First Ever: 55-Story Brickell Office Tower 100% Leased Before Completion

A giant new lease has just been finalized at the 55-story 830 Brickell office tower.

It makes 830 Brickell the first ever trophy office tower in Miami fully leased upon completion, its developers said.

The newly signed lease is also the largest new-to-market office lease signed in Miami in 2022

Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s largest law firm by revenue, leased 115,000 square feet of Class A office space – totaling six floors.

The tower is said to be commanding some of the highest Class A rental rates in the country, with the last few leases signed in the building fetching between $120-$150 per square foot, according to JLL’s Q3 Miami office market report.

OKO Group and Cain International are developing the tower in a partnership.

International law firms Sidley Austin, Winston & Strawn LLP and Baker McKenzie also recently signed leases at 830 Brickell and will occupy a combined 100,000-plus square feet of space.

Other tenants that have announced plans to open offices at 830 Brickell include Microsoft, financial services company Citadel, New York-based insurance firm A-CAP, private equity firm Thoma Bravo, CI Financial, Marsh Insurance, AerCap and others.

830 Brickell’s ownership was represented by Cushman & Wakefield’s Brian Gale, Ryan Holtzman and Andrew Trench. Kirkland & Ellis was represented by Neil Goldmacher, Mitchell Millowitz and Ryan Rosalsky of Newmark, and Kevin Kushner of CBRE.

“830 Brickell is the only Class A-plus office building in Miami history to be fully pre-leased ahead of its completion, with the majority of its tenants being major new-to-market corporations,” said Andrew Trench, Executive Director of Cushman & Wakefield.

830 Brickell was designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, with interiors by Italian architecture and design company Iosa Ghini Associati.

The tower’s amenities will include a rooftop bar/lounge and restaurant, a health and wellness center, conferencing facilities, an outdoor terrace, cafés and street-level retail.

Multiple transit options are nearby, a press release said, including Metrorail and Metromover, Brightline, walking paths, cycling lanes and bay access points.

 

(photo: Phillip Pessar)

 

Images of 830 Brickell, a new Class A-plus office tower under development by OKO Group and Cain International. The 55-story, 640,000 square foot tower, designed by renowned architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, will mark the first stand-alone Class A office building developed in Miami’s Brickell Financial District in more than a decade upon its completion at the beginning of 2023. (Credit: OKO Group/Cain International)

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Miami Winning
5 months ago

Let’s all say it together “Miami Winning”

NY<FL
5 months ago

I saw a picture of NYC today and thought it was Miami 😂 must have been the exceptionally nice weather.

Comfy
5 months ago

Still not goin back to the office tho

Renrich
5 months ago

I love this building and the boost it gives to the skyline. After the Brickell City Center office tower is built next door, Miami will shine with architectural significance!!! More office towers please!

Anonymous
5 months ago

More office towers less night clubs and strip halls.

Anon
5 months ago

More office, more education, more parks, more transportation.
Less strip clubs, less drugs, less ratchet bachelorettes, less drag racing on i95.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Don’t forget chickens.

Vida Futura
5 months ago

Unless it’s fried with waffles or tres leches.

Vida Futura
5 months ago

YES!!!!!! More of this please ⬆️ 👏🏼 I saw two motorcycles pop wheelies on I95 and revved the engines. Nearly caused everyone to crash and wipe out a dozen cars full of people.

Some of these people......
5 months ago

Brickell hardly has any nightlife…if anything it needs more. What world class city is just housing and offices ? You need balance. Only nightlife is on the very edge of downtown with Space and Eleven 11. Stop being unrealistic trying to turn a city of many things into your own personal vision. Nightlife is part of the fabric of Miami.

Streetscape to Brickell
5 months ago

Honestly it’s been SO loud it’s almost driving me away, esp. Brickell and Miami Aves. The late night crowd and car revers (should be banned) made it impossible to sleep. Fun to go out to eat or dance. Brickell needs to build up more nice residential streetscapes.

Anonymous
5 months ago

^^sounds like you should’ve moved to Pembroke Pines. City life isn’t for you and won’t change for you.

Streetscape to Brickell
5 months ago

Is that a retirement place? Love city life, walking to work and going out. That was 2-6am. Don’t see why there can’t be places for everyone in a city, including chill but lively streetscapes.

Good Morning Miami
5 months ago

Brickell Bay Drive is quieter and walking distance to the Miami/Brickell Ave scene and offices, but it’s full or almost full with development. It’s hard to get a vacant unit on Brickell Bay Drive. They go quick for a high dollar.

Work Hard, Sleep Hard
5 months ago

Hmm maybe some of us see things differently. Miami and Brickell have the most nightlife in the nation – what it’s trying to add now are offices and residential-family areas. That’s an area that needs filling to be world class.

Work Hard, Sleep Hard
5 months ago

To me nightlife is staying out for a drink after dinner 😂 not more 24/7 clubs where people lose track of days. I mean how many of those does one city need?

anonymous
5 months ago

Yeah let Vegas handle that…it’s built for that.

