MIAMI—600 Brickell at Brickell World Plaza is the class A-plus office tower that almost wasn't. Foram Group started planning the 40-story office tower in 2005 and broke ground in 2007—a year before the banking crisis, busted real estate bubble and subsequent Great Recession.

By 2009, Foram's work on 600 Brickell came to a screeching halt. The $310 million tower sat undone as over 1 million square feet of office space was delivered to the urban core in early 2010.

Foram regrouped later that year, even as office space in Greater Downtown Miami was still sitting empty, and resumed constructino. In a bold move of vision, Foram CEO Loretta Cockrum decided to keep the project's creative team in place. Their mission was to create a building that would stand the test of time and even to make new rules.

600 Brickell came to market in 2011 and proved to be a pace-setting commercial office tower that many believe set the standard for luxury, security, connectivity, and sustainability in the Central Business District's office market. To be sure, there was nothing quite like the 631,866 rentable-square-foot 600 Brickell before it opened in 2011 at 600 Brickell Avenue.

Foram weathered a huge economic storm to deliver what is now a signature project in the heart of the Brickell Financial District, the primary “gateway” linking Europe, North America and Latin America. 600 Brickell is a standout project in a fast-growing Greater Downtown Miami, now with nearly 90,000 people and the most densely populated neighborhood south of Manhattan.

600 Brickell is Florida's first building in its category to be certified LEED Core and Shell Platinum by the US Green Building Council. It features daylight harvesting, a solar-reflectance roof, double-pane windows with energy-efficient glazing, a water reclamation system, a recycling facility, and green cleaning. 

600 Brickell is a pioneer in the generator-backed electricity, and emergency preparedness, with fully-redundant power and water systems. The Great Recession rethink took place when October 2005's Hurricane Wilma—which blew out windows and offices throughout Brickell—was fresh in people's minds. 600 Brickell is also the Southeast's first truly “smart,” connected class A office building tapping into the NAP of the Americas, a large data center and Internet exchange point in Miami. The bulding is also ISO 27001 certified, an important feature in an age of multimillion-dollar data breaches.

600 Brickell is the epitome of luxury with amenities that are helping attract diverse tenants like global law firm Hogan Lovells, wealth management firm Northern Trust, and Paris-based international banking firm Credit Agricole Group. The building features a 14th-floor conference center with wraparound balcony and next-generation videoconferencing and telepresence capabilities. Foram is also tapping the alternative office space trend with a 24,000-square-foot shard office facility that targets small business owners.

Foram developed 600 Brickell as a long-term family property for generations rather than as a commodity to be traded. In 10 years, the firm expects 600 Brickell to continue to set the pace for sustainability, design, amenities, and technology. Developers envisioned 600 Brickell as a community landmark, with the World Center Plaza as its signature, and expects those ties to the neighborhood and region to grow as Miami continues to evolve as a world-class community where people live, work, and play.