SLS Lux Releases New Renderings; Only 2 Penthouses Remain Available For Sale
Although they are on the home stretch to completion and sold-out status, Related Group has released a new set of renderings to promote their newest new project, SLS Lux. The project is the sister tower to Brickell Heights East & West, which opened this month on the west side of South Miami Avenue. SLS Lux is set to be the most luxurious tower of the three, with private elevators, a wine cellar and cigar room, a rock climbing wall, limousine services to a private beach club, and two ground floor dining experiences, Katsuya and Sbar.
The new renderings depict the Katsuya restaurant in the retail level, the Yabu Pushelberg-designed lobby and 9th floor gardens, as well as the penthouse collection. The two remaining penthouses each have summer kitchens on the terrace, 12 foot ceilings, two assigned parking spaces, among other penthouse-quality upgrades in the kitchen and baths.
MPH 04 has 3 full bedrooms, 4 baths plus a den with a North view for $2,649,900. Just below is LPH 04, with the same layout for $2,599,900. Both apartments have 2,777 of interior square footage. Here is a preview of the view, as well as the new renderings.
Inside Brickell Heights Part 2: The Amenities
As workers were scurrying around, putting the final touches on the Brickell Heights amenities in preparation for Wednesday’s big grand opening, we were able to take a full tour of everything the building has to offer. Despite the fact that today wasn’t the sunniest or prettiest day in Miami history, you can tell that the building came together beautifully.
Pictured above is the view from the rooftop swimming pool in Brickell Heights East. Even though I admit to being a bit jaded when it comes to Miami views, my jaw dropped when I stepped out of the elevator lobby. On this level, there is also a summer kitchen and dining area. Here are some additional shots. Again, please excuse the dust. They were getting ready for the party.
After we finished on the 50th floor pool area, we went down to the 9th floor to tour the other amenities starting in the East tower and working our way West.
First was the conference room. It also has wifi and docking stations with a view of Mary Brickell Village.
The party room in the East tower also has a polished concrete billiard table and matching ping pong table. All of the design was put together by David Rockwell.
This sculpture is called “Frozen Fire”. It was created especially for this party room.
I am a big fan of the foliage walls. They were found throughout the amenity area. The plants pictured are not plastic either (thank goodness). The real plants are more upkeep (especially if you’re like me and don’t have a green thumb), but they really add a nice touch to the ambiance.
The plant wall theme was carried into the fitness center, that has a nice mix of machines and lots of space for a condo gym workout. For a “kid in Disneyworld” level workout, residents do receive a complimentary membership for a limited time.
As a mother to a toddler, I almost imploded with envy at the play room. Just this alone was nearly enough for me to pack up my apartment in Infinity and move across the neighborhood. The play room is so perfect, I almost feel like someone is baiting me, like a mosquito to a light bulb.
While the kids are tearing down their play palace, the moms can go in the spa and relax.
… or get a massage.
Want to invite your 30 closest friends over for a movie, but don’t want people in your apartment? No problem.
Behind the West party room, the building also has a vegetable garden. Botanists are going to pick the fresh herbs and veggies each week and leave them in the lobbies for the residents to take.
The main pool deck has a putting green for those who want to work on their short game.
And finally, the main pool! It was difficult to get a good shot of the pool today, since it was mostly covered. They covered the pool in clear plexiglass to make a dance floor for Wednesday’s grand opening. Each side of the pool has a concrete arch like the one pictured below. When turned on, the arch becomes a water wall.
The doors open this week!
Overall, I feel Related Group and David Rockwell nailed it with Brickell Heights. The building has a great mix of usability with an edge of the cool factor. I predict this will be one of the more successful buildings long-term that comes from their portfolio.
Now, the streetscape!
Inside Brickell Heights Part 1: The Condos
We are going to take a break from #MarketStatMonday this week, because I have a ton of photos to share! Brickell Heights and Brickell Heights 02 are opening this week, and we got a preview tour of the project. There are so many photos, I will break them up into three posts. First, we’ll look at the units themselves, then we’ll tour the amenities and the new streetscape, curtained by the mural from famed artist, Fabián Burgos.
