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Baccarat Residences Miami

Thirty hours, 10,000 cubic yards of concrete and 1,500 tons of steel — the mat under Baccarat went in over a single weekend. Seventy-five storeys are rising on it at the mouth of the Miami River.

One weekend, ten thousand cubic yards

The most interesting thing about Baccarat happened before anyone could see it. Related published the foundation pour as a single continuous 30-hour operation, running from eight on a Friday evening through two on Sunday morning: more than 10,000 cubic yards of concrete and 1,500 tons of reinforcing steel, placed by Ceco Concrete Construction under general contractor John Moriarty & Associates of Florida, with Titan America, Florida Concrete Unlimited, B&J Consulting Engineers and NV5 on the job.

You cannot stop a mat pour of that size. Once it starts, every truck has to keep arriving on schedule for a day and a half or you get a cold joint in the thing holding up 835 feet of tower. Related's condominium division president called it a once-or-twice-in-a-lifetime event, and on a river site with three movable bridges upstream and one road in, the logistics were probably harder than the concrete.

What sits on it is a 75-storey Arquitectonica tower announced at roughly 835 feet, with 360 residences. Florida YIMBY had it past the 40th floor in March 2026, with topping out expected late in that year and completion projected for early 2028.

Two addresses, one building, and what the roll actually shows

Baccarat markets as 444 Brickell Avenue. The county does not know it by that name, and the distinction is worth ten minutes of anyone's diligence.

The construction parcel is folio 01-0210-000-1020, part of Lot 1, Block 103S of Brickell Point, addressed by the Property Appraiser as 99 SE 5th Street. The roll carries it as VACANT LAND — COMMERCIAL: 62,418 square feet, no year built, no floor count, no unit count. The recorded metes and bounds describe courses of roughly 240 feet across and just over 400 feet deep, with exclusions taken out of the middle.

The 444 Brickell Avenue folio is a different parcel — 01-0210-000-1060, also in Brickell Point, 73,349 square feet of land carrying an existing 13-storey office building of 344,187 square feet. So if you pull the county record for 444 Brickell Avenue expecting to find Baccarat, you will find something else entirely. Nothing on the roll shows Baccarat today, and nothing will until the tower takes its certificate of occupancy and the Appraiser opens a folio for the condominium.

Every dimension, count and finish on this page therefore comes from the developer's published material rather than the public record. We would rather say that plainly than dress a brochure up as a survey.

Seventy-five thousand square feet of amenity, and a boat

Related and GTIS publish more than 75,000 square feet of amenity space, and the headline item is the one you cannot install in an inland tower: a private marina, published at over 300 linear feet of dockage, with a residents' yacht announced as part of the programme. A working slip at the mouth of the Miami River puts Biscayne Bay, Key Biscayne and the ocean a short run away without a trailer or a phone call.

Alongside it, the developer publishes a planned 10,000-square-foot waterfront restaurant — a full public-facing kitchen at the base of the building, not a residents' pantry — and landscaped riverwalk gardens by Enzo Enea, the Swiss landscape architect best known for moving mature trees rather than planting saplings.

• An elevated resort deck with a zero-entry heated saline pool, an outdoor spa and poolside cabanas, angled at the river
• A hammam spa, published with a La Mer partnership, and a fitness centre programmed by Anatomy
• Wine cellar, private screening room and a run of social lounges over the water
• Beach club membership at 1 Hotel South Beach — the sand this tower does not have, borrowed from the operator's own hotel

SH Hotels & Resorts manages the residential services, and that is the difference between a licensed name and an operated building. SH runs the Baccarat Hotel in New York and the 1 Hotels group; here it is supplying the staffing model, not just the logo. The brand itself goes back to a French crystal house founded in 1764, which is a longer provenance than most towers can claim and, to Meyer Davis's credit, one the interiors reference rather than shout.

Flow-through plans, eight-foot terraces, and eight penthouses

The unit breakdown is unusually clear for a pre-construction tower. Three hundred and twenty-four flow-through tower residences, published from 1,566 to 3,697 square feet, beginning at the 15th floor. Eight penthouses across the top three levels. And 28 riverfront flats and duplexes down at the water — a genuinely different product in the same building, for someone who would rather be at eye level with the river than 600 feet above it.

Flow-through is the operative word. A plan that runs clean from one face to the other gets you light and a cross-breeze on both sides and, on this site, river and city in the same apartment. Published ceiling heights are ten feet through the typical floors, rising to eleven and twelve in the penthouses, with eight-foot-deep private terraces reached from the living area and the primary bedroom.

Interiors are by Meyer Davis, with key-activated private elevator access published for residences. Kitchens are specified with custom Italian cabinetry and a full Sub-Zero and Wolf package — refrigerator and freezer with internal chilled water and ice, wine storage, induction cooktop, M-series oven and steam oven, Cove dishwasher. Primary suites are published with his-and-hers walk-in wardrobes in Italian cabinetry and bathrooms with freestanding tubs and frameless rain showers. The building is pre-wired as a smart building, with a single interface handling concierge, valet, security, audio, video, lighting and window treatments.

A working river, and a very short walk

The Miami River is not scenery. It is a commercial waterway with tugs, freighters and fishing boats running it daily, and the view from a low floor is a moving one. Three movable bridges cross it from Brickell — Brickell Avenue at mile 0.1, Miami Avenue at 0.3, SW 2nd Avenue at 0.5 — and under 33 CFR 117.305 those draws are restricted during weekday mornings, midday and evenings, which is worth knowing before you plan a nine a.m. departure. I-95 and Metrorail cross on fixed high spans.

On foot, this is about as connected as Brickell gets. The Miami Circle National Historic Landmark sits on the river's south bank at 401 Brickell Avenue, a short walk north. Komodo is at 801 Brickell Avenue. Cross the Brickell Avenue bridge and the downtown riverfront at 270 Biscayne Boulevard Way brings Zuma and the Kimpton EPIC. Brickell City Centre at 701 South Miami Avenue and Mary Brickell Village at 901 are both walkable, and the Mandarin Oriental at 500 Brickell Key Drive is over the causeway on the 44-acre island, where a continuous public promenade rings the seawall — published by the hotel as a 1.3-mile loop, and the best flat run in the neighbourhood.

Walk Score rates Brickell Avenue 99 for walking, 96 for transit and 75 for biking. Metrorail's Brickell station runs direct to Miami International; the free Metromover Brickell Loop stops roughly every two blocks; Brightline's MiamiCentral is about 1.5 miles north. By car, Miami International is about seven miles via SR-836, typically 15 to 25 minutes, and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood about 28 miles up I-95, typically 35 to 55. The Rickenbacker Causeway leaves Brickell's southern edge for Virginia Key and Key Biscayne.

Who this one is for

Buy here if the water matters and the beach does not. Baccarat has river frontage, a private marina and a slip at the mouth of the bay — which is a real, usable relationship with the water that most Brickell towers can only photograph. It is not oceanfront, and the beach club at 1 Hotel South Beach is the developer's honest answer to that.

The floor plans are the second argument. Flow-through layouts to nearly 3,700 square feet, ten-foot ceilings and eight-foot terraces make this one of the few new Brickell towers where you are not trading square footage for the address. The 28 riverfront flats and duplexes are a distinct proposition again, for someone who wants a front door near the water rather than a view of it.

With SH Hotels & Resorts running services, it locks and leaves well — you can be gone four months and come back to a building that has been operated, not just secured. And with completion projected for early 2028, this is a decision made from plans and a foundation, which is exactly the point at which the good lines are still available. Call and we will go through the stack floor by floor.