Santander Gets Utilities For New 765-Foot Brickell Tower

A Santander Bank affiliate has completed a deal with Miami-Dade County to supply utilities to a new tower it is planning on Brickell Avenue.

The agreement lists the project name as Santander Tower. It is dated October 11.

According to the documents, Santander Tower is planned to include:

  • 635,000 square feet of office
  • 60,000 square feet of retail
  • 50,0000 square feet of full service restaurant
  • 20,000 square feet of fitness center/gym

A demolition permit for the site has already been issued.

The new tower is planned to rise 41 stories, or 765 feet, and is being designed by Handel Architects and Bernardi & Peschard Arquitectura.

It will also have 1,496 parking spaces, according to an earlier filing with the City of Miami.

 

 

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Anon
16 days ago

Can not overstate how massive it is that two mega financial institutions (Santander and Citadel) are building flagship office towers in Miami!!!!

Jessi
14 days ago

Excellent comment.
Correct.
The big picture is that new amazing building are being developed in Miami.

No professional blog commentators are shaping the future of Miami. it is the men and woman who are making it happen.

Buckle up and get your little helmets on boys and girls. Producers are making big buildings happen for THE NEXT MIAMI.

Manuela
16 days ago

Brickell is sliding itself as the Financial District, whereas Park West is becoming the elite residential district. Together they are bringing downtown to becoming a true major city’s downtown!! Now we need to fill the space in between these two areas…

Manuela
16 days ago

Flagler would be a start…

Anon.
16 days ago

Already happening. Hyatt redevelopment, Okan, Waldorf, etc

Anonymous
16 days ago

Elite residential…? I wouldn’t consider any of the towers in park west elite

Anon
16 days ago

1000 Museum is the most *elite* and architecturally significant high-rise in the city – possibly the state.

Anonymous
16 days ago

Compare the price per sq ft with other towers built and currently selling. The shore club penthouse sold for $120 million. Now that’s elite! Six fisher sold both penthouses for a combined $150 million. Now thats elite and exclusive. OTM is one architectural marvel amongst a sea of mostly bland and uninspiring building.

Anon
16 days ago

The haterade for this part of the city either stems from ignorance or jealousy. In addition to 1000 Museum is the illuminated facade of the Paramount, the upcoming deco-inspired Legacy, Rafael Vinoly’s Casa Forma, the Perez Art Museum by Herzog & de Meuron, the Signature Bridge, Lazalerian Properties’ glassy Miami World Towers featuring a 800′ diagrid stunner, the historic Freedom Tower, and more on the way. Yes – there are filler towers (obviously). But it’s not any one elses fault but your own if you can’t see the dynamic neighborhood taking shape here…

Simone
15 days ago

That’s Biscayne Blvd ..first line buildings … considered waterfront maybe ? 1000 Museum is not Park West as much as some would like it to be …

Jessi
15 days ago

For sure. 1000 Museum significant and expensive.

Ken Griffin paid $106.875 million for a residential home(s) at 3031 and 3115 Brickell Avenue.

One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.

Park West is definitely getting better. “Elite residential district” is a stretch.

Anonymous
16 days ago

This needs to be more of a priority

Anonymous
16 days ago

West and south and north Brickell are all the most residential luxury places to live in Miami, but the center of Brickell is certainly becoming the financial capital of Miami

Wonda
16 days ago

Park West is becoming the core of Miami!

Margarita
15 days ago

Elite?! have you been drinking the latest cocktail from the 11 nightclub?!

Jessi
15 days ago

Brickell has been the Financial District for over 30 years when International Banks could easily attain bank charters in Florida. Nearly every South/Central American Bank and the biggest European banks set up shop on Brickell.

Now that the Camillus House homeless shelter and accompanying services move out of Park West is getting better and better every day.

Azarius
16 days ago

Love the extra color it’s going to add to the Brickell portion of the skyline

anon
16 days ago

765 feet a whole lotta feet for just 41 floors

Anonymous
16 days ago

Class A office towers generally have several feet between floors for the kinds of equipment that are not necessary for residential towers. Big open office spaces also need higher ceilings (so light can come over the cubicle walls).

Driver
16 days ago

Is 1,496 parking spaces too much? What do other cities provide in terms of similar amount of office space/uses?