When we arrived in the East lobby, Jorge Perez, Carlos Rosso and Jon Paul Perez were finishing up a walk through to get ready for their big opening celebration on Wednesday night. They were followed by a swarm of people, an art curator, a landscape architect, and several others.
You can see by Mr. Perez and Mr. Rosso’s faces that the project is almost there, but not quite perfect yet. The lobby needed more trees, but not just any trees… there is a specific look they are going for. The trees needed to be tall, decorative trees to highlight the art. I was pleased to see them involved in this level of detail of the project. So, let’s get going…
Brickell Heights’ East Lobby
After finishing up his appointment, Carlos took us on a thorough tour of the building. Here he is, getting into the elevator to get started.
We toured the units on level 10, and the amenities are on level 9. Here is the branded elevator panel.
I like how the new kitchen designs allow more storage. Even in the galley kitchen of the two bedroom corner layouts, there is a large wall next to the kitchen that allows for custom cabinetry.
Kitchen in 1 Bedroom Unit
Kitchen In 2 Bedroom Corner Unit
Master Bath Double Vanity
Master Bath Soaking Tub
Guest Bath
This is the view from the lowest residential level of the building. On the North side, residents look into Brickell City Centre, which is 4 stories. On the East, they look onto the pool deck of SLS Lux. On the South, they look over Mary Brickell Village.
10th Floor City View
View of SLS Lux’s pool deck from the 10th floor of Brickell Heights
For those interested in renting in the building, we are keeping a list of people who want to be among the first residents. Let us know if you would like to be included.
Stay tuned for the amenities’ tour, including rooftop view photos and news about the streetscape.
SLS Brickell’s Jose Andres & Michael Schwartz Cheffed Restaurants Are Taking Fall Reservations
Bazaar Mar by Jose Andres
SLS Brickell Hotel & Residences’s two big-name, celebrity-chef-overseen marquee restaurants are both set to open this fall, at about the same time that the rest of that residential and hotel tower built by the Related Group and managed by SBE debuts.
SBE Group has just begun accepting reservations on OpenTable for Fi’lia, an Italian restaurant created by Miami-made Chef Michael Schwartz beginning October 15th, and Bazaar Mar, a seafood spectacular by big-time celeb-u-Chef Jose Andres, beginning Tuesday November 15th. The mid-Fall timing coincides logically with the first opening month or so of Miami’s high-season, when we’re getting lots of global attention but everyone in the world hasn’t arrived yet. Sounds like the perfect time to open a restaurant.
F’ilia by Michael Schwartz.
Anybody Want to Buy The $20M Penthouse Jorge Perez Said He Was Going to Retire In?
When the Related Group’s One Ocean was under development, company President Jorge Perez declared he would be moving out of his large family home (in Coconut Grove, if I remember correctly) into the premier penthouse of this building. The kids were all grown up, so he and the wife were doing what empty nesters do, looking forward to retirement, and moving into a $20 million condo by the beach.
Then he changed plans. The building was completed, and fully sold out, and for some reason Mr. Perez decided to swap the unit for a place one tenth of the price at another project he’s developing, Auberge, in Fort Lauderdale. Or at least that’s the official story, because as anybody who knows anything about anything knows, it could all be marketing, baby. And $20 million is $20 million, even for a billionaire workaholic who has built half the condo buildings in Miami, like Perez.
The unit, which has been officially on the market for about a month comes with 3,500 square feet of indoor living space, four bedrooms, five and a half baths, wrap around balconies, and a rooftop terrace with hot tub. Gorgeous views of South Beach, the ocean, and some of Perez’s South Pointe developments from past real estate booms are complimented by white marble in the kitchen and baths, and Dutch wood floors.
Hyde Beach House Breaking Ground in Hollywood Beach September 6th
Update: Carlos says it’s the 6th now, not the 7th.
