‘Indications Many More Will Follow’ After Amazon Leases Wynwood Offices

The developers building the Wynwood Plaza campus announced that Amazon has agreed to Wynwood’s largest office lease ever.

The lease announcement comes a little over a year after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced he was moving to Miami.

Amazon’s new lease is for 50,333 square feet of office space.

“We are extremely excited to welcome Amazon to Wynwood Plaza and are already receiving indications that many more will follow,” said Andrew Trench, Managing Director at broker Cushman & Wakefield

The developers of Wynwood Plaza, L&L Holding Company and Oak Row Equities, also said they were confident it would continue to attract additional companies as Miami’s high growth mode continues.

Other tenants that have already agreed to lease office space at Wynwood Plaza include Claure Group (25,400 square feet) and law firm Weitz & Luxenberg (18,000 square feet).

The 12-story office tower will include 266,000 square feet of Class AAA space upon completion.

The campus also includes Wynwood Plaza Residences, with 509 high-end rental apartments and 45,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor offerings. That building is now nearing completion.

There will also be a 26,000-square-foot public plaza at street level, Created by the urban design team behind NYC’s High Line and Miami’s The Underline, Field Operations.

Surrounding the plaza will be 25,000 square feet of retail, featuring indoor and outdoor dining, boutiques, storefronts, convenience locations and fast casual spots.

Wynwood Plaza was represented by L&L’s Bryan Lapidus, as well as by Andrew Trench, Edward Quinon, and Brian Gale of Cushman & Wakefield. Tom Capocefalo and Mike Catalano of Savills represented Amazon.

Shorenstein Investment Advisers is a project partner with Claure Group a co-investor.

 

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Cover the Podiums
11 days ago

drove by there the other day and its stunning. Great street presence with tons of glass everywhere. Also not sure if they built a garage but if they did, its completely hidden

F L Olmstead
11 days ago

The garage is hidden… magic

Anonymous
11 days ago

Unfortunately, the jagged vertical lines on the glassiest part cheapen the design. It would have better if they used a lighter glass curtain with nothing stuck to it.

Anon
11 days ago

I really like the fins. I like the way they look and they also reduce solar heat gain

Anon
11 days ago

Absolutely massive for Wynwood. It’s era as a tech hub has officially begun.

anon
11 days ago

regional sales offices don’t make tech hubs

Anonymous
11 days ago

Are they going to have actual engineering teams working from here? Or is this just going to be a regional office for AWS sales?

B C
11 days ago

AWS sales, the engineering teams are west coast based in the US.

Anonymous
11 days ago

Hopefully not just LatAM operations.

Harlem Nights
11 days ago

Engineers would come from where? hahahahhahaa…you all are funny. Please stick to influencing and prancing about.

Balthazar Bratt
10 days ago

The engineers in my neighborhood come from all around the world and chose to live in Miami for various reasons.
Whenever their is a need for an engineer, there is no problem attracting talent to Miami.

Class AAAA Universe ++69+420
11 days ago

These superfluous office marketing classes like quadruple AAAA+++ would mean Class A is close to the worst grade possible.

Anonymous
11 days ago

Like AAA baseball, not in the pro leagues.

Harlem Nights
11 days ago

LMAO…these bumpkins getting excited over 50K SF…small town mindset.

Anon
10 days ago

Agreed. Just like when Blackstone made headlines for weeks when they announced they’d be opening the equivalent of a broom closet at MiamiCentral a few years back. Progress is progress but I can’t stop laughing at the “Miami is the new New York” comments all over this site.

Balthazar Bratt
10 days ago

Clearly you have never been invited to their offices, or you breath from your mouth.

Those 200 tech jobs announced in 2022.
Since then, that Miami office has grown to more than 250 employees as of late 2024. Those additional positions in finance, real estate, and retail product management are on top of the tech jobs.

Of course, Miami is not the new New York.
No serious person would think that.
For that, you would have to embrace New Yorkers. It is far better that only the smart people and beautiful woman move to Miami. Leave the mouth breathers and knuckle draggers back in the snow.

Anon
9 days ago

Lol. Why don’t you reread that South Florida Business Journal article that you just regurgitated. Blackstone originally leased 41,000 SF at MiamiCentral. Across New York City, their total office space exceeds 1.4 million SF. The MiamiCentral office serves mainly as back office functions (accounting, etc.) and allows them to take advantage of tax breaks and cheap labor compared to NYC.

Like I said, progress is progress, and them hiring more local talent for more roles is always a step in the right direction. But get real. The REAL jobs are still in NYC. That’s where the talent is, and that’s where the business activity/network is. Having worked at 345 Park Ave with them, I can assure you Jon Gray, Ken Caplan, Kathleen McCarthy, etc. aren’t hanging out in this Miami office for anything more than tax breaks and sunshine.

Balthazar Bratt
10 days ago

The idea is that this neighborhood was an industrial afterthought of an area, now, several tech companies and Law Firms are calling Wynwood home.
50k for Amazon, 24k for Claure, 18k for a law firm means the small building in a small neighborhood is 1/3 pre leased.

Not that it is exciting to serious people, it is just news.

Anonymous
11 days ago

I wouldn’t any to work there, unless they had an office near the metro mover.

