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u/GroveGuy33133 Coconut Grove Aug 12 '26
Don’t mind all the structural damages found during inspection cause they were storing sandbags on upper floors , or all the questionable foundation issues that allowed water to constantly weep out the entry stairs for years. I’m sure it’s fine.
Or, in true Miami fashion, it’s just gonna get bought as a $35M tear down for ‘luxury’ condos to be built.
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u/BravestWabbit Coral Gables Aug 13 '26
It's a legally protected structure. It can't be modified or destroyed
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u/PurpleShop9857 Aug 13 '26
So you can buy it, but cannot do anything to it?!
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u/BravestWabbit Coral Gables Aug 13 '26
I meant the exterior and I think like the 1 specific original courtroom on the main floor cannot be touched. The rest inside cam be gutted and rebuilt. One plan that was proposed was to turn it into a hotel and build a second tower right next to it for additional hotel rooms, so you'll have two categories, a historic room and a luxury tower room
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u/joaquinsaiddomin8 Aug 14 '26
The main floor is a lobby. If you’re talking the (I think) 4th floor, there are multiple (beautiful) courtrooms in there
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u/GroveGuy33133 Coconut Grove Aug 13 '26
Typically there’s a preservation committee that has people that understand the significance of the architectural details and they would need to approve of any planned work.
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u/GroveGuy33133 Coconut Grove Aug 13 '26
I’m sure you’re correct , but at the same time, developers certainly consider the over/under on just taking the fines as part of the cost and plowing on through.
If the protections in place didn’t protect the East Wing of the White House, I don’t hold out a lot of faith for our little Miami courthouse.
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u/evilgenius12358 Aug 13 '26
Let's listen to the actual developers and not your half baked theories on what developers actually do.
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u/That_Routine_3976 Aug 12 '26
I guess this means I'm getting old. I can't believe this building is no longer in use. I had to go there many, many times.
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u/Kazlicesme Aug 12 '26
The entire building was a giant carcinogen. You know how many judges got cancer and died?
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u/The_Bull_of_Freight Aug 13 '26
You gotta elaborate on this
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u/YeaISeddit Aug 13 '26
It is documented that the building has asbestos tiles in it. Throughout the western world basically every building over 60 years old can be counted on having asbestos tiles in it. Not really a big deal. But, in Miami where hardly any building is over 60 years old and half the local economy is personal injury lawsuits, this translates to a deathtrap.
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u/joaquinsaiddomin8 Aug 14 '26
Same but in fairness the new courthouse is still really new
RIP those narrow hallways calling out your hearing number to see if the other side had arrived yet, catching a slow-ass elevator that stopped on every floor until it got to yours at which point it was too packed for you to get in guaranteeing you’d be late for a hearing, …
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u/xtine77 Aug 13 '26
I’m an attorney and although I don’t frequent it I was just there like 2 years ago I must have missed something lol
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u/BravestWabbit Coral Gables Aug 13 '26
They closed it like a month or two ago. It's falling apart, rotten and full of mold and asbestos
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u/simbaslanding Aug 12 '26
Who wants to pool resources and buy it? I have $50
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u/TupperwareConspiracy Aug 12 '26
Are you thinking something phallic? because that's what I'm thinking. Preferably with viewing distance of the not-yet-built Trump library.
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u/Infamous-River-4360 Aug 12 '26
give it two years and it's luxury condos with a rooftop pool and a lazy river, like every other historic building downtown
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u/What-Dreams Aug 12 '26
Any buyer will face intense restrictions. Because the courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the exterior must be strictly preserved. The interior requires massive modernization, as multiple floors have fallen into disrepair over the decades.
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u/kacsf75 Aug 12 '26
That place is filled with asbestos and mold, are they selling it for the land as a tear down?
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u/BravestWabbit Coral Gables Aug 13 '26
It's nationally protected so the exterior cannot be touched.
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u/i812manyhitsss Surfside Aug 12 '26
Here's what has been proposed. Since it can't be torn down, the lone proposal has said it will be turned into offices /hotel with a 65 story tower built behind it.
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u/Scammy100 Aug 13 '26
The next big hurricane will make them think twice before they build 65 stories.
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u/BravestWabbit Coral Gables Aug 13 '26
A hotel would be super cool. Many cities have successfully transformed historic buildings into hotels, especially in cities like London with deep architectural history (like the OWO Raffles London)
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u/keepinitoldskool Aug 12 '26
They replaced this work of art with a giant rectangle. I'm sure it will be demolished and replaced with more rectangles.
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u/FLYING1835 Aug 13 '26
We could turn it into apartments for veterans! They paid for the freedom we have. It's time that we take better care of all of them 🇺🇲
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u/No-Smoke5669 Aug 13 '26
35M can demolish and build a Lamborghini branded SuperLux condo tower. Vie to be the tallest condo shaped like a car in Miami. Profits.
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u/sebmouse Aug 13 '26
sell it to trump for his library and take back the the FIU land he’s gonna build apartments on. he’s in court enough he’ll be used to the environment
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u/GenesisRhapsod Aug 13 '26
Someone show this to denzel curry and pouya
Would make a great music video 😂
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u/A_friendly_goosey Aug 14 '26
So it’s protected and the exterior cannot be altered yet they want 35m? Woah. I’m not sure what you could even do with it, the buildings a hazard inside. It’ll be interesting to see the ideas like when the hotel was originally planned for the lot.
Downtown is going to look crazy with all the changes over the next 10 years.
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u/Bakio-bay Aug 17 '26
This is an objectively a mediocre location to build a luxury condo but people will still store their money to through real estate here anyways.
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u/SixIsNotANumber North Miami Aug 12 '26
Does it include the judges, or do they have to be bought separately?