A 12-story tower with 67 luxury units is headed for a key review in Coral Gables, as the developer behind 1008 East Ponce de Leon Boulevard, LLC moves forward with plans for a high-rise known as 1008 East Ponce. The project is set to go before the city's Development Review Committee on November 20, with additional approvals, including a City Commission vote, still required before anything gets built.
The LLC, which is affiliated with T.A. Builders, has controlled the half-acre site since 2016, when it purchased the property for $2.825 million, according to floridiandevelopment.com. The proposed building would climb 126 feet to the roof, or close to 140 feet once an ornamental crown is counted, per the same report. Architecture firm Behar Font & Partners designed the project and released conceptual renderings, according to Florida YIMBY, which reports the site currently hosts a low-rise apartment complex, based on Google Earth imagery.
What's Inside the 67 Units
The building would offer five floorplan types ranging from one-bedroom to three-bedroom layouts, plus three ground-floor live-work units, per floridiandevelopment.com's reporting. Amenities include a rooftop resort-style swimming pool, a fitness center, and additional recreational space, the outlet notes.
Ground-floor square footage totals 6,535 square feet, but the report describes it as functioning more like resident amenity space than retail. That figure is built from a fitness center, a leasing office, and the live-work units, which serve residents or function as amenity space instead of drawing in shoppers, per the same account.
Parking Tucked Into a Concealed Podium
Rather than surface lots, the plan calls for 110 parking spaces tucked inside a concealed podium above ground level, the outlet's report states. That design mirrors a broader trend among Gables multifamily proposals, where structured parking is increasingly folded into the building envelope rather than left exposed.
Part of a Broader Wave of North Gables Construction
1008 East Ponce would be one of six multifamily developments of at least five floors rising in the area, with one already under construction, according to floridiandevelopment.com's reporting. Nearby, two other projects — Ponce 8 and The Aurelian — were reported in 2025 to be set to add a combined 362 apartments to the North Gables, per Gables Gazette. Ponce 8 is planned as a 16-story, 201-unit tower at 3808–3850 SW Eighth Street from Shoma Group, while The Aurelian is a 12-story, 161-unit building planned for 912–921 East Ponce de Leon Boulevard by Switzerland-based Empira Group, which acquired that site for $18 million, the outlet reported.
Elsewhere in Coral Gables, excavation was underway as of November 9 at Ponce Park, an 11-story mixed-use condominium project at 3000 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, according to Florida YIMBY. That development is slated to include 58 residential units and roughly 22,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, per the outlet's reporting. As of May 2025, the city was reviewing 18 development projects altogether, 13 of which required City Commission approval, Gables Gazette reported at the time.
The Road Ahead for Approval
Getting from committee review to shovels in the ground is not a quick process. The City of Coral Gables' Development Review Process Handbook lists a sequence of reviews for an individual mixed-use building — Staff and the Development Review Committee, the Board of Architects, the Planning and Zoning Board, the City Commission, and the South Florida Regional Planning Council — with an estimated timeframe of three to five months. The handbook also specifies that conditional-use review and approval is required for buildings on sites of at least 20,000 square feet or with street frontage of at least 200 feet, a threshold relevant to large-scale proposals like this one.
For now, 1008 East Ponce remains a proposal awaiting its first formal hearing. Whether the Development Review Committee advances the plan, and what conditions might be attached, has not yet been reported.