The Related Group’s Hyde Beach House, the last tower in its cluster of projects straddling the Hollywood, Hallandale Beach border, is breaking ground September 6th, Carlos Rosso, President of Related’s condo division, told Miami Condo Investments. The condo tower follows Apogee Hollywood Beach, the first completed South Florida condo tower of this real estate cycle, the Hyde Beach Club, Beachwalk, and the Hyde Resort. The entire rest of the assemblage has been completed except for the Hyde Resort, which will begin closings by the end of the year, says Rosso.
“It’s the Market” Says Carlos Rosso on Auberge Miami Delay Until at Least Late 2018
Scene from the Auberge Miami Launch Party at the the project’s sales center. Sean McCaughan.
Auberge Miami is being delayed until at least late 2018, and they have offered lease extensions to at least one tenant of the existing structure on the site until the middle of that year. According to Related’s condo division president Carlos Rosso, who spoke to Miami Condo Investments, “it’s the market.” Surprised? Probably not.
“We are selling, and as soon as we get to our (desired) presales we will start construction. The sales center is open” Rosso said. In April the Related Group reported that reservations at the first of the three planned towers at Auberge Miami were at 20 percent, while the more recent ISG second quarter market report placed sales at a more modest 15 percent, with both presale numbers reflecting the significantly slumping real estate market. As ISG Principal Craig Studnicky, whose firm has a partnership with Related, told the Real Deal, “It’s not terribly surprising” that Related would chose to delay the gargantuan condo project by a year, or more. (The first tower is planned to have 290 units, while the while the whole thing was designed with a whopping 1400) “Related will keep pushing” until they hit the right sales number, Studnicky said.
And, as Rosso basically confirmed, it looks like that’s exactly what Related is doing, according to leasing emails leaked to The Real Deal for some of the existing commercial space on the site, offering an extension to a current tenant until late August 2018. This means that instead of the originally planned 2017 groundbreaking, they likely don’t plan on building a thing there until at least late 2018. Of course, that also depends on how sales go from here.
Is An Ultra Expensive Condo Project Coming to Terminal Island?
Previous project designed for the site, by Lord Norman Foster.
Back in 2014, developer Harvey Hernandez pitched a public-private partnership to the City of Miami Beach to build a luxury condo tower on Terminal Island that would be designed by Lord Norman Foster. The idea was rather fabulous of course – a ship-like form perched in the middle of Biscayne Bay, right next to the cruise ships – and even though Miami is the place where fabulous things come true, it didn’t.
But something like it might. According to The Next Miami, the Related Group has now likely gained control of a 3.71-acre piece of land on the property through a series of deals made last month. Meanwhile, in a Bloomberg article announcing condo king Jorge Perez’s desired departure from Related in a few years, and his plan to hand the reins over to his sons, also mentions that son Jon Paul Perez “recently brought in a deal in the Miami Beach area that he said would be the site of the company’s priciest-ever condo project on a per-square-foot basis, with units costing more than $2,500 a square foot.” Could this be that? If so, it would be right up there with his father’s most spectacular projects.
Paraiso Construction is Going Absolutely Full Throttle
Looking at ONEParaiso. Photos by Christian Tupper, Related Group Sales Manager.
Now that they moved that sales center out of the way and the Paraiso Beach Club is underway, construction at the Related Group’s Paraiso community in Edgewater is going like gangbusters, with work ongoing at every element of the project except for the public park. That’s were the sales center is located. Christian Tupper, a sales manager for Related, updated us on the construction progress of each element of Paraiso as well as the remaining availability.
PARAISO BAY (sold out): construction currently on the 53rd floor.
ONE PARAISO (2 Penthouse units available): construction currently on the 10th floor.
Paraiso BAYVIEWS (2 Bedrooms from $580K and Penthouses avaialable): construction currently on the 10th floor.
BAY HOMES (Liner units below the Paraiso Bay and Gran Paraiso amenity deck. 5 units available): construction currently on the 4th floor.
GRAN PARAISO (1,2,3,4 Bedroom & Penthouses Available): construction currently on the 4th floor.
