{"id":335649,"date":"2026-07-10T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335649\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:01:26","slug":"historic-district-clash-over-200-foot-miami-beach-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335649\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic district clash over 200-foot Miami Beach tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"An<\/p>\n

An aerial view of the Raleigh in 2023. The new condo tower will rise at the rear of the property.<\/p>\n

Matias J. Ocner<\/p>\n

mocner@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n

A $1 billion plan to restore the shuttered Raleigh Hotel with a new 200-foot luxury condo tower is sparking a fight over sunlight and scale in Miami Beach\u2019s Art Deco district. The Miami Beach Planning Board voted 5-1 Tuesday to approve additional floor space, but the height dispute with the neighboring Shelborne hotel remains unresolved.<\/p>\n

FULL STORY: Will Miami Beach condo tower cast a shadow on a nearby hotel? There\u2019s a showdown<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Architectural Architectural rendering of the Raleigh complex and the controversial 200-foot condo tower. <\/p>\n

Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n

The project: New York-based Nahla Capital, led by developer Genghis Hadi,<\/a> wants to transform the Raleigh, Richmond and South Seas hotels at 1775 Collins Ave. into a three-acre oceanfront resort with 80 hotel rooms, a 52-unit condo tower, restaurants and shops.<\/p>\n

The dispute: The Raleigh<\/a> condo tower is already approved at 175 feet, but Hadi wants to build to the 200-foot city maximum. Shadow studies show the taller tower would cover the neighboring Shelborne\u2019s pool for roughly two hours a day during December and January.<\/p>\n

Developer\u2019s pitch: Hadi said the project is \u201cabout the rebirth of an icon on Miami Beach\u201d and asked the board not to block it \u201cover someone else\u2019s pool being covered for two hours a day for three weeks out of the year.\u201d Shelborne<\/a> hotel owner Mitchell Cohen argued the tower would unfairly shift sunlight to the Raleigh, telling the board: \u201cI feel that the applicant is asking you to do is take the sunlight away from me and give it to him. That\u2019s not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next: The Miami Beach City Commission will consider the added floor space, but the Historic Preservation Board will decide whether the tower can reach 200 feet. Nahla Capital acquired the long-stalled property for $275 million in October 2025.<\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An aerial view of the Raleigh in 2023. The new condo tower will rise at the rear of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-335649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}