Over the next five years, Miami-based MDM Development Group said it will transform six acres of downtown parking lots near the waterfront into ?EUR??,,????'??Metropolitan Miami,?EUR??,,????'?? a $600 million mixed-use project that includes three luxury condominium towers, two 40-story towers, and a third even higher, plus Met Square, an eight-story retail and entertainment center that expects to include a 14-theater with stadium seating, restaurants, retail outlets, and a health club. MDM is a Miami-based hotel developer that has built several Marriotts in Miami. MDM anticipates beginning construction on the first tower in early 2004, and on Met Square by the summer of 2004. Nichols Brosch Sandoval is the architectural team; Edward Stone & Associates (EDSA) is the urban planning and landscape architectural firm. EDSA is a leading planning and landscape architectural firm. Its work includes hotels and resorts, community planning, attractions and entertainment, urban design/planning, and environmental planning and ecotourism. EDSA employs a staff of 130 planners, landscape architects, graphic designers and support personnel. Edward Stone Jr., chairman and founder (1960) of EDSA, is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. MDM envisions Metropolitan Miami as a ?EUR??,,????'??dynamic urban neighborhood,?EUR??,,????'?? a kind of Times Square or Rockefeller Center for south Florida, betting that Miami suburbanites will return to live in the core of the city if the amenities are attractive enough. Condominiums in the first tower, the L-shaped Met 1, are expected to sell in the range of $177,000 to $500,000.