Construction Begins At Miami Worldcenter’s Block E

Construction is now underway at Block E at Miami Worldcenter, located on the 7th Street Promenade, according to Nichols Architects.

The 3-story complex will include 63,315 square feet of space, according to a construction permit issued last month.

There will be 10,745 square feet of retail and 9,543 square feet of restaurant space on level 1, the permit states.

Floors 1-3 will have 43,027 square feet of office.

Those numbers roughly matches a utilities agreement completed in March 2024.

Nichols is the architect. Brickell Group Construction is the contractor.

Flow is said to be the developer. Flow is also building the Flow House condos across the 7th Street Promenade pedestrian street.

 

To see photos of construction, click here.

 

(image: Nichols Architects)

 

 

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peej
8 days ago

easily the least-impressive component of MWC so far…

FLORIDA
8 days ago

I think it’s a nice addition, especially when it will have 2 (or 3 – not sure) additional towers there with more ground floor commercial space. Those towers will look amazing and this will complement them without overpowering them.

Anon
8 days ago

They closed a city street and pedestrianized it – said street will now be bordered by 5 towers and lined with retail and has a literal stream running through it.

“Least Impressive” LOL the MWC haters are so desperate

Anonymous
8 days ago

Five box towers atop a giant parking garage above the pedestrian level.

Anonymous
4 days ago

I think the only desperate defennder is you; i could guess you were a drafter for one of those ‘architectural wonders’.

Anonymous
4 days ago

Sadly the only impressive component is the apple store and the park

Duygu
8 days ago

I was hoping for 3 floors of stores instead of offices…

Anon
8 days ago

We all were – I was imagining an epic rooftop restaurant as well, maybe some 2-floor retail concepts.

Looks like Adam Neuman has gobbled up this building as well for his “Flow” concept.

Javanka
8 days ago

Too bad you weren’t born a billionaire like Trump and Kushner…then you could have made it the way you prefer. 😔

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

You can still make a development anyway that you want.
With a compelling idea, there is capital thirsting to support you.

NEWSFLASH: Mid-level ideas from mid-level (or less) people who cannot lead or deliver on a compelling idea do not get funded.

EVIDENCE: Neither Trump nor Kushner are developing project referenced above.

Alpina
8 days ago

Really?? They need an architect to come up with that??

Anon
8 days ago

Do you not know how buildings are produced….?

Yes. Yes you need an architect to produce drawings for, submit to the city, coordinate with GC, etc etc etc

Anonymous
4 days ago

Ha…straight forward answer but i think it was more of an ironic comment saying that the design is so poor that you don’t need an architect for a generic box.

Landon Carter
4 days ago

But….you do need an architect for nearly everything.
In my community, you need and architect for a fence or a driveway.

Anonymous
4 days ago

By all means, please enlighten us…since we are all just ‘amateurs’ in the field

Anon
8 days ago

That’s not a lot of retail for that 3 story building.

Anon
8 days ago

Stores are all at street level as Worldcenter is not a mall but a neighborhood.

Anon
8 days ago

Most of the ground floor will be office. For a three-story retail building fronting a retail promenade – you would think it would be packed with ground floor retail concepts.

Instead – just a cafe and restaurant and the rest is office?

MiamiArchi
8 days ago

From the numbers given, it looks like the entire first floor will be Retail and Restaurant with just @800 SF of Office for its Lobby I would guess.

Anon
8 days ago

No, only about 20k sqft of retail space on ground floor. So half the ground floor will be office as well as the top two stories – and it will likely be a “Flow work from home” concept.

I’m just saying, this building wont be adding as much as it could to this neighborhood when they will only be adding two retail concepts.

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

You liked the status quo?
The land was available for you. You could have proposed anything that you want.

Turns out that men of action, took action. They put their money where their mouth is.

For some perverse reason, this offends average and below average people.
Great news for the average and below average people…you can still comment on a blog.
(yes….I understand the irony…and should be more productive on my Friday nights! This blog is such a horrible distraction.)

Alpina
4 days ago

So just because neither of us developed this project we are not allowed to talk about. Why do you think it was developed in the first place? For the developer to use it??
So if you get the idea that it is built in our city and that we will be the end users, so it is important and very obvious that our opinion counts. So surprised by your answer…don’t take so personal.

Landon Carter
4 days ago

I get both sides.

It is like the Karen who is the Home Owner’s Association President.

She runs around telling other people what they should do with THEIR property. Like Karen speaks for everyone.

Karen thinks that the Home Owner’s Association is hers. She owns it. Like some of the people who comment here think the CITY is theirs. WE NEED this and WE NEED that.

Opinions definitely count.

