The Pérez family’s Related Group plans 115 affordable apartments on a Little Havana public housing site in Miami.
The project is part of an agreement and long-term lease between Coconut Grove-based Related and Miami-Dade County to redevelop three county-owned public housing sites.
Related’s affordable housing arm, Related Urban, plans to replace the existing three-story, 28-unit public housing building at 1275 Southwest First Street into the 115-unit Gallery at Little Havana project, according to a Related filing to Miami-Dade submitted this month. The existing building was completed in 1985, records show.
Related, which Jorge Pérez started as an affordable housing development firm in 1979, has expanded into luxury real estate since then and remains a prolific builder of below-market units.
In 2023, Miami-Dade and Related Urban signed a development agreement for three county owned public housing sites in Miami’s Little Havana that Related will lease for 75 years, including the 1275 Southwest First Street property. The other two are the 48-unit Falk Turnkey complex at 445-465 Southwest 16th Avenue, and the 55-unit Jose Marti Plaza at 154 Southwest 17th Avenue, according to county records. The redevelopment of Falk Turnkey and Jose Marti Plaza is for 146 affordable units, combined, and precedes the redevelopment of the 1275 Southwest First Street site.
Miami-Dade is redeveloping the public housing complexes as part of the federal Rental Assistance Demonstration program, which allows for the redevelopment and modernization of public housing units. Through the program, Miami-Dade is tapping private developers like Related to preserve and upgrade about 7,000 public housing units, according to the county’s website.
Led by Pérez and his sons Jon Paul and Nicholas Pérez, Related has long been partnering with local governments for its affordable housing projects.
At the Jackson Memorial Hospital campus in Miami, Related plans an 842-unit Live Local Act project with a 27-story tower and a 31-story tower, as well as an 18-story, 128-key hotel. Site owner Miami-Dade County Public Health Trust plans to lease the development site at 1500 Northwest 12th Avenue in Miami to Related.
Through the state’s Live Local Act, which allows bigger buildings if developers include below-market apartments, Related also plans to supersize the 1,379-unit Haley Sofge public housing complex with a 1,038-unit project at 800 Northwest 13th Avenue, 780 Northwest 13th Court and 1389 Northwest Seventh Street in Miami.
In South Miami, Related is redeveloping the county-owned South Miami Gardens Apartments public housing complex with the 172-unit Residences at SoMi Parc mixed-income building at 5961 Southwest 68th Street, and the 390-unit, Gallery at SoMi Parc at 5949 Southwest 68th Street. Residences at SoMi Parc opened last year, and the Gallery at SoMi Parc project application was filed in March.
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