Stantec-Designed 17 West Mixed-Use Development Completed in Miami Beach

Global design and engineering firm Stantec celebrates the completion of the five-story 17 West, a mixed-use development that includes Miami Beach’s highly anticipated Trader Joe’s grocery store.

17 West features 23 apartments, a lush rooftop pool deck with gym, ground-level commercial space, and a public garage with 193 parking spaces. The building’s façade includes multi-colored vertical elements that surround the second and third-floor parking levels to separate the retail below and apartments above. The interlocking glass volumes on the fourth and fifth floor, where the residential units are located, create a geometrical play on the façade and provide each unit with a private, spacious terrace.

To learn more about the development, visit citybizlist South Florida.

Shorecrest Construction Builds Music Facility in Wynwood For Students of All Ages

The arts continue to expand in Miami’s Wynwood! Built by Miami-based general contractor Shorecrest Construction, the Wynwood School of Music is an after-school and weekend music facility that provides a fun and safe community for students of all ages to realize their full potential as musicians.

For the 2,864 square-foot project, Shorecrest transformed an existing shell space and converted it into a music school with three ensemble rooms for band rehearsal, seven lesson rooms for one-on-one classes, instrument repair facility, retail section, staff kitchen and student lounge.  The build-out included soundproofing the rooms, new partitions, detailed finishes and mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems.

Click here to learn more about Shorecrest Construction.

FRONTIER Building Completes 7-Eleven Locations Throughout the Country

FRONTIER Building is an approved 7-Eleven general contractor supporting the brand’s U.S. expansion. The experience-focused national General Construction, Construction Management and Design-Build contractor is currently working on the construction of 19 different 7-Eleven locations across the country.

FRONTIER Building’s team of highly skilled and experience convenience store superintendents and project managers recently completed three 7-Eleven projects within the last four months in Charlotte and Gastonia, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia. Today, the team is working on additional locations in Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

At a time when the national gas and convenience brand continues to ramp up its U.S. expansion, FRONTIER Building has cemented itself as a trusted and preferred contractor for the industry.

CLF’s Famed Tropical Modern Design Makes Its Way to Suburbia

Award-winning architecture firm, Choeff Levy Fischman, has expanded into the suburbs with the completion of its first home in Weston, FL. The stunning single-story residence features the firm’s signature Tropical Modern design, allowing it to stand out in an area where modern design is virtually unfamiliar.

Located on an expansive 30,160 square foot waterfront lot, the architects designed a 5,986 square foot residence with four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a half bath, large kitchen, and a central family room.

The use of extensive glass, as well as natural materials such as white stucco, ribbed wood cladding and limestone cladding, all come together to create the indoor-outdoor lifestyle the homeowners were looking for.

The new home was recently featured in Home Snapshots. To read the full story, click here.

Stantec’s Andrew Burnett in Invest Miami

Stantec Miami’s Senior Principal Andrew Burnett was recently interviewed by Invest Miami where he shared how the global design and engineering firm likes to think beyond traditional traits to focus on building communities.

Burnett also shared opportunities and innovations post COVID-19, and what’s in store for Stantec for the rest of the year.

What recent Stantec landmarks in the Miami-Dade region would you like to share? 

Recent landmark projects in full swing include Wynwood Square, a 12-story mixed-use facility that includes apartments and retail space; the 30-story YotelPAD Miami condo and hotel project under construction; and a 43-story Luma tower in Miami’s Worldcenter. And there are a lot of new projects to be announced soon and currently coming on board. Each asset within our portfolio contributes to our growth in the creative services space, beyond architecture and interior design, but also engineering and resilience. We think beyond traditional physical traits and focus on how our vast team builds our communities and what we create so there is continuity in our lives and the spaces we inhabit and to ensure that we protect diversity and creative thinking. We call it cultural resilience.

How has your emphasis on cultural resilience unlocked your success? 

From a business perspective, a model that focuses on a single person is inherently limited to that individual. Whereas a business with tremendous expertise and resources in multiple channels, like Stantec, focuses on collaboration and the bandwidth to achieve more. When we empower people and foster collaboration, we are able to affect more positive change, get more involved in opportunities and better affect our clients’ bottom line.

To read the full interview, visit Invest Miami.

Rare Streamline Moderne Home Gets Million-Dollar Transformation

The only Streamline Moderne single-family home in Miami Beach has undergone a million-dollar renovation. The 1936 home was purchased by Detroit snowbirds, Kyle Evans and Michael Chetcuit who admired the home’s aerodynamic design, which features curved walls, porthole windows and iconic eyebrows over the windows.

Determined to make the property their forever home, the couple took on a yearslong renovation. The result is a home that embraces and celebrates its original architecture and charm, while also suitable to today’s times and the couple’s needs.

Read more about the renovation on The Wall Street Journal.

