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Planning board backs Nikki Beach/Pier Park redevelopment, urges safeguards on parking, noise and comp‑plan change
Summary
The Miami Beach Planning Board transmitted a favorable recommendation for the Pier Park redevelopment at 1 Ocean Drive — a proposal by the Boucher Brothers and Major Food Group — while asking the City Commission to require a concurrent comprehensive-plan amendment, replace 72 public parking spaces during construction and tighten operational safeguards for noise, loading and valet operations.
The Miami Beach Planning Board voted to transmit a favorable recommendation to the City Commission on a long‑planned redevelopment of the Pier Park/Nikki Beach site at 1 Ocean Drive, but asked for several concrete protections before final approval.
The proposal, led by the Boucher Brothers and Major Food Group and presented by attorney Michael Larkin, would replace the existing beachfront concession with a mixed beach‑club and dining complex that includes Mediterranean and Japanese restaurants, a boardwalk cafe, pool and children’s club. “We would not be before you today unless the city attorney and city administration had determined that we were consistent with the concession agreement,” Larkin told the board during his presentation.
Opponents, including counsel for an interested tenant, argued the current…
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