Ultimate Equity Files Plans For Live Local Wynwood Towers With 1,300-Units

Plans have been submitted for a pair of 36-story towers called Ultimate Wynwood.

Ultimate Wynwood is planned to rise 395 feet and include:

  • 1,300 residential units
  • 21,601 square feet of commercial
  • 1,099 on-site parking spaces, with 2 basement levels and additional parking on levels 2-5

The development is proposed under Florida’s Live Local Act, which requires at least 40% of units to be income restricted.

A total of 524 micro-units, ranging from 300 to 375 square feet are marked as being affordable.

There will also be 456 studios ranging from 400 to 527 square feet, listed as being “regular.” There will be 285 one bedrooms, which start at 585 square feet and which are also marked as regular. A total of 12 2 and 3 bedrooms are also planned.

A 30% parking waiver is being requested.

A hearing before the Wynwood Design Review Committee is scheduled for November 18.

Kobi Karp is the architect.

 

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Build!
2 days ago

Fantastic! More housing more more more!

Anonymous
2 days ago

Love the height of this one. Tired of all the low-rises in Wynwood.

anonymous
2 days ago

not sure how i feel about this. Nice that some will be affordable and at least its near the highway rather than having a huge building in the middle of wynwood. City really needs to get it together with expanding the metromover if buildings like this continue to be built

James Wood
2 days ago

Agree. We need transportation to align with new building rights. Otherwise, we will have tall buildings, lots of people, but lots of hideous traffic and delays.

Justine
2 days ago

The Metromover should be with a fee, not free and it should expand to the port, to Little Havana, and up to Edgewater, Wynwood and Midtown plus the obvious South Beach and then within Miami Beach.

Make a Miami Village Neighborhood
2 days ago

Urban areas need public transit otherwise people can’t get around

Anonymous
1 day ago

It needs to be upgraded with proper trains, but then why not just expand Metrorail?

Fern
1 day ago

The reason they removed the fare gates and made it free was because cost of collections was more than revenue.

Anonymous
2 days ago

will have?????……already have

Anonymous
1 day ago

Ageee and what about all the air rights for the 20 story building? There needs to be some consistenc

Anonymous
2 days ago

It’s beautiful to see taller buildings clustered near I-95, where Miami could really benefit from new infrastructure and a greater mix of housing and commercial spaces. This would support the growing population in Brickell and Downtown, and better utilize the underused areas in Miami west of I-95 to include modern and accessible spaces.

Theattdy
2 days ago

Isn’t Brickell in Downtown?

Anonymous
2 days ago

Trying to be but they need to connect better.

Angina
2 days ago

Yes Brickell is part of Downtown and Downtonwn breaks up in many other neighborhoods like Flagler, Overtown, Park West, and others. Not sure though, I’m new here.

Anon
1 day ago

Flagler is a great central spot for d
Downtowners from west of I95 to the bay, including the HistoryMiami museum, and glad this area is being restored and updated.

Anonymous
1 day ago

Greater Downtown Miami, but downtown proper is historically a smaller area.

Anonymous
2 days ago

This should also be in Overtown, where we already have the MetroMover, and we should focus on increasing its usage to help fund improvements and upgrades to the current system.

Theattdy
2 days ago

It’s already happening in Overtown

Anon
2 days ago

Don’t hold your breath on a metromover extension. It will not happen in the next 10-15 years if at all. Its just not in the plans. The only connection will be (maybe) a commuter rail station, which doesn’t really help this area at all. Its basically drive-in and drive-out for Wynwood for the foreseeable future.

Anonymous
1 day ago

Commuter rail has greater capacity.

Anonymous
1 day ago

For “commuters” / not for locals in Miami.

Yan Jammer
1 day ago

Commuter rail has way less capacity. Service is very infrequent. The trains are ‘full size’ but only 15 minute wait at best vs 1 to 5 minutes for mass transit.

Yan Jammer
1 day ago

It’s not within 5 to 10 years that’s for sure. But 10 to 15 is possible. The thing is that ridership is actually way down since the late 2010s, a decline that started around the time of uber, and way before covid. Bus ridership has been increasing pretty fast recently, but Metro rail and Metro mover ridership are way down from their 2014 ish peaks. Metromover is at about 20,000 a day in metro rail about 50,000 a day, which is a least 70% off their peak ridership, and half of where they should be by now extrapolating from the steady rise they had in the early 2010s.

Fern
1 day ago

We don’t need rail or the metromover. Those two modes, while great, aren’t the only form of transit. Increasing bus frequencies and adding bus lanes to the streets would be more than enough

Jhonny
2 days ago

Can’t wait to have Brickell connected to Wynwood through a beautiful walk downtown when all neighborhoods will be so developed that they will be connected and enjoyable to walk like in Manhattan.

