23,500 condominiums — 5,300 apartments — 6,000 hotel rooms — 3.5 million sq. ft. of office space — 4.0 Million sq. ft. of retail…..All within the Greater Downtown Miami area….
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Category Archives: Brickell Ave Office Space
Swire Properties Announces Plans for Northern Trust Site
Arquitectonica-designed tower planned at 700 Brickell
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Swire Properties plans an 80-story, mixed-use tower at the 700 Brickell Ave. site it purchased recently for $64 million.
The Arquitectonica-designed high-rise would serve as the entrance to the Brickell CityCentre project currently under construction on both sides of Miami Avenue, immediately west of the 700 Brickell site.
The tower, to be called One Brickell CityCentre, will include retail, Class A offices, condominium units, and a hotel with a restaurant and lounge, according to a statement released Friday. The plan also envisions grand plazas and retail shops connected to Brickell City Centre.
Upon its completion in 2015, Brickell CityCentre will comprise a luxury shopping center, two residential towers, the EAST Miami hotel by Swire Hotels, serviced apartments, a wellness center and Class A offices.
Swire Properties intends to work with the city of Miami to have One Brickell CityCentre approved as an extension of the existing Special Area Plan. The site is currently home to Northern Trust Bank, which had an interest in the sale of the property.
“In creating the vision for One Brickell City Centre, we are mindful of the legacy of the sellers of 700 Brickell Avenue, heirs of the pioneer Brickell family and Northern Trust Bank, a great corporate citizen,” Swire Properties President Stephen Owens said in a statement. “Our goal is to develop a structure that will be artful in its mix of uses and will advance Brickell Avenue’s stature as Miami’s premier destination.”
“One Brickell CityCentre is a tower that, by its design and dramatic contours, creates views above the current Miami skyline,” Arquitectonica principal Bernardo Fort-Brescia said in a statement. “With sightlines that stretch from land to sea, the building’s glow will act as a welcoming lantern for downtown Miami and a portal to Brickell from all approaches.”
Owens told the Business Journal in August that Swire may hold off on developing the siteuntil after the Brickell CityCentre project is complete.
Oscar Pedro Musibay Miami Business Daily
Brickell CitiCentre Buys 700 Brickell, A Massive New $65 Million Front Door
As expected, Brickell CityCentre, already ginormous at about five city blocks in size, has purchased 700 Brickell Avenue, an unnamed source told the South Florida Business Journal. CitiCentre bought:
(1) a sizable chunk of prime Brickell Avenue property to expand the already mega megadevelopment…
(2) a Brickell Avenue address, and most importantly…
(c) a giant new front door with the aforementioned Brickell Avenue address.
They paid a pretty penny for it too, beating out Related Group and Fortune International who were also bidding for it, to the tune of $65 million.
And which property did they buy?
(Drum-roll…spoiler alert)….
The site was marketed on behalf of Northern Trust and the Brickell family trust, which share control of the site, according to sources who asked not to be named. And was most recently the home of Miami Today.
Most of Swire’s Brickell CitiCentre to finish by 2015
Most of Swire’s Brickell CitiCentre to finish by 2015
South Florida Business Journal by Oscar Pedro Musibay, Reporter
Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7:04am EST
As work crews continue testing and prepping the site in Miami where Swire Properties is planning Brickell CitiCentre, the developer announced it has received a $140 million credit facility to fund operations and the initial development cost.
HSBC Bank USA is providing the credit facility, which Swire said would allow the developer to do more design, development and cover the initial construction costs, according to a statement released Tuesday.
The six-building project is planned for 9.1 acres between Brickell Avenue and South Miami Avenue, from Southeast Sixth Street to Southwest Eighth Street.
Located in the center of Miami’s financial district, Brickell CitiCentre will include 520,000 square feet of shopping and dining, three office buildings, two residential towers and a 243-room hotel with 93 apartments.
The project will be developed in two phases, with all elements of the first phase, except for one office tower, scheduled for completion in 2015.
