The Miami Herald reports:
The first phase of the mixed-use project, scheduled to open in early 2017, will include a 263-unit residential tower with views of the Everglades and a 480,000-square-foot mall anchored by the luxury cinema iPic Theaters, as well as two hotels, an apartment building and office space. It will be centered around a 21-acre park.
Completing the massive development, called Metropica, could cost more than $1 billion.
“We’re creating a downtown for southwest Broward,” said developer Joseph Kavana. The project’s neighbors include the 350-store Sawgrass Mills mall and the BB&T Center arena.
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| Here it goes: Metropica Sucks!! |
11 comments:
Looks like view from a city on the edge of an African bushland
Sorry man, in my mind, "downtown" does not equal "high density mall randomly plopped in the middle of sprawl".
Coral Springs kind of tried that with a big ugly office building near a shopping district, and to this day it is..... just a big ugly office building near a shopping district.
horns.aiff echoes down from above.
Broward is worse than Dade County.
So glad I am leaving Miami.
More of the same mixed use "smart growth" BS that facilitates these developers to sell these unsustainable projects to the surrounding communities. Watch out South Dade! We have a potential mini-Metropica coming to the SE corner of Sw 184 st and old cutler rd. It's only on 9 acres but it has the same BS selling point, a tower to look over the coastal wetlands to the east. These developers have no shame with the crap promises they peddle to get what they want!
I suspect South American investors will be lining up to purchase these Florida condominiums. Suckers, all of them. They cannot even read the condo documents.
What you are witnessing is the latter phase of rats leaving a sinking ship.
The drive to Weston's "downtown" is 10 minutes away...Pathetic.
Another scam.
More speculators who want to pave the Everglades.
Wonderful to read these absurd comments. A project clearly within the development boundry in Broward with a view of the Everglades is the same as "paving" it. On that subject, Weston's creation was "paving" the Everglades and whether people like it or not, it has been an enormous success.
Folks, protect the Everglades by championing redevelopment WITHIN the development boundaries. Genius is only saying he finds the project stupid and that it "sucks". I find the towers and pricing of the condos to be ridiculous and destined to be a failure like Tao (the tower from which the photos were take). The mixed use center is somewhat interesting.
I am curious why Tao is a failure? Btw, the horrible cell-phone quality pictures the author took do not give the views justice.
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