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[chris08876]

All Aboard Florida’s MiamiCentral Scale Model Includes Supertower That Could Reach 1,000 Feet

Somewhere in All Aboard Florida’s headquarters is a scale model of their under-construction MiamiCentral project.

We now have evidence that the model exists, and that it includes a so-called “Supertower”, thanks to Local10 cameras which captured video of it earlier this week. The supertower is planned to be built as part of the second phase of the project, although plans for it have yet to be submitted to local officials for review.

How tall will the supertower be? An All Aboard Florida executive told the Herald earlier this year that it would be “about 850 feet”. Records show, however, that the company now has a pending application with the FAA to build up to height of 991 feet above ground, or 1,000 feet above sea level (reduced following negotiations with the agency from an earlier application to build 1,120 feet above ground.) It will include hotel, office, and possibly residential uses.

Foundation work for the first phase of MiamiCentral, including two towers with 800 rental apartment units, a retail center, and several office towers, remains on track. In a video released this week, AAF president Mike Reininger said that over 1,100 out of 1,600 piles have already been installed, and that piling work would be completed in the month of July.

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http://www.thenextmiami.com/index.ph...ach-1000-feet/

[MrDreTheOne]

Man, I really hope this tower is not "about 850 feet". There is no reason why the FAA would deny the pending application for 991 ft. other towers such as One Bayfront Plaza have been approved at around 1000 ft.

[chris08876]

This will probably have success at the height of a 1000 ft. Worst case, this will be 850 to 950 feet. FAA has a thing with four digits.

[eleven=11]

Originally Posted by chris08876

This will probably have success at the height of a 1000 ft. Worst case, this will be 850 to 950 feet. FAA has a thing with four digits.

FAA got new rules? stuff got bigger....
this is about skyrise and downtownish miami
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...rise-miami.php

[N830MH]

Originally Posted by eleven=11

FAA got new rules? stuff got bigger....
this is about skyrise and downtownish miami
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...rise-miami.php

Oh, really?!?!? Is that new rules about height restrictions? Is that allowed?

[eleven=11]

955 feet ?
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflor...-too-tall.html

[chris08876]

Now I'm confused. I'm hearing so many values for the height from different tabloid sources. The FAA approved river point, but now they are warning against the height although they approved several of those towers. I'm thinking it was still the value below 800 ft, but idk about 955 ft???

Or is it 928 ft for both towers...

Well, has to be one of em...

1) 2 x 928 ft
2) 2 x 955 ft
3) 2 x 779 ft

Well, the FAA, just like the EPA, are all a bunch of a holes to deal with. They mean well, but big pains. Anytime some sort of government agency gets involved, shit gets messed up.

Although this could be a case of the FAA exaggerating, like they did a couple of months ago. All these cuts, yet the towers in the end where much higher.

[eleven=11]

955 now 484 ?
http://www.goldenduskphotography.com...dings-in-miami

[N830MH]

Originally Posted by eleven=11

955 now 484 ?
http://www.goldenduskphotography.com...dings-in-miami

Yeah, I guess they have reduce the height limits. FAA won't allowed more than 955 feet. Due to height restrictions.

[chris08876]

Office And Rental Towers Above MiamiCentral Set For Review

All Aboard Florida submitted long-awaited plans to the county yesterday for three ‘overbuild’ towers that will rise above the under-construction MiamiCentral project.

Plans call for two residential towers, each about 500 feet tall, along with a shorter office tower. In total, 800 rental units are planned in the first phase, along with about 200,000 square feet of office.

A robotic parking garage is planned below the towers, above the train station and retail space.

NBWW is the architect of the resisential towers, while SOM designed the office towers. Zyscovich is an associate architect for all three towers.

Approval by a Dade zoning board is required, but the City of Miami won’t need to review the plans.

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/284083231/aafelev

[patriotizzy]

Sorry, I don't mean to hate, but I just have to for this project. IT IS ATROCIOUS. Good God. Thankfully there are much better projects in Miami that this is but a mere inconsequential blemish for the city.

