I'm Julien Drieu, and Coconut Grove is the fourth corridor I work closely, alongside Brickell, Downtown, and Edgewater. It is also the odd one out, in a good way. Nothing here is chasing supertall height or a thousand units. The buildings going up in the Grove right now are boutique on purpose, five to twenty stories, and built for a neighborhood that has always valued a slower pace over scale. If you...
September 2026
A Finished Building in a Neighborhood Full of Cranes Most of what I write about in Coconut Grove right now is still on paper: groundbreakings, construction loans, delivery dates a couple of years out. Arbor is different. It has its certificate of occupancy, people are already living there, and only a handful of homes are left. If you want new construction in the Grove without a two or three year wait, this...
Wellness Built Into the Address, Not Bolted OnA lot of Miami buildings slap the word "wellness" on a gym and call it a day. The Well is trying something more ambitious: a 194-residence condominium in Coconut Grove built around an actual wellness program, with a dedicated club for it rather than a corner of the fitness center. It is the first project of this scale from Terra in the Grove, backed by the...
The Furnished, Rental-Ready Half of One Brickell Riverfront Right next to The Standard Residences Brickell, sharing the same podium and the same river frontage, sits a second tower built for a different kind of buyer. LOFTY Brickell is fully furnished, unit by unit, and licensed specifically for short-term rental. If you have been asking me about a Brickell condo you can actually put to work when you...
A Hotel Brand's Second Miami Project, Built Right on the River The Standard has been putting its stamp on hospitality for decades, and its first Miami residential project, in Midtown, sold well enough that a second one was only a matter of time. That second project is here now, rising on the Miami River in Brickell, and construction is not just underway, it is moving fast. The towers topped off in...
Downtown's Second Supertall, and the First Delano Anywhere Miami already has one supertall going up on Biscayne Boulevard. Now it has two. Delano Residences Miami is planned for the lot right next to PMG's Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences, a 90-story tower that will carry the Delano name into residential real estate for the first time anywhere in the world. If the Waldorf Astoria site convinced...
I'm Julien Drieu, and Downtown Miami is one of three corridors, alongside Brickell and Edgewater, where I spend most of my time right now. Downtown is earlier in its cycle than Brickell and building at a bigger scale than almost anywhere else in the city: a true supertall skyscraper going up on Biscayne Boulevard, a fast-filling Arts & Entertainment District just north of it, and the best transit...
A New Tower Fills the Gap Between Downtown and Edgewater Downtown Miami's Arts & Entertainment District has been the quiet in between zone for years, past the financial towers of Brickell, short of the bayfront rush in Edgewater. 14 ROC is one of the projects changing that. It is a 31 story residential tower rising at 125 NE 14th Street, and it is already reported to be roughly half sold ahead of...
Si vous êtes propriétaire étranger et que vous prévoyez de vendre votre condo, votre maison en bord d'eau ou votre bien locatif à Miami, il y a une règle que je veux que vous compreniez avant de signer quoi que ce soit : la FIRPTA. C'est une règle fédérale américaine qui peut exiger qu'une partie du produit de votre vente soit retenue au moment de la signature. Certains vendeurs étrangers n'en...
A Turnkey Tower Built for Owners Who Also Want to Rent Most new towers in Edgewater are sold as a finished shell you furnish yourself. Edge House is built the other way around. Every one of its 608 residences arrives fully finished and furnished, designed to be lived in the day you get the keys or handed straight to a management program if you want it working for you when you are not in Miami. That...