The Miami Design District announced the arrival of its first new Class A office building, The Ursa. Combining museum-quality art by Daniel Arsham with ten floors of office space, The Ursa will transform the work experience in its unique environment.

The Ursa is being developed by Miami Design District Associates. It is a joint venture between Dacra, L Catterton Real Estate, and Brookfield Properties. The fifteen-story building houses ten floors of office space. There are two retail spaces available on the ground floor and outdoor areas on every level. Included on each floor are a private balcony and floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Also, the rooftop features an indoor/outdoor garden deck that all tenants can access.

“The Ursa is an exceptional addition to the Miami Design District. In keeping with our development approach, our emphasis was creating something that truly enhanced the built environment and added to the overall experience of being in this unique community. Bringing a dynamic office building offering to the Miami Design District is an important next step in the neighborhood’s evolution and we are so excited to watch it unfold. We know the District has so much to offer and businesses want to be a part of what we have built here. We cannot wait to welcome them,” said Mathieu Le Bozec, Managing Partner, L Catterton Real Estate.

Arquitectonica designed The Ursa to fit within the artistic neighborhood of the Design District. It features monumental artworks incorporated into the building’s façade. Famed contemporary artist and founder of architecture and design company Snarkitecture, Daniel Arsham, was inspired by Greek and Roman sculptural reliefs when creating these artworks. The Ursa’s interior art and furniture were also created by Arsham.

“Having an almost life-long personal presence and relationship within the Design District it’s an honor to be invited to collaborate with Dacra on The Ursa. The integration of the surrounding tropical landscape with world-class architecture, contemporary art, and design sums up, to me, what is special about Miami and this neighborhood specifically. I expect this building to become a landmark to the city and an important example of how art and architecture can coexist in exciting new ways,” said Daniel Arsham.

Located at 30 NE 39^th street, The Ursa is situated in an ideal location. Tenants will have access to the restaurants, stores, and cultural institutions of the surrounding Miami Design District. Direct accessibility to I-95 is another convenient aspect of the building’s location.

The Ursa is expected to be completed by fall 2024 and is now leasing. For more information visit theursa.com.

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Only 4 FULLY FINISHED UNITS LEFT at Quadro Miami, where buyers can OWN.LIVE.SHARE. their residence at Miami Design District.

The fact that short-term rentals are permitted, along with the option to choose Nomada Residences to handle the rentals has attracted national & international buyers. Additionally, Quadro offers themed interior design packages available for purchase, resort-style amenities & spectacular bay views.

Contact the sales team at info@quadroresidences.com for more information. Sales by FortuneDevelopment Sales.

About Quadro At Miami Design District

Completed in 2019 and built by Alta Developers, Quadro at Miami Design District provides buyers with turnkey luxury residences. Options range in size from one-bedroom residences to two-bedroom residences that range from 707 sq. ft. to 1,199 sq. ft (air conditioning space). All units have their own spacious balcony and or terrace. Select units have oversized outdoor patios ranging from 86 sq. ft to 898 sq. ft. The 12-story boutique building offers a variety of amenities that coalesce with the urban environment of the Miami Design District and its proximity to the bay. An expansive amenities deck with a pool, summer kitchen, and cabanas provide plenty of spaces for outdoor recreation with panoramic views of Biscayne Bay, while the expansive poolside clubroom, yoga, and spinning rooms create a private setting fit for relaxation or spending time with friends and family. Quadro provides owners a unique benefit of placing units into a short-term rental program specially designed for this development. Quadro Miami Design District is exclusively marketed and sold by Fortune Development Sales. www.quadroresidences.com

About Fortune Development Sales

Fortune Development Sales is the premier, exclusive on-site sales and marketing representative for third-party development projects in South Florida, having represented more than 80 of South Florida’s most successful projects. Led by visionary founder Edgardo Defortuna, Fortune has 18 offices around the world, with nearly 1,000 associates and a worldwide brokerage network, reaching prospective buyers from South Florida to Buenos Aires, Hong Kong to São Paulo, and Manhattan to Paris. Fortune Development Sales is an affiliate of Fortune International Group, a recognized leader in development, sales, and marketing since 1983. The company’s current development portfolio includes many of the most prominent residential properties in South Florida including Jade Signature, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Sunny Isles, Auberge Beach Residences & Spa Fort Lauderdale, and Hyde Resort & Residences Hollywood. www.fortuneintlgroup.com

For additional information call Fortune Development Sales at(305) 744-5262, or visit www.quadroresidences.com. For Quadro’s social, visit Instagram.

