As Coconut Grove surges, developer plans first new office building in decades

As Coconut Grove surges with new condos, restaurants and shops, m2e client, developer David Martin is planning what he sees as the missing link in the Grove’s revitalization: its first new office building since 1989.
The project will adapt an existing city of Miami parking garage at 2850 Oak Ave. into a five-story mid-rise with 75,000 square feet of Class A office space and renovated ground-level retail. The architects of the makeover — a process often referred to in design circles as “adaptive reuse” — are Carlos Prio-Touzet and Jackie Gonzalez Touzet, the Miami-based designers of the Nike store on Lincoln Road and other eye-catching local projects

“The businesses that are our target want less traffic than what our financial core [in Brickell] has to offer,” said Martin, whose firm Terra is partnering with Mayfair Real Estate Advisors.
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