A developer wants to replace a decades-old Office Depot in Miami Beach's Sunset Harbour neighborhood with a 19-level residential tower above West Avenue, mixing 26 market-rate condos with 18 units set aside for workforce housing. EOS Wellness Real Estate Miami, LLC has filed the project at the pre-application stage for the site at 1771 West Ave., where the office supply store operated for more than two decades before closing.
Foster + Partners and ODP are designing the tower for EOS Wellness, according to Markets of Tomorrow, which reports the plans show 19 levels and 157,522 square feet of floor area, with the building reaching 325 feet at its highest point and 300 feet to the roof. As Florida YIMBY reported, the project is being pitched as Sunset Harbour's second proposal under the state's Live Local Act, which allows increased density and height for developments that include workforce or affordable units.
Of the proposed 44 total homes, 18 would be reserved as workforce housing for households earning up to 120% of area median income, with studio rents capped at roughly $2,800, per the same account from Markets of Tomorrow. The workforce units would range from studios to two-bedroom layouts, while the 26 market-rate apartments would include some four-bedroom homes, according to Florida YIMBY's reporting on the filing.
Parking Podium and Ground-Floor Retail
Conceptual renderings show a multi-level parking podium beneath the residential tower, holding 117 parking spaces, the Markets of Tomorrow report notes. The same plans call for 6,391 square feet of ground-floor commercial space built into that podium structure.
Florida YIMBY's filing summary also describes amenities including multiple swimming pools, fitness facilities, and massage and recovery rooms planned for the tower. EOS Wellness Real Estate Miami, LLC purchased the build site for $28.5 million, according to the Miami Herald, with the sale of the former Office Depot property closing in June 2025 after the store had occupied the building for more than 20 years.
A Tight Housing Market Behind the Push
The proposal lands amid a broader regional housing crunch that has fueled a wave of Live Local Act filings across South Florida. Miami-Dade County needs 80,000 additional homes for households earning up to 80% of area median income, according to Miami Homes for All executive director Annie Lord, as cited by the Miami Herald Editorial Board. The same editorial reports the county needs another 17,000 units for households earning up to 120% of AMI, the income band targeted by the Sunset Harbour workforce units.
A comparable project, Anamar at Collins Park, offers a glimpse of what workforce rents can look like in practice: a studio starts at $1,875 and a two-bedroom at $3,045, per the project website cited in the same Miami Herald editorial. Anamar's apartments are also reserved for households earning up to 120% of AMI, though developer Servitas executive Angel Rivera told the Editorial Board that residents there were currently earning between 100% and 110% of AMI.
Live Local Act projects are under construction and in the pipeline across South Florida. Attorney Keith Poliakoff said 26 Live Local projects totaling 10,000 housing units were under construction as of earlier this week, with another 238 projects totaling 70,000 units in the pipeline, according to the Sun Sentinel. Poliakoff also cited a shortfall of 147,042 affordable housing units in neighboring Broward County, underscoring the scale of demand driving projects like the one proposed for West Avenue.
