Aventura City Center Plan Swaps Condo-Only Vision For Mixed-Use Residential, Hotel & Retail Project

A major development site near Aventura Mall could take a different direction as its owners pivot from a condo-only concept to a larger mixed-use plan.

Aventura 2999 LLC has filed a revised proposal for the four-acre property at 2999 NE 191st Street, where the prior plan called for a 26-story condominium tower with 295 units. The new concept, called Aventura City Center, would instead include a 23-story residential tower with 248 units, a separate 13-story extended-stay hotel and more than 25,000 square feet of retail space.

The site is located near NE 191st Street and NE 29th Avenue, next to Aventura Government Center and just south of Aventura Mall. An existing 10-story, approximately 121,000-square-foot office building on the property, which houses BH Group’s headquarters, would remain, along with surface parking.

The residential tower would include about 10,175 square feet of ground-floor retail. Ten of the homes would be set aside as “hero housing” for essential workers such as teachers, first responders and city employees. That is fewer than the 20 workforce-oriented units included in the earlier approval.

The hotel building would add 153 Marriott-branded extended-stay rooms and roughly 15,029 square feet of retail. Because hotels are not currently permitted as a conditional use in the site’s TC-1 Town Center zoning district, the applicant is seeking a zoning amendment to allow the hospitality component. The proposal also asks the city to reduce the minimum size for one-bedroom units from 800 square feet to 750 square feet.

Amenities would be split between the residential and hotel components. The residential tower would feature approximately 13,400 square feet of amenities, including a pool deck, fitness center, clubroom, lounge areas, coworking space, spa and wellness areas, pet grooming and package-service areas. The hotel would include about 13,000 square feet of amenities, including its own pool deck, fitness center, rooftop lounge, lobby bar and meeting space.

The project would include approximately 952 parking spaces, with most of them in structured parking beneath the residential and hotel buildings. The redesign would also create a more active street presence along NE 191st Street, NE 29th Avenue and the William Lehman Causeway frontage, where surface parking now dominates much of the site.

The shift reflects a broader trend in South Florida development: sponsors are reassessing high-end condo plans and, in some cases, adding hospitality, rental housing and retail to create more diversified projects. For Aventura, the proposal would bring more density and daily activity to a strategically located site between civic uses, office space and one of the region’s strongest retail destinations.

 

Source:  SFBJ