Miami Starlite broke ground in January 2026 and carries no published completion date. The record holds a 39-story tower, 517 residential units and Gensler as architect. It stops there on the schedule.
The project occupies the former Miami Starlite Motel site at 128 Southwest 7th Street, at the western edge of Brickell near the Miami River corridor. Focus and Group Fox Management are the developers. The tower is planned at approximately 800,000 square feet, with roughly 16,000 square feet of indoor amenities.
What the foundation report shows
Suffolk Construction confirmed the January groundbreaking. Crews had completed test piles, started production piles and installed both permanent and temporary wells when Florida YIMBY reported the site on 31 March 2026. Keller had begun pile work. Langan Engineering & Environmental Services held the geotechnical role. Fenagh Engineering and Testing handled materials testing along with threshold and special inspections.
Test piles and production piles describe ground. The wells describe water, and a crew that installs permanent and temporary wells at the river edge has met the water table. The record names the equipment and stops.
The figures the record fixes
Four figures are fixed. Height 39 stories. Count 517 units. Area approximately 800,000 square feet. Indoor amenity roughly 16,000 square feet. Two names are fixed, Focus and Group Fox Management on the developer line and Gensler on the design line.
The blanks are the ones a lender and a tenant price. The record carries no completion date, no development cost, no construction loan, no contractor contract sum, no unit mix, no rents and no tenure word.
Eight hundred thousand square feet divided by 517
Run the division. 800,000 divided by 517 gives about 1,547 square feet of gross building area per home. 16,000 divided by 517 gives about 31 square feet of indoor amenity per home. Both assume the full area serves all 517 units.
The amenity list reads as a full-service building. It names a lobby, coworking spaces, a fitness centre, dedicated pet amenities, multiple pools, outdoor lounges and a podium deck with a resort-style pool.
The tenure line the record leaves blank
The report uses the words residential and multifamily. It carries no tenure word. Without one, 517 describes homes without describing who occupies them or for how long.
Tenure decides whether 517 homes sell once or stay in one operating account and reprice every year. Either way the count lands as 517 units, and the two routes enter a market on different clocks.
A mixed-use filing that names no commercial tenant
The project entered the public record as mixed-use. The August 2023 filing and the May 2024 FAA permits describe a 39-story mixed-use tower at the address. The March 2026 report describes residential and names no retail, restaurant or bar tenant.
That gap decides whether the ground floor produces foot traffic on Southwest 7th Street.
Who carries the risk while the calendar stays empty
An empty calendar spreads the risk across the parties already holding the land and the pile rigs. Focus and Group Fox Management carry it until a delivery date exists, because a date turns a plan into an obligation. Any lender behind the project carries it across the same window, and the record names no lender. A future tenant carries it as uncertainty about the year of occupancy.
Four questions that would close the gap
One: what is the delivery window, and which event triggers it? Two: is the tenure condominium or rental, and is there a leasing or sales programme? Three: what is the superstructure contract value, and who holds the general contractor agreement? Four: does the ground floor carry commercial space, and does a tenant hold it?
What a date would settle
A published completion date settles three things at once: the delivery year, the count that actually arrives, and the tenure. Until then the record supports a 39-story Gensler tower of 517 homes at 128 Southwest 7th Street, test piles finished, production piles running, wells installed, and no stated date for handover.
For a hotel owner on the same avenue, the date sets the year 517 homes reach the Brickell market. Suite and extended-stay demand reads against that year.