SkyRise Miami facts for kids

SkyRise Miami is a super tall entertainment and observation tower under construction on the shore of Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida. It was proposed and developed by real estate developer Jeff Berkowitz. It will be 301.8 meters (990 ft) tall to its roof, located on public waterfront land adjacent to Bayside Marketplace, from which it will sublet land. The main developer of the project is the American company Berkowitz Development Group, a Florida-based corporation headquartered in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami. The project was approved by the city commission and Miami voters in 2014. A significant portion of the several hundred million dollar project may be funded by foreign investors seeking American citizenship through EB-5 visas.

Height

With an architectural height of 301.8 metres (990 ft), it will become the tallest structure in Miami and Florida. The height was opposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at a time when it was proposing a new one-engine inoperative height limit on buildings proposed near airports, but they had already approved it at a height of 990 feet (302 m) above ground level, or 1,000 feet (305 m) above sea level.

Original project

The project was originally proposed as a tower called "Solar Universe" by a company called High Point Energy. The tower would have been a self-sufficient, vertical, energy structure that would have operated using alternative energies such as solar, wind, hydro, and biomass. It was going to be a giant tower with 11 wind turbines on its Eastern side, and a collection of solar panels covering the 1000 foot southern face of the tower. In April 2012, D’Agostino sold the rights to Solar Universe LLC to Jeffrey Berkowitz, who first changed the name to Skyhigh Miami, and then in August 2013, he changed it to Skyrise Miami.