Thursday, May 21, 2015

When the Everglades Is Only Good For a View From a High Rise. By Geniusofdespair

You know those two towers near Sawgrass Mills? This is the view from the top of one of them.  I went up there knowing I would need these photos someday and today is the day. A developer in Broward wants to develop 65 acres with high rises (he says with views of the Everglades) bordering the mall. And he will be building another shopping center within it.


I am going to say, it is not much of a view, but of course I would never live this far West. A big city bordering the Everglades, what else could you hope for...massive flooding??

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.
Here it goes: Metropica Sucks!!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like view from a city on the edge of an African bushland

Tom, KG4CYX said...

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.

Anonymous said...

Broward is worse than Dade County.

Anonymous said...

So glad I am leaving Miami.

Anonymous said...

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!

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

What you are witnessing is the latter phase of rats leaving a sinking ship.

Anonymous said...

The drive to Weston's "downtown" is 10 minutes away...Pathetic.

Anonymous said...

Another scam.
More speculators who want to pave the Everglades.

RealTruthofMiami said...

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.

Anonymous said...

I am curious why Tao is a failure? Btw, the horrible cell-phone quality pictures the author took do not give the views justice.