You re right Kev. But before we look at the pick up in the office market, it s important to see the

Let s consider the composition of Miami s construction boom. Since 2003 the level of construction activity has been staggering. As one might expect from an urban boom, many of the projects cheap airline travel to seattle washington have been sleek high rises, but contrary to what is normal, they are, for the most part, residential. When I say normal , I m thinking of the type of development that is to be expected within the framework of a typical urban core. Take, for example, Denver. Of the tallest fifty buildings in the Rocky Mountain metropolis urban core, only seven are residential the tallest being the Brooks Tower at 420 ft. Let s take it a bit farther west, the Pacific Northwest to be exact. In Seattle, there are also seven residential buildings among the tallest fifty towers. Could I be cherry picking my examples here? Let s go east. In Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, one-fifth of the tallest fifty towers in and around the urban core are residential. cheap airline travel to seattle washington For all three of the aforementioned cities, office is the dominant use among the tallest fifty. Now, let s consider the anomalous Magic City. Of Miami s tallest fifty towers , twenty-seven of them are residential this includes only occupied buildings not the numerous residential developments still under construction.
If there was a norm in the high density urban development realm and office was its name, it s been crashed in Miami. Could there be balance in this type of development? If balance is measured cheap airline travel to seattle washington relative to building-use, then Denver, Seattle, and Philadelphia are clearly tilted in favor of office in the development-use scale. Miami s urban core, long overlooked by the city s inhabitants as a hub of hectic, yet transient, day time activity, is evolving into a livable and expansive urban core. Let s consider cheap airline travel to seattle washington how it has changed.
During the 1970 s Miami s downtown was not impressive. The hallmark of the skyline was One Biscayne Tower with the Sun Trust building running a close second. The skyline had only seven office/hotel towers that were over 90m in height:
Miami would have to grapple with social ailments of epic proportions during the 1980 s; a wave of refugees, unprecedented levels of drug trafficking, and a violent crime wave. Yet, the skyline transformed. Impressive office buildings sprung out of the social dilemma and Brickell made a name for itself:
Brickell s business district formed during this time. The CBD saw the emergence of the Wachovia (formerly First Union) and Bank of America (formerly Centrust) towers. They would, for almost two decades, serve as the hallmarks of Miami s skyline. On the residential side of the coin, Brickell saw pronounced growth and there wasn t a large gap between office and residential construction. Still, cheap airline travel to seattle washington office development predominated.
The 1990 s would shift little weight to the office side of the development scale. Instead it ushered in a new era of truly tall residential towers with the Bristol and Santa Maria (courtesy of Ugo Colombo). The construction activity tended to be Brickell-centric.
Incredibly, after the 1990 s rise in residential cheap airline travel to seattle washington construction and a stagnant office sector, one might have thought that the next surge would be office. Few could possibly have expected that the nineties would set the stage for a construction surge that would drastically tip the scales of development in favor of residential cheap airline travel to seattle washington and make 21st Century Miami an experiment in urbanism.
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Well what about the office development already underway in the CBD and Brickell- 1450 Brickell (with UBS full tenant), the Brickell Financial Center, and Met2? These have already begun the new office trend under construction amongst many others.
You re right Kev. But before we look at the pick up in the office market, it s important to see the huge imbalance in favor of the residential side. That s what I m going to focus on in the 2nd installment of this post.
Well the idea i think is that much luxury residential space has actually been sold to executives from other countries. So those ballers won t need office space here. Unless they were planning to flip the properties to people that actually live here. Post2 should be interesting.