Downtown and Worldcenter · Miami

Waldorf Astoria Residences Miami

A stack of offset glass cubes rising 1,049 feet over Biscayne Boulevard, announced as Miami's first supertall. In February 2026 Florida YIMBY reported the concrete past the 60th floor.

Nine cubes, or ten

Almost every supertall resolves into a shaft. This one refuses to. Carlos Ott's concept, developed into working architecture by Sieger Suarez Architects, stacks glass cubes that shift and cantilever against one another as they rise — so the tower reads as a column of separate objects balanced in the air rather than one extruded form. From the street the offsets throw real shadow. From a distance the silhouette steps.

How many cubes is a question the published sources answer differently. Architectural write-ups have consistently described nine volumes of ten to eleven floors each. Florida YIMBY, tracking the concrete week by week, counts ten and reported in February 2026 that the superstructure had advanced into the sixth of them. We are noting the discrepancy rather than picking a side; the design intent is identical either way.

The developers — Property Markets Group with Greybrook, Mohari Hospitality, S2 Development and Hilton — publish the tower at 1,049 feet and 100 storeys, and frame it as the first supertall in Miami and the tallest building in the southern United States. That framing is theirs. It rests on a 1,000-foot threshold and on beating Atlanta's Bank of America Plaza at 1,020 feet.

Inside that envelope the announced programme is 387 private residences and a 205-key Waldorf Astoria hotel, in one structure, which is what makes the offset-cube geometry more than a gesture. Stacked volumes let a building change what it is doing every ten floors.

What the county record shows today

This building does not yet exist in the eyes of Miami-Dade County, and we would rather say that plainly than write around it.

Folio 01-0108-030-1190 carries no year built. Its use code reads VACANT LAND - COMMERCIAL. The building area line is zero and the assessed value sits entirely in land, with nothing attributed to improvements. The legal description records LOT 20 BLK 83 of Miami North, 10,924 square feet, one folio within the assembled site. The owner of record is PMG Downtown Developers LP.

None of that contradicts the tower going up on the block. The roll simply lags construction — a folio does not acquire a year built until there is a certificate of occupancy behind it, and a condominium does not acquire a recorded name until the declaration is filed. It does mean that every physical number on this page is developer-published rather than county-confirmed: the height, the storey count, the residence count and the key count all come from the development team and the brand, and should be read that way.

The independent check available today is progress reporting. Florida YIMBY reported in February 2026 that vertical construction had passed the 60th floor with curtain wall installation running through the fourth cubic volume, at a pace of roughly one floor every ten days. The team has published a top-out later in 2026 and completion anticipated in 2028.

The announced amenity and service programme

Take all of this as published intent. Nothing here is built yet, and we are quoting the development team.

The residential programme is announced as separate from the hotel's rather than shared with it: a residents-only pool deck alongside the resort-style pool with cabanas and an outdoor café, a signature spa, a fitness centre with private training studios, an owners' lounge with billiards and an entertainment room, and a private bar and wine tasting room. Owners are announced to get their own porte-cochère and residential entry, so the arrival sequence never crosses the hotel's.

What the hotel brings alongside it is the part a condominium cannot manufacture on its own. The developers publish a signature restaurant, an all-day brasserie, and Peacock Alley — the lounge Waldorf Astoria carries from property to property — plus ballrooms, function and meeting space, and a catering kitchen. Announced services include 24-hour concierge, doormen, lobby attendants, security, valet, a live-in resident manager, a Concierge Closet for package delivery, and preferred access to hotel spa and dining. A Waldorf Astoria Kids Club is announced.

The distinction worth holding onto: this is a hotel operator with staff on site under the same roof, announced to serve both halves of the building. That is a materially different proposition from a brand name licensed onto a residential tower with no operator behind it — though it is a promise until the doors open.

The residences as announced

BAMO, the San Francisco firm, is announced as interior designer for both the residences and the amenity spaces. The published unit mix runs from fully furnished junior suites through one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom layouts, with published interior areas from roughly 1,078 to 12,302 square feet and penthouses announced for the top of the stack.

