MIAMI | 1201 Brickell Bay Dr (Citadel HQ) | 954 FT | 52 FLOORS

[voyager8907]

Yeah that absolutely deserves to stay, one of the better mid-century buildings in central Miami.

[Edmonton_Ian]

Just lock a design in and build it already. I hate dithering especially from companies and CEO's known more for their bluster than their track record...

[DCReid]

Miami, FL – July 15, 2025 – The FAA has approved Citadel’s ambitious new supertall tower at 1,049 feet, the tallest height allowed in the city.

Designed by Foster + Partners and located at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive, the 58-story tower will include over 1.4 million square feet of office space, a 212-room hotel on the top floors, luxury dining, a spa, fitness center, and a landscaped rooftop pavilion. The project, co-developed by Related Companies, will serve as the new global headquarters for Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Citadel Securities...

https://worldredeye.com/2025/07/wre-news...est%20height%20allowed%20in%20the%20city.

[UrbanImpact]

Miami is going to have a 1,049ft skyline plateau in the near future if the airport approach height limits aren't revised.

[wanderer34]

Originally Posted by UrbanImpact

Miami is going to have a 1,049ft skyline plateau in the near future if the airport approach height limits aren't revised.

Nowadays, I don't mind that the first supertalls that are planned to be built have height limits, and the reason being is that Miami is just starting to have supertalls built within it's city center. In fact, with the addition of Citadel HQ, Miami is planned to have up to 9 supertalls, and that's including the current Waldorf Astoria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Miami#Approved_and_proposed). I believe that the height limits will not only rise, but that Downtown Miami and Brickell will get a no fly zone due to the amount of skyscrapers being built there as well as the fact that aircraft can fly in a straight line from MIA to Miami's shore w/o having to pass through Downtown, which is no feat and no hard work.

If all those planned supertalls were to be built, then that would give Miami the second most amount of supertalls only behind New York, which has a lot more currently standing at 18, and with 2 more being under construction, 3 on hold, 3 approved and up to 7 proposed, which would give NY up to 33 potential supertall towers.

Finally, I'd like to see Miami Beach join in building more skyscrapers. With a majority of the skyscrapers being built are outside Sunny Isles Beach, it's only natural that Miami Beach gain more skyscrapers outside of the Art Deco and other historic districts. I don't mind preservation, but I do mind when those preservationists consider a 100-year old garage as historic because it's 100-years old. You can't preserve everything if you want to become a major city with a growing tax base.

[wpolom]

The height of this tower will be 1,046 FT agl, or 1,049 FT mdl.

[NYguy]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ower-cost-only-1-billion-as-price-surges

Cost of Citadel’s Planned Miami Tower Surges to $2.5 Billion


By Francine Lacqua and Daniel Cancel
October 7, 2025

Citadel’s planned office tower in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood — long expected to cost more than $1 billion — will probably be closer to $2.5 billion with construction likely to begin mid-to-late next year, founder and Chief Executive Officer Ken Griffin said.

“I wish it were a billion dollars,” Griffin said, when asked on stage about the building at a Citadel Securities conference in New York on Monday. “Due to inflation in the cost of construction, that’s going to be about a $2.5 billion tower.”

As of last year, Citadel was planning a 54-floor-story tower at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive with 1.7 million square feet, combining offices and a roughly 413,000-square-foot hotel on the upper floors, according to plans filed with Miami-Dade County. The waterfront project had been expected to break ground in the third quarter of 2025, a spokesperson for Griffin said at the time.

“Those are big numbers,” Griffin said of the projected costs. But he said he isn’t worried about finding tenants.

“If we build it, they will come,” he said. “Miami has a huge deficit of Grade A office space.”

On financing, he said “we’ll cross that bridge in a year and change.”

[Dale]

^ Sounds like the timeline is moved back. I thought he applied for cranes months ago and planned groundbreaking before year’s end.

