Rilea Group

What a difference a year makes. Miami’s fledgling condo comeback of early 2012 has evolved into a full-blown stampede, with developers racing to acquire developable sites and launch new projects and international buyers snapping up units ‘sight unseen.’

Flashback to 2006. Developers across South Florida were outgunning each other for the privilege of building the biggest, tallest, priciest, most luxurious condos in the land. That’s when a light bulb went off in the mind of Rilea Group CEO Alan Ojeda.

All the talk of Miami’s rise to prominence as an international city came to a head last night as hundreds of Miami’s business and civic leaders gathered at 1450 Brickell Avenue for “Going Global,” a panel discussion exploring all that’s fueling the Magic City’s growth.

1450 Brickell office tower is featured in this month’s issue of FLORIDA TREND magazine in a special feature focusing on style and design trends in accross the state.

According to the Miami Herald, 1450 Brickell continues to dominate the Miami office market as tenants flock to the state-of-the-art office tower. "Good tenants attract good tenants," says Tere Blanca of Blanca Commercial Real Estate. "We've had a very active year and we see no sign of that slowing down. We have more activity than we have space in the building.

The Weather Channel recently ranked Miami atop a list of the cities most overdue for a major hurricane strike. Not surprisingly, news of that nature is enough to scare away potential residents and even businesses. Recognizing that luring world-class companies means offering a world-class office tower capable of withstanding the fiercest weather, Miami developer Alan Ojeda's Rilea Group set out to raise the bar in storm-proof construction. The result: 1450 Brickell office tower, fabricated with one of the nation's strongest curtain wall window systems, tested to withstand winds in excess of 325 miles per hour.

Posted by Schwartz Media Strategies, a Miami, Fla. PR and marketing firm
  

In early April, Blanca Commercial Real Estate EVP Danet Linares boldly predicted that Downtown Miami’s hyperactive housing market would help fuel activity in the city’s office market, despite an anticipated 1.8 million square feet of space due to deliver over the next two years.

FLORIDA TREND MAGAZINE - OCT 2009
Commercial Real Estate Update

AMERICAN LAWYER MEDIA

THE MIAMI HERALD - BUSINESS
By ELAINE WALKER