APRIL 2025 UPDATE ~ MIAMI Signature Bridge
Work on the project continues around the clock as crews make progress on all three project corridors.
KEY POINTS:
- The sprawling $818 million project is the product of a partnership between the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and the Greater Miami Expressway Agency and its contractor, the Archer Western – de Moya Group Joint Venture.
- A set of towering arches now cast shadows in downtown Miami, part of the support structures for a new Signature Bridge, a key component of the I-395/SR 836/I-95 Design-Build Project.
- In an email to Miami Today, Maria Rosa Higgins Fallon, public information director for FDOT’s District Six, reported that work on the project continues around the clock as crews make progress on all three project corridors.
- Total project completion remains targeted for late 2027.
Source: John Charles Robbins - Miami Today, April 2, 2025
Piling work now underway on downtown Miami's Signature Bridge project
Scope of work will include rebuild of several major highways. The Florida Department of Transportation awarded the $802M contract to a private design team, with a requirement to complete the project by October 2022.
Double Decker Beauty
The project includes double-decking of a portion of the 836 expressway and a re-design of the interchange with I-95 & I-395. The highways running through downtown Miami will be elevated and new public spaces and parks will be built underneath.
The beautiful 102 acre, Dania Pointe
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Dania Pointe is a 102 acre, premier mixed use development with over 1 million square feet of retail and restaurants, in addition to Class A offices, hotels, luxury apartments and public event space.
Central Location
- With 1,600 linear feet of I-95 frontage and centrally located between Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and Aventura, this is one of South Florida's highest visibility locations. Only minutes away from Ft. Lauderdale International Airport.
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Dania Pointe will feature a sophisticated mix of shopping, dining and entertainment venues, featuring the most recognizable brands, along wth boutique and specialty shops.
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$540M SkyRise Miami - Tallest building in Florida
Berkowitz Development hires Plaza Construction
Developer, Berkowitz Development Group has chosen construction management and general contracting firm Plaza Construction to build SkyRise Miami, a 1,000-foot-tall entertainment and observation tower that will be the tallest building in Florida. The project is valued at $540 million, per the Real Deal Miami.
The tower which will overlook Biscayne Bay, was designed by Arquitectonica, will include an indoor drop tower-style ride with 95-mph descent speed, as well as five observation decks, a 55-mph base jumping experience, a zero-gravity tunnel, a transparent slide, a transparent deck at 866 feet and a sky walk at 908 feet. The project will also feature restaurant, music and bar space, an indoor playground, a 14,000-square foot event/ballroom space, a 9,500-square foot conference center and an open terrace.
The project is scheduled to start construction in 2019 and wrap up in 2023.
Source-Construction Dive, November 2, 2018
CONSTRUCTION NEWS
Waldorf Astoria 'Architectural Wonder' sales launched.
The developers of the 100-story Waldorf Astoria Miami supertall have released new details of the project, and have launched sales. According to developer PMG, the building will become “an architectural wonder.”
In a statement, architect Carlos Ott said the tower will be a “distinguished sculpture that would permanently alter Miami’s skyline with height and design never seen before.”
The tower will be comprised of nine spiraling offset cubes which Ott says will distinguish it from anything on the East Coast.
The developer also said it will be the tallest residential building south of New York City, at 1,049 feet above sea level. Miami’s current tallest building of any type is the 85-story, 868-foot Panorama Tower.
The Waldorf will include 360 private residential condo units, as well as 205 hotel rooms and suites. Sieger Suarez is the architect of record. Interior design is by California’s BAMO.
Prices start at $1 million.
Souce: The Next Miami
New Dolphins training camp is slated for Miami Gardens
Football team will receive financial help to move headquarters to city
- Jul 25, 2018
Miami Dolphins team members will soon train closer to where they play home games.
The Miami-Dade County Commission on Tuesday approved a resolution to amend its existing stadium deal with the Miami Dolphins that will provide additional subsidy to build a new training facility next to the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.
The resolution, sponsored by District 1 Commissioner Barbara J. Jordan, will increase the subsidies by $750,000 per year upon completion of a new practice facility and extend the length of the agreement based on the total price tag of the new facility, which would cost at least $50 million to build. The subsidies would be funded entirely by the county’s tourist tax. The training facility will be privately funded and expected to be completed by 2020.
Under a separate agreement Miami Gardens will provide the team an additional $500,000 to offset its higher property-tax bill once the facility is built, a statement said.
The current stadium deal provides the Dolphin’s organization a maximum of $5 million in subsidies for bringing marquee events to the stadium. In the past years, several big-ticket events were hosted at Dolphin Stadium, including the 2016 Orange Bowl and the 2017 sold-out international soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, known as “El Clásico.”
As of today, Dolphins owner, Stephen Ross, has spent more than $500 million renovating the stadium. The Dolphins have outgrown their current training facility located at Nova Southeastern University in Davie. The organization considered expanding in Davie, as well as moving to Miramar, before closing in on the city of Miami Gardens.
The project is expected to bring more than 100 jobs to Miami-Dade County and generate economic development opportunities for the area, explained Jordan.
“I am so excited to bring the Miami Dolphins football headquarters and practice facility back to North Dade where it belongs,” she said.
