In their report on the project, Miami Beachs planning staff called the Chetrit Groups proposal well

But a South Beach block of dilapidated and charred Art Deco, Post War Modern and Mediterranean rental cars in puerto rico Revival buildings could soon be reborn as a complex of boutique hotels if a developers plans are approved Tuesday.
The seven crumbling, historic apartment buildings and hotels were purchased in April by the Chetrit Group, under the name CG Sunny Isles LLC. The New York-based rental cars in puerto rico developer wants to restore, partially demolish and add onto the properties in order to construct a roughly 300-room complex rental cars in puerto rico that would rejuvenate a block of buildings tucked between the Miami Beach Convention Center and the Miami City Ballet.
Chetrit Group partner rental cars in puerto rico and local developer Ari Pearl has said the restored complex rental cars in puerto rico could open in 2014 if plans are approved this month. If successful, the project would effectively revive more than 10 percent of the contributing properties in the surrounding Museum historic district.
The seven boarded-up buildings between Washington and Park avenues and 20th and 21st streets were built between 1938 and 1953 by some of Miami Beachs most prominent architects. That includes L. Murray Dixon, who designed the Raleigh and Tides Hotels, and Albert Anis, the architect behind the Clevelander hotel on Ocean Drive.
They were supposed to be revitalized 12 years ago when a developer bought the properties and received city approval for similar plans to open a complex of restored hotels. But the developers lender declared bankruptcy and the properties fell into litigation and eventually disrepair.
Then the Collins Park Hotel was doused in gasoline and set ablaze in 2007, followed last year by suspicious rental cars in puerto rico fires in the Copley Terrace Apartments and the Tyler Apartment Hotel, leaving almost half the block gutted and falling down.
The abandoned buildings were in such disrepair and had been slapped with so many liens and daily fines that the city forced the Chetrit Group to pay close to $300,000 and shore up the three charred and condemned buildings as part of a settlement. Pearl has called the settlement a payment for the past sins of the previous owners.
The developers rental cars in puerto rico now plan to entirely restore three of the buildings and add rooftop lounges and pools. rental cars in puerto rico Other buildings will be restored but partially demolished and the razed structures will be replaced with four- and five-story additions.
The developers have talked of restoring a terracotta compass in the a shared rental cars in puerto rico courtyard, constructing an underground parking garage with mechanical lifts and building a recording studio in one of the buildings.
In their report on the project, Miami Beachs planning staff called the Chetrit Groups proposal well coordinated and quite desirable, but said key documents rental cars in puerto rico were missing and proposed that the Historic Preservation Board delay a vote until October.
But Pearl, during a meeting with the Collins rental cars in puerto rico Park Neighborhood Association last month, said he and the Chetrit family arent fly-by-night developers, evidenced he said by the 15 historic properties they had contracted to purchase throughout the city.