Silicon Valley Tech Company With 1600 Employees Moving World HQ To Miami

Yet another tech company has just announced plans for a world headquarters in Miami.

LeverX said in a statement that it was moving it’s headquarters from Mountain View, California to Miami.

The new office is at the 47-story Wells Fargo Center (previously known as Met 2) in downtown Miami, according to the company’s website.

The LeverX website says it has over 1,600 employees worldwide. Initially, 30 members of the company’s executive team will be based in Miami, according to Refresh Miami.

“Thanks to global accessibility, Miami International Airport is now one of the busiest airports in the world, making the city a convenient place for business operations and meetings,” LeverX wrote.

“Recent explosion in business and technology has made Miami an increasingly desirable place to live, work, and travel,” the statement said.

LeverX also added that it intends to contribute to Miami’s growing business and tech scene.

(photo: Phillip Pessar)

 

 

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Anonymous
9 months ago

At the risk of going off-topic, the financial services company Rothschilds announced yesterday they’re opening a Miami office—location TBD.

anonymous
9 months ago

Financial services? Has to be Brickell…

Anonymous
9 months ago

Eat it Cali!

Local Elections Matter
9 months ago

?

Righteous Guy
9 months ago

I honestly don’t understand this attitude. We should be thanking California. Every state that is getting CA born and raised mature companies, should be saying Thank You. We didn’t finance them. We didn’t accelerate them. We didn’t believe in their crazy idea. We didn’t mentor them. We took no risk whatsoever. That was all CA. That company most likely wouldn’t have been able to build from scratch what they have today if they had been born in FL or TX. So let’s just say Thank You, shut the f*ck up, and work towards developing a local ecosystem that hopefully one day can accomplish a fraction of what CA has done. Actually, Silicon Valley has no competition in the US. It competes against China. They are in a whole different league.

Shane
9 months ago

Thank you for saying that! And thank you for building the environment that software companies want to move in. I had a tough time at Houston as a software developer until I moved to Mountain View, and I learned so much since. But the housing is going crazy because of cases like mine. I love it when software companies find new home in other states. That is great! Did I mention how housing is crazy here?

OneCountry
9 months ago

That’s talk of sanity. There’s hope for FL as long people like you are not pushed out by the, say, Karen crowd?

We don't care
9 months ago

I have never heard of this company. Nobody in Cali cares, you can have our trash.

Nada
9 months ago

I bet that company would have that same feeling but that ia if you were someone that matter as well.

Melo is sigma and Chad
9 months ago

Being local IT talent in Miami, my linkedin is jumping.

Anonymous
9 months ago

ok, before anyone say it… Miami winning!

Anonymous
9 months ago

Downtown needs to build more office buildings, probably closer to Overtown. There’s already Ernst&Young there!

Anonymous
9 months ago

It makes sense with Miami Central right there so people can easily commute to and from the office. Plus it’s close enough to Worldcenter so it is a very strategic location.

anon
9 months ago

Those who work in downtown but want space can live in Brickell and travel one or two stops by metro.

Conny Viera
9 months ago

Better have a salary of millions if you want to live in Brickell

Anonymous
9 months ago

Amazing! I can see this bringing high paying jobs and improvements all around Miami.

Anon
9 months ago

All of these companies better bring the talent from outside of Miami. They will all be in for real shock if they think they can find enough people here who have a good work ethic and who don’t think a deadline is merely a suggestion or a moving target. I’ve been here over 25 years and the half assedness is worse than ever.

anonymous
9 months ago

Maybe it’s just who you worked with? Work with a local company that has hired work ethic and deadline expectations than those in NYC. During the pandemic when people were working in pajamas in NYC people in Miami were hustling and showing up in offices every day. Miami has the strongest workforce in the country and I really hope these companies tap into this energy and local knowledge and range of highly educated skilled workers.

Anon
9 months ago

I wish that could the case. It’s across a broad spectrum. More likely, my expectations are just too high. Hopefully Miami will get rid of the dead weight and become authentically more sophisticated.

Anon
9 months ago

There are sophisticated and highly educated young people who grew up in Florida, with a wealth of experience from top-tier jobs in Chicago, New York, and California, but the learned knowledge of Florida and motivation to make this City a better place to work and live.

