Alphabet grows into 45,000 square feet at 1450 Brickell
A 45,000-square-foot Alphabet expansion, a 75-story tower approved on church land, and 2200 Brickell picks up its temporary certificate of occupancy.
Alphabet is expanding its office at 1450 Brickell to 45,000 square feet, a move framed as the company boosting its Miami presence. The operative word is expanding: this is growth inside a building Alphabet is already in, not a ribbon-cutting on a new address. Forty-five thousand square feet is a number worth sitting with, because leases are commitments in a way that announcements are not — they run for years and they get signed by people who have run the math. Google's parent choosing to take more of Brickell Avenue, rather than the same amount or less, is the story.
Carrot Express is doubling up in Brickell
Carrot Express is opening a second Brickell location, bringing the menu it is known for: salads, grain bowls, wraps, sandwiches, smoothies, fresh juices and all-day breakfast. A fast-casual operator adding a store rather than relocating one is the quiet kind of vote of confidence that never gets a press conference, and two of anything in a neighborhood this walkable is a small signal about the neighborhood itself. The menu list is the entire pitch, and it is not pretending otherwise — breakfast that runs all day and a juice counter, in a part of Miami where people are on foot.
2200 Brickell has its temporary certificate of occupancy
2200 Brickell has received a temporary certificate of occupancy. In the life of a tower this is the paperwork that changes the tense: the project stops being something going up and starts being something that is there. Temporary is the operative word, and nobody should read it as finished. But for a building that has been part of the skyline argument on this stretch of Brickell Avenue, the certificate is the point where the conversation shifts from what it will be to what it is. That is a real change, even when it arrives as a document.
A 75-story tower wins approval on historic church land
A board has approved a 75-story tower on land belonging to a historic Brickell church. The height is the headline; the church land is the part that will stick in conversation, because it is a congregation's property becoming the footprint for something 75 stories tall. Worth keeping straight: this is an approval, not a groundbreaking. A board's yes is permission to proceed, and the distance between permission and a finished building in this city is where plenty of projects have gone quiet. But the decision is on the record now, and that is the step everything else waits on.
Don Toliver at Kaseya Center on August 22
The next thing on the Kaseya Center calendar worth putting in the phone is Don Toliver on Saturday, August 22 at 7:30 p.m., listed as leg two of the NITROUS - OCTANE world tour. Three weeks and change out, which is the sweet spot: far enough that it is not a scramble, close enough to feel real. Arena nights are their own category of Brickell weekend — you either have tickets or you have opinions about the crowd. This one falls on a Saturday, which helps, and it is the first big date on the arena's schedule as summer turns over.
A private collection opens up at PAMM in September
Pérez Art Museum Miami hosts IWC ARTrek on Friday, September 18 at 6:30 p.m., an intimate look at the private collection of Teresa Enriquez and Michael Galex. Private collections are the better version of art in this city — work bought by people with taste and a house, shown to a small group, no booth numbers anywhere in sight. PAMM is calling it intimate, which usually means the room has a capacity and the capacity is the whole appeal. It sits on a Friday evening in September, which is a fine thing to have waiting on the far side of August.