AnonElon
16 days ago

Other cities were built in the past. Miami is being built for the future. We need places to park and charge Cybercabs!

Kramer
16 days ago

The future are bikes, e-bikes, maybe even drones but definitely not cars.

gimmie cheese on my whopper
16 days ago

^^😂👌🤡 As if bank VPs are riding bikes to their 900k/y jobs

Andy
16 days ago

They are the 1%, we are speaking of mass transportation here. Plus, based on the comment above, maybe they will be the ones on drones.

anonymous
16 days ago

So you think middle class people should ditch their SUVs for bicycles because biking everywhere back like they did when they were 10 years old is now their future too? lol

Anonymous
16 days ago

I’m a bank VP (for a much better bank than Santander) and I make a third of that. That range that you mention is close to MD level.

But back to subject, none of us (VPs or EDs or MDs) like taking our car if we don’t need to. Reality is that we will be all taking autonomous rides in a couple of years (some of us using more premium rides than others), so your preference between a car and a bike will be totally irrelevant. Parking won’t be needed either way.

Anonymous
16 days ago

My father was a bank VP (head of their mortgage operations) at a large regional bank that routinely made the F500 list. He was making 300-400k/yr salary +perf bonus back in the mid-90s. Incomes have roughly tripled since then.

Anonymous
15 days ago

Head of an entire company division is C-suite. That’s not called VP, at least not anymore. Those are high level managing directors in today’s banking terms.

Anonymous
16 days ago

Also, as for autonomous rides in “a couple of years” …come on now, a couple is 2, and 2 years from now everyone’s still driving to their career jobs, guaranteed.

Anonymous
15 days ago

Have you traveled a bit around the country? Haven’t you seen Waymo in action? In some targeted locations they are almost as common as any other rideshare. And up until now it has been without advanced AI, which is starting to be implemented little by little. 2 years most major city will likely be using it. 4-5 years should be mainstream all around the country.

Jessi
15 days ago

To the man who only has a hammer in his tool box, everything looks like a nail.

To the twenty-something still on Mom’s health insurance policy, everyone should put on a helmet and ride an “e-bike”

Truth Matters
16 days ago

In my humble opinion, the future should be focused on walkable cities with mass transit. Not dependent on cars. The U.S. is the only country not focusing on mass transit. It’s a total waste of money, space and infrastructure to build for cars in this day and age.

Jessi
15 days ago

Have you done the cost analysis per mile/per rider for public transit.
I’ve NEVER been delighted by a public transportation ride. NEVER.

Riding in Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley, 1970 Chevelle SS, and even a Tesla is a blast!!!

I’ll pay for my vehicle of choice, and I will not force you to pay for mine.

When you make everyone else pay for the government trains, you are being selfish and unfair. That’s my humble opinion.

Kramer vs Kramer
16 days ago

Of course Kramer, because picking up your kids from daycare on a bicycle is no problem! Neither is pedaling thru a thunderstorm to visit clients! I used to think only 35 year old virgins living with their moms and working min wage jobs could get around just with bicycling, or maybe DUI offenders with p/t dishwashing jobs and prison records, but you have now shown the way forward for everyone!

Anonymous
16 days ago

Cybercabs, lol! I was walking along SE 7th one rainy evening and watched one of those food delivery robots decide to park in the middle of the street causing a traffic jam. Don’t hold your breath.

Louis
16 days ago

Why only 41 stories ?

wanderer34
16 days ago

The most important thing is the height. THe amount of stories doesn’t ensure that the tower will be tall, but the height is the biggest issue, especially for Miami’s growing skyline!!!

Anonymous
16 days ago

Love the colors! West Palm has a building with orchids and bright colors on the podium and it’s so much prettier than our bland podiums.

Anonymous
16 days ago

Why the damn punchcard holes in the facade?

Yan Jammer
15 days ago

So it looks like a ’90s Japanese future concept.

Eucucina cabinets
16 days ago

Spectacular design. We need mor green office buildings like that in Miami.

anonymous
16 days ago

all that parking is a nightmare waiting to happen

Jessi
15 days ago

For who?
Do people really have nightmares about parking in buildings that they will probably never visit?