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Recently Quadro Miami Design District hosted a business summit to help reinvigorate business relationships in Miami, FL. The Miami real estate market has shown incredible recovery from the pandemic thanks to incentives and the immediate response from the government to accelerate the implementation of vaccines as a way of reopening business. There has also been a major influx of people and businesses moving to Miami due to these incentives as well as the attractive model of taxes and the “fun in the sun” lifestyle of the city. 

Along with B2B Media and Immobiliere Magazine, Quadro used a blended format to host the conference, with the panels being held in-person at the Quadro Design District and streamed on Facebook Live for online viewers. The summit was comprised of three different panels: "America Grows - Real Estate Investments in the United States", "Restructuring the Post-Covid Financial Markets", and "What's Next for the Cities – Building a Better Future for the New Generations". 

"Nobody expected the market to be so resilient," remarked Javier Lluch of Element Development during one of the panels. "The state with the pandemic was a bit critical and it was expected to go down, however, the growth we've seen in the last 12 months has been significant."

Photo Credit: Quadro Miami

"In Miami, we have always been favored by immigration and influence from Latin America, however in the last year, the need for housing multiplied instead of stopping. The reduction in the state tax of 10% or 15% is one of the factors that occurred to make Miami more successful," Edgardo de Fortuna of Fortune International Group said during the second panel.

The Summit was a major success and allowed Miami business people and beyond a chance to network with some of the best of the best in real estate development. Opening remarks were given by Guillermo Almazo, CEO & Publisher of Immobiliere, and other notable panelists included: Edgardo de Fortuna of Fortune International Group, Pedro Azcué of JLL Mexico, Ignacio Montes of Alta Developers, Jeronimo Hirschfeld of ONE Real Estate Investment, Nitza Soledad Pérez of Miami & Latin America CGTN America, Jean-Paul Farah of Ritch Mueller, Federico Cerdas of Skyhaus & COBRA Development Fund, Rhiannon Jacobsen of USGBC and Robert Barcelo of Port Everglades. 

Quadro Miami Design District Summit Location

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About Quadro Miami Design District: 

Completed in 2019 and built by Alta Developers, Quadro Miami Design District offers turn-key luxury residences with the option to OWN. LIVE. SHARE. The fully finished residences are optimized for short-term use, whether it’s for weekly, monthly, seasonal, or long-term stays. Additionally, owners have the option to purchase a unit occupied by a long-term tenant. Six interior design packages with hand-selected accessories and furniture packages are also available.

Studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom residences range from 548 to 1,280 sq. ft., all with spacious balconies and/or terraces. Select units have oversized outdoor patios up to 1,302 sq. ft. The 12-story boutique building, architecturally designed by Behar Font & Partners and filled with over 500 works of custom art by Art With DNA, boasts walkability to shopping and dining in the internationally renowned Miami Design District with its designer boutiques and galleries, which are all only minutes from Wynwood, Miami Beach, and the airport. The expansive amenities deck with a pool, summer kitchen, and cabanas provides plenty of space for outdoor recreation with panoramic views of Biscayne Bay, while the spacious poolside clubroom, yoga, and spinning rooms create a private setting fit for relaxation or spending time with friends and family. Residences start in the $400,000’s. 

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Artist rendering of the Dubai Design District

When fully completed, the burgeoning Dubai Design District (a.k.a. D3) will shine as the United Arab Emirates city’s new creative quarter where fine design, art, fashion, cuisine, luxury, and people of influence and affluence co-mingle. D3 doesn’t yet have the reputation of New York’s Meatpacking District or East London’s Shoreditch neighborhood, but it has a cooler moniker that signals similar hotspot hipness.

D3 officially opened last month with the first of more than 200 corporate brands and studios who will call the area their home (Hugo Boss and La Perla included). Now Foster & Partners will deliver Phase 2 of the project by injecting an international design culture into the globally diverse city—all inspired by the Meatpacking and Shoreditch communities in New York and London, respectively.

