page_title: One Bayfront Plaza
section_title: Design and location
hierarchical_section_title: One Bayfront Plaza / History / Design and location
caption_attribution_description: The original, 19-story w:One Bayfront Plaza.
context_page_description: One Bayfront Plaza is a proposed supertall skyscraper approved for construction in the U.S. city of Miami, Florida. If completed, the building would stand at 1,049 feet, with 93 floors, becoming the tallest building in Miami and Florida. One Bayfront Plaza would primarily consist of offices and hotel space, but also would include a retail mall, condominiums, and parking garage on the lower levels, as well as possibly an observation deck at the top. The entire project consists of over 1,400,000 square feet of Class A office and hotel space, as well as a total building area of over 4,000,000 square feet including the large podium. One Bayfront Plaza is the first skyscraper over 1,000 feet to be approved for construction in Miami. The building's primary advocate is real estate developer Tibor Hollo, who has won several awards for his 55 years as a developer in Miami, and is currently the president of Florida East Coast Realty.
  One Bayfront Plaza has gone through several design revisions since its original proposal as a single, 80 floor, 1,180 feet tower, which exceeded height restrictions.
context_section_description: One Bayfront Plaza will be located at a waterfront site along Biscayne Boulevard, overlooking both Biscayne Bay and Bayfront Park. A pedestrian bridge will connect it to the Bayfront Park Metromover station located directly in front of it. The development will total 4,200,000 square feet (390,193 m²), including 700 residential units, retail, and 650,000 square feet (60,387 m²) of office space, as well as two hotels totaling over 600 rooms.
  The groundbreaking of One Bayfront Plaza was scheduled to take place in 2011. The late construction date set at that point was mostly because an 18-story, 313,000-square-foot (29,079 m²) building built circa 1959, also marketed as One Bayfront Plaza, already exists on the 100 South Biscayne site, and is still a profitable office building. This building must be demolished before construction can begin. However, as recently as March 2011, three-year leases were being offered on the existing building, suggesting a new start date no earlier than 2014. In late 2012 it was reported that leases in the existing building ran until the end of 2014. The Florida East Coast Realty Group, the building's developer, estimates that the building will take no more than three years to complete, and had estimated an opening sometime in 2015, now pushed back to 2017 or later.
  The 80th floor of the original design was planned to be an observation deck, the first one in Miami. The complex was later redesigned as two 70-floor towers, with the main tower being all office space, hence taller. The shorter tower was to be all hotel space. The current design goes back to a single mixed-use tower with 80 floors on a large podium with the top floors being office space and the bottom being hotel or residential space. The observation deck can be seen in the schematic diagram. Two FECR published sources have gone back to the floor count of 80 with the 1,010-foot design, and renderings of this design from 2009 show an observation deck, as well as the Metromover connection, in the blueprints.
caption: The existing building at 100 South Biscayne.
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