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 vacant site at 3055 North Miami Avenue. In previous years, this location was proposed as a Walmart site, which generated local controversy.
The first phase of the project includes the construction of Midtown Park Residences by Proper, a 28-story condominium tower with 288 units and 40,000 square feet of amenities. Proper Hospitality from Santa Monica is partnering on this phase.
Ultra Club Midtown will initially operate as a pop-up on part of the development site where future phases are planned. After completion of the second phase, Ultra Padel will manage 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’s Grove Isle neighborhood, an Italian restaurant called La Sponda will open at CMC Group’s Vita at Grove Isle condominium. The restaurant will occupy a 4,500-square-foot space above Vita at Grove Isle Club and is scheduled to open next year after building completion later this year.
Gioia Hospitality Group leads La Sponda’s operations. According to CMC Group’s release: “La Sponda,” which means The Shore in Italian, “will offer Mediterranean coastal food.” Martin Brudnizki Design Studio is handling interior design for the restaurant.
Vita at Grove Isle consists of 65 condominiums within a seven-story building offering units ranging from three bedrooms to bi-level penthouses. Prices start around $8.4 million; remaining penthouses begin near $21.5 million.
Atlantic Village in Hallandale Beach has signed leases with several new tenants: Wagyu House for both its restaurant and Meat N’ Bone butcher shop (2,700 square feet), Murano by Ferraro (2,600 square feet), and Tee Box indoor virtual golf facility (5,300 square feet). These businesses are set to open between September this year and early next year.
Grupo Eco develops Atlantic Village across four phases along North Federal Highway. The first three phases feature restaurants, retail spaces totaling 118,000 square feet, and two six-story office buildings; the fourth phase includes a new office condo tower partnered with Apollo Companies.
By year-end, Atlantic Village will also house FIBA’s Americas headquarters after FIBA purchased three office condos totaling 6,400 square feet for $3.9 million on the eleventh floor of its newest building. FIBA currently operates out of Miami’s Coconut Grove but plans to relocate soon.
Puttshack will open its second South Florida mini-golf venue at Dania Pointe in Dania Beach on August 27th. This location features four nine-hole courses using proprietary Trackaball technology for scorekeeping as well as event spaces and bars over more than 25,000 square feet. Puttshack has other venues across the U.S., including one at Brickell City Centre in Miami.
Dania Pointe was developed by Kimco Realty on over 100 acres near I-95 and Stirling Road; it includes nearly one million square feet dedicated to retail and entertainment alongside hotels and residential properties.
Elsewhere in Tamarac, Bluebird Kids Health leased about 4,000 square feet at Northwest 57th Street for pediatric care services starting September 3rd; ShopOne Centers REIT acquired ownership of that shopping plaza last month for $36.4 million.
At Promenade at Coconut Creek shopping center owned by AEW Capital of Boston—Lèlior home fragrance boutique recently opened while art gallery pop-up “33 Contemporary Gallery,” founded by Sergio Gomez,”will exhibit artists’ work and will also offer mindfulness and educational programs” beginning next month.