[wanderer34]

It all depends whether Griffin actually has the $2.5 billion in hand already. Griffin is worth about $50.5 billion dollars, according to different sources, so I'm guessing he wouldn't mind shelling out extra money just to get money just to get this project off the ground. After all, the last proposal was the best one. Not sure if this will delay the ground breaking and the construction of the tower. Hopefully, the groundbreaking happens before the end of this year, as was scheduled.

[Dale]

Originally Posted by wanderer34

It all depends whether Griffin actually has the $2.5 billion in hand already. Griffin is worth about $50.5 billion dollars, according to different sources, so I'm guessing he wouldn't mind shelling out extra money just to get money just to get this project off the ground. After all, the last proposal was the best one. Not sure if this will delay the ground breaking and the construction of the tower. Hopefully, the groundbreaking happens before the end of this year, as was scheduled.

Delayed for up to a year, although Griffin sounds unruffled …

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/10/ken-griffin-citadel-hq-miami-brickell/

[UrbanImpact]

This will be one of a few buildings that will have basement levels (50 underground parking spaces) in South Florida. Hopefully they revise the larger version of the cheesy chefs hat on top.


https://floridayimby.com/2025/04/revised...at-1201-brickell-bay-drive-in-miami.html

[Dale]

I’ve tried to like this.

[wanderer34]

Originally Posted by Dale

Delayed for up to a year, although Griffin sounds unruffled …

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/10/ken-griffin-citadel-hq-miami-brickell/

Oh boy! It's not like the current price of total construction is going to go down, especially with inflation and costs of materials such as glass, steel, copper, lead, and concrete. Griffin has every right to build or not to build the tower if he feels that the price is too high, but with Miami's current construction boom underway, and many Miami area workers now gaining work through the construction sector, it would be a major bummer if this project doesn't get off the ground. Hopefully this projects sees light someday, either this year or the next!

[wanderer34]

Originally Posted by UrbanImpact

This will be one of a few buildings that will have basement levels (50 underground parking spaces) in South Florida. Hopefully they revise the larger version of the cheesy chefs hat on top.


https://floridayimby.com/2025/04/revised...at-1201-brickell-bay-drive-in-miami.html

I kinda like the Citadel HQ's "chef's hat" on the tower. I believe that it gives the tower some personality, as opposed to the flat plateau effect that's soon going to be characteristic of Miami's towers.

[Altoic]

Miami-Dade to Review Citadel’s Supertall Global Headquarters, First Permit Filed
https://floridiandevelopment.com/miami-d...-global-headquarters-first-permit-filed/

Ken Griffin’s proposed supertall headquarters for Citadel Securities is officially advancing in Brickell. After three rounds of design revisions, the most recent submitted just two months ago, the project is now moving into the approval phase in Miami-Dade County. It marks the latest step in a headquarters relocation effort that began when Citadel announced its move from Chicago to Miami. Although the firm once targeted a mid-2025 groundbreaking, rising costs and other logistical challenges have pushed that timeline back. Still, Citadel remains fully committed to the project.

On November 20th, Miami’s BCC Comprehensive Development Master Plan & Zoning Committee will review plans for Citadel’s new ‘Class A, state-of-the-art, mixed-use office and hotel tower.’ The committee will also consider proposed maintenance and improvements to the existing office building at 1221 Brickell Avenue, along with the redevelopment of a parking garage designed to serve both the new and existing towers.

[ChiND]

The Great Gazoo Tower!

[UrbanImpact]

Thankfully they improved upon the design of the crown of the building:

Current:


Previous:

https://floridiandevelopment.com/miami-dade-to-review-citadels-supertall-global-headquarters-first-permit-filed/

[NYguy]

^ Hard to tell if it's a better design, or just a better drawing of it. The top looks like there could be some type of active use up there.

[jackster99]

^I honestly wouldn't be surprised if that top is all Ken Griffin's personal office lol. He tends to be a man of extremes, he is building a $1 billion house in Palm Beach after all.

In all likelihood it's more likely some type of executive event center. Will probably host some of Ken Griffin's vast art collection too

[UrbanImpact]

The hotel will encompass top portion of the tower with the lobby at the last floor under the crown, the lower half is the office tower. As far as the crown, I'm not sure as the design has been in flux.