Brickell Bayview Center, also known as the Brickell City Tower, is a

skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...

in the

Brickell Brickell ( ) is a neighborhood in Miami, Florida located directly east of Interstate 95, south of the historic CBD, and north of Coconut Grove. Brickell is known as the financial district in Miami, as well as South Florida. Brickell was founded ...

financial district of

Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...

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, USA, at 80 SW 8th Street. The building is about with 30 floors and was designed in 1984 by South Miami architectural firm, Hatcher, Zeigler, Gunn and Associates for the Japanese Development Corporation, originally as the World Trade Center Miami Tower. Completed in 1986, the floor-to-ceiling glass facade building once stood alone on the western side of Brickell, which at the time was home to mostly office towers and older low-rise residential buildings. After two residential high-rise building booms, the first in the 2000s, concurrent with the

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, and the second in the mid 2010s and early 2020s, the building was virtually surrounded by taller buildings.

Solitair Brickell Solitair Brickell is a high-rise apartment building in the Brickell district of Miami, Florida, USA. It contains 420 apartments and is about high with 48 floors when completed in 2017. The building was built in the place of a ramp to a parking g ...

required demolishing a parking ramp to the base of the building to the northeast,

Brickell Heights Brickell Heights are two twin towers in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Together, the towers have 690 units with a ground floor Equinox Gym. Ground for the towers was broken in 2014 following the groundbreaking of SLS Brickell.The ...

was built directly adjacent to the east, and Nine at Mary Brickell Village was built directly to the south of the building. To the west, even West Brickell saw significant mid-rise development in the 2010s, such as the West Brickell View low income senior housing two blocks to the west. In 2023, another building, the Brickell Gateway Tower, was proposed between it and Solitair. It is adjacent to the

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and

Metromover Metromover is a free mass transit automated people mover train system operated by Miami-Dade Transit in Miami, Florida, United States. Metromover serves the Downtown Miami, Brickell, Park West and Arts & Entertainment District neighborhoods. M ...

station. The building is also known as the Chase Building, naming rights for anchor tenant

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, which has a branch on the ground floor. It was once one of the tallest buildings in Miami until the mid 2000s, but by 2023 wouldn't even be in the top 150. The building was sold in 2013 for

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70 million. The building was sold again in October 2018 for $117.25 million to the real estate arm of

New York Life Insurance Company New York Life Insurance Company (NYLIC) is the third-largest life insurance company in the United States, the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States and is ranked #67 on the 2021 Fortune 500 list of the largest United State ...

Gallery

File:Miami Avenue south.jpg, View from

Miami Avenue Miami Avenue is a main north–south street running through Coconut Grove, Brickell, Downtown, and Midtown in Miami, Florida. It is the meridian road dividing the street grid of Miami and Miami-Dade County into east and west avenues. Route ...

in 2008 File:Riverwalk Metromover station Downtown Miami.jpg, From northeast with

station in foreground in 2010 File:West Brickell, 2011.jpg, From the southwest in 2011 File:Brickell CitiCentre development site 2011.jpg, From the northeast in 2011 with empty plots where massive

Brickell City Centre Brickell City Centre is a large mixed-use complex consisting of two residential high-rise towers, two office buildings, a high-rise hotel, and an interconnected five-story shopping mall and lifestyle center covering located in the Brickell dis ...

was built File:West Brickell apartment view.jpg, From the west in 2012 File:Solitair construction October 2016.jpg, Four towers under construction on the east side in 2016 File:Brickell Heights construction.jpg,

and

SLS Lux SLS Lux is a 58-story skyscraper luxury apartment building and hotel in the Brickell district of Greater Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. The building consists of 438 condo units and 86 hotel-condo units set atop a parking pedestal. SLS ...

under construction directly east in 2016 File:Brickell Bayview center peeks through new buildings.jpg, Brickell Bayview Center viewed narrowly between Brickell Heights and

File:NINE at Mary Brickell Village UC 2013.jpg, Building under construction to the south in 2013 File:NINE at Mary Brickell Village.jpg, NINE at Mary Brickell Village was built to the south in 2014

References

{{Miami skyscrapers Skyscraper office buildings in Miami Office buildings completed in 1986 1986 establishments in Florida