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Miami field report

Downtown, Brickell, Edgewater, Wynwood, the Design District, Little Havana and Miami Beach to Bal Harbour. Base: Kimpton EPIC, 270 Biscayne Blvd Way. Every map layer is filterable; click anything for its details and walking time from the hotel.

169towers 75 m and up on the map
667restaurants
110bars and nightlife
500hotels and lodging
2,889transit stops
437EV charging points (two sources)
50bike-share stations
$260.8BMiami-Dade GDP, 2024

Your base

Kimpton EPIC Hotel (your base)
270 Biscayne Blvd Way. 411 rooms on floors 18–30 of a 54-floor tower (residences on 3–14 and 45–54); opened Dec 2008; 16th-floor pool deck; valet $58/day; about 7.6 miles from MIA

Kimpton Angler's (also pinned)
660 Washington Ave, South Beach, the other Kimpton offered

The vertical-push read

  • T6-80 allows unlimited bonus height; the binding limit is the FAA's ≈1,049 ft, and three projects now press against it (Waldorf, Citadel, the Brickell Bay assemblage) Miami 21; FAA via PROFILEmiami 2026
  • Brickell vacancy ≈7% against 13.9% countywide; 830 Brickell set the $250/sf record Yardi via Miami Realtors; C&W 2026
  • The Brickell Bay Drive assemblage ($520M, 4.25 ac) and Citadel's site ($363M) price the bayfront for 1,000-ft towers Florida YIMBY; Commercial Observer 2026
  • Brickell luxury condos carry 43 months of inventory and Downtown 32, while South Beach has 8; post-Surfside laws push buyers to new towers Condo Black Book; WLRN 2026
  • New York movers fell from $2.23B to $974.5M AGI in a year; Manhattan alone is over half of it IRS SOI 2022–23
  • 57 of the 80 tallest towers sit in FEMA zone AE FEMA NFHL (point lookup) 2026-10-22

What's in this report

Map3-D buildings, towers 75 m and up, transit, bikes, scooters, rideshare, EV charging, restaurants, bars, cafes, hotels, parking, attractions, power addresses, income and ethnicity by block group, FEMA flood zones. Search, walking-time filter, click for details.
TowersEvery tower over 75 m: height, floors, year, use and what is inside.
Real estateValues, rents and how downtown is divided between residential/condo, office, retail, restaurants and bars, and hotels.
Hotels & parkingHotel rooms, rates, the hotel list, parking garages and prices, valet.
Power addressesThe proposed Trump presidential library site, buildings bought by New York and California buyers, Indian Creek ("Billionaire Bunker"), Citadel's tower site.
Pipeline, flood, migration, office, demographicsTowers being built and zoning; flood zones and the condo-safety laws; who's moving in from New York and California; the office market; GDP, income and ethnicity by block group.