Miami Worldcenter: The $6 BILLION Project Changing Downtown Miami!

[@bthom172]

I love the way you trolled Apple by keeping pointing at the "Future Apple Store".......😂😂😂

[@DayleTravels]

Miami has changed so much!

[@mikejewell8518]

How so? Explain please

[@WEVA111]

Walk a few blocks to the west into Little Havana and you'll see that its still stuck in the 80s with dilapidated houses left and right

[@Jonathan_O]

That building with all the LEDs looks so cool at night!! One night the had the Heat logo on it, the next night it had a dancing girl on it. Very cool!!

[@kurteckhardt7327]

I first heard of Joel when he was one of the first videographers (maybe, the very first) on the scene of the tragic Champlain Towers collapse in Surfside. Since then, he's become the most important journalist in Miami. Power to the New Media!

[@victordasilva5255]

The bubble gonna be big

[@imtired1696]

Enormous. These "luxury" overpriced units are driving up rents all across miami Dade. It's wild.

[@EdwardM-t8p]

Miami is being Manhattanized but with 12-story parking decks and without adequate subway service. Surely the surface streets won't completely gridlock with car traffic!! 😁😉

[@Dangermouse8645]

Exactly this. I work in a field where I see all the changes happening in South Florida; Miami is being Manhattanized but in general South Florida is densifying in areas without ANY public transit expansion. The bare minimum regulations are being achieved and development is just pushing forward.

[@recon_ron7746]

Except you forgot to mention the subway system in NYC is horrendously filthy and dangerous which gives Miami a cleanliness award in comparison, and they also have a monorail in the city as well as free Tesla taxi service so not sure where the lack of transport is coming from

[@Joeleon2]

@@recon_ron7746 A functional dirty subway beats 30min/mile driving

[@TammyStratoree]

OUTSTANDING! Very interesting and informative. Your videos keep getting better and better. You are very knowledgeable and fun to watch. Thanks.

[@josephdennehey4126]

Thanks for the tour. Miami is a city going places. "The Magic City".

[@jerseykevin27]

20 buildings with an average of 420 apartments each, need 12,000 jobs paying over 140,000. I don't think Miami is creating those jobs as fast as it's building luxury or ultra luxury.

[@danmcclaren5436]

who said they were for the working class? tons of latin american investors or Americans who want a second place. Also its Airbnbs

[@jerseykevin27]

@@danmcclaren5436 to many places are like this, to make regular people living in there cars, while having full time jobs.

[@Rayzeo]

​@@danmcclaren5436keep telling yourself that 😂😂😂

[@danmcclaren5436]

@@Rayzeo Im from NYC and moved here with my 190k salary. What's so hard to understand about migration?

[@PaulAllen786]

@@danmcclaren5436190k salary, what joke. The amount of people actually making 100k and above a year is just under 1% of the US population. so either your lying or your one of the few. i'm guessing your also over 6ft tall, full head of hair, full beard, 6 pack abs, and drive a Porsche or Ferrari?

[@danielrizzo4927]

It looks exciting!

[@accumapmodels]

It's getting pretty busy down there... lots of beautiful buildings going up.

[@choco.es.unlimited]

World center going to be epic

[@anthonyjackson1446]

Outstanding video and scenery and info on development projects in Miami, Thanks for sharing this.. Tony from Indiana…🙌🏼👍👏🏼🤗🏢🌤️📸

[@erikmurata5541]

keep doing what you do.

[@garystrankman3841]

I love how you keep pointing out the Apple store good for you👍👍👍

[@clementeacosta9760]

Thank you. You are great.

[@tedharrison4109]

Excellent presentation. I used to work in that area when it was a wasteland. There was literally no place for blocks to find a restaurant for lunch. The closest restaurant was at the Federal Court House. It was a land of parking lots and vacant lots. It's good to see the changes now.

[@kitbaxter7805]

Thanks Joel. Great video. I was hoping to get a glimpse of Zaha Hadid residential tower.

[@jon_cielo]

No. 3 in the world in purchasing power.

[@Gorilla_grunt]

It’s a public place you can film as much as you want-screw that construction worker-tell him to piss off

[@terrancesampson5141]

Columbia south carolina just went up to 75 feet and higher on there highrise building projects planning and zooming allowing taller hotels buildings to be built because of all of the entertainment that's been going on for year's. The city right now looks like the old miami from back in the 80s as the state capital of south carolina. Miami and Columbia has so much in common from the 305 and 803 and more.

