Commercial
A developer with a plan to reactivate the rehabilitation of Miami’s traditionally designated Salvation Military Citadel constructing and the redevelopment of the adjoining property is shifting forward.
Proprietor-developer 49 NW 5TH STREET LLC is proposing the foremost rehabilitation of the historic website at 49 NW Fifth St. and 50 NW Sixth St.
The corporate plans a whole restoration of the remaining historic portion of the Salvation Military Citadel constructing, demolition of a later addition, and development of a brand new mixed-use residential improvement; a five-story podium with lively retail and liveable makes use of alongside all frontages, and 135 parking areas.
Above the rostrum, the mission features a tower with 526 residences and associated facilities.
Town’s Historic Environmental Preservation Board (HEPB) lately voted to approve a particular certificates of appropriateness to allow partial demolition, alterations, an addition, and website enhancements to an individually designated historic useful resource, the Salvation Military Citadel.
The vote was unanimous.
The board did, nonetheless, advocate the extra conventional arches, fairly than the extra trendy squared arch design in later renderings.
In January town’s City Improvement Evaluate Board voted unanimously to advocate approval of the mission, with one situation: the developer should embody a pure inexperienced wall, situated behind the historic Citadel constructing.
The decision included situations:
■Develop following plans ready by O’Donnell Dannwolf and Companions Architects Inc.
■Submit for approval producers’ brochures or shade pictures of proposed design components and supplies, together with home windows, doorways and roofing.
■Use glass inside the historic construction that’s clear and/or Low-E – no tinted or opaque glass.
■Vertically rating the display behind the historic construction into the identical variety of bays because the second and third tales to align it with the façade. HEPB employees is to approve the ultimate design.
■Restore authentic supplies within the historic constructing, together with alternative of home windows with traditionally applicable casement home windows.
■Change the reclaimed brick pavement with plain concrete scored right into a pointed arch sample or proceed the undulation pavement to reflect the historic constructing and to not visually distinction in materials and shade with the constructing.
■Restudy the proposed inexperienced wall and supply another extra consistent with each the city context and design of the historic construction to transition between the proportions of the historic construction and the addition. Workers is to approve the ultimate design.
■Put all tenant signage beneath separate allow. Submit a grasp signal plan for employees evaluate and approval.
The property is inside strolling distance of Brightline, Metrorail, and Metromover stations.
An historic preservation division employees evaluation says town’s HEPB on July 26, 1983, designated the property at 49 NW Fifth St. generally known as Salvation Military Citadel as a regionally designated useful resource.
“The property … comprises a 1925-6 Gothic Revival industrial constructing,” reads the evaluation. “It’s three-story, symmetrically massed with three bays throughout the south façade, and of strengthened concrete development sheathed in rusticated stucco on the primary story and tough textured stucco on the second and third tales.
“The constructing is roofed by a flat roof with the southern two bays having a low-pitched hipped roof supported by brackets. The primary southerly bay of the constructing is supported by octagonal columns and pointed arches that type an arcade over the sidewalk. Two related arches mark the primary central entrance.
“The home windows on the second and third tales are grouped in bays outlined by quoins. Every window is topped with an ogee arch embellished with cinquefoil and trefoil tracery,” reads the evaluation.
The brand new rehabilitation and redevelopment was designed by ODP Structure and Design.