Massive 28 Story Apartment Complex Proposed in Little Haiti UPDATED

SPV Realty, a New York real-estate firm that has been sued twice for allegedly refusing to rent apartments to black people in Miami, has proposed building luxury condo towers as tall as 28 stories in the heart of the neighborhood, at the corner of NE 50th Street and NE Second Avenue.

Massive 28-Story Apartment Complex Proposed in Little Haiti UPDATEDEXPAND Photo via Kobi Karp Architecture If that committee approves the plan, the city’s Planning Board will then have to approve the project.

News of the application comes mere weeks after developer Tony Cho and investor Bob Zangrillo pitched their full plans for Magic City Studios, a 45,000-square-foot “Innovation district” ten blocks north, at NE 60th Street and NE Second Avenue.

According to a development plan the company sent the city, the massive new complex would include 2,798 apartments, 418 hotel rooms, 283,798 square feet of retail space, 97,103 square feet of office space, and more than 4,600 parking spaces.

The courtyard would be open to the public and include a large central green space: Massive 28-Story Apartment Complex Proposed in Little Haiti UPDATEDEXPAND Photos via Kobi Karp Architecture Massive 28-Story Apartment Complex Proposed in Little Haiti UPDATEDEXPAND Photos via Kobi Karp Architecture Eastside Ridge would also boast large areas for “Civic space” and local gatherings, as well as space for small hotels.

The new complex would link many of the roads that have been blocked for decades.

The regulating plan that the city’s Urban Review Committee will discuss today mentions that Eastside Ridge will include space for a “Green market,” and the complex will mandate that the market sell only classic crunchy-hippie items such as homemade soaps.