Setai’s Ariel Nakash, Monroe Capital’s Theodore Koenig and Witkoff’s Steve Witkoff with rendering of planned Shore Club challenge (Getty Photographs, Monroe Capital, Witkoff, Kobi Karp Architecture)
House owners at the Setai are challenging the approval of the neighboring Shore Club challenge in Miami Beach front.
The Setai Resort & Residences condominium affiliation is looking for a re-listening to of the city’s historic preservation board vote in favor of Monroe Money and Witkoff’s options for the Shore Club, a historic oceanfront vacation resort just south of the Setai.
Setai entities tied to the Nakash loved ones — creators of Jordache Jeans and house owners of the former Versace Mansion — as nicely as others, which include Dr. Stephen Soloway, submitted a petition with the metropolis to rethink the May well 10th acceptance. The board approved the certificate of appropriateness for the partial demolition and renovation of two structures, the full demolition of two structures, and the design of two additions at the Shore Club assets at 1901 Collins Avenue. Lawyer Kent Harrison Robbins, representing the Setai entities, spoke out versus the approval at the identical assembly.
The Miami Seashore Historic Preservation Board will vote at its Sept. 13 meeting on making it possible for a new hearing.
In the Setai association’s petition to the city, it alleges that the board voted on the Shore Club’s previous-moment change to cut down the width of the prepared tower, “denying the community the opportunity to know the ultimate determination and participate in the community listening to process.” The petition, filed by attorney Andrew Dickman, asks that the historic preservation board reverse or modify its May perhaps 10th approval.
The petition states that the “staff report and all prior testimony and evidence is centered upon the Shore Club software prior to the very last-minute substantial ‘straw vote’ redesign.”
Witkoff declined to remark.
Owners of the 40-story Setai, at 2001 Collins Avenue, 1 of the tallest structures in that stretch of Collins Avenue, have opposed other close by developments, which include the peak boost for the Bulgari-branded challenge on the former Seagull Lodge house.
Witkoff and Monroe plan to renovate and redevelop the Shore Club into a luxurious condominium and lodge complicated. The historic resort, crafted in 1939 and redesigned by architect David Chipperfield in the early 2000s, has been closed due to the fact the pandemic began. Kobi Karp Architecture & Interior Design and style and Robert A.M. Stern Architects are designing the undertaking.
HFZ Money beforehand planned to redevelop the Shore Club, but misplaced the house by way of what a single previous owner, an entity tied to The Clark Estates, alleged was a “crooked and secretive land grab” orchestrated by Monroe Funds and Witkoff. Two years in the past, Monroe acquired HFZ’s pursuits in the Shore Club entities that owned the property in 2020, and introduced Witkoff on as a lover.