Make a Miami Village Neighborhood
2 days ago

I want this too but that will take a century if every lot is a high rise. In Manhattan there are miles of neighborhoods that are low and mid rise like Soho, Lower East Side, West Village, etc. We should encourage neighborhoods of different scales

Anonymous
2 days ago

Well then we really need to focus on Overtown, Little Havana, Riverside, and the hospital district, and the river walk district. Those are where we see the biggest barriers to connection in infrastructure in Miami.

Anonymous
2 days ago

Brickell to Wynwood doesn’t pass through Little Havana or Riverside and, for the most part, not even Overtown. Those areas are ripe for development, but let’s focus on making our current Urban Core a fully walkable urban paradise.

Anonymous
2 days ago

Yeah but they won’t connect if we only focus on one side and not the other.

Anon
2 days ago

Wynwood needs a highway exit as well as a metromover connection

Anonymous
2 days ago

Luckily gonna be a new on on the ramp from 395 to 95

Anonymous
1 day ago

There should be a wider I-95 or an additional north-south express route north of downtown Miami. The street running parallel to I-95 on the west has numerous historic structures and could be ideal for downtown development—if only the storefronts weren’t closed and boarded up. With some investment, this area could become a vibrant avenue. If revitalization isn’t feasible, however, perhaps it’s worth considering converting it into a highway, as the current state seems to be failing in the northwest due to heavy traffic and lack of resources

Fillup
2 days ago

Fill fill fill …

Anon
2 days ago

Makes sense. Let’s see it.

Xuemei
2 days ago

I love this but I prefer Wynwood having lower buildings for more density.

Alpina
2 days ago

Omg, we need new architects with diverse perspective… every new project is starting to look repetitive

Anon
2 days ago

Most cities feature incredible amounts of repetition in housing. There’s really nothing wrong with it – we have tons of unique buildings all over the place.

Anonymous
1 day ago

Except these boxes will be the tallest. SAD!

OO7
2 days ago

Kobe crap!

Wolfgang731
2 days ago

I might be the sole dissenter here but I find the design overly busy and incongruent. The podium/base is a hodgepodge and overly busy as are the towers. Ultimately it looks overdesigned.

Cover the Podiums
2 days ago

Im with you. There’s too much going on

Anonymous
1 day ago

It’s overdesigned in the wrong places. If they spend even a fraction on designing better looking towers…

MB Voter
1 day ago

Can we please move beyond the cliche of ungainly, stacked, offset boxes??

Anonymous
2 days ago

They look like a bunch of coffins stacked one on top of the other, ugly!

Jeremey Howlett
2 days ago

Sidewalks look very narrow, especially on the corner.

One more Floridian
2 days ago

With so much density on this side of the highway, making a pedestrian bridge to cross i-95 would further connect and enhance our city

Keko Jones
1 day ago

Nothing better than eating and breathing all the fumes from the expressway

Cover the Podiums
2 days ago

There’s plenty of available land where we can keep the 12 story height restriction in Wynwood. The last thing we want is another podium city like Edgewater.

MIami Native
10 hours ago

what an eyesore.

Real estate daddy
1 day ago

Not sure the point of more housing.. at least in the 2.5k+ 1 bedroom range.. lol how many people are moving into these places.. go on Zillow and search 1 bedroom over 2.5k availability.. tons.. and that’s what all these new builds will be. Don’t say I didn’t warn you inept tards

Anon
1 day ago

The only real solution to unaffordable rents is to increase supply. 2.5k/mo will have to fall to 2.2k/.mo to attract tenants. Rent increases will also stagnate.

Voltaire
2 days ago

They are affordable because they are the size of a shoebox 🤪

Eye roll
2 days ago

Should we give you villas at a cheap price instead?🙄

Anonymous
1 day ago

And because they are right outside the core without a metro mover, so people need to be able to afford car payments as Wynwood turns into a mass market neighborhood

Anon
1 day ago

but if only somebody else funds a Metromover extension, then no more car payments right Berniebro!

Anon
2 days ago

Too large/intense for immediate neighborhood. Cut buildings in half.

The Snow Man
2 days ago

Found the NIMBY!!

Anonymous
2 days ago

I’m not the original commenter but there needs to be serious limits in wynwood and hear me out before everyone complains. The neighborhood is confined on 3 sides by highways and train tracks on the other . There are only so many ways to get in and out. It will soon be impossible to get there. The metromover will help but in reality won’t be complete anytime soon

Anonymous
2 days ago

We need more tunnels in downtown and Brickell, especially with the outdated bridges on the Miami River, and eventually a tunnel to Wynwood.

Cover the Podiums
2 days ago

This is not NIMBY. 12 stories is really good density. For context, Paris is mostly 6-8 stories and has a higher density than NYC

Make a Miami Village Neighborhood
2 days ago

More like a quarter! At least it’s near the highway I’m cool with it as long as they don’t do this in the middle of then neighborhood. I wish we had some neighborhoods that had a more boutique feel. Not everything like Brickell…

Anonymous
2 days ago

Brickell has a ton of boutique areas all around it.