Anantara Residences Miami is a 50-storey bayfront tower in Edgewater by 1000 Group, with Kohn Pedersen Fox on the architecture, Studio Urquiola on the interiors and a full floor given to a vitality centre. It is the first Anantara residences in the United States. Here is what the buyers who choose it are choosing.
Written by the desk at Miami Dossier, which holds the developer brochure, the current floor plans and the current release for Anantara Residences Miami, for buyers comparing the branded towers on Biscayne Bay. 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 Anantara Residences Miami 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.
Anantara operates about 60 hotels across roughly 24 countries as part of Minor Hotels, and until this tower it had never put its name on a residence in the United States. A brand's debut in a country is not the same product as its fortieth. Debuts get the design attention and the operating scrutiny that later projects rarely receive, and the desk at Miami Dossier reads that as a reason to look rather than a reason to hesitate.
The site sits on the bay in Edgewater, at the convergence of the Design District, Wynwood and Midtown, with the causeway to Miami Beach a few minutes away. Ten years ago this was a stretch of low buildings between downtown and the Design District. It is now one of the fastest-changing bayfront strips in the city, and the buildings that have delivered there have shown what the water views are worth.
KPF, with Rob Whitlock as lead designer and ODP Architects as architect of record, designed a tower of 50 storeys and approximately 650 feet on a two-acre site. KPF is a firm of towers at civic scale, and the building reads that way: a clear structure, deep terraces, and a crown with a helipad rather than a decorative top.
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.
Patricia Urquiola's studio designed the residences and the common spaces. The kitchens, the material palette and the way the terraces meet the living rooms are hers. Buyers who have seen a great deal of Miami product tend to recognise the difference between a designer name licensed for a lobby and a studio that drew the whole building.
The landscape is by P Landscape with EDSA as landscape architect of record: approximately 30,000 square feet of Thai-inspired gardens, water and shade around the arrival and the amenity deck. On a two-acre site in a dense neighbourhood, the gardens are a large part of what the resident experiences every day.
A vitality and longevity centre occupies a whole floor, approximately 30,000 square feet, organised around four disciplines: movement, vitality, nutrition, and rest and recovery. The building is aligned to WELL and Fitwel standards and built to Florida Green Building criteria. In a market where wellness is usually a word in a brochure, here it is a floor plan.
The amenity programme runs to approximately 130,000 square feet across the hotel and residential platform, with approximately 25,000 square feet reserved for the condominium residents alone. The two numbers matter together: the resident has the full resort at hand and a private layer above it.
Levels 24 to 49 hold approximately 100 condominium residences of three to six bedrooms, in quarter, half and full-floor plans. Levels 11 to 23 hold approximately 120 resort residences of one and two bedrooms with an optional Anantara management programme. Below them, approximately 50 hotel suites. A buyer decides how much of the operating platform to attach to the home.
The condominium levels are the only part of the building where a full-floor residence is possible. Quarter, half and full floor is a real choice of scale rather than a marketing tier, and it is what draws the larger households.
1000 Group has delivered more than ten million square feet, including One Thousand Museum and the Four Seasons Residences at Brickell. On a preconstruction purchase, the execution record matters more than the render, and here it is on the board rather than promised. The desk at Miami Dossier holds the delivery history and shares it on request.
The developer brochure, the current floor plans by product and level, the current release and the deposit schedule, and our own floor plan analysis of the condominium 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 Anantara 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 Anantara Residences Miami 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 Anantara Residences Miami 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.