Anonymous
9 months ago

It will be interesting to see how many jobs this will create since the jobs are spread all over the world. They are leaving people in California.

Concrete Barriers
9 months ago

Ok. So it sounds like someone replying to this article might know Mayor Suarez and could bring up the hideous barriers in front of the historical federal building downtown, across from the MDCC campus. These barriers have been up as long as I can remember 10-20 years at this point. At this point, I’m sure the feds could come up with a better alternative; one that’s not an eyesore. I think these barriers were originally meant to be temporary.

Ccd
9 months ago

Another great area is the industrial section of Hialeah….alot of empty buildings. They used to manufacture cloth. Now they were sent to China

Anonymous
9 months ago

Never head of them. Also, Metromover looks as pathetic as ever.

Anon
9 months ago

ok Debbie downer

Anon
9 months ago

It’s better than the NYC subway. Try commuting on those for a few weeks and report back.

Affidavit
9 months ago

We must have been living in different Miamis :)))

Anonymous
9 months ago

Another PLUS for EPIC hotel & residences , where sales prices per square foot & rental rates have already skyrocketed. ONLY Epic & Aston Martin , are the nearest luxury options super close to the Wells Fargo Center. To others , one needs to cross the often dreadful Brickell bridge.

Anonymous
9 months ago

Epic and Aston are great spots! There are a lot of excellent people investing there. Sale prices and rental rates in Brickell are through the roof too. Not everyone needs to cross this bridge. I hope people keep investing in both neighboring areas.

Mike
9 months ago

Miami overrated Barcelona Madrid my friends

Albert
9 months ago

Sure I’ll just learn Spanish, get a work visa , find a job and move 🙄

MIA
9 months ago

Kinda have to learn Spanish to be in Miami .

Anonymous
9 months ago

^^not for many jobs, but yeah if you work the drive thru window at Wendy’s it’s needed to get the orders right

John Lyman
9 months ago

Not True

Anon
9 months ago

That’s FALSE. It kept me out of Miami for years but finally made the move and realize everyone speaks English. Miami speaks English incredibly everywhere you go.Every big city has immigrants that don’t speak English, that’s everywhere and makes the city diverse and interesting.

Ggg
9 months ago

You live in Miami, habla Espanol amigo

Anon
9 months ago

He means lazy and on “Miami Time”… which is true

Anonymous
9 months ago

Miami Time is just used by entry level realtors and social media influencers gig workers, not the thousands of professionals working hard in the City. We are more punctual than the former mayor of NYC Mayor De B!

Anonymous
9 months ago

That is not true. Miami speaks English and has impeccable punctuation skills (minus realtors – they suck.)

Anonymous
9 months ago

Cause they are sick and tired of your little nonsense Newsom’s misgovernance of Cali!

Phantom
9 months ago

Parking, grocery stores, public schools need upgrades, too.

Steve S
9 months ago

Good luck to them, I hope they realize what type of weather occurs in Mami, and they need to be quiet politically.

Downtowner
9 months ago

Psyched for downtown growth! I read that last month 5 companies in Brickell resigned for downtown leases

Anon
9 months ago

Just checking again. It was actually six companies. They all signed leases in downtown’s Citigroup Center.

Anonymous
9 months ago

“[Brickell] has an 8% vacancy rate among 13 office buildings with a combined 4.75 million square feet. Downtown Miami, by comparison, has a 23% vacancy rate among its eight office buildings with 4.89 million square feet.

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article271892202.html

Anon
9 months ago

What is the obsession with denigrating downtown? Everyone is happy that Brickell, having seen billions in investment over the past few decades, is booming. Why is it so upsetting to people to see growth of any sort in neighboring neighborhoods?

Anonymous
9 months ago

I think that Downtown growth will also catalyze Midtown and Brickell growth and provide a lot more housing options for Miami.

Anon
9 months ago

Downtown has been neglected for a generation. It’s so sad to see all these beautiful, detailed classical buildings boarded up and covered in graffiti, crumbling away. So, so much potential in the Flagler District.

Anonymous
9 months ago

the dyer courthouse is 1 of the most beautiful neoclassical buildings ive ever seen….would be an awesome office complex instead of sitting there decaying

Anon
9 months ago

Its the nicest building in the city. If this city valued civic investment it would have been transformed into Miami Public Library or the Miami Museum of Natural History. The city doesn’t, however, value those things enough to pay for such a transformation.

