MIAMI—600 Brickell at Brickell World Plaza is the class A-plus office tower that almost wasn't. Foram Group started planning the 40-story office tower in 2005 and broke ground in 2007—a year before the banking crisis, busted real estate bubble and subsequent Great Recession.

By 2009, Foram's work on 600 Brickell came to a screeching halt. The $310 million tower sat undone as over 1 million square feet of office space was delivered to the urban core in early 2010.

Foram regrouped later that year, even as office space in Greater Downtown Miami was still sitting empty, and resumed constructino. In a bold move of vision, Foram CEO Loretta Cockrum decided to keep the project's creative team in place. Their mission was to create a building that would stand the test of time and even to make new rules.