Four Seasons Hotel Miami

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Four Seasons Hotel & Tower

Four Seasons Tower Miami

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Location 1441 Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida, United States
Status Complete
Constructed 2000-2003
Opening 2003
Use Hotel, Office, Residential
Height
Roof 789 ft (240 m)
Technical details
Floor count 70
Companies
Architect Gary Edward Handel & Associates
Developer Millennium Partners MDA Associates

The Four Seasons Hotel Miami, also known as the Four Seasons Tower, is a skyscraper in Miami, Florida. The tower contains a Four Seasons Hotel, office space and several residential condominium units on the upper floors. Standing at a height of 789 feet (242 m), with 70 floors, it is the tallest building in the state of Florida and the tallest residential building in the United States south of New York City.

The building was planned by Gary Edward Handel & Associates. Post-tensioning reinforcement of the structure was supplied and engineered by Suncoast Post-Tension. Construction began in 2000 and the building opened on October 1, 2003.

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  • The building contains 70 floors, making it the tallest building in Florida, and the tallest residential building south of New York. It surpassed Wachovia Financial Center as Miami's tallest building by 25 feet (7 m).
  • The tower has 230,000 square feet (21,000 m²) of Class A office space from floors 2 to 12. They are mostly occupied by HSBC Bank USA.
  • There are two lobbies on the first and seventh floor. The first floor lobby is for the office part of the tower and the seventh floor lobby is for the rest of the tower, which contains the hotel and condominiums.
  • Part of the seventh floor lobby is a two acre (8,000 m²) outdoor pool terrace, situated atop the six floor, 934 space parking garage.
  • The Four Seasons Hotel occupies floors 8 to 40. It contains 221 rooms and 84 condo/hotel units. The condo/hotel units range from 611 to 2,062 square feet (57 to 192 m²).
  • 186 luxury condominiums occupy floors 40 to 70. They range from 1,114 to 6,499 square feet (103 to 604 m²).
  • The tower contains 10,600 square feet (985 m²) of retail space.
  • Total construction costs were 379 million US dollars.
  • The tower contains over 1.8 million square feet (167,000 m²) of office space
  • A 40,000 square foot (3,700 m²) Sports Club/LA Miami also occupies the tower.
  • The Four Seasons is a five-star property. The hotel is considered to be one of the most expensive in Florida.[citation needed].

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Preceded by
Wachovia Financial Center
Tallest Building in Miami
2003—Present
240m
Succeeded by
None
Preceded by
Wachovia Financial Center
Tallest Building in Florida
2003—Present
240m
Succeeded by
None
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