Metropolitan Miami is a mixed-use development consisting of three completed skyscrapers, a fourth uncompleted building, and a

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in the central business district of Downtown

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. The first phase was completed in 2008 with Met 1, a

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tower, and was followed by Met 2 – which includes the

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and

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– in 2010. The third phase of the complex, Met 3 and Met Square, was completed in 2014. The Met Square site (between Met 1 and the Wells Fargo Center), was originally planned to house a movie theatre, restaurants, and a 31-story hotel tower, however, ongoing archaeological digs have found important Tequesta Indian ruins. The ruins date back 2,000 years and include over eight large circles carved into the ground's limestone. These circles are believed to be Tequesta Indian dwellings, and part of a larger Tequesta Indian settlement believed to be one of the largest in North America. As of February 2014, the Met Square site is now being considered for a

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status, and possibly

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designation. The future of the Met Square development was uncertain given these findings; however, in a landmark mediation process between public and private entities, the developers worked with archaeologists and government officials to protect partial or all of the site by building around it including a glass floor among other things with the idea to make it a museum. However, not all preservationists were happy with outcome. Met 3 was one of the tallest approved buildings in Miami, and residential structures in the United States south of

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at , behind the Brickell Financial Centre II at . Both towers would also surpass the incumbent

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. However, the taller design was canceled in the subprime mortgage crisis. The Wells Fargo Center itself is currently the fifth tallest building in Miami and Florida at . The project gained significant attention due to NBA star Shaquille O'Neal's involvement, by forming ''The O'Neal Group'' as a joint-venture with M.D.M. Development Group. The site where Metropolitan Miami is being developed was formerly surface parking when the Royal Palm Hotel and grounds were destroyed in 1930. The project was designed by Coral Gables-based architecture firm Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates, Inc.

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File:Met 1 Building in Miami.jpg, Met 1 under construction in March, 2007 File:Met 1 Miami 20100206.jpg, Met 1 seen across the Miami River Image:Metropolitan Miami II.jpg, Met 2's Wells Fargo Center nearing completion File:Met 2 Miami (Wells Fargo Center).JPG, Completed Wells Fargo Center in 2011 File:Site of Met 3 Miami being used as a parking lot in 2011, February.JPG, The site of Met 3 being used as a parking lot (February 2011)

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Metropolitan Miami official websiteEmporis - Metropolitan Miami
{{DEFAULTSORT:Metropolitan Miami (Development) Residential condominiums in Miami Hotels in Miami Office buildings in Miami Tequesta Archaeological sites in Florida

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