A boat can live at Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami only if the water beside it is a dock, and the position decides that before anyone asks. New Miami towers come in three kinds for a boat owner: a dock at the building with slips that belong to homes, a tower near a marina where a slip is rented or bought separately, and an oceanfront tower on the sand where no boat ties up at all. Here is how to read which kind Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami is, who owns the slip, and what the water adds to the monthly cost.
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On the bay, the river and the Intracoastal a tower can build a dock, and the slips are limited common elements assigned to homes, separate units sold on their own, or a marina the association or a third party rents out. Near a marina, the slip is a separate contract with its own landlord and waiting list. On the ocean there is sand and surf and no dock; the boat lives in a marina across the island, and the question becomes the drive. The position as the developer describes it: 39 NE 39th Street, Miami, in the Design District, on nearly two acres; the rooftop pool overlooks the Intracoastal and South Beach. The homes that share the water: 143 residences of one to four bedrooms with private terraces, many with dens, in a 25 storey tower.
Read it against the Kempinski Residences Miami Design District dossier for the nearest comparison.
A slip that is a limited common element is assigned to a home in the declaration and passes with it at resale; the association maintains it and bills the cost to the homes that hold slips, or to everyone, as the declaration says. A slip sold as a unit has its own deed and its own share of the budget, and can be sold apart from the home. A rented slip ends when the lease does. Under all of them sits the water, which in Florida usually belongs to the state and is held under a submerged land lease the association renews and pays for; ask how long it runs and what it costs. The architect whose site plan shows a dock, or does not: David Chipperfield Architects, 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Who holds the documents: Raycliff Capital, Fort Partners, Miami Design District Associates (Dacra, L Catterton Real Estate, Brookfield Properties) and Constellation Hotels Holding; developer entity RFD MDD Residences LLC; sales by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group; offering filed CPS-12, file CP26-0012.
A slip is only as useful as the water in it. Ask the depth at low tide, the beam and length the slip takes, the height of the bridges between the dock and open water and when they open, and whether the channel is dredged and by whom. Ask whether crew may stay aboard, where they park, whether fuel, pump-out and shore power are at the dock, and what the rules say about charter use. Then the storm: ask what the declaration requires when a hurricane watch is posted, because many require the boat to leave, and the owner then needs a haul-out yard or a protected mooring arranged before June. What the building offers around the water: More than 40,000 square feet indoor and outdoor; a 70 foot rooftop pool; about 15,300 square feet of resident only outdoor space plus a shared hotel terrace; men’s and women’s spas; two restaurants, a bar and a patisserie. The operator, where there is one: Fouquet’s, the signature brand of the Barrière Group, Paris flagship on the Champs-Élysées since 1899, Miami after Fouquet’s New York (Tribeca, 2022); Fouquet’s operates the hotel with owner access to hotel services and amenities.
A slip at Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami adds a share of the dock’s budget, the submerged land lease, the marina’s insurance and the dockmaster if there is one, and the boat adds its own policy with a storm plan the insurer will read. Ask for the slip’s share of the first budget as a separate number, and for the lease, the dock plan and the storm rule as exhibits. The homes the slip would be tied to: Private terraces; hurricane rated floor to ceiling windows; below grade valet and self parking; a 28 foot lobby with lounge; 24 hour concierge. What was settled at contract: Staged across milestones (contract, groundbreaking, top off) with the majority at closing, per the offering materials; held in escrow under Florida condominium statute; the schedule itself is held by the desk.
The trade-off is the dock against the sand. A tower on the bay puts the boat at the end of the garden and gives up the beach; a tower on the ocean gives the beach and sends the boat to a marina across the water with its own landlord. The desk reads the declaration, the dock plan and the slip terms for Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami with you before contract.
The view is of the water. The slip is in the declaration.
Developer materials for Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami as carried on the live dossier, verified September 2026. Compiled by the desk at Miami Dossier; figures are approximate and the developer’s.
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