Ram Realty Advisors wants to develop a 400-unit multifamily mixed-use project on the site of a mobile home park near North Miami.
Palm Beach Gardens-based Ram Realty, through an affiliate, has the Biscayne Breeze Mobile Home Park site at 11380 Biscayne Boulevard, and adjacent properties at 11320 and 11340 Biscayne Boulevard, under contract for an undisclosed price, according to an application filed to Miami-Dade County last week. The 7-acre property also is home to Blue Runner Seafood restaurant, Summer Day Garden Nursery and The Body strip club.
The proposal is for an eight-story residential project, with 50 units of the 400 designated as workforce housing, and roughly 50,000 square feet of retail, including a liquor store, according to the application.
A site plan by Studio Mc+G Architecture shows the residential portion and a seven-story garage on the west side of the site, and the retail space on the east side of the property fronting Biscayne Boulevard.
The application seeks a rezoning, Development Impact Committee review and a Comprehensive Development Master Plan amendment.
The property owners that filed the application include Abbot Financial, led by Francis Martin of Catawba, Virginia, and Ann Holbrook of Blue Ridge, Virginia; the Royal Flagg Jonas Revocable Trust; and the Barbara Jonas Revocable Trust. Records show the applicants have owned the property since 1998.
Biscayne Breeze Mobile Home Park consists of 59 mobile homes, one recreational vehicle and a park-owned cottage, according to a Housing Study done by The Urban Group. The Fort Lauderdale-based consultancy did the study on behalf of the developer, as state law requires a Housing Study when mobile homeowners may be displaced.
In total, 58 residents who each now pay an average monthly rent of $745 for their lot could be displaced. Because of the age and condition of some of the homes, they can’t be moved. Residents, however, may qualify for relocation assistance, including $1,375 for owners of single-section homes and $2,750 for owners of multi-section homes, according to the study.
Ram Realty, led by Casey Cummings, buys, develops and manages multifamily, retail and mixed-use real estate in the Southeast, according to its website. In south Miami-Dade, the firm is developing a roughly 100-acre mixed-use project near Zoo Miami. It includes a Walmart Supercenter and completed multifamily complexes that Ram has sold.
Mobile home parks across the state are increasingly being redeveloped. Near El Portal, entities tied to David Mordekhay of Hollywood, and Tom Grinberg and Gary Otto of Miami, want to build 3,990 multifamily units, 250,000 square feet of retail, 107,800 square feet of offices and 312 hotel rooms on the site of the Soar Mobile Home Park at 8050 Northwest Miami Court.