Swire Signs Utilities Agreement For 800 Foot Brickell Key Tower

An affiliate of developer Swire Properties has completed a utilities agreement for two towers it is planning on Brickell Key.

According to the October 5 agreement, the development will include in Phase 1:

  • 6,500 square feet of office

Phase 2 will include:

  • 289 residential units
  • 179 hotel rooms
  • 28,054 square feet of full service restaurant

Henry Bott signed on behalf of the developing entities, Swire Brickell Key Hotel, Ltd. and Swire Jadeco LLC.

A Mandarin Oriental residences building and a hotel building are planned, the developer said earlier this year.

The “architecturally spectacular” towers are being designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. The taller residences building will rise over 800 feet, with the second tower around 400 feet.

Construction permitting for a temporary sales center with an estimated construction cost of $7 million is underway, according to Miami Building Department records.

 

(images: Binyan Studios)

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Can’t wait for this! A much needed upgrade to the aging Brickell Key.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Are there any bike paths in Brickell key? It’s an island. How do people get in and out?

Anonymous
1 month ago

There’s a bridge to get on and off and a bike/walking trail around the entire perimeter!

Anonymous
1 month ago

no bikes are permitted on that walkway

NYC Transplant
1 month ago

An upgrade to the width of the pedestrian walkways on both sides of the bridge is desperately needed, even before adding all the additional units in the new project.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It a rich person island attached to the mainland via a small bridge. The guards let you know no average Miamians are allowed.

anonymous
1 month ago

not true at all. I have friends living there and guards never stop you when you are coming on with a car or walking over

Bruno
1 month ago

Either this is not true, or I’ve never been mistaken for being average.

Anon
1 month ago

Unmitigated bullcrap–I’ve gone over there to walk unfettered countless times

Anon
1 month ago

its funny because back in the 1970s, the paper said that Claughton Island was to be developed as a mixed income new island…. LOL we forget past developer agreements

Anonymous
1 month ago

What are you implying? There are actually quite a few buildings on Brickell Key where being rich is absolutely not necessary. There are people of very different income levels on BK.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The tallest tower is a welcome addition, but the new hotel? The existing hotel isn’t even twenty-five years old and has aged better than five-year-old Arquitectonica cereal boxes. Not to mention the awful “upgrade” of Courvoisier Centre.

Anon
1 month ago

Very True.

Nachos
1 month ago

When the hotel was constructed, it was only meant to be a temporary building.

Anonymous
1 month ago

They aint wasting any time lol!

evan
1 month ago

Swire can move when it wants too

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

where the hell is the podium at??

I’m definitely not complaining 🙂

Anonymous
1 month ago

Looks like the island might tip over.

Anonymous
1 month ago

So the 400’ tower is phase 1 and the 800’ tower is phase 2?

Brickellite
1 month ago

Dang, there goes the neighborhood walk…

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.

Name*
1 month ago

That unofficial supertall render here was better. This looks like a giant Jade at Brickell or Jade Ocean.

Beach*
1 month ago

*Jade Beach

Anonymous
1 month ago

Disagree, this is a beaut!

Anonymous
1 month ago

So is Jade.

calivalle
1 month ago

I love the first rendering

Anon
1 month ago

Looks dated. 70’s / 80’s vibes.

Appraiser
1 month ago

Maybe the demand for waterfront is there but I don’t get this one. If Swire wants to sell condos, why not just complete Brickell city center?

Anon
1 month ago

Too far out from the core. Not walkable. Too big for area.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Not walkable? Lol that’s a good one.

Sam
1 month ago

Totally inappropriate for this island. Realize it is ‘legal’ and ‘their property’, but that doesn’t mean this is appropriate – either aesthetically or for the community. This is a small island, the traffic will be a mess, and there is no aesthetic rationale to have a tall building sitting in the middle of the sea.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Agreed!!!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Many of us in the community want this! If traffic is your main concern, I would recommend getting out of your car more. Everything in Brickell is walkable.

Sam
1 month ago

I am curious. Why do many in the community want this? What will be the community benefit of a tall apartment building sticking out in the middle of the sea? It won’t block my view to be candid, but it will block the views of many people, and even just pedestrians. Looks completely out of place.

Bruno
1 month ago

Getting the highest and best use from a property raises the property value of the property
High property values = high property taxes.
Higher property collections every year means more money in the community’s budget.
More money for schools, parks, sidewalks, infrastructure, security, etc.

Additionally, Brickell Key is within the Downtown Development Authority boundaries and the incremental increase in property taxes will stay in the DDA district to be reinvested.

Anon
1 month ago

Yeah but what about everything OUTSIDE Brickell?? Miami Beach? Wynwood? The Design District? You going to walk there too? Or you just never leave your neighborhood?

NYC Transplant
1 month ago

Using NYC as an example, with sufficient neighborhood density people will walk around in their own neighborhoods most of the time. Trips to other neighborhoods that take more than 20 minutes in a vehicle are excursions done primarily for work or evening/weekend entertainment. The key to making this successful is a sufficient/sufficiently diverse set of options for groceries, restaurants/bars and fitness, personal care.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You’re comparing NYC to an island that you can circumnavigate in ten minutes?

Anon
1 month ago

Yeah no. What are you talking about? When you live in New York, you live in HK, or BK, work in Midtown or FiDi, get drinks in Flatiron or Chelsea after work, maybe a run along Hudson River Park at some point – you are all over the place, and it’s easy because you have public transportation to all these other parts of the city.

I moved here from New York too. So you just stayed in your neighborhood the whole time until the weekend? How boring.

Adrian
1 month ago

I think it looks good and it works well with the skyline as a whole.

You people on your island just like pulling the ladder up right behind you. I like density when it supports me, but not when it may allow other people in. If our elected officials listened to people like you, then the greater downtown area will never have prospered the way it has.

Cover the Podiums
1 month ago

I think 600ft max would have been more appropriate for the key. Anything higher should be reserved for the core of the city

Anonymous
1 month ago

This couldn’t be more core if it tried.

Anonymous
1 month ago

its 289 units!!!!!…..not 2890….

BB1
1 month ago

I agree. Something feels very wrong with this project.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s not so much the size as the sterility of the design that is offputting. There is nothing aspirational about it visually. Limited amount of curvature or other qualities that suggest natural beauty. It would fit better in midtown Manhattan. For those who haven’t read it recently, Tom Wolfe’s essay “From Bauhaus to our House” seems timely.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The only “community” the existing park is for is hundreds of iguanas.