The first phase will have about 4.3 million square feet, including 520,000 square feet of retail shops, 800 condominium units, 243 hotel rooms, 93 serviced apartments, two office towers of 110,000 square feet each and 3,100 parking spaces.
A Feb. 15 news release said the third office tower would be completed by 2018, but the Tuesday release said market conditions would determine when the 750,000-square-foot structure would be built.
“Miami’s economy is benefiting from investments by its neighbors from South America, and we see strong growth potential for the city,” Swire Properties CEO Martin Cubbon said in the Tuesday release. “The location of Brickell CitiCentre offers an excellent opportunity to draw market share from local businesses and residents as well as visitors.”
Swire Properties is the U.S. subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Swire Properties Ltd.
In September, the Business Journal reported that the developer planned to dedicate 95,000 square feet of the project to medical offices and a wellness center.
Swire Properties Plans $1Billion Development in Miami
Swire Properties plans $1 bln development in Miami
By Alex Frew McMillan
HONG KONG | Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:53am EST
(Reuters) – Newly listed developer Swire Properties Ltd said on Thursday that it plans to build a 2.9 million square foot project in Miami’s financial district.
The Hong Kong-based company had previously said in a filing that the development, Brickell CitiCentre, would cost about $1.05 billion.
It said the project would include three office towers, two residential blocks, 500,000 square feet of shopping and dining space, and a hotel, with construction expected to start in the second quarter.
Swire (1972.HK) bought four plots of land for project in 2008 and 2011, and through to September 2011 had spent $72.8 million on advance preparation of the site, including $69.4 million for the land.
Although Swire focuses on the core markets of China and Hong Kong, it has a 30-year track record in Miami, where it has been developing on an island called Brickell Key. It has hired Miami-based architects Arquitectonica to design the project.
Chairman Christopher Pratt said when Swire Properties listed in mid-January that the company had no immediate plans to raise capital, with the sale of its Festival Walk asset in Hong Kong providing adequate capital for its immediate plans .
One fund manager, who runs a $5 billion portfolio of actively managed property stocks in Asia, told Reuters this week that he expected Swire Properties to go to the equity or debt markets soon to fund expansion.
“Probably one year from now, they’ll raise money,” he said, declining to be identified as he was not authorised to talk to the media.
Swire Properties shares pared earlier losses on Thursday afternoon to trade down 0.8 percent compared with a 0.6 percent decline on the benchmark Hang Seng Index .HSI.
Tibor Hollo evicting Venezuelan Consulate
South Florida Business Journal
by Brian Bandell, Senior Reporter
Date: Friday, February 17, 2012, 1:47pm EST
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has directed his government to stop paying the rent on its Miami office.
It’s not often a landlord gets to evict a nation, but Tibor Hollo is doing just that to Venezuela and its consulate in Miami.
TWJ 1101 LLC, which owns the office building at 1101 Brickell Ave., filed an eviction lawsuit against the government of Venezuela, its economic development bank and its consulate office on Feb. 7. The building is owned by Florida East Coast Realty , led by Hollo, its president.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezannounced in January that he would close its consulate in Miami after Livia Acosta Noguera, its Miami consul general, was expelled from the U.S. She was subject to an FBI investigation over allegations that she was involved in a potential cyber-attack on the U.S. government – news unveiled by Univision.
Hollo said the Venezuelan officials have cleared out of his building and he hasn’t been able to contact them.
“Since January they haven’t paid rent, so I want to evict them,” he said. “The office is there. Nobody is in the office. All the furniture is there, but they aren’t there. I want my money or my space back.”
Hollo noted that Banco Industrial de Venezuela, a state-owned bank, is current on its lease payments for another suite in that building.
Having a bank office in Miami helps Venezuelans in South Florida with some financial transactions, but the loss of its consulate makes it harder for them to get documentation such as passports.
Given the eviction lawsuit, it looks like a Venezuelan Consulate in Miami won’t be reopened anytime soon.
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