A developer scaled back his plan for a 500-unit project with mostly apartments near Naranja to a 245 townhome complex, citing higher demand for larger homes.
Attorney Gus Deribeaux, through two entities, wants to develop the townhomes on a 17.3-acre mostly vacant site on the southwest corner of Old Dixie Highway and Southwest 280th Street in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, according to an application filed to the county late last month.
The site consists of the vacant lots at 28030 and 28240 Old Dixie Highway, and 15450 Southwest 280th Street, and the lot at 28105 Southwest 157th Avenue that now has a single-family home.
Designed by Pascual, Perez, Kiliddjian, Starr & Associates, the complex would consist of two-story buildings with five townhomes. The homes will range from two-bedrooms to four-bedroom townhomes.
The switch of plans is due to more demand for south Miami-Dade housing from families, who generally seek bigger homes, said Ben Fernandez, the attorney who filed the application on behalf of Deribeaux.
Last year, Deribeaux scored county approval for a project up to eight-stories with 500 units, which would have consisted of 424 multifamily units and 76 townhomes, according to the application.
“It’s not often that you have a decrease in density like that,” Fernandez said.
It’s unclear if the townhomes will be for rent or for sale.
Deribeaux didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Records show Deribeaux’s entities paid a combined $2.2 million in three deals in 2018, 2021 and last year for the vacant lots. He is under contract to purchase the single-family home lot, Fernandez said.
South Miami-Dade has become a magnet for developers due to its healthy supply of buildable land that sells at a discount from sites in Miami’s urban core. Over the past half-decade, developers have seized on this, filing a flurry of proposed projects.
Miami-based homebuilding giant Lennar, which is the nation’s second largest homebuilder, far outpaces its counterparts. It has delivered 8,430 single-family houses and townhomes in south Miami-Dade, or nearly 70 percent of all such units built in the past five years, according to Colliers Research. Lennar also is developing almost 60 percent of the housing stock under construction.
Brothers Salim and Kamil Chraibi’s Miami-based Bluenest Development has emerged as one of the top workforce housing developers in south Miami-Dade. The firm’s portfolio consists of 1,000 completed homes and a pipeline of another 3,000.
In Princeton, one of south Dade’s neighborhoods, Miami-based Paxton Development Group wants to develop the 230-unit Legacy Park affordable rental complex at 13850 Southwest 248th Street.
Atlantic Pacific Companies and the Archdiocese of Miami proposed a 600-unit affordable apartment complex at 28520 Southwest 148th Avenue, adjacent to St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church in Leisure City.
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