Integra Solutions wants to take on one of Miami-Dade’s biggest public housing overhauls, proposing a $385.9 million redevelopment that would quintuple density on a 12-acre Brownsville site while layering in a wide spread of income-restricted units.
The Miami-based developer is asking the county for a 99-year ground lease and master development agreement to raze and rebuild the aging Annie Coleman 15 complex with 905 apartments, the South Florida Business Journal reported. The proposal heads to the county’s Housing Committee next week.
The site, at 2200 and 2501 N.W. 57th Street, holds 144 public housing units built in 1965. Integra also has a small adjacent parcel under contract, which it aims to fold into the plan.
Miami-Dade began shopping the property in 2023 as part of a broader push to modernize its public housing stock. These deals typically blend replacement public housing with deeper affordability and workforce units, but they require federal approval, adding time and complexity.
Integra estimates construction at $270.1 million, spread across three phases. The public housing delivered would allow all of the existing tenants to stay in place.
The unit mix is broad for a single site: 495 one-bedrooms, 187 two-bedrooms, 158 three-bedrooms and 65 four-bedroom townhomes. Income levels would range from extremely low-income to workforce, including 182 units at 30 percent of area median income, 270 at 60 percent, 272 at 80 percent and 181 at 120 percent.
Integra is padding the proposal with perks, including a fitness center, playground, 20 for-sale homes, a youth art center, 3,100 square feet of commercial space, an on-site police workstation, a 5 percent cut of developer fees for the Brownsville Civic Neighborhood Association and 10 percent of net cash flow for a local public art endowment.
Integra’s principals — Victor Ballestas, Paulo Henrique Tavares de Melo, Jacob Conrad Morrow and Nelson Stabile — are expected to pursue state financing next year through the Florida Housing Finance Corp. The company could not be reached for comment.
If the proposal advances, the County Commission would vote in January.
— Holden Walter-Warner
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