Melo is sigma and chad
5 months ago

Demand is high, Miami needs more office towers in the urban core.

Anonymous
5 months ago

You, the “pretty police,” and the “West Brickell is not West Brickell” guy…

Anonymous
5 months ago

Agree it seems Miami and Brickel Aves are great spots for more super tall office towers, and they lease up quick! Good for Miami, good for US economy.

Anonymous
5 months ago

I think developers of the tower wish they would’ve build a 1,000 FT tower.

Daddy Brickell
5 months ago

Looking real nice

Anonymous
5 months ago

Isn’t it? Thanks Daddy!

Anonymous
5 months ago

More HQs coming to Miami, where employees love going into work! Miami leads the nation with its top of the class highly-educated professional workforce with strongest work ethic, and the City offers greater work life/ balance than other cities. Go Brickell!

Pleezzee
5 months ago

“where employees love going into work”

I think its more like they don’t have a choice.. not if they want to live in this capitalistic county anyway.

Thomas
5 months ago

You can choose to work and have money or you can choose to not work and be homeless, if you like.

Pleezzee
5 months ago

Like the other half of my comment said – “not if they want to live in this capitalistic county anyway.”

Anonymous
5 months ago

See what happens when everyone stops working.

Anonymous
5 months ago

NYC and San Fran are more accustomed to a homeless population.

Anonymous
5 months ago

He means remote work versus working in an office. He is an office space cheerleader. Perhaps a commercial real estate agent, or works for a developer. Everyone’s got an angle.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Remote work can never replace office space, period.

Anonymous
5 months ago

It already has, hence the high vacancy rates in other big cities.

Miami
5 months ago

That’s just THOSE cities where it sucks to go into the office. In Miami it’s a pleasure getting out of the house.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Nope just worked remote for a long time during pandemic and now in an office. Torn because I love both, so hope both stay. Shouldn’t be one or the other, but some people seem afraid to go in and out of touch or not really working.

Anonymous
5 months ago

These are only office not headquarters

HQTip
5 months ago

Testing the waters, I see. There will be more HQs on the way.

Anonymous
5 months ago

I honestly doubt it… you should look into the current office development going on in NYC. They have multiple massive super tall that blow even one Brickell city centre out of the water square footage wise. Miami will continue to grow but NYC will alway remain #1

Anonymous
5 months ago

“top of the class highly-educated professional workforce”
One of Miami’s biggest problems is a lack of quality educational institutions

“with the strongest work ethic”
Have you been to any large US city? The Miami 9-5 mentality is among the most lax in the country.

Checo
5 months ago

Does it ever occur to you that you may be hanging out with the wrong crowd to be chiming in on this subject matter?

830 Brickell doesn’t fill up this fast, nor does Blackstone move 200 innovation center jobs downtown if they are unable to hire or attract workers.

The market speaks, and it is telling you that Miami is the place to be. The people listening are the people that will be living in Brickell and earning high wages.

Anonymous
5 months ago

It’s one brickells turn now , I would welcome any company that moves to Miami

Anonymous
5 months ago

You mean One Brickell City Center? One Brickell is Related’s three-tower and poorly designed monstrosity on the river.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Agree. One Brickell united together.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Yo TNM can your team go by the building and take some visuals of the kinetic wall…..found it so strange that nobody has visuals for it.

Melo, the true giga chad
5 months ago

Will the tower have a company name at the top? I know its usually banks, but Microsoft would look pretty cool

Idea Guy
5 months ago

Maybe instead of an old school billboard style name, it can be a giant 3D QR Code, so its more beautiful, creates a consumer experience, tracks ground viewership, and can easily be changed at low cost if ownership changes.

Idea Guy
5 months ago

Never seen that before, but if nobody else does it, I invested it 🙂

Thomas
5 months ago

Beyond tacky. Pls stop.

Idea Guy
5 months ago

Just an alternative if done discretely and disguised into architecture. I see why some would think it’s not a good place for a logo.

Thomas
5 months ago

Please don’t ruin this beautiful tower by slapping a logo on the top.

Anonymous
5 months ago

Microsoft’s post-2012 logo is terrible.

Saul Greenstein
5 months ago

Filling a 600k sf tower isn’t much of an achievement, particularly when it’s the first major office tower built in a long time.

anonymous
5 months ago

i haven’t seen a tower of this size built in America recently, glad Miami is leading the future generation.

Saul Greenstein
5 months ago

NY has built around 20m sf of office space in the past ten years, and is building millions more presently.

Anonymous
5 months ago

A decade after the lost huge amounts of office space to terrorist attacks….

Anonymous
5 months ago

I bet that was mostly before the pandemic. People woke up. NY isn’t the only place for work advancement. NY was built on premise of hyper centralization, and most industries are decentralized and nationalized now.

HQTip
5 months ago

Some cities have lots of empty offices. This is indicative of Miami’s appeal in the business sector and ability to be an HQ hub for the US.

Knower
5 months ago

Nobody is going back anyways. Reals over narratives.