Allen Morris Brickell Park is behind a fence
A quarter acre of shade is on the clock, and One Plaza West still wants crane answers.
Since early July, Allen Morris Brickell Park has been fenced off. It sits at Southeast 10th Street and Brickell Plaza, a quarter acre of palm, banyan and black olive trees. That canopy has survived years of towers rising around it. Now the developer that owns the park is preparing to redevelop the site, and the immediate plan is a high-rise. Nobody has taken the trees down yet. But the fence is the part you can see from the sidewalk, and it has been up for six weeks. If you ate lunch in that shade, start looking for a new bench.
A week after the crane, still no real answers
The crane collapse near One Plaza West went viral, and the video is still circulating. Nobody was hurt. The power stayed on. Beyond that, officials have released few details. Resident Liam Stojanovic told the Miami New Times that building staff shared almost nothing in the week after it happened. That gap is the story right now. In a neighborhood with this much steel in the air, people want a written explanation rather than a shrug. So far, nobody has given them one.
An F1 name buys two floors on Brickell
Rubens Barrichello, the Formula 1 veteran, paid roughly $8 million for a two-story condo at Meta Development's Brickell project, The Real Deal reported Tuesday. Read it as a market signal, not gossip. The high end here keeps pulling buyers who could live anywhere and choose a tower two blocks from your gym. That demand is the same engine behind the cranes overhead and the arguments over what gets built next. Prices like this one are why a quarter acre of shade is suddenly worth fencing.
619 Brickell heads back into a preservation hearing
A court has ordered a new historic preservation hearing for 619 Brickell by Nobu. The preservation question does not go away. It gets argued all over again. For anyone living nearby, the practical read is simple: the clock resets on a project that looked settled. Online, readers were blunter about it, asking whether a parking lot can be historic at all. That is the fight in one sentence, and the hearing is where it finally lands.
Neighbors get another turn on the First Presbyterian site
Neighbors are back in the fight over Brickell's First Presbyterian Church property, Miami Today reported Wednesday. That makes three land-use fights running at once within a few blocks: the park, 619 Brickell, and now the church site. Each one has the same shape. A landowner has plans, the neighbors get another turn, and a hearing decides who waits. If you live nearby, the outcome eventually shows up as fencing on your block, changed traffic patterns, and whatever you see from your balcony for the next few years.
Don Toliver brings the Nitrous tour downtown Saturday
Don Toliver brings the NITROUS – OCTANE WORLD TOUR LEG 2 to Kaseya Center on Saturday, Aug. 22. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show starts at 7:30. The arena lists tickets as on sale now. Kaseya Center is at 601 Biscayne Boulevard, a walk or short ride from much of Brickell. The concert lands on a weekend when downtown traffic and rideshare demand can build before doors. The usable plan is to choose transportation before 6:30 and leave extra time around the arena.
PAMM turns art, sound and color into a family workshop
PAMM hosts Local Views at the Art Station: Art, Senses & Well-Being on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 1 to 3 p.m. Create Kids Inc. leads the all-ages family workshop. Three stations connect breathing and bubble-inspired art, sound and expressive mark-making, and hands-on color and light. The activities draw on works by Jesús Rafael Soto, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Carlos Cruz-Diez. The museum says no prior art experience is needed. The workshop is free with museum admission; adult admission is $18, and members enter free. PAMM is at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard, close enough for a short trip across the river from Brickell.