[@Italy55]

You did a great job explaining everything.

[@nickgeorgiou7770]

As a former NYer who watched Hudson Yards built this is more significant. For a couple reasons 1) The expansion of Brickell. 2) Much more convenient to the general public. Hudson Yards is to far West. The transportation system is Not convenient. If Downtown (Brickell North) has a transportation expansion plan that will allow the growth to happen without a major disruption. Also a recommendation get a drone and pull some video. It would make the next update a lot better. Nice job

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

add a comma in between those words jr. like this? perfect

[@TRUE-LION]

“That’s PRIVILEGED information.”

[@7728abbott]

Great place!

[@MiamiCoffee2023]

Remember when Apple opened the New Apple Store on Lincoln Road, one couldn’t tell what it was. I knew only because I knew people working at Apple. The construction worker was incorrect, the fact that you knew is not his business, I knew already also, he could ask you not to take pic or video on the property, that’s it. Excellent video 👍🏻

[@JJ-hg5ho]

Beautiful at least 5,000 more people to already congested area

[@danmcclaren5436]

there's the metro mover all over this place

[@kdc6884]

lol it’s not that congested

[@miaelen]

informative video, let's enjoy it 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻

[@AugustoLugo1983]

Awesome video and updates, Y is apple so freaking skittish about knowing that a store is coming? WTAF? Any updates on the MSC Terminal?

[@mr.a.]

Is there any supermarkets nearby? Publix or Trader Joe’s

[@JoelFrancoVlogs]

There’s Publix a block west of Brightline’s station. An Aldi is also opening across from that Publix. Whole Foods, located just north of the Miami River is accessible by Metromover

[@vincentbell3775]

Actually there is

[@kxixp]

I love this content! As a guy from LA, in Miami now, who loves architecture, this was a pleasure to watch. Thank you for covering this. Was looking up info on MWC myself and never got to see it up close. I read that a portion of the area was set to be a 24 hour area like times Square.Good stuff Joel!

[@jerseykevin27]

Times square is times square, because it's a super subway terminal.. millions go through it a day... This spot in Miami will never be that, many other projects offering the same amenities competing for the same class dollar. Nothing really special here

[@ryost150]

This could be the one “project changing downtown Miami” that really changes downtown Miami that I have heard about in my 68 yrs of living in Miami. The 1st arena, the 2nd arena, bay front park, bay front shopping plaza, the bay front port etc, etc. I wish downtown & Miami the best of luck with this one.

[@ronen160]

these sold-out pre-construction buildings are mostly bought by investors, right?

[@rtroyer8963]

Excellent video! Bad news, no BurgerFi.

[@Jamesharden875]

Great info great video

[@yurijai9801]

The natives are quickly not slowly getting pushed out of the Miami area, most now live beyond Broward. Blue collar jobs such as housekeepers, janitors etc that maintain these buildings will have to commute so far cause most of them can't afford housing in the 50-100 mile area. They will have to take 3-4 buses or Metrorail and possibly get up mad early just for the commute to their job. This is 100% unsustainable. With a large commute and wages not keeping up with productivity I will enjoy the Miami economy implosion. Miami gov officials are absolutely irresponsible and/or corrupt.

[@TOTHERANCH]

Usually in the top 3 (and always in the top 5) of most corrupt cities in America. And it's been that way for many, many years.

[@orlandoalessandrini2505]

I miss the old Miami where you could see the sky and drive in reasonable traffic.

[@davidgmaloof]

My grandparents got sick of Miami and moved out 51 years ago and never looked back. If they were alive today, they wouldn't recognize the city.

[@Lirio.Branca]

A 400 car garage in one of those buildings?! That nightmare traffic is only going to get worse....and the floods that will continue to come.

[@jerseykevin27]

20 mins in 20 mins going out just getting around an empty 12 story parking garage under these buildings....

[@skytech64]

NYC type traffic already, without construction completed.

[@therealerickmendoza]

Love the content brother keep it up 😎

[@StuffTested]

I thought this was talking about the new Microcenter store haha

[@JoelFrancoVlogs]

😂 still have yet to visit the new store

[@choco.es.unlimited]

What happened to 11 residences?

