The Residences at 1428 Brickell

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The lobby entrance at The Residences at 1428 Brickell — developer rendering

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A primary bathroom at The Residences at 1428 Brickell — developer rendering

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A residence balcony over Biscayne Bay at The Residences at 1428 Brickell — developer rendering

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A residence kitchen at The Residences at 1428 Brickell — developer rendering

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A primary bedroom at The Residences at 1428 Brickell — developer rendering

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A residence living room and lounge bar at The Residences at 1428 Brickell — developer rendering

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The pool pavilion at The Residences at 1428 Brickell — developer rendering

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The wine and spirit lounge at The Residences at 1428 Brickell — developer rendering

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The Residences at 1428 Brickell from Brickell Avenue looking south — developer rendering

By Josh Stein — Miami real estate sales associate, Florida license SL3057661. Selling Miami luxury property since 2002, with more than $1 billion closed.

Most of what I write about Brickell pre-construction concerns what a building cannot tell you — a delivery date that has moved, financing that never closed, vertical construction that never started. 1428 Brickell answers all three. It broke ground in November 2024, it closed a $565 million construction loan from J.P. Morgan and Sculptor Real Estate, it was reported about 60% presold in November 2025, and it was reaching level 25 in early September 2026. That combination is rare enough in this market to be worth stating plainly. There is one figure on this building I do not think adds up, and I will come to it.

Why the financing matters more than the finishes

Fourteen of the 38 towers on my delivery tracker (edition of 4 August 2026) are selling with no construction loan reported by any source. Twenty-two have missed a published delivery date at least once. Against that backdrop, the single most useful fact about 1428 Brickell is not the solar glass or the $60 million penthouses. It is that J.P. Morgan underwrote it.

A $565 million senior-and-junior stack, arranged by JLL Capital Markets with J.P. Morgan in the senior position and Sculptor Real Estate behind it, is not sentiment. It is a lender’s decision, made against the sponsor, the presales and the construction budget, and JLL described it as a 4.25-year, floating-rate loan of $565.35 million (3 November 2025). That is a materially different signal from a sales gallery telling you the same thing.

It does not make delivery certain. Financed buildings still slip; construction is construction. But a funded schedule is a schedule. An unfunded one is an intention.

What Ytech is building

Seventy storeys on Brickell Avenue, 850 feet in The Real Deal’s reporting and 861 feet in Florida YIMBY’s, with 195 residences — a low density for the height, which tells you the floorplates are large. The developer’s FAQ says rentals are limited to two a year of at least six months each and short-term rentals are not allowed (read 24 September 2026), so the building is not aimed at an investor flipping a studio.

Standard residences run 1,800 to 4,000 square feet at $4.4 million to $10 million. Lower penthouses run 4,000 to 7,000 square feet at $10 million to $20 million. At the top are two penthouses at $60 million each, seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms apiece, with 30-foot ceilings (The Real Deal and Multi-Housing News, 3 November 2025). Florida YIMBY reported $3 million to $7 million for the two- to four-bedroom homes at the November 2024 groundbreaking, and The Real Deal reported $2 million to $7 million in October 2022; the developer’s website lists no prices now.

The developer’s team page lists ACPV Architects — Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, the Milan practice — for interior design and architecture and Arquitectonica for architecture; Florida YIMBY describes the tower as designed by Arquitectonica with interior architecture and design by ACPV (3 September 2026). Coastal Construction is the general contractor per the developer’s FAQ (read 24 September 2026) and JLL (3 November 2025). The Real Deal named John Moriarty & Associates in October 2022 and Florida YIMBY quoted the firm at the November 2024 groundbreaking; I have not found a source that says why the contractor changed. That is a serious team on all three seats.

The amenity programme runs to more than 80,000 square feet: fitness centre, yoga room, spa, wine lounge, dining room, three swimming pools including a rooftop, guest residences, an estate manager, a wellness concierge and porte-cochère valet (Multi-Housing News, 3 November 2025; Florida YIMBY, 14 November 2024).

The Real Deal (3 November 2025, citing the release) reported buyers from more than 17 countries across Latin America, Europe and US cities, with Cervera Real Estate leading sales and marketing since 2022. How much is sold is reported differently: The Real Deal said more than 60% presold and Commercial Observer 60% (both 3 November 2025, citing the release), JLL’s own release the same day said 57% as of October 2025, and World Red Eye reported more than 70% sold on 8 September 2026. I have not found any of these figures on the developer’s website.

The solar claim — and the number that does not reconcile

1428 Brickell is marketed as the world’s first solar-powered high-rise residential tower; the developer’s own wording is the first high-rise residential tower powered in part by the sun. As designed, the system is approximately 500 solar-integrated windows along the west-facing façade, covering around 20,000 square feet, generating up to 175,000 kWh of clean energy annually (Florida YIMBY, 14 November 2024 and 3 September 2026). The developer’s FAQ says the array will power part of the amenity and common areas and not individual residences, and that photovoltaic glass itself is not new: the first is its use in a luxury high-rise residential tower. Florida YIMBY’s 3 September 2026 report still describes the west elevation in the future tense, so I have not confirmed how much of the array is installed.

