Miami Beach’s future convention-center hotel just hit a major construction milestone. On Tuesday, workers hoisted the final structural beam onto the 800-room Grand Hyatt Miami Beach, pushing the project visibly closer to its planned late-2027 opening and giving the city a rising new anchor for its convention district.
City and county leaders gathered for the topping-out ceremony as the hotel’s steel frame continued to rise beside the Miami Beach Convention Center. WSVN reports that the hotel will be directly connected to the convention center and is designed to help Miami Beach compete for larger national and international events.
A Hotel Built Around Convention Business
The 17-story Grand Hyatt is planned with 800 rooms, including 52 suites, plus roughly 90,000 square feet of indoor meeting and conference space and another 10,000 square feet outdoors. The Miami Beach Convention Center notes that the hotel is expected to feature two pools, multiple food-and-beverage outlets, retail space and a climate-controlled skybridge that will connect directly into the convention center.
Developers Terra and Turnberry are building the property under the Hyatt flag, with Arquitectonica on design duties. The City of Miami Beach said the project broke ground in May 2025 and is intended to boost the city’s pull for meetings, trade shows and incentive-travel business.
The public sector is also heavily invested in seeing the project succeed. Miami-Dade County said it contributed $75 million to help kick off construction, calling the hotel an investment in jobs, local businesses and year-round economic activity.
The Room Block Miami Beach Has Been Missing
The pitch behind the Grand Hyatt goes well beyond adding another upscale address near the sand. During a Miami-Dade County commission discussion, a Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau executive said more than 130 potential meetings, representing about 1 million room nights, had been lost because Miami Beach did not have a headquarters hotel connected to its convention center.
With the top beam now locked into place, the next big visual change is expected to be the glass skybridge that will link the hotel and convention center. The property is slated to open in late 2027, leaving several more months of construction before convention planners can start treating the Grand Hyatt as a built-in part of Miami Beach’s event infrastructure.
