Renderings of a proposed Wynwood office building that would house the headquarters of Pitbull’s record label Mr. 305 Records.
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Pitbull wants to build the new headquarters for his music label Mr. 305 Records on the site of his childhood home in Wynwood.
And the Miami-born rapper is one step closer to making it happen.
The design plans for the boutique office building at 25 NE 28th St. were approved unanimously by the city of Miami’s Wynwood Design Review Committee on Tuesday.
The next step for the project puts it before the city’s Urban Development Review Board. If approved there, the building would have the go-ahead to go through the permitting process.
The proposed eight-story, 11,211-square-foot office building would replace a 720-square-foot single-family home where Pitbull spent some of his childhood. That house has been permitted for demolition, according to city records.
According to Miami-Dade County property records, the two-bedroom, one-bathroom house was built in 1927 and sits on a 1,750 square foot lot. That’s the smallest site to ever come before the committee for review, said Marc Coleman, the director of development for the developer Rilea Group, which is collaborating with Pitbull on the project.
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In 2003, Pitbull hangs out in the neighborhood he grew up in, near his mother’s old house in Wynwood. MARICE COHN BAND Miami Herald File
After the committee’s approval, Coleman told the Miami Herald that he was “pleased” with the outcome and looking forward to getting started on the project. Rilea is developing two other projects in the area, the Mohawk at Wynwood and The Rider Residences.
The site is owned by Un Melon en Wynwood LLC, an entity with ties to Pitbull’s music label. The company submitted the proposal for the building. Pitbull’s Mr. 305 Records was founded in Miami in 2009 and represents over a dozen Latin music artists.
The facade of the building would only be 25 feet wide, said Javier Barrera of Deforma Studio, the architect for the project. He compared the “very narrow” building to buildings in dense cities like New York, Tokyo and Mexico City.
The building has an industrial-inspired exterior, and renderings show murals on the outside, references to Wynwood’s history as a gritty warehouse district and its famous street art.
The Pitbull project makes use of a small lot that some developers might pass over for an office building. This urban infill strategy has been used by some developers in neighborhoods that don’t have much space to build. Recently, the mixed-use affordable housing development Project Peach made use of a similar small “throwaway” lot in Overtown.
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Committee member Miguel Omar praised the developer’s decision to use a small, irregular lot for the project after Coleman’s and Barrera’s presentations at Tuesday’s meeting.
“I want to commend you in terms of the site,” Omar said. “It’s a great use of space.”
This story was originally published March 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM.
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Catherine Odom covers real estate for the Miami Herald. She previously interned on the Herald’s government team and has worked as a journalist in Germany and Armenia. She is a graduate of Northwestern University.