A developer has filed plans to build a 44-story, 537-foot residential tower on a sliver of land in Brickell measuring just 0.4 acres, packing 200 units, a daycare center and a rooftop pool onto one of the smallest build sites in the neighborhood. The entity behind the project, 150 158 SW 7th Street, LLC, wants to erect the tower at 150 SW 7th Street in Miami-Dade County.
The filing was first reported by Florida YIMBY, which notes the proposed tower would rank among the tallest buildings in the immediate area. According to Floridian Development, the developer recently filed plans with the county for the 200-unit project, and the site itself changed hands in August 2026 for $12.5 million, in a deal between Habitat Group and 150 158 SW 7th Street, LLC.
A Tight Footprint With Big Ambitions
Despite the compact lot, the building's residences would span a wide range of floorplans, from one-bedroom units and one-bedrooms with dens up to two- and three-bedroom layouts, the same report states. Communal amenities would be concentrated on the 27th floor, with 6,750 square feet of indoor space there, while the rooftop swimming pool would measure 4,330 square feet, per the same account.
Parking is handled through a multi-story podium holding 241 spaces, most of them in lifts given the site's limited footprint, the report notes. Two floors above that podium would be devoted to 15,730 square feet of daycare space, and the building's base would skip retail entirely, featuring only a lobby and garage entrances, the article states.
Zoning Status Remains Unclear
Exactly how the project clears local zoning hurdles is disputed in the available reporting. Florida YIMBY's filing describes the proposed tower as requiring a rezoning change to proceed, while Floridian Development reports that the property was just granted an RTZ designation, which it says allows added density and height and also opens the door to administrative approval. The discrepancy between the two accounts has not been resolved.
The developer will also need sign-off from the Federal Aviation Administration, an approval that the Floridian Development report describes as expected, though no FAA decision or application record confirming that outcome was available. The agency's own guidance, per the Federal Aviation Administration, states that an aeronautical study of proposed construction typically takes at least 60 days to process, though that is general guidance rather than a timeline specific to this tower. Separately, the City of Miami's rezones page describes the broader process of changing a property's Future Land Use or zoning designation within the city.
The Architect's Track Record
The design comes from Behar Font Partners, a Coral Gables-based firm that Florida YIMBY identifies as the architect behind the proposed tower. The same firm designed Caribbean Isles, an eight-story, 142-unit senior housing project in Cutler Bay that topped out in August 2026, according to Florida YIMBY's reporting.
Floridian Development suggests that proposals on compact lots like this one may become more common as land in Brickell grows scarcer and more expensive. The neighborhood has no shortage of supersized ambition elsewhere on the same street: a separate luxury tower proposed at 11 SW 7th Street is planned to rise roughly 70 storeys on a plot of more than one acre, with a 917-foot height application submitted to the FAA at the end of September 2026 and more than 300 owner-occupied flats envisioned, including penthouses with private pools and double-storey living spaces, according to a report from immo-invest.ch.
Part Of A Broader Building Boom
The 150 SW 7th Street proposal lands amid a wave of high-rise construction reshaping Miami's skyline. The Miami Herald reported that the city already has the third-most skyscrapers of any U.S. city, trailing only New York and Chicago, with projects like One Bayfront Plaza, Regalia on the Bay, Miami Riverbridge and 888 Brickell by Dolce & Gabbana all planned to exceed 1,000 feet. The planned Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences downtown is designed to reach 100 stories and 1,049 feet, which would make it Miami's tallest building, while PMG's planned Delano Residences Miami would stand 985 feet near it, and Citadel's planned 1,049-foot global headquarters broke ground in the first quarter of 2026, per the same Herald report.
That growth extends beyond standard condo towers. A September 2026 overview found more than 2,300 branded apartments in Miami currently under construction or on the market, per the same immo-invest.ch report. Whether the tiny Brickell lot on SW 7th Street ultimately gets its 44-story tower depends on zoning questions that remain unsettled, but the filing adds one more data point to a city that keeps building taller on smaller and smaller footprints.
