619 Brickell by Nobu is a 75-storey waterfront tower on Brickell Avenue by 13th Floor Investments and Key International, designed by Foster + Partners, with approximately 306 residences and a Nobu hospitality and wellness programme. Here is what the buyers who choose it are choosing.
Written by the desk at Miami Dossier, which holds the developer brochure, the floor plans by collection and the current release for 619 Brickell by Nobu, for buyers comparing the Brickell waterfront towers. The desk works in English, Spanish and Portuguese. All notes from the desk.
The desk at Miami Dossier covers a small number of Miami buildings closely rather than the whole market lightly, and 619 Brickell by Nobu is one of them. What follows is not a brochure summary. It is the list of reasons buyers actually give when they choose this building, in the order we hear them, with the facts behind each one.
The bay side of Brickell Avenue was built out decades ago, and what trades now is almost always a replacement of something already standing. A new waterfront tower on the avenue is close to a once-a-decade event. Buyers who understand Miami understand that finishes can be copied by the next tower and a waterfront site cannot. This is the reason the desk at Miami Dossier reads 619 as an allocation decision before it reads it as a lifestyle one.
Foster + Partners designed the tower, with Sieger Suarez as architect of record. The practice does not take volume work in Miami. The tower is 75 storeys, and the plan is organised so that every living room and every primary bedroom faces water.
That is the plan discipline of the building. There are no residences that face only the city. What changes from line to line is how much of the floor you hold and how the terrace wraps, not whether you see the bay.
Your situation is specific. Tell the desk in one message and we will say what applies to you, what does not, and who to speak with.
Nobu is licensed here for the hospitality and wellness programme: a resident-only cafe by the pool, a waterfront restaurant, and a longevity floor. The desk at Miami Dossier distinguishes between a brand on the door and a brand that operates something in the building. This is the second kind.
Wellness and Longevity by Nobu, for residents only: hammam, cryotherapy, hot and cold plunges, infrared sauna, red light, salt room, treatment rooms and a full performance floor. It is a programme with a floor plan, not a spa attached to a gym.
The tower is WELL certified, which is a standard rather than an adjective. It covers air, water, light and the material palette, and it is audited.
An 86-foot sunset pool on the water, two padel courts, the Nobu cafe, Zen gardens, a wine cellar, screening and gaming lounges. Sized for a building of approximately 306 homes, which is the right scale for this list.
One to five bedrooms, plus Sky Villas and Penthouses. In Collection 4, levels 46 to 59, the one-bedroom-and-den Residence E is approximately 1,172 square feet interior, the three-bedroom-and-den Residence B approximately 2,763, and the four-bedroom-and-den Residence A approximately 3,178 with a wraparound terrace of approximately 515 square feet. The same plan runs fourteen floors, so the decision is altitude rather than layout.
Studio Munge designed the interiors, the residences and the hospitality spaces together, so the residence finishes and the Nobu spaces read as one building rather than two commissions.
13th Floor Investments and Key International are both Miami firms with delivered towers behind them. On a preconstruction purchase this record matters more than the render. The desk at Miami Dossier holds the delivery history for both and shares it on request.
The developer brochure, the floor plans by collection, the current release and the deposit schedule, and our own floor plan analysis of the Collection 4 lines. None of it is published here because it changes. Ask for it and it arrives from the desk at Miami Dossier the same day, usually by WhatsApp, with our opinion attached, whether that opinion is 619 or another building.
Your situation is specific. Tell the desk in one message and we will say what applies to you, what does not, and who to speak with.
Most of the people who ask the desk at Miami Dossier about 619 Brickell by Nobu are not only choosing a building. They are moving to Miami from New York, California, London, Bogotá, Mexico City or São Paulo, or adding a Miami position to a portfolio held elsewhere, and the building question sits inside a larger one: how to buy new construction in Miami, how to hold it, and what changes when you do.
The desk keeps short notes on the parts that come up every week: how buying preconstruction in Miami actually works, what a normal deposit schedule looks like, whether you need to be in Miami to buy, whether a foreign buyer can get a mortgage, what taxes a foreign buyer pays on a Miami condo, and the Florida state income tax question for anyone relocating from a high-tax state. For buyers arriving from a specific market there are notes for Bogotá, Mexico City and London, and a broader one on why so many wealthy families are moving to Miami.
Read the ones that apply, then bring the rest to the desk at Miami Dossier. It usually takes one conversation to see how 619 Brickell by Nobu fits the move, or whether another building fits it better.
This note is general information for people considering Miami, written by a real estate desk, not by a law or accounting firm. Nothing here is legal, tax, immigration or investment advice, and it is not a substitute for advice on your own circumstances. Rules change, treaties differ by country, and the right answer for one family is the wrong answer for another.
Speak with your own attorney and CPA before you commit to anything. If you do not have one who works with international buyers in Florida, the desk is glad to recommend an attorney, a CPA or an adviser suited to your situation, and to sit in the first conversation so that nothing is lost in translation.
Structure, financing, currency, timing, the right building and the right line: the desk works through these questions with international buyers every week, and the answer is nearly always that it can be done, in order, without surprises. If Miami is on your mind, as a home or as an allocation, we would be glad to share what we are seeing, privately, and to start with the question this note did not answer.
Nobody chooses 619 Brickell by Nobu in isolation. The desk at Miami Dossier weighs it against 888 Brickell by Dolce & Gabbana, and sets it beside every other building in Brickell and Brickell Key on the Brickell and Brickell Key cluster. If the question underneath yours is really what a brand is obliged to do after closing, start there instead.