Ten thousand cubic yards of concrete went into the ground over three straight days last week, and with it, the South Tower at The St. Regis Residences, Sunny Isles Beach is now ready to go vertical.
Fortune International Group and Château Group, the joint developers behind the ultra-luxury oceanfront project at 18801 Collins Avenue, completed the tower's mat foundation pour on July 26, a foundation 13 feet thick, spanning 150 by 135 feet, built to carry a 62-story, 750-foot tower skyward from here.
The scale of the pour alone is worth pausing on. Coastal Construction, the general contractor, mobilized 500 workers and more than 1,100 concrete trucks, running six boom pumps simultaneously for over 30 hours to keep the pour continuous. Roughly 4 million pounds of reinforcing steel went in with it. It's the kind of operation that happens almost entirely below grade and out of public view, which is exactly why the developers are calling it a turning point.
"Completing the foundation is one of those moments," said Fortune International Group CEO Edgardo Defortuna. "It represents an extraordinary amount of work below the surface and marks the beginning of the next chapter as the South Tower starts to rise."
The South Tower will hold 170 residences, one of two 62-story towers designed by Arquitectonica that will each rise 750 feet directly on the Atlantic.
Between them, The St. Regis Residences claims 435 linear feet of direct ocean frontage, the longest stretch currently under construction on any luxury residential project in South Florida.
The full development is planned around more than 70,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities: two public-facing restaurants, a full-floor private spa, indoor and outdoor pools, a fitness and wellness center, a private residents' club, children's programming, and the St. Regis brand's signature Butler Service.
The North Tower, holding 150 residences, is on deck next, with groundbreaking scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year. Between the two, The St. Regis Residences will bring 320 branded oceanfront homes to one of Sunny Isles Beach's most contested stretches of sand. Remaining residences start around $5 million.