Related Group, LA developer and more propose apartments in Miami

By Erik Bojnansky for South Florida Business Journal

• Urban Design Review Board to hear four major Miami projects.
• Projects require zoning waivers or special votes to proceed.
• Meeting scheduled for 2 p.m. at Miami City Hall.

Today, the Urban Design Review Board is scheduled to hear four projects now in Miami’s development pipeline that are so big they require zoning waivers, or a special vote, to move forward.

If a project is approved, they’ll move forward to the permitting stage. If not, developers will have to adjust their project’s design based on UDRB’s input.

Either way, the UDRB provides a sneak view of what projects be coming soon to Miami.

So here are some of the more interesting project designs on UDRB’s March 19 agenda for the meeting that will be held at 2 p.m. at Miami City Hall at 3500 Pan American Drive.

1600 N.E. Second Avenue

An affiliate of Los Angeles-based Sabet Group wants to build a 33-story, 381-foot-tall, 435,478-square-foot tower with 282 apartments just a few blocks away from the School Board Metromover Station near the Omni.

A mixed-income project, 1600 N.E. Second Avenue will include 262 market rate units and 20 affordable apartments. The affordable units will be reserved for individuals at or below 60% of Miami-Dade County’s area median income (AMI). The building’s current design, crafted by Miami architect Kobi Karp, will also have 328 off-street parking spaces and 10 on-street parking spaces.

The half-acre property the developer plans to build on, where a cash register business once operated, was acquired by Sabet Group for $14.3 million in September 2022.

Evolve Wynwood 35

An affiliate of Wilmington, North Carolina-based The Evolve Companies seeks a zoning warrant and four waivers to construct Evolve Wynwood 35, an eight-story, 198,185-square-foot apartment building with 141 units and 202 parking spaces.

Designed by architect Kobi Karp, the project will include a fourth floor amenity deck with a pool, lounge areas, a BBQ grill, a gym, yoga rooms, cabanas and shadded seating areas.

Evolve Wynwood is slated to be built on 40,500 square feet of land at 535-585 N.W. 35th St. in Wynwood Norte, just north of the Wynwood Arts District. Evolve Miami invested $9.8 million assembling the development site in 2022.

Le Jeune Palms

Modis Architects

Developer Le Jeune Palms LLC proposes to build a 197-unit residential building with ground floor retail up to eight stories tall and a five-story, 130 room hotel designed by Miami-base Modis Architects.

The project will be built on 2.79 acres of vacant property about three miles south from Miami International Airport’s entrance. LeJeune Palms LLC acquired the land from Ocean Bank in December 2020 for $14 million. The LLC is managed by Antonio Gonzalez and 92.4% owned by Ocean Bank owners.

Liberty Square

Modis Architects

The Related Group is seeking zoning waivers needed to build five new affordable housing buildings on publicly-owned land as part of the phased 55-acre Liberty Square project in Liberty City.

One of those buildings (Liberty Square Elderly) will be a seven story residential tower at 1201 N.W. 62nd St. with 132 affordable units for senior citizens as well as a 3,009-square-foot Jessie Trice Medical Office on the ground floor.

The other four buildings (Liberty Square Phase V) are slated to be built at approximately 1441 N.W. 62nd St. and will include two three-story garden style residential buildings and two seven-story residential towers with ground floor commercial space. Between those four buildings, a total of 408 units will be constructed for residents under 120% AMI.

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