Plans Revealed For 40-Story Tower At 2600 Biscayne, With Office & Residential

A partnership of developers announced they have closed on the purchase of 2600 Biscayne, and have unveiled development plans for the property.

2600 Biscayne will rise around 40 stories, renderings show. It will include:

  • 399 Class A multi-family units
  • 160,000 rentable square feet of office
  • 6,500 rentable square feet of retail

The project is a block from a planned commuter rail station planned on the Brightline tracks.

One third of the office space has already been pre-leased, the developers said, even before the project was publicly announced.

A museum was formerly planned on the property by Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Foundation. Fairholme paid $6.79 million for the property in 2013, and just sold to the new developers for $35 million.

Oak Row Equities is the developer, and Alex Karakhanian’s Lndmrk Development is a minority partner. Oak Row Equities was formerly known as Carpe Real Estate Partners and is being renamed. The company developed The Oasis in Wynwood, and is also now developing Wynwood Plaza along with another apartment project in North Miami Beach.

Arquitectonica is the architect for the new project, and was also the architect of the former Fairholme museum proposal.

 

(renderings: Quantum Space Studio)

The Fairholme museum formerly planned for the site:

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Jesus
10 months ago

I like this design. It’s different and it has a modern look to it.

Anonymous
10 months ago

For better or worse, ninety-plus percent of towers are modern looking. For Arquitectonica, the base looks promising.

Sally-Ann Wiltshire
10 months ago

Thank Jesus!

Anonymous
10 months ago

Every day, praise God.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Good thing he sold…that museum looked like Darth Vadors torture chamber

Anonymous
10 months ago

Or sex dungeon

Anonymous
10 months ago

That’s why I liked it!

Shawn Kouri
10 months ago

Oh I love it. It looks nice. This is going to bring more office space into the area, which means more good paying jobs. Some of the units are also office units? That’s great for those who work from home. This could become more popular these days, and into the future in the post-pandemic era. If construction begins next year, it would be completed in 2025 or 2026

Anonymous
10 months ago

Most companies that will still exist by 2025 or 2026 aren’t adhering to your work-from-home fantasies.

Papi
10 months ago

Gorgeous design. Lori Lightfoot’s fat ass has a lot to learn from Miami.

Downtown Blue Voter
10 months ago

Yes, Miami, a city that in the last 30 years has wasted millions of taxpayers’ dollars “studying” how to connect Dowtown Miami with Miami Beach (only 3.5 miles apart), keeps waiting until only God knows when to expand the Metromover to Wynwood, and forces the developers to build more parking as their way out to invest in a mass transit system, has a lot to teach to Chicago. Quoting Malandra Trump. “Give a Fu.. Break”

Anonymous
10 months ago

lmao

Anonymous
10 months ago

Look, these elected officials in Miami don’t hear you because right now, they’re hypnotized by Elon Musk’s tunnel idea with his electric cars driving through them.

lol…

Anonymous
10 months ago

You’re right, they won’t hear him or listen to anybody anyway and the sloppy, shoddy work on Brightline’s Miami Central Station for Tri-rail proved that.

Miamian in Chicago
10 months ago

Chicago’s the city with the transit system with bullet holes has a lot to teach the world. Yeah. Right.

Anonymous
10 months ago

I bet some in Ukraine are saying “only bullet holes, that’s all they have to worry about?!”

Oscar Wild
10 months ago

Miami has not a good mass transit system… Chicago has a mass crime system thanks to Lori ! 🤗

Anonymous
10 months ago

LOL, and is Miami spending $76.5 million on UBI? Also, the fact bring up Metromover extensions invalidates your argument, as if dinky electric shortbuses is something comparable to an over 100-year-old rapid transit system like Chicago’s.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Haha.. he’s talking as if the MTA in this city can or even knows how to extend the system that these so-called “dinky electric shortbuses” operates on. Geez, it’s only been in operation for at least 32yrs now. If I lived in an area where it operates, I would rather ride on it, get off, and walk about block to where I live instead of taking the risk of ruining my car if I try to drive through flooded streets.

Downtown Blue Voter
10 months ago

They should add 10 more levels of residential.

Angelina
10 months ago

👎🏼 Not necessarily.

Someone that knows
10 months ago

I don’t think you can, the height is maxed out at 549 ft on that side of Biscayne

Yet Another Anonymous
10 months ago

Without parking the building is bigger than it looks, where a lot of miami buildings are smaller than they look, standing on parking garages. 400 units and 160,000 sq ft of office is like two buildings’ worth as many of the condo towers here have only a couple hundred thousand square feet of units.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Gonna use the b-word: there are also 5 bus lines that run along that lot.

Anon
10 months ago

no one takes busses

Anonymous
10 months ago

Except the millions of people that do

MDT4me
10 months ago

Around 160,000 people take the bus in Miami-Dade every day.

Checo
10 months ago

No one takes buses anymore, they are too crowded.

MBeach
10 months ago

Looks like a square blender

Anonymous
10 months ago

Biscayne Winning.

Anonymous
10 months ago

Is the “cage” functional, i.e, designed to remove interior columns? Or is it just decorational?

Anonymous
10 months ago

I like it but it should be taller

Ron Jeremy
10 months ago

The residential portion has a Natiivo feel to it. The office part is dull.

Anonymous
10 months ago

I think the other way around, only because the sloped side makes it somewhat interesting.

Anonymous
10 months ago

I like the Fairholm better

Earl
10 months ago

Gentrifying Edgewater

Edgewater Resident
10 months ago

One can only hope. Still lots more work to do.

issup
10 months ago

Arquitectonica brought in Nicolas Cage and Vitamix to consult, to make it more blendy, and more cagey. The UFC will also have an office space of course.

Anonymous
10 months ago

It would look better if the upper residential component was set back from Biscayne Boulevard instead of west. Alas, it’s another f-ing box with a more interesting sloped base, until you walk around the side and see a giant wall concealing the parking garage with another hideous mural. But hey, the architect wore his glasses this time, because all the windows and balconies are symmetrically placed!

Se me paró
10 months ago

Yes I hope the period of juxtaposed balconies for Architectonica is over.
May a new period begin
Please

Anonymous
10 months ago

Four walls and a roof = iconic.

Kamari’s
10 months ago

This Looking like poopoo-caca for banana to fall

calivalle
10 months ago

Could of done better with that pedestal

Casey
10 months ago

Much better than the brutalist museum

Anonymous
10 months ago

Definitely not. Would have been a great counterpoint to all the glass boxes. But some people like repetitive design I guess.

Anonymous
10 months ago

So a Brutalist husk is the only counterpoint to glass boxes? LOL, you would be the first complaining something looks too Coral Gables, despite that being the dominant architecture in much of South Florida during its boom years on the 1920s.