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Rivage Bal Harbour $72 Million Penthouse

Penthouse at Rivage Bal Harbour Hits the Market for $75 Million

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Penthouse at Rivage Bal Harbour

A stunning ultra-luxe penthouse has recently hit the market at Rivage Bal Harbour for $75 million, setting the one-of-a-kind unit as one of the most expensive listings in Miami. Rivage Bal Harbour is a 54-unit luxury oceanfront condominium being developed by Related Group, Two Roads Development, and Rockpoint and is one of the neighborhood’s first new developments in 20 years.

The penthouse offers 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, and 3 powder rooms, spanning a total of 17,521 SF. The interior measures 12,603 SF, while the exterior offers 4,918 SF of space. Unique features of this penthouse include a multi-level terrace, private outdoor pool, media room, game room, library/lounge, fitness studio, outdoor kitchen, and a private elevator.

Residents of Rivage Bal Harbour will have access to a private beachfront enclave and a wide range of resort-style amenities. The development offers 25,000 SF of exceptional amenities, including a luxury spa, fitness pavilion with ocean views, game rooms, multiple lounges, and a world-class restaurant overlooking the beach and ocean.

Some of the key amenities at Rivage Bal Harbour include:

  • Signature oceanfront dining experience: Exclusively for residents and their guests.
  • Curated social spaces: Media room, library, breakfast bar, and cocktail lounge.
  • Activities deck: Resort-style pools, outdoor spa, sunbeds, cabanas, poolside food and beverage service, pickleball and padel courts.
  • Rivage spa: Sauna, hammam, hot and cold plunge pools, and private treatment rooms.
  • Fully serviced beach club
  • State-of-the-art fitness center: High-impact training room and yoga studio.
  • Virtual reality game simulator
  • Imaginative children’s playroom
  • Bicycle storage

Service amenities at Rivage Bal Harbour include a residential butler and estate manager to facilitate deliveries, errands, and in-residence services such as personal chef services, shopping, medical concierge, housekeeping, laundry/dry cleaning, and maintenance. Additional services include in-residence dining and catering, 24-hour security and valet services, a house car, on-site general manager, and a mailroom with secure package technology.

For those interested in this exclusive penthouse, a unique sales experience utilizing Fortnite technology is available for ultra-realistic virtual reality tours. This cutting-edge technology allows buyers to explore and share tours via a link, with instantly interchangeable finishes to explore various possibilities.

Bal Harbour has been an elite enclave since its inception in 1929, offering one of the most sophisticated and culturally rich versions of South Florida’s glamorous lifestyle. With its luxurious amenities and unparalleled features, the $75 million penthouse at Rivage Bal Harbour truly embodies the epitome of luxury living in Miami.

Bal Harbour Residential Development

Bal Harbour Shops’ Ambitious Expansion Plan: A Blend of Luxury and Workforce Housing

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Bal Harbour Residential Development

Bal Harbour Shops, a renowned shopping center in Florida, is set to undergo a transformative expansion that promises to reshape the community’s housing landscape. The owners of Bal Harbour Shops have filed an exciting proposal to build an expansion that includes 600 residential units, a move aimed at addressing the critical need for housing for various community members. This development has been made possible through Florida’s new Live Local Act, which allows developers to bypass certain local zoning regulations in exchange for a commitment to create workforce housing.

The visionary behind this project, Matthew Whitman Lazenby, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Whitman Family Development, sees the expansion as an opportunity to diversify the area’s housing market. Lazenby expressed, “By adding workforce and market-rate housing catering to service and hospitality workers, teachers, first responders, and other workers who are the backbone and lifeblood of our community and who are currently priced out of the market, Bal Harbour Shops will diversify the area’s housing market so that people who work in this Village can actually live here.”

The expansion will consist of two distinct types of residential units. First, 40% of the units will be dedicated to workforce housing, providing an attainable living option for essential members of the community. These units will offer comfortable and quality living spaces designed to cater to the needs of service industry workers, teachers, and first responders.

The remaining 60% of residential units will be luxurious, maintaining the premium design, finishes, and features that characterize Bal Harbour Shop’s luxury brand. This blend of workforce and luxury housing creates a unique living environment that promotes inclusivity and diversity while maintaining a high standard of living.

Apart from residential units, the expansion plan includes a 70-room upscale hotel, adding to the allure of Bal Harbour as a destination for visitors and tourists. Additionally, 45,700 square feet of retail space will be integrated, providing residents and visitors with more shopping options.

The new towers are set to rise to approximately 275 feet, similar in height to the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort across the street. The design places a strong emphasis on pedestrian access and street-level activations, ensuring that the development seamlessly integrates with the surrounding community. New entry points to the development will enhance accessibility and encourage community engagement.

Currently, Bal Harbour Shops is eagerly awaiting the issuance of a building permit. Once this milestone is reached, the first phase of the project will commence with the construction of an attainable housing tower on the property’s southwest corner. Subsequently, the luxury housing and hotel will follow, further enhancing the community’s housing and hospitality offerings.

Rivage Bal Harbour

Sales Launch for Rivage Bal Harbour

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Rivage Bal Harbour

In Bal Harbour, the Related Group, Two Roads Developers, and Rockpoint have started taking reservations for an opulent condo on the beach.

At 10245 Collins Ave., Rivage Bal Harbour will include 61 “sky villa” condos spread over 24 stories. By purchasing the Carlton Terrace condo building and ending its association, the developers, acting via Carlton Terrace Owner LLC, obtained the 2.55-acre site. The high-end skyscraper will take the place of the existing condo.

This is part of a pattern where developers are purchasing older condos along the ocean in South Florida since the property is now worth more than the older condo towers, which frequently need a lot of upkeep as they get older.

