For the collector moving a collection into a new Miami home who needs wall, height, a freight route and a building that knows what a crate is.
This page explains. Whether the building suits you is a separate conversation. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier for the current position on any building we cover.
Villa Miami is the collector's building on our Edgewater file: half and full floor homes of ~2,940 to ~5,960 square feet, 10 to 11 foot ceilings, private vaults and an on site estate manager and curator, with the Design District a few minutes west, From $5,750,000. Anantara Residences Miami offers quarter, half and full floor condominium residences of 3 to 6 bedrooms with Studio Urquiola interiors, From $1,800,000. In Coconut Grove, Four Seasons Private Residences publishes seventy homes of about 2,025 to 3,975 square feet, ceilings of 10 feet or higher and a dedicated elevator to private foyers; pricing is released on request. Cassia in Coral Gables arrives furnished by RH in homes of 662 to 1,439 square feet, which is the wrong scale for a collection and the right one for a pied-a-terre near Merrick Park.
The same five questions, from the developers' published material only.
Villa Miami. Price point: From $5,750,000. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: ~70 homes on 49 residential floors, every one a half floor (Villa Mezzo, 3 to 4 bedrooms, ~2,940 to ~2,970 square feet) or a full floor (Villa Piano, 4 to 5 bedrooms, ~5,900 to ~5,960 square feet), plus Villa Doppio duplexes and a three level penthouse. Position: 700 NE 29th Street, East Edgewater, bay frontage on two sides, the Baywalk at the door. Operator or brand: Villa under licence from Major Food Group, which programs and services the building; Terra with One Thousand Group develop; ODP Architects, Charles and Co interiors.
Anantara Residences Miami. Price point: From $1,800,000. Delivery: no date on file. Unit mix: ~100 condominium residences of 3 to 6 bedrooms in quarter, half and full floors, ~120 resort residences of 1 and 2 bedrooms and ~50 hotel suites across 50 stories. Position: a two acre site in Edgewater at the convergence of the Design District, Wynwood, Midtown and the causeway to the beach. Operator or brand: Anantara, part of Minor Hotels, its first residences in the United States; 1000 Group develops; Kohn Pedersen Fox, Studio Patricia Urquiola.
Four Seasons Private Residences Coconut Grove. Price point: released on request. Delivery: no date on the fact sheet; deposits published at 20 percent at contract and 20 percent at groundbreaking. Unit mix: 70 residences over 20 storeys, typically about 2,025 to 3,975 square feet, every one with a water view, penthouses not listed. Position: Coconut Grove, every residence with a water view; the developer of record is M-2699 S Bayshore Owner LLC. Operator or brand: the Four Seasons name under licence with an appointed Director of Residence; CMC Group and Fort Partners develop; Revuelta Architecture, Michele Bonan interiors, Raymond Jungles landscape.
Cassia. Price point: released on request. Delivery: estimated completion first quarter 2027, approximately 69 percent sold, per the sales team. Unit mix: 174 turnkey residences of one to three bedrooms, 662 to 1,439 square feet, furnished by RH. Position: Merrick Park District, Coral Gables, directly across from The Shops at Merrick Park. Operator or brand: no hotel brand; RH furnishes; ATLA Coral Gables, LLC develops; Behar Font and Partners.
A collector's first question in a glass tower is where the art hangs. Floor to ceiling glazing on two faces, which Villa Miami and Anantara both publish, means the long walls run between the terraces and the core. A full floor at Villa Miami has the whole perimeter to itself and the core walls inside it; a half floor shares the core. Four Seasons Grove publishes terraces at least 10 feet deep with glass railings on every home, so the same arithmetic applies: the wall is inside, the view is outside. The buyer asks each developer for the plan by line with wall lengths and ceiling heights marked, and for the lighting and power plan, because a collection needs circuits where the brochure shows a sofa. Read interior vs total square footage before comparing plans; the terrace is counted differently in every building.
A large canvas travels by the service route, not the lobby. Four Seasons Grove publishes dedicated elevator access to private foyers, which is the collector's friend on move-in day and every day after. Villa Miami publishes private vaults and an on site estate manager and curator, which is a building saying in its own words that it expects objects of value to arrive and to be looked after. Anantara and Cassia publish neither a vault nor a curator. For each building the buyer asks for the freight elevator's cab dimensions and door height, the loading dock and its booking rules, and whether a crate over a stated size needs a permit from the association. Our building notes on moving in at Villa Miami and moving in at Four Seasons Grove set out those questions.
A fine art policy sits on top of the condominium's master policy and the owner's own policy, and the insurer asks about humidity control, water above the home and the building's response to a leak. Anantara publishes circadian lighting and in residence sauna options; Villa Miami publishes 10 to 11 foot ceilings and two terraces on every home. Neither developer publishes a humidity specification for the homes on our file, and the collector should ask for the mechanical design rather than assume it. Read Miami condo insurance for the two policy layers and new Miami condos for an art collector for the city-wide version of this page.
Villa Miami suits the collector who wants a full floor, a vault and a curator, with the galleries of the Design District a short drive away. You pay the higher Edgewater entry and accept that the restaurant, dock and helipad sit in commercial components sold separately, so their operation is not guaranteed. Read the Villa Miami dossier and Villa Miami vs Anantara.
Anantara suits the collector who wants a full or half floor at the lowest published entry here, with Urquiola interiors and a wellness floor. You share a 50 story tower with resort residences and hotel suites, and the building publishes no vault. Read the Anantara dossier.
Four Seasons Grove suits the collector who wants seventy neighbours, a water view from every home and a dedicated elevator to a private foyer, under a Four Seasons Director of Residence. You give up a published price and a published date, and you buy before groundbreaking. Read is Four Seasons Grove worth it.
Cassia suits the collector who wants a furnished second base near Merrick Park and keeps the collection elsewhere. You give up wall: the largest home is 1,439 square feet. Read is Cassia worth it.
The Edgewater zone page, the Coconut Grove zone page and the Coral Gables zone page map the three. The desk reads the plan by line with the wall lengths marked, the freight route and the lighting plan with the collector before a reservation.
Contact the desk at Miami Dossier for the current plans, pricing and availability as the developer releases them, discussed one to one.
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