Glenn Rice Realtor

2,000 people watched my video about Kendall’s first skyscraper. The comments were loud and clear. Traffic. Infrastructure. A neighborhood changing faster than the county can keep up with.

In this follow-up I’m covering what most people don’t know yet. The site is currently stalled, the original timeline has already slipped, and Baptist Main right across the street is about to add a significant number of new medical positions to that corridor.

This is the full picture. The good, the bad, and the parts nobody’s talking about yet.

DM me if you want to know what all of this means for home values in Kendall right now.



Is Kendall growing too fast?

What’s your biggest concern about Kendall’s growth?

🏙️ Kendall is getting its first skyscraper, and it's already rising on North Kendall Drive.

Shoma 88 is a 28-story mixed-use tower at 9595 SW 88th Street, right across from West Kendall Baptist. 405 rental units. 100,000+ sq ft of medical office space. Ground-floor retail, a food hall called Shoma Bazaar, rooftop pool, fitness center, co-working spaces. The first tower of its height in this corridor's history.

40% of those units are workforce housing under Florida's Live Local Act. Same amenities. Same building. Same rooftop pool. Not a separate section. Two-bedroom workforce units run $2,600 to $2,850/month for households earning up to 120% AMI. Rates locked in for 30 years.

Kendall has always been low-rise, car-dependent, strip malls on every corner. Shoma 88 is the first real signal that Kendall is urbanizing. On its own terms, around its own anchors, with its own hospital district and workforce.

This is the first tower. It won't be the last. Want to know how this impacts home values in the corridor? DM me 👇