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South Florida has never been short on ambition. But every so often, a project emerges that doesn’t just add to the region’s skyline — it reimagines the very way people live within it. Miramar Cove is that project.
Spanning 125 acres at the intersection of Red Road and Miramar Parkway in Broward County, Miramar Cove is the most consequential master-planned development to break ground in western South Florida in a generation. Developed by Sunbeam Properties — the Ansin family-led firm whose patriarch acquired this very land nearly 70 years ago for $100 an acre — the community is being positioned as Miramar’s first full-scale “15-minute city.” The concept is simple but increasingly rare in car-dependent South Florida: every essential element of daily life, work, dining, fitness, retail, and recreation, within a comfortable walk from your front door.
Groundbreaking took place on May 27, 2026. Construction is already in motion. And for buyers, renters, and investors paying attention to where South Florida’s next live-work-play epicenter is forming, this is the story to watch.
At full buildout, Miramar Cove will deliver 2,874 residential units — 200 of which are townhomes — alongside 400,000 square feet of retail, 125,000 square feet of Class A office space, a 185-room hotel, and a 35,000-square-foot anchor for a big-box grocery tenant. The development is designed in two phases, beginning with the southern portion of the site, with grand opening targeted for Q4 2028 and retail possession available as early as Q4 2027.
The project’s centerpiece is a 5.5-acre man-made waterfront basin — four feet deep, ringed with translucent blue water — surrounded by restaurants, boutiques, residential towers, and pedestrian promenades. The fountain at its center is engineered to synchronize water shows with music. For a city that sits miles from the Atlantic, it is a genuinely unexpected amenity: a manufactured shoreline that functions as a social and design anchor for the entire district.
Sunbeam CEO Andrew Ansin described the project at the groundbreaking ceremony as “a 125-acre mixed-use lifestyle center,” with the waterfront as the defining signature. Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam echoed the sentiment, calling the development a project that helps “complete the city.”
The 15-minute city concept — popularized globally by urban planner Carlos Moreno — argues that livability depends on proximity. When residents can reach work, groceries, healthcare, parks, and social life within a 15-minute walk or bike ride, quality of life measurably improves. Traffic, pollution, and stress measurably decline.
Miramar Cove has been purpose-built around that thesis. The plan includes approximately 40 acres of green space across the site — parks, trails, native planting zones, and wetland preservation areas — along with a two-mile multi-use trail linking neighborhoods and public spaces around the cove. A 24.4-acre estuary area provides both ecological function and recreational access. Retail leasing, handled by Katz & Associates, is targeting a mix of higher-end boutiques, restaurants, and daily-need tenants, with a grocery anchor at the center of that strategy.
The target resident profile is households between the ages of 25 and 45 earning approximately $150,000 annually, reflecting a market-rate positioning in a corridor where the surrounding population of nearly 477,000 already carries an average household income exceeding $109,000. Mayor Messam confirmed apartments will be market-rate without income restrictions, while workforce housing opportunities will be incorporated within the broader residential mix.
Real estate’s oldest truth still holds: location is the non-negotiable variable. And Miramar Cove sits at a genuinely compelling intersection of access, infrastructure, and momentum.
The site is one block west of the Florida Turnpike, minutes from Hard Rock Stadium — which hosts more than 100 events annually — and directly adjacent to Sunbeam’s own Miramar Park of Commerce, one of South Florida’s most established business parks, home to more than 15,000 employees across 165 national and international companies. That adjacency matters enormously: a live-work development functions best when the employment base is already in place, and the Park of Commerce provides exactly that kind of built-in demand.
Miami’s Metrorail expansion is also targeted toward this corridor, with the line set to extend to the Hard Rock Stadium area. If that infrastructure follows through, Miramar Cove’s long-term connectivity profile improves significantly — a detail that forward-looking buyers and investors should be tracking closely.
The development team is moving with purpose. Stiles Construction is serving as the project’s builder, and their Vice President Robert Fernandez confirmed at groundbreaking that the firm had approximately 80 people actively touching the project at mobilization — with expectations of ramping to around 1,200 workers per day as the build intensifies. Cooper Carry is serving as the project’s design architect; LandDesign is the landscape architect responsible for the open-space and water environment strategy.
Phase one focuses on the southern portion of the site. Retail tenants can expect to begin taking possession of space in Q4 2027, ahead of the community’s grand opening window in late 2028. For investors evaluating early-mover positioning, that timeline represents a meaningful runway.
Miramar Cove is not a speculative rendering. It is a permitted, entitled, fully financed master-planned community with a clear entitlement history — city approval came in 2024 — a proven developer family at the helm, and an institutional construction team already on-site. That stack of fundamentals is meaningfully different from the density of pre-construction projects that never advance beyond the marketing phase.
Several dynamics are worth monitoring as the project progresses.
The retail leasing strategy will be a signal of the project’s long-term character. Who anchors the grocery slot, and what dining and boutique concepts sign on in the first phase, will establish whether Miramar Cove achieves the premium mixed-use positioning its pricing and design language are aiming for.
The residential absorption rate will tell its own story. With nearly 3,000 units coming to a single submarket, the pace at which households commit to Miramar Cove will reflect broader confidence in western Broward as a live-work destination — and will influence future phases.
And for buyers and investors accustomed to watching South Florida’s coastal corridors capture most of the attention, Miramar Cove represents a considered argument for inland value creation. When walkability, lifestyle programming, and infrastructure investment converge at scale, geography rewrites itself.
The Ansin family bought this land for $100 an acre and held it for seven decades. That patience is about to compound.