701 Brickell Avenue, is an office

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in the

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district of

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. It is located on

Brickell Avenue Brickell Avenue is a north–south road that was formerly part of U.S. Route 1, in Miami, Florida, just south of the Miami River. North of the Brickell Avenue Bridge, U.S. Route 1 is known as Biscayne Boulevard. Brickell Avenue is the main ro ...

in the northern Brickell Financial District, just three blocks from

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. The tower was built in 1986 and opened as the Lincoln Center, it held that title until 2004. It currently goes by its address, which is 701 Brickell, because there was already a building in Miami at the time that claimed the

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appellation, and therefore it could not take that name. However, that specific building has since been renamed the

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. The building is currently owned by

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, which purchased it in November 2002.

Specifications

The building is 450 ft (150 m) tall, and contains 34 floors. When built, it was in the top ten tallest buildings in Miami. Now, however, it has been dwarfed by much taller surrounding buildings which have been built as part of the recent building boom in that city. The building contains 677,677 rentable square feet of Class A office space.

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Image:701 Brickell Avenue.jpg, From the west File:701 Brickell Avenue (Lincoln Center) from the north.JPG, From the north File:701 Brickell Avenue (The Lincoln Center) building from the south.JPG, From the southwest

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701 Brickell Avenue on Emporis
{{Bank of America Office buildings completed in 1986 Skyscraper office buildings in Miami 1986 establishments in Florida

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