However, Miami World Center began the vision in 2005. These developers have had 100’s of public meetings and have been very transparent about what they were doing back then, and for every step of the way.

Makes sense that a 26 year old couldn’t make those initial meetings 20 years ago!!!!

PS. There is no way that anyone should take comments on a blog personally!

Anon
2 days ago

They never show up to the meetings and schedule them in city hall far out of city. Know people who have tried to gone, but they make it so hard to meet

Anonymous
8 days ago

It literally shows in the rendering, Restaurant, Restaurant, Retail, Retail across the first floor.

Anon
8 days ago

lol this is a preliminary rendering from before Flow was even involved in the project.

Alpina
4 days ago

You are right; no real retail component

Anonymous
8 days ago

Park West is a neighborhood. Worldcenter is a development that had a mall component that got axed for a hodgepodge of IDK anymore.

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

It was a pivot away from anchor stores.
The retail mix is much more dynamic than having a Bloomingdale’s and Macy anchor.

Anonymous
4 days ago

Right, but the retail mix at the moment seems a little boring to generate sells

Anonymous
8 days ago

“Block E” sums up what MWC looks like, minus a few good towers.

Anon
2 days ago

It looks blocky

Downtown Vagabond
4 days ago

Nice addition and will help the area feel more lived by increasing density.

Now they need to do something about the open air lot behind Citizen M: a 12-15 story parking garage with ground level retail and restaurant space would be awesome and a somewhat quick build out. It would alleviate parking issues and give us space for a couple of bars, a restaurant and a few retailers.

Just sayin
8 days ago

Make it all stores, we need offices but perhaps not here.

Anonymous
8 days ago

>wE nEeD mOrE oFfIcE sPaCe!
>ReTaIl Is DyInG…

Can't say my real name
8 days ago

There’s no “there” there at MWC. It’s a cluster of bland high-rises with no cohesion. Storefronts are mostly nondescript stucco and glass. If you’re leasing to Earls and Crate & Barrel, no bueno. Look at the renderings of the glass house (is that it named )versus what was built. Downtown Miami is a mess. Major office tenants are leaving, fed up with traffic gridlock and anything-goes planning.

Anon
8 days ago

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Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

That is not true.
Citadel and Santander are putting their money where their mouth is to the tune of over a 1/2 trillion dollars.
There is more than that.
The smart money is developing in Miami. Smart people don’t make those investments unless they have confidence in the future.

Not everyone is smart, and people who are not smart rarely know this because they commiserate with other not smart people.

Anonymous
4 days ago

What, I don’t see any Citadel building yet….sa far just dirt

anon
4 days ago

Same with Santander….Greta’s just bloviating

Anonymous
4 days ago

Pretty sure they’re on floor 10 last we saw. Check your construction update again.

anon
4 days ago

You’re not as sure as you think you are….there aren’t even any Citadel plans approved

Landon Carter
4 days ago

You should hang around with more informed people! The plans are insane.

Currently, Citadel has 400 employees in the Miami area. 100 of them live in Brickell.

The Citadel HQ at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive is scheduled to open 2032.

Fun fact: Citadel offered key employees in Chicago the option to relocate to Miami, New York, or take a severance package. 100% chose to move to Miami.

Anonymous
4 days ago

I agree, it looks more like Kendall Station than an ‘urban oasis’

Alpina
4 days ago

I agree with you, missed opportunity for something grand

Miami
8 days ago

Is it true that Eataly will open here?

Anon
8 days ago

There is that rumor going around but I don’t think it’s been announced yet.

Anon
8 days ago

No. There will be two small retail concepts on the ground floor and thats it. Eataly is opening in Aventura.

Anonymous
8 days ago

Who needs Eately when you can have a glorified sports bar selling fifty-dollar hamburgers and crapft beer, all a FREE Metromoober ride away!

Anonymous
8 days ago

I know this is why the restaurants in downtown and Miami are becoming such trash.

Anonymous
7 days ago

Why hasn’t this deranged psychopath ranting about the “metromoober” been banned yet?

Unlike the metromover, it’s obvious nobody has any use or fondness for this guy.

Greta VanFleet
7 days ago

Because it is stupid to “ban” someone for their ideas or point of view.

Anon
2 days ago

That’s what a Bernie and Rand Paul keep saying!

EatalyMarketingBlitzFail
7 days ago

who cares eat at home

Anonymous
6 days ago

The Metromover needs work. The hand sanitizer dispensers are great, but the trains are too crowded, and it’s hard for people with disabilities to get on. The doors stay open too long, and we need a direct route from Bayside Market to Brickell Station.

Landon Carter
4 days ago

Said everyone who has taken a ride on it since 1986.