New on Red Sidewalks: a map of what's coming to your block
Coming to the block maps new Miami Beach permits and board filings, from restaurants and hotels to teardowns and seawalls. Tell us what would make it more useful.
Red Sidewalks has a new page, Coming to the block, that maps what’s been filed with the City of Miami Beach in recent weeks: permits applied for and issued, and plans sent to the city’s land-use boards.
Filings usually come weeks or months before any work starts. A sign permit can be the first word that a new café is moving in, a kitchen hood can mean a restaurant, and a Planning Board filing can be the first public hint of a taller building. The page puts them on one map so you can see what’s coming near you.
In its first month of records, from Oct. 12 to Nov. 11, the page lists 217 filings: 123 for businesses, hotels and condo and apartment buildings, and 94 for houses and duplexes.
How to use it
- Pick a tab: businesses and buildings, homes, or everything.
- Narrow it down by neighborhood, by stage (a board filing, a permit applied for or one already issued) and by kind of work, from new buildings and demolitions to restaurants and shops, seawalls and docks, and street work.
- Search for your street, an address or a word like “hotel.”
- Tap a pin on the map, or “Show on map” on any listing, and follow the link to the city’s own record.
When Red Sidewalks has written about a property, its listing links to the story. Stories about a filing link back to the map.
The page lists addresses and the work only, never the names of homeowners or other private people. Routine jobs such as air-conditioner swaps, new roofs and repairs inside a single apartment are left out. A filing isn’t an approval, and plans often change.
The page updates throughout the day. You can find it in the menu at the top of every page and in the “Coming to the block” box on the home page.
Tell us what you think
This is a first version, and we want to make it better. Is something on your block missing or mislabeled? Would a weekly email of filings near you help? Should we add Surfside, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, North Bay Village and Sunny Isles Beach, which keep their own records? Send us a note or email [email protected].
If you see something going up and want to know what it is, ask the Red Tape Desk.
Neighbors' comments
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