Aventura ParkSquare is ready
The 1.2-million-square-foot “healthcentric” project with luxury condos, a medical center, and a hotel is opening.
Aventura has completed construction of a five-tower, “healthcentric” project, and the first residents are expected to begin moving in within weeks.
The 1.2 million-square-foot Aventura ParkSquare — on the corner of Waterways Boulevard and Northeast 207th Street — incorporates luxury living with special features such as a communal vegetable garden, fitness center, medical center, a 10-story hotel and more.
“We hope Aventura ParkSquare is a catalyst for real estate projects that aim to inspire wellness and walkability, while promoting an environment that benefits the long-term prosperity of a community,” said Victor Ballestas, principal of the developer, Integra Investments.
Tower 1: A luxury condominium with 131 units and residential amenities including a sunrise pool, communal vegetable garden, fitness center and social room. Units in the 12-story building range in price from a half-million dollars to more than $1 million.
Tower 2: A Class A office space project in a nine-story, officecondo building dubbed ParkSquare Signature. The 100,000-square-foot building is fully occupied, with tenants such as insurance companies and family offices.
Tower 3: A 45,000-square-foot medical center for specialty health-care tenants.
Tower 4: A 10-story tower of luxury apartment rentals for seniors. Known as The Plaza at ParkSquare, it is designed “to serve the aging community with the highest-quality apartment lifestyle,” according to a spokeswoman for the Miami-based real estate investment firm Integra Investments. There are 140 units, ranging from studios to two bedrooms. It’s considered an assisted living facility, and there will be medical staff on-site.
Tower 5: A Starwood Aloft Hotel, with 207 rooms and 10 stories.
Ballestas said the hotel and medical center are already open.
Aventura ParkSquare is envisioned as a “health-centric community,” the company spokeswoman said, with retailers and restaurants including Barry’s Bootcamp and Delicious Raw Kitchen Juice Bar.
The project includes extrawide sidewalks to encourage walking but has eliminated elevated curbs to allow for greater accessibility, Ballestas said.
“It all feels very walkable vs. being on the curb,” he said.
Between land acquisition, planning and construction, the $300 million project has been in the works for five years.
Ballestas said Aventura ParkSquare is not expected to create a “traffic nightmare” because “our philosophy is everything you need in this project is within this project.”
“Right now, [all] Aventura really has is the mall and sometimes people like to go to the mall and sometimes they don’t,” Ballestas said. “I think this will be a nice gathering place for Aventura and deliver the restaurant scene everyone’s been wanting.”