{"id":257078,"date":"2024-08-27T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/ken-griffins-citadel-to-break-ground-on-1-billion-miami-skyscraper-for-new-hq\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:47","slug":"ken-griffins-citadel-to-break-ground-on-1-billion-miami-skyscraper-for-new-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/ken-griffins-citadel-to-break-ground-on-1-billion-miami-skyscraper-for-new-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Griffin&#8217;s Citadel to break ground on $1 billion Miami skyscraper for new HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-2151203681-e1724719826207.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"article-content\">\n<p>Ken Griffin is expecting to break ground next year on a 54-story tower in Miami that will serve as headquarters of his Citadel financial empire, enlisting a Philadelphia developer as a consultant on the project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>The proposed building at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive will have 1.7 million square feet, combining offices and a roughly 413,000-square-foot hotel on the upper floors, according to plans filed with Miami-Dade County on Monday. The waterfront project is expected to break ground in the third quarter of 2025, a spokesperson for Griffin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire founder of hedge fund Citadel and market maker Citadel Securities first proposed the project in 2022, with its cost estimated to be more than $1 billion. That same year, Griffin relocated his family and his businesses to Miami after leaving his longtime home in Chicago. His firms will serve as anchor tenants for the new tower.<\/p>\n<p>The building, set to be one the city\u2019s tallest, will \u201credefine the Miami skyline,\u201d the spokesperson said, adding that it will bolster Miami\u2019s reputation as a \u201cdestination for talented professionals and their families, businesses and culture.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Griffin, 55, has tapped Philadelphia-based Gattuso Development Partners to consult on the project, the filings show. The firm\u2019s co-founder, John Gattuso, has worked on multiple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.comcast.com\/press\/releases\/comcast-spectacor-launches-new-events-division-spectacor-events-entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/corporate.comcast.com\/press\/releases\/comcast-spectacor-launches-new-events-division-spectacor-events-entertainment\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 hoNHBb\">projects<\/a>\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/comcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/comcast\/\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 hoNHBb\" rel=\"noopener\">Comcast<\/a> Corp. Griffin previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-04-11\/citadel-splits-from-sterling-bay-on-new-miami-waterfront-tower\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-04-11\/citadel-splits-from-sterling-bay-on-new-miami-waterfront-tower\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 hoNHBb\">dropped<\/a>\u00a0Chicago-based Sterling Bay from the project.<\/p>\n<p>Foster + Partners is handling the design for the Miami tower, which will also include retail and waterfront restaurant space, according to the filings, as well as a public pedestrian path along the water.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-1de0461b-0 caFXGy article\" data-cy=\"subscriptionPlea\"><strong>Recommended Newsletter: <\/strong>High-level insights for high-powered executives. Subscribe to the CEO Daily newsletter for free today. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortune.com\/newsletters\/ceo-daily?&amp;itm_source=fortune&amp;itm_medium=article_tout&amp;itm_campaign=ceod_v2081924&amp;itm_content=finance\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.fortune.com\/newsletters\/ceo-daily?&amp;itm_source=fortune&amp;itm_medium=article_tout&amp;itm_campaign=ceod_v2081924&amp;itm_content=finance\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 hoNHBb\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe now<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/08\/26\/ken-griffin-citadel-miami-florida-headquarters\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Ken Griffin is expecting to break ground next year on a 54-story tower in Miami that will serve as headquarters of his Citadel financial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}