57-story Miami tower offers multiple views
An artist’s illustration of Elysee Miami, one of downtown Miami’s tallest condo towers under construction. Each unit will have views of both downtown and Biscayne Bay.
Want someone to prepare you a chef ’s dinner, or a fresh bouquet of flowers set for when you walk in the door? Access to a butler is one of the amenities expected at a new Miami condo tower.
Elysee Miami, a roughly 98-unit project, will reach 57 stories and each unit will have views of both the downtown and Biscayne Bay. The project — “a threetiered telescoping shape” — is under construction at 788 NE 23 St. and should be completed next year.
Each floor is capped at two units — for sunrise and sunset views on each balcony — and several prospective homeowners are seeking to buy the entire floor, which is generally 6,400 square feet in the middle section of the building and 7,400 square feet in the upper tier, said Taylor Collins, managing partner of the developer Two Roads Construction.
At 648 feet tall, the Elysee Miami is just a hair shorter than the projects that hover about 649 feet in Sunny Isles Beach — the maximum height allowed by the Federal Aviation Administration in that city for oceanfront property.
But what sets it apart is its use of “an attaché,” Collins said.
If someone is “flying in from Paris with your family,” the attaché can act as a household manager — scheduling car service, having the house cleaned, delivering food and flowers. “We are trying to create a carefree lifestyle.”
If you want “Heat tickets, Dolphins tickets, they’ll take care of it” if residents don’t have time to take care of it themselves or it’s “an annoyance for you to do it . ... This is the kind of living these people should be able to enjoy.”
The tower is in Miami’s East Edgewater neighborhood, which is near the downtown. The Edgewater area has about 7,000 residents — a nearly 20 percent increase since 2000, according to a spokeswoman for the developer.
“Brickell and Edgewater are probably the fastest growing neighborhoods in Miami, probably in MiamiDade County,” Collins said. “We’re seeing the transformation, the emergence of that neighborhood” with new restaurants, office space and groceries planned, as well as private and public art galleries.
The homes range from more than $1.6 million to more than $10 million. The three- to five-bedroom layouts start at 2,300 square feet in size.
All residences have private elevators and foyers.
The seventh-floor amenity deck will have an outdoor summer kitchen and barbecue terrace, fitness center and yoga studio, spa with sauna, steam and massage rooms, blowdry bar and a children’s playroom. There are two pools.
The 30th-floor Owners Sky Lounge will have a lounge and bar area; a dining room that seats 30 guests, and a library/ private theater, game room and wine room.
The tower is designed by Arquitectonica, which is led by founder Bernardo Fort-Brescia and is headquartered in Miami. He is known for several projects in South Florida including the AmericanAirlines Arena, Icon Brickell and Atlantis, the Brickell Avenue area building with the “doughnut hole” that became famous in the opening credits of “Miami Vice.”
Miami is in a building boom. Although the zoning code allows for the possibility of an unlimited number of stories, most areas of downtown are restricted to 1,049 feet by the Federal Aviation Administration because of flight paths over downtown.
The city’s largest tower now is the 85-story Panorama, a rental apartment building that opened in June. But there are at least four pending projects that are expected to top 1,000 feet, according to City Hall.