Assemblage near Beckham’s soccer stadium sells for $6M

This article has nothing to do with Miami Beckham United; the site sold in the article is not even in Overtown, and it is a mile away from where Beckham's group might build a stadium, if their talks with Miami-Dade County to acquire more land had not broken down early this year. There has been no news out of the Miami Beckham United group about their stadium plans since then. There are lots of other reasons why real estate prices in the area might be going up, which have nothing to do with a stadium which may very well never be built. 

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Assemblage near Beckham’s soccer stadium sells for $6M

Properties are in the Spring Garden neighborhood, southwest of Overtown

October 25, 2016 03:25PM

By Katherine Kallergis

A group of properties near the site of David Beckham’s planned MLS stadium in Overtown traded hands for $6 million, or $88 per square foot. 

Miami-Dade County property records show Tayyab Zaidi sold two apartment buildings and vacant land at 1150 Northwest Eight Street Road and 1000 Spring Garden Road. The buyer is 1000 Spring Garden LLC, an entity controlled by a local attorney and tied to broker Alfonso Jaramillo.

The land totals 68,263 square feet or nearly 1.6 acres and includes two two-story apartment buildings with 46 units built in the late 1950s and early ’60s. The LLC financed the deal with a $3.6 million mortgage from Zaidi.

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The properties are just southwest of Overtown in the Spring Garden neighborhood. Land prices have surged in Overtown, Miami’s historically African-American neighborhood where mixed-use projects like MiamiCentral and Miami Worldcenter are under construction.

Less than a mile away from the Spring Garden apartments, Beckham is focusing on nine acres in Overtown to build his professional soccer stadium between Northwest Sixth and Eight streets and between Northwest Sixth and Seventh avenues. Previous reports have said Beckham hopes to build a 30,000-seat soccer stadium that would cost an estimated $200 million — all of which, the group said, would be privately funded.

The stadium plan has already spurred commercial activity. Property records show Blue Road, an active hospitality and residential investor, purchased land farther north on the canal for $6.7 million, or $142 per square foot, in March.