A 2-acre padel club is set to open at a planned $2 billion mixed-use development in Midtown Miami, which developers say will be the largest padel venue in the United States. Ultra Padel will launch the Ultra Club Midtown pop-up with 11 outdoor courts, three children’s courts, a food and beverage area, and community programming. The venue is expected to open in December.
The Midtown Park project is being developed by Carlos Rosso’s Rosso Development and Alex Vadia’s Midtown Development on a nearly 5-acre site at 3055 North Miami Avenue. The land has been vacant for years; previous plans for a Walmart on the site were met with controversy. The first phase of the project includes the 28-story, 288-unit Midtown Park Residences by Proper condo tower, which will offer 40,000 square feet of amenities. Proper Hospitality from Santa Monica is partnering on this phase.
Ultra Club Midtown’s pop-up will operate on part of the development site where future construction for Midtown Park’s second phase is planned. After that phase is complete, Ultra Padel will run a permanent eight-court Racquet & Padel Club at Midtown Park. Ultra Padel, led by Guillermo Barragan, also operates facilities in Aventura and Little Haiti.
In Coconut Grove, an Italian restaurant called La Sponda will open at CMC Group’s Vita at Grove Isle condominium. Gioia Hospitality Group will operate La Sponda in a 4,500-square-foot space above Vita at Grove Isle Club. The restaurant is scheduled to open next year after the condo building’s completion later this year. Gioia Hospitality Group, led by Thomas Angelo, runs other restaurants including Daniel’s Miami in Coral Gables and Daniel’s Steakhouse in Fort Lauderdale. La Sponda will serve Mediterranean coastal cuisine and its interiors are designed by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio.
CMC Group is developing Vita at Grove Isle with 65 condos on the private island. The seven-story building offers units ranging from three-bedroom residences to bi-level penthouses; prices start around $8.4 million with remaining penthouses priced from about $21.5 million. Grove Isle already has three existing condo towers built between 1979 and 1981.
Atlantic Village in Hallandale Beach has signed leases with three new tenants: Wagyu House (which includes a Meat N’ Bone butcher shop), Murano by Ferraro (a fine dining restaurant), and Tee Box (an indoor virtual golf venue). Wagyu House leased 2,700 square feet while Murano took up 2,600 square feet; both plan to open in September. Tee Box will occupy a 5,300-square-foot facility opening early next year.
These businesses are located at Atlantic Village’s third phase at 601 North Federal Highway. Grupo Eco developed Atlantic Village and represented most parties involved in these leases; Jacob Gale of ZYX Capital represented Tee Box. Grupo Eco was founded over four decades ago in Mexico City and now develops projects locally as well as abroad.
The first three phases of Atlantic Village span over six acres along North Federal Highway with more than 118,000 square feet dedicated to retail and restaurants plus two six-story office buildings; a fourth phase adds a twelve-story office condo building at 800 North Federal Highway through partnership with Apollo Companies.
By year-end, Atlantic Village will house the Americas headquarters for FIBA (International Basketball Federation), which bought three office condos totaling 6,400 square feet for $3.9 million on the eleventh floor of the new office building. FIBA plans to relocate from its current location in Coconut Grove after five years there.
Mini-golf company Puttshack announced it would open its second South Florida location within Dania Pointe—a large mixed-use development—on August 27th. The new venue features four nine-hole mini-golf courses using proprietary Trackaball technology that tracks players’ scores across semi-private Challenge Hole suites as well as event spaces and bars within more than 25,000 square feet at 1825 Way Pointe Place.
Puttshack currently operates venues throughout the U.S., including another South Florida outpost at Brickell City Centre in Miami. Dania Pointe was developed by Kimco Realty on over one hundred acres near I-95 and Stirling Road; it contains nearly one million square feet of commercial space along with hotels and residential buildings.
Bluebird Kids Health signed a lease for about 4,000 square feet at Tamarac’s shopping plaza located at 7801 Northwest 57th Street; it opens September 3rd under ownership of ShopOne Centers REIT which recently acquired the property for $36.4 million.
The Promenade at Coconut Creek added two tenants: Lèlior home fragrance boutique opened a store spanning just over one thousand square feet while pop-up gallery “33 Contemporary Gallery” plans to debut next month within sixteen hundred square feet offering art exhibitions as well as mindfulness programs led by artist Sergio Gomez who founded the gallery internationally recognized for his curatorial work.
Promenade at Coconut Creek spans twenty-three acres under ownership of AEW Capital based out of Boston.
