ERF Investments has proposed a five-story apartment complex that includes workforce housing in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami-Dade County.
The North Miami Beach-based developer filed an administrative site plan with county officials for a 0.25-acre site on the west side of Northwest 23rd Court, just north of Northwest 38th Street. The vacant property is surrounded by single-family homes. It’s located four blocks west of the Earlington Heights Metrorail Station and just south of State Road 112/Airport Expressway.
ERF Investments, owned by Ernesto Perez, assembled the property for $100,000 in 2018.
The five-story building would total 40,809 square feet, with 32 apartments and 18 parking spaces on the first floor. There would be 30 one-bedroom units and two two-bedroom units, each one with a balcony.
Perez said the building would designate 12.5% of the apartments as workforce housing but it could include more workforce housing if he secures funding from the county.
“Our priority is to provide much needed housing options and to support the growth of the community, seeing as the area of the proposed apartments has been labeled by Miami Dade County as an ‘Opportunity Zone’, which allows for job creation and economic growth in low-income communities,” Perez said.
The location of the proposed apartments makes it a convenient location for those needing public transportation to go to work, as the nearest Metro station is less than half a mile away, he added,
Doral-based Sunset Building Solutions is the project’s architect.