D3 will serve as an artist colony, modeled after New York's Meatpacking District and London's Shoreditch neighborhoods.

D3 will attract emerging artists, designers, and other young people who will engage galleries, studios, restaurants and outdoor event spaces.

Foster & Partners’ architectural foundation will inspire Dubai's most creative talents and industries to express themselves within D3’s new environment of contemporary offices, communal working facilities, pedestrian streets, and outdoor event spaces. This strategy is designed to attract startup companies, young people, emerging artists, designers, studios, galleries, and even Michelin restaurants into the neighborhood. As reported by Dezeen, a key ambition is to allow these new spaces to evolve organically, so they can adapt to any purpose.

“This is an exciting initiative which supports young creatives, and allows Dubai’s design scene to flourish from within," says Gerard Evenden, Foster & Partner’s studio head. As idealistic as that sounds, Phase 1 could be called "the establishment phase"—delivering the top-down corporate approach before implementing the designer culture—just in case.

Foster & Partner's created D3’s design-centric environment of contemporary offices, communal working facilities and pedestrian streets.

This creative district culture will plant an entrepreneurial seed that gives D3 potential to become one of the world’s premiere destinations for design, fashion, art and luxury, according to Mohammad Al Shehhi, chief operating officer of D3.

Foster & Partners won the project through a design competition. Phase 2 will be completed in 2017, followed by a Phase 3 waterfront promenade. In 2011, Foster & Partners also designed The Souk, a central shopping market of food, crafts and high-end boutiques in the UAE’s other large city—Abu Dhabi.

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Studio Gang's 14-story residential tower in Miami’s Design District will boast 76 residences with panoramic views of Biscayne Bay.

Gang and her firm Studio Gang Architects, famous for designing Chicago skyscraper-optical illusion Aqua Tower (the nation’s tallest structure designed by a woman) is equally ambitious with this 160,000-square-foot tower in Miami’s Buena Vista neighborhood—slated for completion in 2016.

Recently released renderings show Sweetbird South as a residential building anchored by two stories of ground floor retail space, a resident lounge and a rooftop swimming pool. The tower is obvious on form and subtle on function. Like Aqua Tower, the building appears to be rippling or trembling but definitely not falling (we think). Each residence features floor-to-ceiling windows and oblique-angled terraces that form seemingly implausible quadrilateral shapes--trapezoids, parallelograms and rhombuses. Jeanne Gang must have aced geometry as a student.

The Miami tower features ground floor retail space, a resident lounge, a rooftop swimming pool, floor-to-ceiling windows and shaped terraces.

While most people can't discern between a trapezoid and a rhombus, Studio Gang transforms buildings into intriguing geometrical experiments—as if the firm is attempting to solve complex mathematical theorems on the façade of skyscrapers. The Sweetbird South building is begging to be deciphered but perhaps only Euclid or our college math professor could break its code.

The tower’s interior extends outside to the façade, producing a dynamic spatial (or exo-spatial) arrangement of habitable spaces that function as a contemporary "Florida room." According to the firm, “these shaded, open-air rooms provide both a thermal buffer for the interior and an outdoor space for relaxing and entertaining.” See, we told you—subtle on function (and there are even plans to integrate solar shade and rainwater collection into the design). What better location to bring indoors outside than in Miami overlooking Biscayne Bay?

Studio Gang experiments with skyscraper façades, transforming them into intriguing exo-spatial experiments--exemplified by the Miami tower's geometric terraces which extend the indoors to outdoor entertainment spaces.

The Sweetbird South tower feels like the southeast companion to Studio Gang's 15-story design called City Hyde Park in Chicago. There’s something distinctly Flat Iron about this Miami building (the way it dominates its short block in seemingly triangular fashion), except it’s bright white, modern and offers better views. Is it like an Antoni Gaudí structure in Barcelona? Not quite, but it’s absolutely a head scratcher and eyeball burner—in a good way. Studio Gang’s Miami tower is a residential building disguised as an optical illusion—or is that vice versa? Perhaps we can describe it better this way—it’s a rhetorical question mark that doesn't need to answer to anyone. It is what it is.

Studio Gang's trendy 160,000-square-foot Miami tower is slated to open in 2016.

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