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This Brickell Icon Was a Phoenix From the Flames

MIAMI—Developers envisioned 600 Brickell as a community landmark, with the World Center Plaza as its signature, and expects those ties to the neighborhood and region to grow as Miami continues to evolve as a world-class community where people live, work, and play.

By Jennifer LeClaire | Updated on June 08, 2015

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.

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