20-story Live Local condo tower with padel courts proposed at 1920 Alton Road
The Sunset Harbour plan would put 14 workforce units on its lower floors under condos, the Miami Herald reports. A second tower two blocks away failed its first city review.
A New York developer wants to build a 20-story condo tower at 1920 Alton Road in Sunset Harbour under Florida’s Live Local Act, with 14 workforce apartments on its lower floors, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday.
The project, called Reserve at One Sunset, is from Turnbridge Equities, which submitted plans in February, according to the Herald. It would have 35 units: the 14 affordable or workforce studios and one-bedrooms on the bottom two residential levels, and 20 three- and five-bedroom condos plus a penthouse from the seventh floor up. Amenities would include five padel courts, a wellness club with a pool and a coffee and juice bar, with two ground-floor spaces for cafes or fast-casual restaurants, the Herald reported. The site is about half an acre.
The city lists the application, LLA26-0010, among the Live Local projects it is reviewing. The Herald reported that this one is further along, with the city studying its effect on roads, water lines and the electrical grid. The Miami-Dade Property Appraiser lists the parcel as owned by Alton Office Holdings II LLC, with a 1960 commercial building on it, bought for $21.25 million in December 2021.
Live Local lets developers skip local zoning limits on height and density if they set aside 40% of a project’s units for households earning up to 120% of the county’s median income, the Herald noted.
The second Sunset Harbour tower, at 1771 West Ave. on the old Office Depot site, which Red Sidewalks first reported Nov. 5, failed its first city review on Nov. 5, the Herald reported. The city sent the developers “an extensive list of comments,” and they had not responded or resubmitted, the paper reported, citing planning director Deborah Tackett, who said a new review would take about 10 days after a resubmission. That project now appears on the city’s list as LLA26-0012.
Executives for both projects did not respond to the Herald’s requests for comment. No construction dates or prices have been released.
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