Developer Of 756-Foot Brickell Office Tower Signs Utilities Deal

The developers planning the 848 Brickell office tower have signed a deal to connect the new project to Miami Dade’s water and sewer system.

The agreement was recorded on April 15.

According to the utilities agreement, the new tower will include:

  • 750,901 square feet of office
  • 6,553 square feet of retail

The developers will also receive credit for demolishing 220,801 square feet of office, reducing the connection charge.

Diego Ardid signed on behalf of Key International, Inc.

Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill is designing the new 51-story tower, which will top off at 756 feet.

Key International and Sterling Bay are the developers.

 


(images: Key International)

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Antennae
13 days ago

I love this project. SO&M Architects have a great track record on their designs. It will blend quite beautifully in the area.

Anonymous
13 days ago

They should’ve extended the glass facade facing Brickell all the way down, instead of the gold base.

Anon
13 days ago

love the gold base

Jenny
13 days ago

There should be more space between the building and the sidewalk

Anon
13 days ago

This is Brickell – if you want wide sidewalks with green space move to Park West

Taylor
13 days ago

That’s what people have been doing

Anonymous
13 days ago

Park West is better off packed with sardines. This is Brickell, where we love the green space combined with quality super talks and public squares!

Anonymous
13 days ago

Sidewalks look huge. Easy adjustments for sidewalks can be considered

Anonymous
13 days ago

It would be an even more boring box.

Cover the Podiums
13 days ago

blend in? what part of a 100ft tall brown wall sound like blending in?

Anon
13 days ago

Is the brown wall in the room with us now?

Howard Roark
13 days ago

just SOM, sometimes referred to in the architectural community as Sons of Meis, a reference to the modern master Mies van der Rohe. BTW, SOM has done several good Brickell and Biscayne Blvd buildings going back to the 80’s.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Mies van der Rohe was one of the original starchitects. His work was great for its time, but within the last twenty years shouldn’t have been copied under the moniker of “Neo-Modernism,” that has and ruined cityscapes around the world.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Quite frankly, it’s disappointing for SOM, and the building on the corner should have been included within the redevelopment.

Anonymous
12 days ago

That corner lot is set for another development.

C. J.
13 days ago

In my opinion, I’d say leave the blue glass behind for black glass like a classic 1960s to 70s modernist-style office building like in New York or Chicago for example. Miami rarely has any of those imo

Anonymous
13 days ago

I love the blue glass.

Anon
13 days ago

Will look pretty next to 888

Astronomer
13 days ago

It would be better to build residences. There are to many office buildings already

Landon
13 days ago

Housing is much needed

anonymous
13 days ago

Disagree. Lots of new housing going up nearby.

James
13 days ago

You disagree that housing is needed? In Miami?

Jessica
13 days ago

There is too much traffic in Brickell, better build somewhere else

Anonymous
13 days ago

Traffic in Brickell is quite manageable, similar to NYC on a holiday weekend—busy yet not overcrowded, perfect for enjoying the city’s energy.

Many see it as the only place to live in Florida because of its elevated infrastructure and upscale, walkable community.

Stop bringing up New York we don’t care
13 days ago

Different cities, different standards. Read the room

Jessica
13 days ago

If traffic in Brickell is similar to NYC, then we are worse than we thought

James
13 days ago

Manhattan is manageable because it has the best subway system in the country, Brickell just has a couple metromover stations.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Manhattan transit is a nightmare and it’s not manageable. However, our metro in Miami is scenic, making transit to the city’s top locations feel like a trip to Disney World!

Anon
13 days ago

Is the “elevated infrastructure” in the room with us now?

Sterling Cooper
13 days ago

Right….
No one drives there anymore, because there are too many cars on the road.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Brickell isn’t where the “needed” housing should be located, rather the “desired.”

Anonymous
13 days ago

Exactly 👏 👏 brickell should be where the best of the best come to live work and play, and gradually get more affordable each metro rail stop out.

