MIAMI—The last waterfront development site in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood is up for grabs. CBRE is marketing 1201 Brickell Bay Dr. for sale and it could fetch more than $300 million.

1201 Brickell Bay Dr. is a shovel-read, 2.5-acre site with 300 linear feet of frontage on Biscayne Bay. The site has existing approvals for more than 2 million square feet of development. Current plans call for 787 condominium units, 1,500 parking spaces, waterfront restaurants and retail.

CBRE senior vice president Gerard Yetming and Robert Given, CBRE executive vice president with the Multi-Housing Group in South Florida, are marketing the property in partnership with Tom Duke, vice president of the Retail Services Group. Tibor Hollo, head of Florida East Coast Realty, and New York’s Corigin Real Estate Group own the property.

The timing seems right, as investor interest for premium assets in the Miami market is healthy. For example, Malaysian gambling company Genting acquired a bayfront site and adjoining properties for approximately $500 million in 2011 with plans to develop a mix of residential, retail and hospitality. And Swire is building Brickell Citi Centre, slated to feature more than 4.6 million square feet of high-end retail, office, residential, hotel, and parking.

“Now is a great time to begin developing a new project for the next cycle,” Yetming tells GlobeSt.com. “We’ve seen very rapid absorption of the inventory that was built during the last cycle. The demand dynamics are strong for a developer to deliver units two or three years down the road.”

In the past year, sales of condominiums in Downtown Miami have increased 24% with average pricing increasing by 9.1%, according to CBRE research. Brickell has seen its residential population more than double since 2000, and is projected to grow 24% over the next five years. South Florida’s luxury condominium market seen record breaking pricing in 2012, well in excess of $1,000 per square foot.

What’s more, as of May only 174 unsold condominium units remained to be sold out of the nearly 7,000 units built in the Brickell area since 2006. There were more than 1,100 developer-owned units sold in the preceding 16 months, for an average sales velocity of over 68 units per month.

“Given that the property is the last of its kind, it is expected to command top pricing when it comes to market this fall,” Given said in a statement. According to the Wall Street Journal, the property was valued at $350 million at the height of the market. Hollo told the Journal, “It’s the best available parcel in Miami.”

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