centers like Midtown Miami and Wynwood, so many residents may take bikes or scooters to work, or they could use ridesharing for a short distance.

“They feel the market can absorb the parking reduction because the workforce housing caters to the service industry,” Fernandez said. “A lot of them can’t afford both a car and an apartment.”

Fernandez said his clients WYN107 Development have four additional boutique apartment buildings planned in Wynwood Norte, all branded Wyn Mood but with different color themes. This building would be teal.

Modis Architects also designed two apartment buildings by ABH Developer Group that recently broke ground in Wynwood Norte.

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