A piling site sits on a Brickell walking line
Piling crews are working the parcel at 128 Southwest 7th Street in Brickell. Florida YIMBY reported the stage of the work on 31 March 2026. A walking group that uses the blocks around that address passes an active site.
The parcel held the Miami Starlite Motel. Focus and Group Fox Management are developing it. Gensler designed the tower. The plan calls for 39 stories and 517 residential units across roughly 800,000 square feet, all per the same report.
The stage the March report records
Suffolk Construction confirmed a January 2026 groundbreaking. Crews had finished the test piles by the report date. Production piles were under way, and permanent and temporary wells were installed. The work was moving deeper into the foundation phase.
Keller carries the pile work. Langan Engineering & Environmental Services holds the geotechnical role. Fenagh Engineering and Testing handles materials testing, threshold inspections and special inspections.
The report publishes no finish date for the piling or the foundations. It publishes no delivery date for the building.
Route one along Southwest 7th Street
The address sits 30 m from Southwest 7th Street, which OpenStreetMap maps as a primary street and tags one-way. A group walks the frontage on that street and keeps the site in view for the length of the block.
Three cross streets serve as a step-off. Southwest 1st Avenue runs 65 m from the address and is mapped residential and one-way. Southwest 2nd Avenue runs 109 m out and carries a tertiary classification. Southwest 1st Court, 107 m out, is mapped two-way.
This route puts the group closest to the fence line. Brief the group before the turn.
Route two along Southwest 8th Street
Southwest 8th Street sits 77 m from the address, and OpenStreetMap maps it as a primary one-way street. A group on that line keeps 77 m of separation at the closest point.
Southwest 9th Street runs 186 m out. Southwest 6th Street runs 185 m on the other side of the site. Both are mapped residential. A guide can build a loop from 8th Street, Southwest 1st Court and 6th Street without returning along the frontage.
Southwest 8th Street carries primary traffic. Coach set-down on it needs a check with the operator on the day.
The distances measured from the address
These figures are straight-line distances from the OpenStreetMap node for 128 Southwest 7th Street, at 25.7670192, -80.1963697. Add crossings, works and one-way direction when the guide briefs the group.
Two further points serve a river-side option. The Miami River Greenway cycleway runs 148 m from the address. The Riverwalk footway runs 386 m. OpenStreetMap records the one-way tag on several of these streets without a direction of travel.
No source publishes a sidewalk width, a crossing point, a hoarding line, a lane closure, a staging area or a set of working hours for the site. Confirm each with the contractor and with the city before a departure.
What thirty-nine storeys adds to the skyline
The tower will stand 39 stories at the western edge of Brickell, near the Miami River corridor. Renderings show rounded floor plates and horizontal balcony lines. A podium carries a landscaped amenity deck, drawn with a resort-style pool, dense planting, shaded seating and an outdoor setting above the neighbourhood.
Inside, the programme carries about 16,000 square feet of amenities. The list runs to a lobby, coworking spaces, a fitness centre, pet amenities, multiple pools and outdoor lounges.
Florida YIMBY places the project among several large residential developments pushing west through Brickell. Former low-rise properties are giving way to taller mixed-use and multifamily construction. The report calls the piling the first visible stage of vertical development.
The curb, the crossing and the working hours
The published record gives a guide the address, the stage and the street geometry. It gives nothing on the kerbside.
Three items stay open. Where a coach may stand. Where a group may cross. When the crews work. Put all three to the contractor in writing, and put the first two to the city right-of-way office.
Carry a fallback. The 8th Street line and the Riverwalk footway give a group two ways past the block.
What a guide confirms before departure
Check the site status in the week of travel. The report used here is dated 31 March 2026, and a news index search for the project returned no later report. The piling stage it records may have moved on.
Confirm the crossing points on the day. Confirm the set-down with the transport operator. Confirm the working hours with the contractor. Tell the group what to expect at the fence.