Announced residence specifications include 10-foot floor-to-ceiling glazing, rising to 12 feet in the penthouses; custom Italian cabinetry and vanities curated by BAMO; Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances with integrated wine storage; Dornbracht and Duravit fixtures with rain showers; in-unit laundry; and fully built-out closets.

Technology is published as a Savant smart-home system with integrated audio, video and lighting, tied to a building app announced to handle dining reservations, room service, spa treatments, valet and car retrieval. Private elevator access is announced for select residences, and valet parking is announced as included.

The geometry does something for the plans that a conventional tower cannot. Because the cubes offset, the floor plate shifts as you climb, which produces corner conditions and terrace opportunities at the transitions rather than the same plan repeated a hundred times. Upper floors are published as delivering 360-degree outlooks across downtown, Miami Beach and the Atlantic.

The neighbourhood, on foot and by car

The address puts it in the thick of downtown rather than on the water. Biscayne Boulevard runs between the site and Bayfront Park, so the bay is a crossing away, not a frontage — worth knowing before the renderings do their work on you. What sits across that crossing is 32 acres redesigned by Isamu Noguchi at 301 Biscayne, with an amphitheatre, a rock garden, a dog park and a fountain of more than 800 synchronised jets.

Miami Worldcenter is the immediate retail context: 300,000 square feet of street-level shops around World Square, a 20,000-square-foot public plaza — Apple, Sephora, Lululemon, Ray-Ban, Free People, Savage X Fenty, Posman Books and Lucky Strike Bowling, with Maple & Ash, Brasserie Laurel, Earls Kitchen + Bar, Sixty Vines, Sweet Paris and El Vecino trading, and Serafina and Juvia announced. Bayside Marketplace at 401 Biscayne adds roughly 100 waterfront shops and restaurants, along with Miamarina's 125 wet slips for vessels between 55 and 230 feet. CVI.CHE 105 is at 105 NE 3rd Avenue. Groceries are a Whole Foods in the Central Business District, or the Publix at Brickell City Centre one Metromover ride south.

Culture and sport are close enough to walk to without planning: Kaseya Center at 601 Biscayne, the Freedom Tower at 600 Biscayne, the Adrienne Arsht Center at 1300 Biscayne, and the Perez Art Museum and Frost Museum of Science in Maurice A. Ferre Park at 1103 and 1101 Biscayne. Club Space at 34 NE 11th Street and E11EVEN at 29 NE 11th anchor the Park West block.

Transport is the strongest card. The Metromover is free, covers 21 stations over 4.4 miles from 5 a.m. to midnight daily, and interchanges with Metrorail at Government Center; Brightline's MiamiCentral at 600 NW 1st Avenue runs to Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando, with Tri-Rail terminating there. Miami International is about 7 miles west, typically 15 to 25 minutes via SR-836. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood is about 28 miles north, 35 to 50 minutes on I-95. PortMiami is off Port Boulevard, the Design District about 10 minutes north, South Beach across the MacArthur Causeway.

Who it suits

Buyers who are comfortable buying a floor plan and a schedule. Completion is published for 2028 and the county roll still reads vacant land, so this is a commitment to an idea and a development team rather than to a building you can walk through. The trade for that patience is a position nobody can buy later: an announced first supertall, at the height that will define the skyline for a long time.

It suits the owner who wants a building that runs itself. An announced 205-key Waldorf Astoria under the same roof, with a live-in resident manager, 24-hour concierge and valet, and hotel dining downstairs, is the closest thing to zero-maintenance ownership this market builds — arrive, drop the bags, leave whenever.

It suits full-time downtown living better than most towers of this scale, because the amenity programme is announced as split rather than shared. A residents-only pool deck, an owners' lounge and a private entry mean daily life is not conducted through a hotel lobby, while the restaurants, spa and function rooms are there on the days you want them.

And it suits anyone who values walking over driving. Worldcenter's retail is at the door, Bayfront Park is across the boulevard, the Metromover is free and two blocks away, and Brightline puts Orlando on a train rather than a plane.