Brickell Office Building Sold For Record-Breaking $443M

The 701 Brickell office tower has been sold for $443M – the most ever for an office building in Brickell.

It is also the second highest price for an office building in Florida, trailing only the $540 million sale of the 1.2 million square foot Southeast Financial Center in 2016.

701 Brickell last sold in 2002 for $172m, property records show.

The 32-story building has 685,279 square feet of office space, and was completed in 1986. A $30 million capital renovation plan was recently completed.

The property attracted significant interest from top-tier institutional and ultra-high net worth investors, according to JLL’s Capital Markets group, which represented seller Nuveen Real Estate.

Morning Calm Management and a partner are the buyers. A Bloomberg report last month said that Elliott Investment Management and partners were in contract to buy the property.

 

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AAA
4 days ago

They should tear down the parking garage facing the bay and build a supertall…

Anonymous
4 days ago

The waterfront parking garage needs to go!

calivalle
3 days ago

I agree i pass this place on my bike and just aks to be torn down.Both parking garages facing the bay….

Truth Matters
3 days ago

Only in the U.S.
A parking lot facing the bay.
Unbelievable
No where else in the world that would happen.
What a total waste.
Let cars and SUVs enjoy the views

Anonymous
2 days ago

That’s because central location is more valuable than the views in Miami and any city to start out, but clearly since this sold for a lot the views are valuable too!

Anon
3 days ago

Garage is shared with 777 Brickell next door. A bit more complicated than you think.

Anonymous
3 days ago

I used to work there. The garages are separate. Only the entrances are shared.

Anon
2 days ago

I worked there too, and also underwrote this deal. Do some reading up on reciprocal easement agreements instead of trying to pick arguments with strangers online.

calivalle
2 days ago

Parceeeee

calivalle
2 days ago

Its only time but the whole Bay of Biscayne and Brickell will be transformed….

Anonymous
2 days ago

The bay is already nice, actually should be preserved, the interiors of Miami need to be transformed first

TMK
4 days ago

They probably will build.

Anonn
4 days ago

This thing is just begging to be redeveloped. At the very least the parking deck.

Cover the Podiums
3 days ago

I’m ok with building new supertalls but I just wish we would take this kinda of investment and put it into redeveloping parts of Little Havana. Brickell can easily expand west instead of trying to demolish every single building in Brickell that is only 20 years old

Elliott
3 days ago

What is stopping you from putting your money where your mouth is?

Stop wishing “we would take this kinda investment”. No.

No one should be taking someone else’s investment.
These former New Yorker’s relocated to South Florida, and they decided to invest in Brickell.
Nice to see this investment only 5 blocks south of where the former Chicagoans made voted with their dollars.

Anonymous
3 days ago

Former New Yorkers are open to living in Little Havana or nearby, especially if developers make better use of the land, particularly the riverside areas. Its prime location near Brickell offers convenience, and there’s potential to attract millennials and professionals seeking a quieter, upscale neighborhood. A “bridge” neighborhood could blend Little Havana’s culture with Brickell’s multicultural vibe, creating a unique community that combines charm with city convenience.

Elliott
3 days ago

Sounds great. Test your theory. Do it. Build it, and see if they come.

This should be obvious to everyone….but maybe it needs to be read.

The buyers of this office building are aware of Little Havana.
They are well financed, experienced.
They have choices.
Of all the choices available to them in the world, in this country, in this city, and in this neighborhood, they chose this building at 701 Brickell Ave.

Anonymous
2 days ago

NYErs anre already there and demands are high.

Anonymous
2 days ago

Yes for an office building Elliot. They compliment each other. People need a place close to work so they can walk there, and little Havana is the nicest spot next to Brickell

Ana
2 days ago

He can’t they don’t have the zoning for it in the area right beside brickell in little Havana. Every time you suggest an up zoning in that area, some dumb person says it has to be corn “responsible zoning” and the can gets kicked down the line

Ana
2 days ago

Upzoning is neede… it’s currently t4-r. So only quad plex and duplex with no commercial right now. Big interests are trying to keep it small to monopolize profit.

Anonymous
3 days ago

With that logic, why is Manhattan not expanding to The Bronx? Location drives real estate.

Anonymous
3 days ago

The parts of Little Havana up for development aren’t like “the Bronx” at all, and very safe and charming areas.

They’re more comparable to “TriBeCA,” along the waterfront, with efforts to make Miami more than just a world financial hub, with Brickell being the FiDi like Manhattan.

…If anything, “Lemon City” and “Wynwood” are closer to “the Bronx.”

Ana
2 days ago

Look at the size of Manhattan versus the size of brickell, a single neighborhood.