In the meantime, there is a significant demand for large condos on the ocean in Miami-Dade County due to an inflow of wealthy residents from high-tax areas.

The Rivage Bal Harbour will include apartments ranging in size from 3,300 square feet to 13,000 square feet for penthouses. Prices range from $8 million to $64 million for them.

In addition to a fitness pavilion, a hammam spa, and pickleball courts, the property will have more than 25,000 square feet of wellness-related activities. A pool, a cocktail lounge, a VR game simulator, and a kids’ playroom will all be available as extras.

CFE Architects in Miami Lakes and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York collaborated to create Rivage Bal Harbour. The interior designer is Rottet Studio.

Before the end of 2023, the developer claimed they intended to start construction on the condo.

Aba Dining Room at Bal Harbour Shops

Lettuce Entertain You Launches Aba at Bal Harbour Shops

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Aba Dining Room at Bal Harbour Shops
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Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, a Chicago-based restaurant chain, has officially opened its first Bal Harbour Shops location with Aba, a well-known Mediterranean eatery.

Aba’s cuisine, which was developed by Top Chef alum CJ Jacobson, and Marc Jacobs, an executive partner, features tastes from all across the Mediterranean with inspirations from Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, and Greece.

The everything Jerusalem bagel with smoked salmon spread, hamachi, and charred avocado, as well as the shawarma spiced skirt steak, are some of the standout dishes on the menu. In addition to a full bar program, a “reserve” cocktail list with higher-end portions, and a large selection of zero-proof alternatives, the wine list and bar program offer options from all around the Mediterranean and Southern California.

Aba was initially launched by the group in Chicago in 2018 to great acclaim, winning restaurant of the year from Eater Chicago readers. The popular group will open two restaurants in South Florida; the RPM Italian concept is expected to open in Palm Beach in 2023. Since 1971, Lettuce Entertain You has opened more than 130 eateries, including Beatrix, Shaw’s Crab House, Mon Ami Gabi, and RPM Italian.

With climbing ivy, olive trees, and vintage lighting, including authentic Parisian street lamps and gilded Moroccan fixtures, the 250-seat restaurant maintains its Mediterranean theme. The room is divided into two halves by an arched passageway with textured walls and leather, wicker, and teak furnishings. Both floors of the two-story building have outside dining areas, while the second-floor mezzanine has a bar and additional seats.

The Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Avenue, Unit 101, is where you can find Aba. Every day from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m., the restaurant is open for dinner; later this month, lunch and brunch will be added.

Aba at Bal Harbour Shops in Bal Harbour
Photo Credit: Lettuce Entertain You

Lettuce Entertain You-Aba

Chicago’s Mediterranean Restaurant Aba to Launch in the Bal Harbour Shops Miami

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Lettuce Entertain You-Aba

With its most recent expansion news—the launch this fall of Chicago’s Mediterranean restaurant Aba on its first floor—The Bal Harbour Shops in Bal Harbour shows that it is more than just a place to shop. It arrives in Miami courtesy of former Top Chef contestant CJ Jacobson, senior partner Marc Jacobs, and Chicago-based hospitality company Lettuce Entertain You, which is working with Aba for the first time on a South Florida project.

Aba, a sister establishment of Ēma in Chicago’s River North, features chef Jacobson’s more casual approach to Mediterranean cooking. The cuisine emphasizes vegetables and offers a variety of dips, such as avocado hummus with Dungeness crab and carrot sunflower with sunflower tahini.

Other notable meals are the shawarma Spiced Skirt Steak with Black Garlic Mushroom Jus, the grilled Mahi Mahi with Roasted Garlic Yogurt, and the torched toro toro with watermelon and crystalized Castelvetrano olives.

A wine list that focuses on wineries that use sustainable, organic, and/or biodynamic farming methods was chosen by mixologist Liz Pearce and has cocktails that combine elements of the Mediterranean and Southern California.

Hebrew named Aba which translates as “Father,” is a continuation of Chef CJ Jacobson’s earlier eatery, Ema, which means “Mother.” Chicago and Austin currently house the two Aba sites.

The first floor of the mall will include Aba, which will have an indoor dining room with more than 240 seats, a covered patio, a mezzanine bar, and a terrace. It goes without saying that it will be a spacious and much-needed contrast to the slew of other Mediterranean eateries that are opening this season, including the tapas-focused Mazeh, the stunning Lebanese Amal, and the modern Israeli restaurant Neya.

The Residences of Bal Harbour

Related Group and Two Roads Propose New 24 Story Tower-The Residences of Bal Harbour

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The Residences of Bal Harbour

The Related Group and Two Roads Development are partnering to create a new condominium project in Bal Harbour, The Residences of Bal Harbour.

The developers paid $135.2 million for an existing 88-unit condo tower and land located at 10245 Collins Avenue.

The proposed tower is expected to rise 24 stories tall featuring 61 luxury residences and 160 parking spaces which will be located in the basement of the tower.

Residence Features:

  • Waterviews from each residence
  • Wraparound balconies of each residence
  • 3 to 5 bedroom floor plan options
  • 3,258 to 4,754 square feet
  • High-impact floor-to-ceiling glass windows and sliding glass doors

Tower Features:

  • Separate ground floor, state-of-the-art fitness center
  • Ground-floor restaurant
  • Rooftop pool
  • Rooftop bar
  • Groundfloor pool
  • Private beach access

CFE is listed as the architect for the project with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as the designer.

The Architectural Review Board is scheduled for October 6 to review an updated proposal for The Residences of Bal Harbour.

Residences of Bal Harbour at 10245 Collins Avenue