The Case for Fontainebleau — The Altneu South

The need

Mid Beach has the families. It doesn't have the shul.

More and more Modern Orthodox families are filling the condo towers along Collins Avenue — yet there's still no proper shul where they actually live. Today that means a long walk up to the shuls around 41st Street, or making do with a small basement minyan.

The Altneu South changes that: a real, dignified shul right in the neighborhood, an easy walk from home on Shabbos.

01 — Location & Walkability

At the center of it all — and a walk from everything.

At 4360 Collins Avenue, the Coastal Convention Center sits right in the middle of Mid Beach. The map below tells the story: today's Modern Orthodox shuls are a ten- to twenty-minute walk up toward 41st Street, while The Altneu South would sit right among the Collins Avenue condos — for the people who live in them.

Walking-distance heat map radiating from The Altneu South across Mid Beach

On the water, in the middle of everything

The room looks out over Indian Creek, with the boardwalk, the beach, and the heart of Mid Beach all an easy Shabbos walk away.

The map above says it at a glance: from this one address, every shul in the neighborhood is just a few minutes on foot.

View of the marina and condo towers across Indian Creek — The marina and the towers where the community lives.

Waterfront view from the room across Indian Creek — Across Indian Creek toward Mid Beach.

Why nothing compares

A brand-new building, finished to a hotel-grade standard, with floor-to-ceiling windows out over Indian Creek. No shul in Miami Beach looks or feels like this.

The neighborhood's minyanim today make do with basements, storefronts, and tired function rooms. This is a luminous, waterfront sanctuary on the second floor of a new Collins Avenue building — the kind of room a kehillah grows proud of.

02 — The Space

A room that already feels like a sanctuary.

The Shore room runs roughly 1,709 square feet under ten-foot ceilings, wrapped in floor-to-ceiling windows. Set theater-style, it seats a full kehillah comfortably — and the natural light gives it the warmth of a real beis medrash rather than a function hall.

The Shore room set theater-style, facing the windows

1,709 sq ft

Combined Shore room

10 ft

Ceiling height

Combinable rooms

2nd flr

Waterfront frontage

The Layout

Two rooms, or one.

Shore is really two adjoining rooms — Shore 1 and Shore 2. Open them into a single large space for davening, or keep them apart: daven in one, kiddush in the other. And when a yom tov draws a bigger crowd, the adjacent Dune rooms annex right on.

Second-floor plan showing Shore 1, Shore 2 and the Dune rooms — Second floor — Shore 1 & Shore 2, with the Dune rooms alongside.

Second-floor room specs

Room	Square feet	Dimensions	Ceiling
Shore 1	851	39 × 20.2 ft	10 ft
Shore 2	858	39 × 20.2 ft	10 ft
Shore 1 + 2	1,709	79.5 × 20.2 ft	10 ft
Dune 1	890	32 × 28.9 ft	11 ft
Dune 2	858	30 × 28.9 ft	11 ft
Dune 1 + 2	1,748	62.4 × 28.9 ft	11 ft

Shore is the shul; the adjacent Dune rooms annex on when a bigger crowd calls for it. Figures per the venue's published second-floor specifications.

03 — The Vision

What it becomes as a shul.

These renderings place a full davening setup — aron kodesh, bimah, and an ornate mechitza — right inside the actual room, showing how naturally it becomes a shul.

Rendering of the room set as a shul with people davening

Rendering of the aron kodesh and mechitza

Shul floorplan showing seating, aron, bimah and mechitza

The Chagim

Room for the whole kehillah on Yom Tov.

For the Yamim Noraim and the chagim — when the whole community comes together — the building opens its grand Coral Ballroom as the shul. At 9,500 square feet under seventeen-foot ceilings, it seats well over 800, and divides into three rooms to right-size the space for the crowd.

Panoramic view of the Coral Ballroom set for a banquet

And set as a shul for the Yamim Noraim:

The grand Coral Ballroom set as a shul with aron kodesh, bimah and mechitza

Coral Ballroom specs

Room	Square feet	Dimensions	Ceiling
Coral 1	3,200	40.5 × 79 ft	17 ft
Coral 2	3,136	39.7 × 79 ft	17 ft
Coral 3	3,185	40.3 × 79 ft	17 ft
Coral Ballroom (1 + 2 + 3)	9,500	120 × 79 ft	17 ft

Set theater-style, the full ballroom seats roughly 820. Figures per the venue's published second-floor specifications.

04 — Practicality

And it actually works.

Beyond the vision, the fundamentals line up. The finish is hotel-grade — a notch above the area's typical shuls — and the arrangement is refreshingly simple: you pay only for Shabbos, the venue does the work, and the room can grow with the kehillah.

Pay for Shabbos only

You're billed for the days you actually use — not for the room sitting idle through the week.

They set it up

The venue arranges the chairs and resets the room — no schlepping or breakdown for the kehillah.

Security included

For gatherings over 50, the building provides its own on-site security — peace of mind, already handled.

Room to grow

Need more space for a yom tov? Annex the adjacent Dune rooms when the crowd calls for it.

Hotel-grade finish

Stone, glass and natural light — a level of polish beyond the basements and storefronts nearby.

The room in use, full of seated guests — The room in use — a full house, seated and set.

Address4360 Collins Ave

RoomShore (1 + 2)

LayoutCombine or split

Weekend rate$4,360

Size≈1,709 sq ft

SeatingUp to 134

Ceilings10 ft

Build-outTurnkey

SettingWaterfront

You pay forShabbos only

Chair setupBy the venue

Security (50+)Included

ExpansionAdjacent Dune rooms

The Altneu South

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