Pinnacle Housing Files 100-Unit Workforce Project in Princeton
The Miami-based developer is acquiring a 1.5-acre South Dixie Highway site that already allows the density it needs, skipping the state's affordable-housing override.
Pinnacle Housing Group is acquiring a 1.5-acre site at 24215 South Dixie Highway in Princeton, an unincorporated pocket of south Miami-Dade County, to build Pinnacle Commons, an 8-story, 100-unit workforce housing project near the South Dade TransitWay.
Why it matters
Pinnacle is not using Florida’s Live Local Act to get here. The site’s existing zoning already permits up to 12 stories and 90 units per acre, so the developer can build a dense workforce project by right, without the state override that has driven most of the affordable-housing headlines out of Miami this year. For anyone underwriting a comparable South Dade parcel, that is the signal: density this deep already exists on paper along the US-1/South Dixie corridor, and a site does not need a Live Local rezoning to pencil for 90 units an acre. The filing also confirms Pinnacle is expanding its South Dade footprint beyond the 215-unit Princeton Commons project it broke ground on nearby in 2023.
The numbers
The project would total 100 units in a studio-to-two-bedroom mix, topping out at 91 feet. The site plan includes 1,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, a children’s playground, co-working space, and 127 parking spaces, well above the county’s 67-space minimum for the site. Architect of record is Anillo Toledo Lopez Architecture. Miami-Dade County’s affordable-housing definition caps eligibility at 140 percent of area median income, but Pinnacle has not yet released the specific income tiers or rents for Pinnacle Commons.
What’s next
Pinnacle is still finalizing acquisition of the site, which currently holds vacant land and a tire repair shop, and the project remains in Administrative Site Plan Review rather than a public hearing process. That track means no zoning board vote is required before the county can issue permits. The project has not yet appeared in Miami-Dade’s building permit records; its next visible milestone will be either a recorded deed transfer or a permit application once site control closes.