[chris08876]

The train station is nice, but I kinda agree on the tower component. Its just garbage.

But.... I'm hoping for some changes. As we've seen with a couple of Miami towers, things can change; sometimes for the better.

Although if they f this up, its wasted potential. Two 900 footers would of been nice. But, things may change.

If they go with the original mass model, make some height increases, interesting designs, then we may have something on our hands.

[bobdreamz]

Originally Posted by patriotizzy

Sorry, I don't mean to hate, but I just have to for this project. IT IS ATROCIOUS. Good God. Thankfully there are much better projects in Miami that this is but a mere inconsequential blemish for the city.

The architecture is certainly lacking but the station is on the west end of downtown & is surrounded by Government buildings that were built in the 1980's when AAF's parent company FECI (Florida East Coast Industries) sold a lot of land to Miami-Dade county to create the Government Center and the corridor for Metrorail.


http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/...psw7zhhjf8.jpg

Miami-Dade County Government Center @ 510 feet | 28 stories"

http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/...ps47ecd516.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/c7T4xkb.jpg

^ These are all state & county buildings surrounding AAF & the funky Aqua/ dark blue building in the middle is the Child Court designed by Arquitectonica.

This was the design a year ago so who knows at this point :


http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs...Lfor%20web.jpg

Let's hope for a redesign considering SOM is the Architect I believe.

[eleven=11]

http://therealdeal.com/miami/blog/20...ity-land-swap/
big news

[eleven=11]

Originally Posted by eleven=11

http://therealdeal.com/miami/blog/20...ity-land-swap/
big news

https://twitter.com/AllAboardFla/sta...64475156406272
??

[chris08876]

1,000-Foot MiamiCentral Supertower Approved By FAA

Three towers – including a supertall – were approved last week by the FAA to rise above All Aboard Florida’s MiamiCentral project.

One MiamiCentral is now approved for a height of 991 feet above ground, or 1,000 feet above sea level. Construction hasn’t started yet, but it is expected to include 600,000 square feet of office space, along with 250 hotel rooms and 280 residential units.

Two residential towers already under construction were given the green light to be built up to a height of 630 feet above sea level, or about 620 feet above ground. They will include 800 rental units.

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http://www.thenextmiami.com/1000-foo...proved-by-faa/

[bobdreamz]

Finally a tower that just scrapes by at over 302.06 meters !

Even though it was proposed at 1,120 ft. | 341 meters and was to be the tallest of the 6 proposed towers over 300+ meters it will now be the shortest.

1: MiamiCentral I | 341.4 m | 1,120 ft. | 80 stories | residential / hotel / office
2: CCCC Tower I | 325.8 m | 1,069 ft. | residential
3: 1201 Brickell Bay Dr. | 318.2 m | 1,044 ft. | residential
4: 300 Biscayne Blvd. | 317.3 m | 1,041 ft. | residential
5: One Brickell City Centre | 317 m | 1,040 ft. | 80 stories | residential / hotel / office
6: One Bayfront Plaza | 306.3 m | 1,005 ft. | 80 stories | office / hotel


http://i.imgur.com/7GhTfJ7.jpg

Now let's see which one of these will rise first!

[chris08876]

Some great times ahead of us bobdreamz. I think CCCC Tower will start first. If China Constructions record of getting things done quickly is anything to go by, CCCC will rise hopefully soon. They are using EB-5 funding too, and a lot of capital from China. With Xi Jinpings recent attack on wealthy people by trying to root out corruption, there's a capital drain leaving China, and heading to the U.S. coasts. Russians and the Chinese are good backers for projects.

[bobdreamz]

^ Well here is the former excavated site of the Capital @ Brickell which is where the CCCC Tower 1 will rise :


http://cdn.skyrisecities.com/sites/d...9261-64953.jpg

This is at the southern end of the Brickell district where the Capital project was only set to rise 809 ft. | 246 m.
I'm not sure if CCCC can get anywhere near 1,069 ft. | 325 m by the FAA.

[eleven=11]

good photos
http://www.thenextmiami.com/miamicen...uction-update/