Flamingo Meetings and Information

Thursday, April 26, 1PM-5PM, Shelborne Hotel
South Beach/Alton Road Charrette:
Miami Beach developer, Russell Galbut, and his company, Crescent Heights, will present a design Charrette at the Shelborne Hotel, 1801 Collins. Mr. Galbut, who will soon be a South of Fifth neighbor with a private home along First Street, has retained three prominent architecture firms to submit competing designs for a proposed retail outlet mall that he hopes to build from the west side of 5th and Alton through 7th and Alton. The Charrette will be moderated by Adam Drisin, Associate Dean of FIU’s College of Architecture.


THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012, 6:00 P.M., 1755 MERIDIAN AVENUE /3 FLOOR
Flamingo Park Tennis Center
Please join City staff and the contractor, Pirtle Construction, for a community pre-construction meeting for the new Flamingo Park Tennis Center. (This is the building that is part of the City Hall Parking Garage).


Monday, May 7, 2012, 5:30 pm, The Seymour, 945 Pennsylvania Avenue
Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association meets regularly on the first Monday of each month, at The Seymour. Flamingo….our historic urban residential neighborhood of South Beach – from Washington to Alton, from Sixth to Lincoln Road. All residents, property owners and other stakeholders are invited to attend and participate.
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Please note the following Flamingo input discussed at our meeting and just shared with Russell Galbut in connection with his properties.

Russell –

While I thought I would be able to attend Thursday’s conclusion of the design competition Charrette, I find that I must attend to matters on deadline for our organization. I have sent reminder notice to our organization.

I do want to make you aware of discussions about your property development that I hope you will find useful. At our meeting of March 9, 2012, the group discussed the following suggestions regarding the property development and expressed the need to again consider further recommendatins as your design program evolved.

Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association
Proposed Recommendations for Galbut Property Designs

Under Consideration as of Mar 9, 2012

• Continuous pedestrian oriented frontage along West Ave to within 100' of 5th st/MacArthur Causeway

 ** pedestrian oriented means store fronts glazed in clear glass for at least 80% of their width, pedestrian enhances to upper floor functions including office, residential, and hotel. Shading from sun and rain over sidewalks through the use of awnings, cantilevers, galleries and similar devices. Shading of paved areas using tree cover. Sidewalks should be paved for the majority of their widths, trees and planters compact and adapted to high intensity use and soil compaction

• buildings must be scaled to the street, stepping back above 5 stories.

• all existing street connections must remain. The trajectory of these may be altered but connectivity may not be impacted.

• *Alton between 7th and 8th should maintain a pedestrian character.

• *frontage on 395 and Alton between 5th St and 7th St may be automobile oriented.

• *6th Street should be configured as the main pedestrian and bicycle connection east to the beach. Vehicular traffic may be restricted along this trajectory.

• *the intersection of 6th Street and West should be configured as a plaza of no less than 1/4 acre.

• *any pedestrian overpass over 395 must originated from the sidewalk or plaza, sloping gently to accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists, returning to grade gently adjacent to the harbor. 24 hour access must be permitted

• *vehicular entries to parking along west Ave may be no wider than 24 ft and no more than once per block. Vehicular and service entries along 5th and Alton 6th to 5th are unrestricted. Vehicular access to parking along 6th and 7th should be no more than 30ft in width and no more than once per block, per side.

• *all above grade uses must be directly accessible by stair and elevator from the street, I. E. not through elevator to parking garage as in the existing 5th and Alton retail development.