Anon
11 days ago

Well good for you because you’re not an employee at Amazon so you wont have to!

anon
11 days ago

That Metromover love sure limits your career prospects

Eduardo Pérez
10 days ago

Nice!
The Metromover Love is only a symptom of the root problem.
The root problem is the one that limits opportunities to be a producer instead of a parasite.

Anonymous
11 days ago

I’m not taking the Metromoober or a bus if I’m making six figures in an executive position at Amazon. Metrorail or Tri-Rail, yes but don’t take my car. Brightline, absolutely.

anonymous
11 days ago

cool–must be great to be 14 years old and not have to care about earning a living

Balthazar Bratt
11 days ago

If you had a job at Amazon, where would you have time to opine about how the MetroMover should go everywhere for you?

Jenna
11 days ago

So it’s time to bring the metro mover there!

anon
11 days ago

😂😂👌

Anonymous
11 days ago

It’s time to stop circlej**rking over an ineffective public transportation system never intended for expansion beyond its existing conditions, and consider something which will actually take cars off the road and be a viable alternative.

Balthazar Bratt
11 days ago

The “cars off the road” crowd do not have the skills to produce value at Amazon, nor the pride to pay their own way, so these points are moot.

anon
11 days ago

Come on now. I think a few of these Metrolusters could handle slinging packages in a warehouse.

Eduardo Pérez
10 days ago

Great point! They would sling packages at Amazon if only Miami had True Transit like a Metromover that connected to OpaLocka. Such short sited politicians.

Anonymous
11 days ago

They should open in World Center or Citadel new tower where employees can go carless.

Anon
11 days ago

They should go where they want – which is obviously wynwood.

Anonymous
11 days ago

It wouldn’t surprise me if they implement an employee shuttle from either the school board station or the Brightline station. Or help fund expanded service on the city of Miami Wynwood trolley route.

Balthazar Bratt
11 days ago

It would be smarter if they offered a “bonus” for employees to live in the 509 units of housing that are in the Wynwood Plaza campus.

But what do I know? I only employ people.

Someonethatknows
10 days ago

If you really employed people then you would know the people that developed that building are intelligent… therefore they thought and implemented your “bonus” idea before you even knew Amazon was signing a lease in wynwood.. duh

Eduardo Pérez
10 days ago

He knew that genius.
I employ people too, and I also know what the “Campus” in Wynwood Plaza Campus means.

I feel for the writers who try to dumb it down for the mids. Just when you think your idea is clear and idiot-proof, along comes a bigger idiot.

Anonymous Waiter
11 days ago

The Tri-Rail which currently runs through Wynwood daily should add a stop on the way to Miami Central/Brightline. It would connect Wynwood to Brightline and Metrorail. They simply need to add a platform and stop. Minimal cost and time implementation since it already runs through about 12 times a day. Adding this stop has to be the lowest hanging fruit for transit in the area.

Anonymous
11 days ago

I don’t understand where you people want to force people into carless situations. Your carless dreams are not everyone else’s. I would rather sit in traffic in my luxury car vs. sitting on a train with other people rubbing up against me, walking in this SoFlo heat/rain. You people can sit in your buses with the poor’s but leave the rest of us out of it.

George Washington
11 days ago

It’s not about forcing people—clearly, neighborhoods like Brickell and others across Downtown are more desirable because people prefer car-free living in Miami. But some developers seem to focus on easy projects in low-value areas, adding to traffic instead of building connected neighborhoods. With the Metromover and plenty of empty lots, like at BCC, corporations like Amazon should focus on sustainable, urban development and discourage outward sprawl.

Anon
11 days ago

You could make the same argument the other way. “Why do you people need to shove your car-only lifestyles down our throats? Not everyone wants to live like that. Why can’t you leave the car-only lifestyles and massive parking lots in the suburbs, and let cities be high density with transit and little parking?”

Eduardo Pérez
10 days ago

No.
Nobody ever forces you to buy a car yourself.
Nobody ever asks you to play a 1/2 penny sales task to pay for another persons car.

Government train people, want car people to pay for their ride. They are entitled to a free ride for some reason.
“Car people should pay for me…because I am so special”

No.
Stop being a parasite.
If you want a train, pay a ticket price that will cover the expense of the capital expenditure and the annual operating expense.

Look at the PortMiami Tunnel model. It is an International PPP financing success. The fares generated for every vehicle that goes through pays the real costs of the capital required for the construction and for the maintenance. No tax payer dollars necessary.

If Metromover extensions could pass that test, even the smart people would support such Metromover extensions to everywhere projects.

Someonethatknows
10 days ago

Smartest thing said on this forum. Plus by the time city officials approve and build a metro mover, Musk will launch self driving cars which will act like miniature bus/train carts that will pick you up and drop you at will like an Uber minus the labor cost. Then all this public transport will become obsolete and we will need more garages for these cars to pull into and self charge while they wait to go back out and redeploy.

anon
11 days ago

The employees will mostly drive til they qualify and lease/buy in the suburbs like most downtown workers. These new downtown developments are for trust fundarians from the Northeast and wealthy foreigners looking to store their cash.

Waiter Wynwood
11 days ago

The current Tri-Rail should begin stopping in Wynwood rather than just zooming by everyday. They are a commuter rail and they don’t stop where the most people need them.

Waiters are like Mensans
11 days ago

Tri-Rail doesn’t go through Wynwood.

Anonymous Waiter
11 days ago

Tri-Rail runs through Wynwood 26 times per day (13 in each direction) starting at 6AM.