A family office does not buy a rendering. It buys a file. This is the file for Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami: what to verify, in what order, and where each answer sits.
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Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami is at 39 NE 39th Street, Miami, in the Design District, on nearly two acres; the rooftop pool overlooks the Intracoastal and South Beach. Read it against the Kempinski Residences Miami Design District dossier for the nearest comparison. This page is the family-office operator’s reading of it, as a framework to verify, never as a finding.
The record, in the developer’s words: Development: 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. Architecture: David Chipperfield Architects, 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Interiors: RDAI; landscape by Perry Guillot. Brand: 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.
Compare as you read: Kempinski Residences Miami Design District and Alba Palm Beach answer the same questions differently, and the desk holds the documents for all three.
The first association budget is an estimate prepared by the developer; the question is what it carries for reserves, how the reserve study is scheduled, and under what conditions a special assessment can be levied. Florida law since 2022 requires structural integrity reserve studies for buildings of three storeys and more; ask when the first one is due for this building and who pays for it.
For Fouquet’s Hotel & Residences Miami the published program is: 143 residences of one to four bedrooms with private terraces, many with dens, in a 25 storey tower. The count of homes sets the denominator of every assessment.
The deposit schedule, the escrow agent, the account and the conditions under which the developer may use deposits above ten percent for construction are all contract terms and statutory disclosures. A family office reads the escrow agreement, not the marketing schedule.
The desk holds the deposit structure for this building and discusses it one to one; it is not published.
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. Whether family members, guests or tenants may occupy without the owner, for how long, and under what registration, sits in the declaration and the rules, not in the brochure.
Amenities as published: 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 rules will say when pools, spas and clubs close for maintenance and whether owners are notified; a family office asks for the calendar before the first season.
The purchase agreement and its escrow terms. The offering documents and the declaration. The first budget with its reserve lines. The management or brand agreement, and its term. The rules on guests, tenants and pets. The developer’s published materials as of the contract date, kept as the baseline against which delivery is measured.
Read the file before the floor plan. The floor plan does not change; the file decides what owning it costs.
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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Samuel Strauch is the owner of Metrik Real Estate. His team of agents represents buyers in Miami pre-construction.
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