Aventura is clearing space for a new medical hub. The City Commission has signed off on Vitalis Tower, a seven-story medical office building at 21291 NE 28th Ave, pitched as a boutique "medical condo" with ground-floor retail and a parking deck tucked into the city’s hospital corridor. The freshly approved design swaps out an earlier 11-story version and comes with a bundle of variances that let the project finally move forward.
Commission Signs Off And Grants Variances
The commission voted to amend Condition 1 of Resolution 2015‑69, replacing the previously approved 11‑story site plan with the new seven‑story proposal and approving a slate of variances tied to the updated application. Those approvals include allowing a floor area ratio of 1.85 for buildings that achieve Gold or Platinum certification under Aventura’s green-building program and permitting retail space of up to 15% of the building’s gross interior area. The resolution also authorizes variances that trim the required parking to 356 spaces and tweak lot-coverage and landscaped-open-space minimums, according to the City of Aventura.
Project Size And How Units Will Be Sold
The developer’s marketing materials tout about 11,000 square feet of street-level retail, around 356 parking spaces and more than 300,000 square feet of total construction area, according to the project’s website. Floor plans on the site show approximately 114,000 square feet dedicated to office use, with unit layouts starting at roughly 500 square feet and scaling up through larger combined suites. Florida YIMBY reports the plan calls for roughly 115,000 square feet of medical office space carved into about 120 medical-condo units, with ownership starting near $450,000 per unit. Brokers are already pitching pre-construction condo offerings for the site on commercial marketplaces such as LoopNet.
A Checkered History
The parcel has already seen one medical-office dream stall out. An earlier project on the same site began construction, then ground to a halt and wound up in foreclosure court, which left the property in limbo until the current proposal surfaced. Bisnow reported the 2024 foreclosure filing against the previous developer and subsequent efforts to stabilize or sell the asset. The new seven-story design repackages the lot under different ownership, with a sales-forward model aimed squarely at doctors and clinics.
Location And Market Logic
Vitalis is planned just steps from HCA Aventura Hospital and about a mile from Aventura Mall and the Brightline station, a cluster the developer says should funnel steady patient and staff traffic into the building. Marketing materials spotlight stretcher-ready elevators, wider corridors and covered ambulance access, all pitched as practical perks for clinical tenants. The team has also opened a local sales center in Aventura to handle reservations and unit sales, according to the project’s location page.
What’s Next
With the commission’s approvals in hand, the developer still has to satisfy the conditions outlined in the resolution and lock down final permits and financing before any shovels hit the dirt, per the city’s meeting documents. Florida YIMBY reports the team is targeting the fourth quarter of 2026 for the start of construction. If the medical-condo concept catches on in Aventura, the tower would offer clinicians a new path to owning their office spaces instead of signing long-term leases.
