FAA Approves Citadel's Foster+ Partners-Designed Brickell Supertall Tower At 1,049'

Citadel’s new Foster + Partners-designed supertall tower at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive has received FAA approval at 1,049’, the maximum height permitted in Miami. The proposed project will be a mixed-use development featuring 1.4+ million square feet of office space, a 212-room rooftop hotel, fine dining restaurants, a health spa, fitness club, and more. The tower will rise 58-stories of floors with the hotel lobby at the top 58th floor and a landscaped pavilion atop the tower on the 62nd floor. In January 2025 PROFILEmiami reported that Ken Griffin brought in New York-based Related Companies to develop co-develop the tower.

Designed by Foster + Partners, the 1.7+ million square foot supertall tower will serve as the headquarters for Griffin's Citadel and Citadel Securities. Construction of the $1 billion-plus development is expected to begin in late 2025, with plans for subsequent phases that include additional office space, residential units, and parking facilities across the street.

Renderings via Citadel

Related Companies To Co-Develop Citadel's Waterfront Foster + Partners-Designed 1201 Brickell Bay Drive Supertall

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin will be partnering with the New York-based Related Companies to develop co-develop Citadel’s new supertall tower at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive. The project, with a proposed height of 1,032 feet and 54 stories, will be a mixed-use development featuring 1.3 million square feet of office space, a 212-room rooftop hotel, fine dining restaurants, a health spa, fitness club, and more.

Designed by Foster + Partners, the 1.7 million square foot supertall tower will serve as the headquarters for Griffin's Citadel and Citadel Securities. Construction of the $1 billion-plus development is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2025, with plans for subsequent phases that include additional office space, residential units, and parking facilities across the street.

After announcing that both Citadel and Citadel securities will move to Miami from Chicago, Citadel was revealed as the buyer of 1201 Brickell Bay Drive after Tibor Hollo’s Florida East Coast Realty sold the 2.5 acre supertall development lot in a $363 million mega-deal in April 2022. Also in April 2022, Griffin acquired the adjacent 1250 Brickell Bay Drive and 1260 Brickell Bay Drive for $20 million, the lots total roughly 6,655 SF. The lots are adjacent to 1221 Brickell Avenue, which an entity tied to Citadel acquired in June 2022 for $286.5 million. The assemblage of properties spanning from 1221 Brickell Avenue to 1250-1260 Brickell Bay Drive is across the street from 1201 Brickell Bay Drive. The price equated to $145 million per acre, $3,340 PSF dirt value.

Ken Griffin’s net-worth is estimated to be about $31 billion and he has been one of the largest luxury property buyers in the world over the past several years. Also in Miami, Griffin has spent years and $170 million acquiring a Star Island assemblage. He made a splash when he acquired 8 Star Island Drive, a teardown built in 1993 on 1.8-acres, for $75 million. The sale set record for single-family home sales in Miami-Dade County at the time, a record Griffin is no stranger breaking. Griffin has also acquired the adjacent 10 Star Island for $25 million and 11 and 12 Star Island Drive in an off-market deal for roughly $37 million and 13 Star Island for $32.5 million. The acquisitions total $170 million. Griffin also set a record when he was revealed as the buyer in the mega-transaction for the four-acre waterfront Adrienne Arsht compound for a staggering $106,875,000.

Renderings via Foster + Partners

Ken Griffin's Citadel Reveals Plans For 1201 Brickell Bay Drive Supertall

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin is making waves in Miami's Brickell neighborhood with plans for a new supertall tower at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive. The project, with a proposed height of 1,032 feet and 54 stories, will be a mixed-use development featuring 1.3 million square feet of office space, a 212-room rooftop hotel, fine dining restaurants, a health spa, fitness club, and more.

Designed by Foster + Partners, the 1.7 million square foot supertall tower will serve as the headquarters for Griffin's Citadel and Citadel Securities. Construction of the $1 billion-plus development is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2025, with plans for subsequent phases that include additional office space, residential units, and parking facilities across the street.

After announcing that both Citadel and Citadel securities will move to Miami from Chicago, Citadel was revealed as the buyer of 1201 Brickell Bay Drive after Tibor Hollo’s Florida East Coast Realty sold the 2.5 acre supertall development lot in a $363 million mega-deal in April 2022. Also in April 2022, Griffin acquired the adjacent 1250 Brickell Bay Drive and 1260 Brickell Bay Drive for $20 million, the lots total roughly 6,655 SF. The lots are adjacent to 1221 Brickell Avenue, which an entity tied to Citadel acquired in June 2022 for $286.5 million. The assemblage of properties spanning from 1221 Brickell Avenue to 1250-1260 Brickell Bay Drive is across the street from 1201 Brickell Bay Drive. The price equated to $145 million per acre, $3,340 PSF dirt value.

Ken Griffin’s net-worth is estimated to be about $31 billion and he has been one of the largest luxury property buyers in the world over the past several years. Also in Miami, Griffin has spent years and $170 million acquiring a Star Island assemblage. He made a splash when he acquired 8 Star Island Drive, a teardown built in 1993 on 1.8-acres, for $75 million. The sale set record for single-family home sales in Miami-Dade County at the time, a record Griffin is no stranger breaking. Griffin has also acquired the adjacent 10 Star Island for $25 million and 11 and 12 Star Island Drive in an off-market deal for roughly $37 million and 13 Star Island for $32.5 million. The acquisitions total $170 million. Griffin also set a record when he was revealed as the buyer in the mega-transaction for the four-acre waterfront Adrienne Arsht compound for a staggering $106,875,000.

Renderings via Foster + Partners

Florida East Coast Realty Sells Brickell Waterfront Development Site For Record $363 Million In Mega-Deal

Florida East Coast Realty has sold a 2.5 acre prime waterfront development site in Miami’s Brickell Financial District in a mega-deal for a record $363 million. The transaction breaks the previous record set when the former 14-acre Miami Herald site in Downtown Miami sold for $236 million to Genting Group. The buyer, an entity managed by the Chicago-based Randall Davis, paid roughly $145 million per acre, $3,340 PSF dirt value, for the site which is located at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive. Florida East Coast Realty, which is led by Tibor Hollo and family, acquired the site in 2000 for $15.5 million and revealed plans for a 1,049-foot, 660 unit supertall tower designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster of Foster + Partners.