Allapattah's $22M Commercial Permit Has No Owner on File

A limited liability company pulled a $22.2 million building permit for a 171,743-square-foot commercial project at 1480 NW 8th Ave in Allapattah last month, and neither the city’s permit record nor the county’s own property record says who owns it.

Why it matters

Permit BD24002248001B001, issued August 25 by the City of Miami Building Department, names Apollo Construction Company LLC as the contractor of record and leaves the owner and developer fields empty, according to the county’s building permits dataset. That is a gap in the source data itself, not a lookup failure on our end: City of Miami permits do not carry an owner field the way Miami-Dade County’s own permit system does, so a project this size can clear a $22 million construction filing in South Florida without a principal ever showing up in the paperwork that authorizes it. For brokers and developers tracking who is assembling sites in Allapattah, a neighborhood already reshaping around the Health District and the river corridor, that blank field means the only entity of record on a project this size is the contractor building it, not whoever is paying for it.

The numbers

The permit carries a declared construction value of $22,247,430 for 171,743 square feet of new commercial space, filed as new construction with no unit count or use description attached in the record. It was issued August 25, 2026. A check of Miami-Dade’s comparable-sales parcel data for the address turns up no matching site record at all, meaning there is no recent grantee name to attach to the property through that channel either. Apollo Construction Company LLC is a licensed Florida contractor; nothing in the public permit or county sales record ties the firm’s principals to a stated ownership stake in the project itself, and this piece does not speculate that it does.

What’s next

The name behind the LLC will most likely surface through one of two channels: a recorded deed once the parcel trades or is refinanced, or a certificate of occupancy filing that the city sometimes pairs with updated ownership information. Until either shows up in the record, 1480 NW 8th Ave stands as a $22 million example of how much construction activity in Miami can clear permitting with the owner’s identity never required. We will update this story if the county’s own filings name the entity.