Bring Tech to Miami
If the likes of Seattle or Boston can attract tech companies, Miami can, too. Blanca Commercial Real Estate EVP Alison Pages says that greater Miami has enough of the right space in the right locations to do so. “One of the things we’ve heard is that Millennials—and this is the age group usually working in tech companies—want to be in walkable locations.” That is, techies prefer an urban mixed-use environment for that elusive work-live-play mix (no jokes please about what counts as play among techies).
Recently Shriver Entertainment, a video game development firm, inked a 16k SF at the Offices at Sunset Plaza, the office component of the largely retail Sunset Plaza in South Miami. Alison and colleagues Tere Blanca and Alexander Cahlin repped the landlords, Simon Property Group and Institutional Mall Investors, in the deal, while Huttoe Group’s Jacque Huttoe repped Shiver. Alison says Shriver is one of the largest new-to-market tech firms to enter greater Miami in recent years, in part attracted by South Miami’s thriving downtown district, and the location near the University of Miami and the South Miami Metrorail station.