Anonymous
13 days ago

How about turning all the new airbnb buildings to actual residential

Sterling Cooper
13 days ago

That is easy.

You simply go buy all the condominiums from the people who own them, vote yourself on the Condominium Board, and set up rules and regulations to suite yourself and your visionary Utopia.

Draper Pryce
13 days ago

Ayyye

BDub
13 days ago

Kudos for including outside space in an office building.

Anonymous
13 days ago

NYC doesn’t have that! It’s like working in a prison there.

Name*
13 days ago

Smaller in all metrics than the Southeast Financial Center, and even OBCC is smaller in some ways than SFC.

Nice design but note to this and Brickell Wedge developers: 700 ft won’t stand out like it did in the 80s to early 00s.

Anon
13 days ago

I think they know that – this building will stand out but not because of height – it’s a beautiful SOM design on Brickell Ave – pretty cool

Anonymous
13 days ago

Anybody else won’t look twice at another glass box.

Kathy
13 days ago

There are already too many office buildings. It would be better to build residences

anonymous
13 days ago

There’s more businesses coming! We have a ton of housing being built nearby and want to work close by in buildings like this!

John
13 days ago

The new jewels of Miami!

Anonymous
13 days ago

Iconic

Sonny Crockett
13 days ago

They need to sign a tenant or this won’t rise.

Matilda
13 days ago

Beautiful building, except for the massive podium, which unfortunately Miami forces developers to have given our local zoning rules. I hope Miami one day is not referred to as podium city!

Podiumnator
13 days ago

Podiums should be integrated to the overall architecture of the building, and not a different facade/design

Miamian
13 days ago

I like the gold façade. It would look weird covered in glass – not to mention the garage needs to be porous for ventilation.

Bob Art Guy
13 days ago

what makes this building attractive is the illustration of it. I love the gold but the rest of it is expected and a formula design. Nonetheless it’s a welcome addition. The comments about traffic are brainless. Cities have traffic. They also have pedestrian traffic. What we are seeing emerge is a unique place in Florida. A place with pedestrian traffic. Hooray!

Anon
12 days ago

I can’t believe the Dolce&Gabbana tower is going to be right next door on that little plot.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Gorgeous design!

Anonymous
13 days ago

Sorry, but with the curve, the existing building has better architecture.

analyst
13 days ago

Beautiful design, but I really don’t understand the color choices as Miami is a subtropical city with a beautiful heritage of pastel colors. We are not in Bali….

Anonymous
13 days ago

You want a classy office tower to be painted a pastel color? Barf city.

Anonymous
13 days ago

He doesn’t understand or know how to analyze it. He likely sees Miami as a part-time escape from another city, but it’s becoming a place to stay. It’s not all margaritas and paradise, but you’ll see tropical colors everywhere—that’s the beauty. Brickell is a blend of sophistication alongside the tropics.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Great, so how about something else other than tropical or utilitarian?

Anonymous
13 days ago

That’s what this is, design meets function

Whitney
13 days ago

I love the Bali cantilevers! They break up the rectangles and keep us dry in the rainy season. More Bali-style cantilevers please!

Anonymous
13 days ago

Still a bunch of rectangles.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Someone should open a Bali Polynesian style spot in Brickell

Anne A.
13 days ago

Nor are we in India, which has applied and celebrated pastels since the fourth century. Nor are we in Greece or Italy, who’ve also applied pastels to architecture – for centuries. Appreciation is not the same as heritage.

You’re right that this is a beautiful building. I love it!

Anonymous
13 days ago

Real heritage would be a RAMSA tower inspired by Freedom Tower, or bygone Biscayne Boulevard grand hotels.

James
13 days ago

Does Bali even have a skycraper?

Mauro
13 days ago

Nope, but Panama City and Cartagena do, and they’re in a tropical boutique style as well as the classic Miami-esque white and turquoise blue colors, so build these beautiful towers!

Anonymous
13 days ago

Would love to see a Moorish skyscraper here! It’s Spain with a worldly international twist