7880 Biscayne Blvd gets a new life!

In June 2012, the Fifteen Group acquired the former Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) building at 7880 Biscayne Blvd. The developers created inspired renderings of a proposed project, an “adaptive reuse” of a “new” 12-story building flanked by several eight-story structures. In late November 2013, another development group purchased the five-property site -- Florida Fullview International Group. Originally, its slight design modifications added an 80-room hotel. Now Florida Fullview has created revised plans further for the project, which has been renamed the Triton Center. The Fullview plan also calls for renovation and construction funding through the Immigrant Investor Program, also called the EB-5 visa program (more about this shortly). The newest architectural renderings from ADD Inc. envision the Triton Center as a collection of four interconnected 12-story buildings, a change from the structures in the previous drawings. This latest vision incorporates 722,000 square feet of residential living space, including 317 condo units and 135 hotel rooms. Add 24,000 square feet of street-level retail and 587 parking spaces, and this little project has mushroomed into a steroidal super-development. To see more project renderings, visit Curbed Miami online -- they are pretty cool. The current plans remove any architectural vestiges of the original structure, built in the 1960s to house the Gulf American Land Corporation, notorious sellers of swamp land who stripped bare thousands of acres in rural Collier County. Those gold-toned anodized aluminum brise-soleil (sunshade) panels, which residents either love or hate, will be lost to the past. According to the proposed renderings, stucco, painted metal, and colored glass will tower over a lushly landscaped central pedestrian plaza. Given the size of the project, it will at least have to be LEED Silver-certified. Often held up as a developer’s commitment to green building practices, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification is mandatory with something of this scale; the “silver” denotes the level of certification. Lazaro Lopez Fortune Int'l Realty 1390 Brickell Ave, Suite 104 Miami, Fl. 33131 http://www.LazaroLopez.com http://www.MiamiPropertyConsultant.com 786-525-9430