Anonymous
3 days ago

No it can’t “easily” expand west because the infrastructure isn’t there, and you’ll get more boxes with parking podiums ruining the human scale of Riverside. That’s why every upzoning comment is ridiculous.

Anonymous
3 days ago

“The infrastructure isn’t there” is code for “we don’t care enough to include you in our plans.”

Anon
3 days ago

Well I agree with the OP that they should upzone Little Havana but not so much to the size of massive parking podiums. How about 5 story buildings that don’t require a massive podium and blend with the neighborhood. What they’re doing in Wynwood Norte should be a model for areas just outside the greater Brickell/Downtown/Edgewater part of Miami

Cover the Podiums
3 days ago

This guy gets it. Put a height restriction similar to Wynwood. 8 stories would be an ideal height with relatively small parking podiums

Dan
3 days ago

>the infrastructure isn’t there
So then built it.

Somewhere along the way, this country gave up on advancement and forward-thinking and settled for excuses and intentionally cutting services.

Anonymous
2 days ago

The infrastructure in little Havana is better than Brickell

Ana
2 days ago

So what should be built there instead? Some fancy building that is completely unaffordable to the people who need it? The people of Miami have needed an up zoning in that neighborhood for over a decade and a half now

Anonymous
3 days ago

It was built in 1986, almost forty years old, and is on prime real estate that warrants something taller, without a parking garage along the bay, and hopefully not a box.

Anon
3 days ago

I just wish you would stick to complaining about parking podiums, because every other thing you say is Kamala-tier unintelligible.

Anonymous
3 days ago

Then it must be really smart because last night, I heard her standing up to price gougers and protecting Floridians from financial exploitation.

Truth Matters
3 days ago

Very well said

anom
1 day ago

love this line. “Kamala-tier unintelligible”

Not Flagler and Little Havana
3 days ago

That is a valid question for serious journalists.

Anonymous
3 days ago

Who’s ‘they’?

H. Wilma
3 days ago

I thought it was going to be the SunTrust building because the picture is confusing.

Daisy Marks
3 days ago

Buildings keep going up but people complain no improvement on schools for kids.
What will happen to the traffic already so jammed up!
Also need some strategy to deal with homeless people roaming around. Pilates colleague got badly beaten by a homeless person in front of Rosetta during the day!

Common SenseSearching
3 days ago

Agree – We need a holistic strategy for the city. You can build all the buildings you want, but if the schools aren’t there and the infrastructure is not there, businesses will stop coming because their top employees won’t come.

Anon
3 days ago

Not sure why you guys are getting downvoted. This has literally been explicitly mentioned by Citadel and all the other big firms moving down here that the commenters on this site love to worship…

Lenny
5 hours ago

Schools are “here”.
The infrastructure is “here”.

The proof of this is that the businesses ARE coming.

Citadels top employees are and have been coming for a couple of years now.

Anonymous
2 days ago

There’s a brand new Grade A school going in Brickell, Southside Middle on 3rd Avenue, and it’s already the best public school in Miami, so I think they are listening.

Lenny
5 hours ago

I’ll take these in order.
Miami Dade Public Schools have been getting significantly better over the last decade. Award winning. The colleges have gotten significantly better too.

What will happen to the traffic? It will be about the same.
There is a strategy to deal with Homelessness. Miami has one of the very lowest homeless populations of any major city in the USA, and is a national model. Please learn more at Chapman Partnership or Camillus House, they are the largest.
Coming in the next few months is Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery. It is a state of the art facility purpose built to treat criminal offenders who require mental health and addiction treatment as a way to mitigate incarceration and recidivism costs on society.

If all of the plans and solutions exist, but you do not know about them. Do not fear!
Read the Miami Today News on a weekly basis, and you be informed.

Elliott
3 days ago

The reporting above says focuses on 2nd highest price paid.

The most paid was a 1.2M sq ft building that sold for $450 per sq ft.
This Brickell building is 685,279 sq ft (about 1/2 the size) and sold for 43% more at $644 per sq ft.

It is not “begging to be redeveloped”, first of all it is printing money. Secondly, there a several other options along the waterfront in Brickell to choose from.

Nunya
5 hours ago

They will come to an agreement with Swire property to not start construction until Swire is close to completion of their BCC tower on the property across the street. Hence screwing all BCC purchasers out of their view when a new 80-100 story tower is built on this newly purchased property.

Lenny
5 hours ago

What?
The office building just had $30m + in a property improvement plan.
There are dozens of lease obligations from tenants that will extend for a decade and beyond.

Anyone who thinks that this building was purchased because it was begging for demolition has never been inside the building, and likely has very limited practical knowledge about how the world works.

Ana
1 hour ago

It’s 1:20. Where are the new articles??

Ana
48 minutes ago

1:41 and still nothing

Hyan
44 minutes ago

1:45….