First Glass Installed At 39-Story Downtown Miami Tower, Now Halfway Up

A 39-story tower under construction in downtown Miami is now halfway up, and has had its first glass installed, according to photos by Phillip Pessar.

The tower, known as District 225, is being built without a parking garage.

Contractors are working on a tight property in a busy urban area. The lot size is just 14,116 square feet, according to county property records.

Foundation work began in July 2022, with the first tower crane installed in November 2022.

A total of 343 condos are being built, which will be permitted for rental on a short term basis through platforms such as Airbnb.

All of the condos are sold out.

ROVR Development, The Related Group and BH Group are the developers.

 

 

(photos: Phillip Pessar)

 


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Anon
1 month ago

Glassy – no parking podium – tower comes right to the ground – very nice

guy1
1 month ago

Glassy shouldn’t be a positive adjective for any architect in sub-tropical climate.

Melo is sigma and chad
1 month ago

Hope the one story retail around it gets a facelift

Anonymous
1 month ago

The whole remaining half of the block needs to go, meaning the parking garage and arts school.

Yay
1 month ago

Downtown is growing into a real big city downtown. Yay!!

Metropolis
1 month ago

Brickell will be more the financial district, downtown will be the true city core. Wynwood will be the hippy place and midtown will be more family oriented. A true city is being built.

Anon
1 month ago

Wynwood has nothing to do with hippies…

Anonymous
1 month ago

Metropolis is referring to hipsters not hippies

Anonymous
1 month ago

Hipsters will be gone by the time Wynwood reaches its true potential, thankfully. They will move to more ironic pastures like Hialeah.

Anon
1 month ago

Riverside and Little Havana.

Anon
1 month ago

Not really, scale it back. Brickell is already a real downtown and growing, and downtown will be like Midtown Manhattan

Anon
1 month ago

Wynwood and Edgewater are not really part of the core but when transit transit comes it’ll be like Harlem and the UWS

Anonymous
1 month ago

Related actually did well on this one, almost like their 2000-ought developments before everything became cereal boxes with parking pedestals.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Excellent offering and getting delivered soon!

Stevenbuilds
1 month ago

It’ll be interesting to know the % of people purchasing these condos to place on Airbnb. Given the number of condos to be delivered to the area allowing the same short-term rentals, coupled with rising rates. I do not see how it’s feasible to buy under that sole idea.

Anonymous
1 month ago

To clarify (and actually it furthers your point), mortgage rates are rising just as AirBnb rates are flattening.

Bob
1 month ago

Why not just build a hotel?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Don’t hold your breathe for a dog park next door on the rendering.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I like those supertal wonderful concrete structures. In my view Miami needs more of it to demonstrate the unigqnes of its position and people in this hemisphere.
There is still plenty of old parc locations which should be used for it. I think there are to many old people with those little dogs walking around and leaving their poop. Better use those parcs and build something better so people can invest and be proud of it to own a piece of concrete.

Brickell hoe
1 month ago

Who the hell lives in a building with no balcony?

Anonymous
1 month ago

NYers and Chicagoans

Anonymous
1 month ago

No we left NY to have a balcony. We would never live in a balcony less building, unless it’s 1-2k off rent

Anonymous
1 month ago

Note how this building is located in MIAMI

Anon
1 month ago

Millions of people…

Anonymous
1 month ago

…and few of them Miamians

guy1
1 month ago

It’s very inhumane imo

Anonymous
1 month ago

Seriously though. This isn’t NY or Chicago, it’s Miami. Why would someone *not* want a balcony?

Anon
1 month ago

The people in my building just use theirs for storage and it looks like garbage. This isn’t uncommon at all.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Especially when the balconies aren’t symmetrically placed, because then it looks like a vertical Hong Kong slum.

Anonymous
1 month ago

you got flaky neighbors

Civil Servant
1 month ago

See Las Vegas sh**ting incident.

Considering area is next to municipalities.

Al Czervik
1 month ago

Condos with balconies cost more than condos without balconies.

If you want affordable apts, or if you advocate for more affordable housing, you can see the merit in some value engineering.

Totally agree
1 month ago

We’ve got outdoor whether year round and not having balconies is a travesty. And enough already with the short term rentals. Most of the people that use them are here to party and treat the places like crap and drive away residents. And the units get bought up by investors that don’t give two shits about the city as long they are making money. If we want to be more than a party torn we need to start acting like it.

Anon
1 month ago

Some buildings have balconies. Some don’t. Get over it. The building is sold out so obviously buyers aren’t as bent out of shape over it as you are.

Rental properties
1 month ago

It’s likely sold out due to investors that don’t care about anything other than making a buck or hiding overseas money. Hence they don’t care about balconies. If this was Brickell there’d be no end to the crying about lack of balconies.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Not really, I prefer the new buildings without balconies. Just makes my balcony more valuable, also don’t have to see my neighbors, just the reflection of the glass.

DUH
1 month ago

Welcome to Miami real estate.

Anon
1 month ago

Brickell hoe loves to film her onlyfans content on her balcony.

Name
1 month ago

Now I see why you guys want liner units.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The building literally directly across the street has no balconies lol

Those are rentals but still, it’s not that big of a deal

Anonymous
1 month ago

There is freaking public housing going up now in freaking Perrine that have balconies, this is a travesty. Just goes to show these are bought blindly by money launderers just looking for a lock box for their cash.

Sam
1 month ago

Completely agree with you. Having lived in both NY and Chicago (and now Miami), Miami is completely different market. Weather and type of living make having a balcony very, very desirable in Miami – less so in NY and Chicago. (People in NY and Chicago that have balconies only use them 4 months during the year or otherwise to smoke). I’m surprised there is a market these days for no-balcony buildings, but I guess there is. Probably it is only because these are Airbnb-friendly, the people buying them are just using it to park their money and rent it out, so they don’t care. Building will probably turn to trash eventually, which is kind of sad.