Project Data:

Groundbreaking date: March 2013

Location: 452 NE 29th St. and 460 NE 28th St., Miami

Developer: Related Group (Jorge Perez and Stephen Ross)

Architect: Arquitectonica
Cost:
Height: 42 floors
Units: 300
Contractor: Plaza Construction


Related Group is moving forward with plans for a tower at the former Onyx 2 site.

The name of the new tower is Icon Bay.

The PZAB granted approval on Wednesday July 18, 2012 to close the street adjacent to the site. Related will be building an Arquitectonica designed park on the land. The design for the actual tower is not yet complete.

The property is located at 452 NE 29th St. and 460 NE 28th St.

Sales for the new tower will begin in September 2012, with construction in early 2013.

It's hard to tell without really hunting through the plans for the park, but those plans give an idea of the location and massing of the tower. It looks like Related is building the park so they can have all of the air above the former street for the tower. The park is not going adjacent to the tower, it is going under it. The public will still have access to the waterfront, but they won't be able to see it anywhere except directly inside the park.

I posted the plans here:
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2012/08/01/related-trades-public-views-for-a-public-park.php

Your post on curbed makes it sound a lot more sinister than it is. The land at the end of 28th st isn't really big enough to do any kind of park that would be worth while. Meanwhile they have land on both sides of 28th. They could just as easily build towers on both sides of the street leaving nothing but a narrow passage way to the bay. Pretty much all the views on the block will be destroyed anyway. The only person with a view would be whoever wan'ts to stand in the middle of the street.

If you look at the footprint that is above the park where the dotted lines are they are only covering about 30% of the park area. You can see where they show the columns. The dog park and pretty much everything along the bay is open. I can't see the scale but knowing the lot size it looks like they are taking about 2,000 SF of open space from the road and giving 10,000 SF of open space from their property.

UMdev is correct - the public basically has access to nothing right now other than street.

Related does not have some evil plot here, they are building a waterfront park here adjacent to the tower that will make the area much more pleasant which will help make their new residential tower more desirable. Not sure how you are seeing the park as being 'under' the tower. Additionally, the city of Miami will not have to pay for maintenance, it will be maintained by the owners of the tower.

Incidentally, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is a 25% partner in this project.

Also note how the plans contain detailed drawings for the Crimson Tower site... wonder if Related will be taking it over.

This is gonna be nice.

I disagree. There will be a wide building at the end of the street where there used to be sky and bay.

Pictures of the park. Funny it doesn't look like its under a building. How "shady" of them.

Here is the condo. Like I was saying before while a small portion of the building is over the park the vast majority of the park wraps around the building. This actually gives more views to whatever gets developed along 27th.

more detail of the 40-story Icon Bay tower