Pitbull’s plan to replace one of his early Miami homes in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood with a new headquarters for Mr. 305 Records has cleared a key design review. The proposed eight-story office building would rise on the small lot.
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Here are key takeaways:
In 2003, Pitbull hangs out in the neighborhood he grew up in, near his mother’s old house in Wynwood. MARICE COHN BAND Miami Herald File
• Miami’s Wynwood Design Review Committee unanimously approved the design plans for the boutique office building at 25 NE 28th St. The project next goes before the city’s Urban Development Review Board before it can enter permitting.
• The proposed 11,211-square-foot, eight-story building would replace a 720-square-foot single-family home where Pitbull spent part of his childhood. That two-bedroom house, built in 1927, has already been permitted for demolition.
• The lot is just 1,750 square feet, the smallest site to ever come before the committee, according to Marc Coleman, director of development for Rilea Group, which is collaborating with Pitbull on the project.
• The building’s facade would be only 25 feet wide. Architect Javier Barrera of Deforma Studio compared the “very narrow” design to buildings in dense cities like New York, Tokyo and Mexico City.
• Renderings show an industrial-inspired exterior with murals on the outside. The site is owned by Un Melon en Wynwood LLC, an entity tied to Pitbull’s music label, which was founded in Miami in 2009 and represents over a dozen Latin music artists.
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