[@Hobbies305]

This video is very informative. I'm catching up with your content because I just haven't made the time since life happens, etc, and I gotta say you're a pretty ballsy person like you literally got a lot of balls to do this kind of content. Everything in this video was fine until that construction worked confronted you and consider yourself blessed because who knows what could have happened since in most cases things escalate and then the police gets involved and long story short a video which didn't have to do with anything legal just ends up being controversial and poor innocent folks like yourself end up getting locked up because of supposedly spying a construction site for a future Apple store in order to leak information to "terrorists". Outside of that I really appreciate your work although I suggest you exercise caution because you can't trust anyone and keep at it man.

[@MrWphilips]

In the middle of a real estate Miami downturn? A total commercial real estate collapse nationwide!

[@garystrankman3841]

Who can afford those high rent costs?

[@jasonbla]

We got Miami before GTA VI

[@JJ-hg5ho]

1,000 more people added to congestion

[@mr.a.]

It’s more like 50,000 you have take into account the visitors, the hotels, etc. It’s definitely going to be crowded the first few years .

[@choco.es.unlimited]

​@@mr.a. exactly..

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

better yet tia well name the book nobody goes home empty handed, guests if u look under your sheets or seats youll find a copy of the book to take home with you

[@DroOnTheGO]

Gotta sign the Apple Store NDA I guess.

[@PoxyBear]

All of those high rises in an area that if not hit by a hurricane will certainly feel the wind and water effects. These buildings are not a good idea.

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

nana send me another case. god damn it. k then were running out of cases were almost closed for the winner

[@vincentbell3775]

Who is this designed for? I guess maybe when it's finished, we'll be able to tell, but it looks like another boondongle for the rich and fabulous.

[@JohnHuitema]

Wait is that the FUTURE APPLE STORE 😂😂😂

[@JoelFrancoVlogs]

Why yes, that is the future Apple Store 😳

[@ordonezo1]

Half the units are bought by wealthy foreign buyers, many live in South America, investing in Real Estate.

[@orlandoalessandrini2505]

More like laundering.

[@E90PAT]

Maybe they’re trying to scoop some property close by and don’t want Apple coming out to impact maximize acquisition value. Or maybe I’m talking out of my butt

[@onethousandtwonortheast8848]

Everyone knows Steven Ross is a full time florida resident now. He is creating the new Manhattan in West Palm Beach. Miami is trying to capture the wall Street boys but they will never work on site again. Foreign money is brickell/miami.

[@Randymaxcanal]

Was that an Apple Store?

[@peteralmeyda4211]

No

[@calrissianlando7792]

Miami has been ruined. Before it was affordable, nice weather and traffic wasn't all that bad. Now it's a mess, overpriced and a nightmare.

[@MainMan7012]

New office space and luxury homes for South American criminals and drug lords.

[@gregorysteele718]

IT WILL BE COOL WHEN ITS UNDER WATER!

[@deletedaccountdnd]

Why is the Apple Store so top secret omg? That's actually embarrassing to me

[@kp5236]

That is why I can’t sleep?

[@TOTHERANCH]

Cool project, but the timing is horrendous.

[@artmaltman]

Which part of Miami is this?

[@gioper3]

Downtown

[@bthom172]

@@artmaltman Downtown, right across the arena where the Miami Heat basketball team plays.

[@snowman7992]

I don't think Apple or them would care all that much about recording and saying on camera that you think it's going to be an Apple store The optimist in me hopes its a standard (Constuction/property) company policy to remove journalists to lower risks of industry "espionage" by competitors. Real estate is such a huge industry that who knows what sort of sketchy stuff a competitor might do to get a leg over a competitor; even a low risk of it would demand a policy like that Also risk for terrorist attacks might ask for anyone recording an area to be approached and removed. Might be a city wide policy or a company wide policy across all the worksites a company oversees. Could also just be an insurance thing that all these companies are subject to The cynic in me thinks all these contractors just don't want anyone recording their people working. The history of contractors and construction workers in Miami is especially bad, from flagrant violations to just incompetence. They don't want to risk someone catching them in the act

[@JoelFrancoVlogs]

These are great perspectives!

[@MrMundo305]

Not liking this at all. Missing the old Miami

[@Dereyter]

Super dencity. No, thanks. I prefer One-floor America.

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

find a better name for this book my love... well call it THE JOURNAL ENTRY TIMES.... awesome Vroom

[@SirD1]

Miami is overrated