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Another Florida station is on the move: WSVN is leaving Miami’s North Bay Village to move to Broward County. The new Sunbeam Television HQ and broadcast center is located in Miramar, close to rival WTVJ, at the Miramar Park of Commerce (a Sunbeam propierty) in the southeast corner of the Florida Turnpike exit onto Red Road.

The new facility will have 71,272 square feet and two levels, including two studios (one for news and another for production), a newsroom and weather center, various galleries and offices, and a staff canteen. The new headquarters, designed by Rees International, is designed for emergency broadcasting during a Cat 5 hurricane, being built on elevated land, with two generators, a fuel tank and a backup AC.

The move, which will be complicated, might happen within the next three years, with new equipment being installed and the North Bay Village facility still functioning until the last day, according to Andy Ansin. He also wants to boost WSVN’s payroll by hiring 30 additional jobs dedicated to the suburb’s residents, whilst also emphasizing the central location of the new facility.

The project is connected to a big redevelopment of the Miramar Park of Commerce into a high-end mixed-use project, similar to one Sunbeam’s realty division is pursuing at the North Bay Village site, including 2,800 apartments, a hotel, and about 300,000 square feet of commercial space, including about 40,000 for a grocer, 40,000 of entertainment and 120,000 square feet of restaurants.

I wonder, however: their ground-breaking Newsplex will survive the big move?










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