Instead, like the rest of our historic landmarks, they have been sold to the highest bidder.

Anonymous
9 months ago

The courthouse, just like Freedom Tower was pretty much given away to MDC to rot…

Anonymous
9 months ago

There’s a movement and majority that values this history, and we will save as much as possible in unison with developers for a modern and profitable Miami. It’s not about politics. It’s about Miami prospering. Why do you think people are calling for a Museum of Natural History on the Miami River? Newsweek, Reuters and Reuters Asia reported on this topic in the last 24 hours.

anonymous
9 months ago

As much as downtown uses negative forms of association for promotion. I hope they pull this off, it has so much potential.

Brickellite
9 months ago

Probably because those tenants got priced out of Brickell, and there’s so much demand in Miami that downtown can absorb the growth around Brickell.

Anon
9 months ago

They did. They said in the article they could afford more office space for less as rents continue to rise in Brickell, so all they all cut bait and moved to Downtown.

LV305
9 months ago

wow all the people who grew up here aren’t gonna be able to live here. these tourist are gonna leave miami worse of than SF

Ab
9 months ago

Hurry up and move to Tampa.

Sam
9 months ago

Tampon sucks

Anonymous
9 months ago

Tampa, and well as the bay area is a beautiful city and metro area, and just like Miami, has its pros and cons. Of course, I don’t expect somebody who loses it on every Fort Lauderdale article to understand.

Anon
9 months ago

lmaooo

Anonymous
9 months ago

Sucks to be them, I guess. Grow your skillset or risk being priced out.

Anonymous
9 months ago

This is why we need more museums and educational programs, so locals can have opportunities to rise up in this new highly skilled market.

Anonymous
9 months ago

They’re not tourists—they’re skilled workers.

Anonymous
9 months ago

As a native myself, it’s always really irked me how some people feel entitled to a middle class lifestyle in a region just because they got yanked out of their momma’s crotch in that region.

Friedrich Hayek
9 months ago

Actually, no! The problems with San Francisco can be summarized, in two words, POOR GOVERNANCE. SF has issues with public safety and is not pro-development like Miami. The amount of new housing and office space that will come on in Miami over coming years is very large. Empty lots, sub-scale older buildings, etc., all these are new developments waiting to happen. Price is a function, not just of demand but of supply AND demand.

MIASFO
9 months ago

The article and comments are referencing/comparing the wrong city. San Jose, not San Francisco is the primary city of Silicon Valley. It has a much higher level of public safety than Miami. Even San Francisco’s violent crime rate is lower than Miami’s by almost 10 points.
But… agree re poor governance. Re development San Francisco does have some unique constraints due to geography and historic housing stock. Miami also shares constrained geography and resources like fresh water so we will see how pro development plays out.

Anonymous
9 months ago

Are they taking over the FTX office?

Anonymous
9 months ago

LeverX = Project Xray?

Anonymous
9 months ago

We need Facebook, Twitter and Google next! Come on down!

anonymous
9 months ago

So they can ruin our city like SF and NYC? Thanks, no

Nonya
9 months ago

You’re so dramatic!

JohnnyG
9 months ago

These companies are moving here for one reason and that’s good governance. Low taxes, few homeless, low crime. Those benefits don’t just happen on their own. I moved to West Palm Beach recently from Chicago. There police officers are dealing with gangs and car-jackings. Here the police are at the Publix attempting to prevent shoplifting. No joke. The big cities are cesspools. If you came from one you know what I’m talking about. If these big companies want to move to Florida fine. Those of us in commercial real estate welcome them, unless they bring their stupid ideas with them.

CA transplant
9 months ago

Facebook/Meta already has offices here in Brickell

Melo is sigma and Chad
9 months ago

Probably choose one of the many new Wynwood offices. Downtown Miami needs new towers that are office space.

Choo Choo
9 months ago

It says right there that its the Wells Fargo building…

Melo is sigma and Chad
9 months ago

I’m talking about the others

Anonymous
9 months ago

Offices should be by metromover and metrorail to reduce traffic. Wynwood is a great nightlife scene.

Anon
9 months ago

Thank God for Metromover and metrorail for those of us poor folks living south of Brickell.