Florida YIMBY reported in November 2024 and September 2025 that this avoids roughly 4,700 tons of CO₂ and saves about 3,000 barrels of oil a year. The developer’s FAQ gives the same two figures with no time period, and states the generation as “up to 170,000 kilowatts, or 170 megawatts” per year, which is a different number and a different unit from 175,000 kWh.

Read as annual figures, those three do not reconcile with each other. Take them in turn, using ordinary grid arithmetic:

• US grid electricity carries roughly 0.4 kg of CO₂ per kWh. At 175,000 kWh a year, the avoided emissions come to approximately 70 metric tons — not 4,700. The published figure is higher by a factor of roughly sixty.
• A barrel of oil yields on the order of 500–600 kWh of delivered electricity after generation losses. At 175,000 kWh, that is roughly 300 barrels — not 3,000. Higher by a factor of about ten.

I want to be precise about what I am and am not saying. I am not saying the solar array is fake or that anyone is acting in bad faith — sustainability figures in development marketing are frequently assembled from mismatched sources, and a units error or a lifetime-versus-annual mix-up would produce exactly this pattern. I am saying that the environmental-benefit numbers, read as annual figures, are internally inconsistent with the generation figure published alongside them, that the developer’s FAQ does not say whether they are annual, and that if you are buying partly on the sustainability story you should ask for the underlying calculation.

The scale of the system. 175,000 kWh a year is what the developer and Florida YIMBY state, for a 70-storey tower with more than 80,000 square feet of amenity space, three pools and a spa. I have not found a published figure for the building’s projected consumption, so I cannot say what share of it the array covers; the developer’s FAQ calls it “a significant power source” for the amenity and common areas. The developer’s own careful phrasing — that the tower runs partially under solar power — is the accurate one. Marketing that compresses this to “solar-powered” is doing work the array cannot do.

None of this is a reason not to buy here. It is a reason to buy for the architecture, the financing, the floorplates and the address rather than for a carbon figure. If Ytech publishes the underlying calculation I will update this page and say so.

What are the residences like at The Residences at 1428 Brickell?

Interiors as Ytech presents them — renderings, not photographs of finished homes.

The price context nobody gives you

Two figures are worth holding next to the pricing here.

First: the Miami-Dade condominium median was $415,000 in May 2026, down 2.35% year on year, against 12.9 months of supply (MIAMI Association of Realtors, 16 June 2026). That softness is real, and the release is about existing condominiums: it says its sales totals do not include new construction or pre-construction. It is not the market 1428 Brickell competes in, and a buyer at $4.4 million should not expect the county median to give them leverage here.

Second: the MIAMI Association of Realtors put the top 1% threshold for Miami-Dade condominiums at $10 million for the first half of 2026. The two $60 million penthouses at 1428 Brickell are therefore asking six times the entry point of the top one percent of the county’s condominium market. Those units will trade on scarcity and on a specific buyer’s conviction, not on comparables — because at that level there effectively are none.

The amenity levels

The pool pavilion, the lobby and the wine and spirit lounge, from the developer’s own materials.

Who this building suits

It suits a buyer who wants delivery confidence in a market short of it, who values large floorplates and a serious design team over amenity theatre, and who is buying an address on Brickell Avenue for the long term.

It does not suit a buyer looking for value against the county’s soft condo median — that softness lives in a different segment entirely — or a buyer whose thesis rests primarily on the environmental figures as published.

Questions I would put to the sales gallery

1. The solar calculation. Show me the workings behind the 4,700 tons and 3,000 barrels, and what share of the building’s total projected consumption the 175,000 kWh represents.
2. The outside completion date in the contract, as distinct from the late-2028 marketing date, and my remedies if it is missed.
3. Where deposits are escrowed, with which institution and under what release schedule.
4. The projected association budget per unit, and what it assumes for operating an 80,000 square foot amenity programme with three pools across only 195 owners.
5. What the presale percentage counts — hard contracts with non-refundable deposits, or reservations — and why JLL’s release said 57% as of October 2025 while other coverage the same day, citing a press release, said more than 60%.
6. The developer’s reserved right to change floor plans, finishes and the amenity programme after signing.
7. The contractor change. Why the general contractor moved from John Moriarty & Associates to Coastal Construction, and whether the contract schedule or price terms changed.

The tower on Brickell Avenue

How 1428 Brickell is shown from the bay and from the street.

My read

On the fundamentals that actually determine whether a pre-construction buyer gets keys, 1428 Brickell is among the strongest positions in Brickell: financed by J.P. Morgan, under construction since November 2024 and reaching level 25 in early September 2026, about 60% presold in November 2025, and built by a team with nothing to prove. That matters more than any feature list, and I say so on a site that spends most of its time documenting the opposite.

The sustainability numbers are the one place the published figures do not reconcile with the arithmetic when read as annual figures, and I have set out why above so you can judge it yourself. That is a disclosure question rather than a building question — the developer’s FAQ does not say whether the 4,700 tons is annual, and it is worth asking before you rely on it.

If you are looking at a specific line here, tell me the unit and I will give you the same read — including if a different building serves you better.

Related: The Miami Confidential · The Miami Pre-Construction Delivery Tracker · Parkside Residences Brickell · Brickell neighbourhood guide