Josh Oberhausen, President of Oberhausen Marketing & Public Relations, Moderates Hospitality Design Panel

Oberhausen Marketing & Public Relations President and Miami Hospitality Design Awards co-founder Josh Oberhausen, recently moderated a webinar on “How Hotels are Anticipating to Modify Design Now.”

Hosted by the Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association, the panelists included hospitality and hotel design experts Patrick Lee, Founder and President of Shorecrest Construction, Jason Hagopian, Principal, of TSAO Design Group, Clay Markham, Senior Vice President, Global Hospitality Leader, CallisonRTKL and Gipsy Alonso, Account Development Manager, SE Region, Geiger Furniture.

Panelists discussed the changing hospitality landscape as a result of COVID-19 including design and programming changes to hotel bars, restaurants and meeting spaces, implementing social distancing and sanitizing stations at check-in and FF&E product selections.

To learn more about this panel, please click on this link:
https://youtu.be/462_7MPzFMc

Stantec Miami Hired as Architect & Engineer of Manor Miramar

Miami-based Related Group has hired global integrated design firm Stantec to handle architectural and engineering for a new multi-use residential project located in the City of Miramar, Florida.

Manor Miramar will be an eight-story, 393-unit apartment complex with studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging from 420 square feet to 1,6000 square feet. Some three-bedroom units will feature two stories and private terraces. The development will also include 28,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and a 650-space parking garage.

“The residential complex will be an important component of the City of Miramar’s master plan to transform the Miramar Town Center into a true hub for the community,” said Christina Villa, senior associate and project manager with Stantec’s Miami office. “The building’s design will complement the area’s existing Mediterranean style of architecture and the city’s vision of a vibrant main street with promenades and retail shops.”

Construction is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of this year.

To read the full story, visit The Real Deal.

Shorecrest Construction’s Patrick Lee Discusses Impacts of Coronavirus

Measures to contain the spread of coronavirus are still shifting by the day — and so are responses by investors, developers, general contractors, architects, builders, banks, and buyers. To track the impact in real-time, The Miami Herald sat down with our client, Patrick Lee, founder, and president of Wynwood-based Shorecrest Construction, as part of its RE|on-the-ground source Miami interview series.

Miami Herald: How is the coronavirus crisis impacting your business? Have you had layoffs? Slowdowns on existing jobs?

Patrick: At this time, the state and most municipalities are considering construction an essential business, so most of our projects are continuing to progress. We haven’t had layoffs and are hopeful that won’t be necessary. Production is absolutely affected due to new coordination challenges and the uncertainty in the world, but we are grateful to keep people employed and busy. That said, we are trying to balance this with keeping everyone safe, which is challenging.

Miami Herald: Several local cities just shut down construction sites. What impact do you think that will have on your business and on real estate as a whole?

Patrick: So far it hasn’t negatively affected us, but if it becomes more comprehensive it will. Our business and the real estate market as a whole are tied to the economy. Any additional large-scale negative impacts to the economy will affect real estate and the construction industry.

I’m hopeful that the US can contain the virus, get a comprehensive testing program, and eventually a vaccine. Once that is done, we would hope to get back to work at full capacity.

Miami Herald: You have a residential portfolio as well as commercial one. How are the safety challenges different on the two types of job sites?

Patrick: We implemented job-site policies to try our best to prevent the spread of the coronavirus including required hand-washing, masks, social distancing, and checking people’s temperatures. We have to maintain a healthy environment. Our residential, single-family home projects are easier to manage because the tradesman can separate and maneuver more independently, whereas the commercial projects have areas where the workers funnel, like access points, elevators, etc.

To read the full interview, visit miamiherald.com.

FRONTIER Building Completes New Burlington Store

Retail & Restaurant Facility Business recently published news about Miami-based FRONTIER Building’s completion of a new Burlington store located at 3705 West 20th Avenue in Hialeah, for Sterling Organization. The existing 40,000 square-foot structure was formerly a Sports Authority, which FRONTIER transformed into the new department store retailer.

The project required extensive façade renovations to achieve the new brand’s look. The construction team was also involved in shoring the roof up to modify the new façade.

“We’re excited to add this finished project to our growing portfolio,” says Andrew Goggin, director of construction for FRONTIER Building. “We’re extremely proud of the results and look forward to completing more retail projects like this in the future.”

This is FRONTIER Building’s first project for Burlington. The Miami-based firm has completed projects in the retail, restaurant, and gas and convenience sectors throughout 22 states across the country.

Founded in 2002, FRONTIER Building is an experience-focused national general construction, construction management, and design-build contractor. FRONTIER Building is a division of FRONTIER Companies, which specializes in experience-focused national development, construction, and management. To learn more about FRONTIER & its projects, visit www.frontierbuilding.com.