Florida Construction News staff writer
London + Regional Properties are planning to add two apartment buildings to the site of the Pullman Miami Airport hotel.
The developer’s plan, which includes two eight-story buildings with 600 apartments and 1,344 surface parking spaces is the first to potentially bring residential to the sprawling 250-acre business park, where more than $37M has been spent since 2020 on upgrades and renovations.
The plans were submitted as part of a request for a pre-application meeting with Miami-Dade County to discuss modifying the zoning at the site to allow for residential development while keeping the hotel use. L&R is represented by Graham Penn, an attorney at Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes.
The site plan and renderings submitted with the pre-application show 5,800 square feet of retail space.
The developer paid $48.7M in 2019 for the 281-key hotel and 10-acre property, records indicate. The seller was Los Angeles-based Laurus Corp.
Palmetto Bay-based Bizi Arq designed the project, with Kimley-Horn & Associates as the landscape architect.