{"id":212083,"date":"2026-03-30T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212083\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:53:14","slug":"fc-barcelona-inks-2-4k-sf-lease-in-downtown-miami-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212083\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona Inks 2.4K-SF Lease in Downtown Miami \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/fc-barcelona\/\" title=\"FC Barcelona\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FC Barcelona<\/a>, one of Europe\u2019s most storied soccer clubs, is moving its North American headquarters from New York to Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish club inked a 2,410-square-foot lease at the 38-story One Biscayne Tower at 2 South Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami, according to landlord <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/cp-group\/\" title=\"CP Group\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CP Group<\/a>. FC Barcelona will settle into a move-in-ready suite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/03\/serafina-lease-sl-green-800-seventh-avenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serafina to Open New Concept at SL Green\u2019s 800 Seventh Avenue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The club will use the office to find investors as well as manage its assets and operations in the region, including a training academy Miami. Miami Downtown Development Authority provided an incentive grant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After moving to its new Florida home, FC Barcelona will shutter its first U.S. base, a 2,691-square-foot office in Manhattan at 250 Park Avenue, which the club <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelona.com\/en\/news\/830220\/fc-barcelonas-office-in-the-united-states\">opened<\/a> in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Miami tries to become a U.S. soccer hub. Soccer superstar Lionel Messi, who played for FC Barcelona for nearly two decades, joined Inter Miami three years ago. The club\u2019s new 26,700-seat Miami stadium is expected to open this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, FIFA, the World Cup\u2019s governing body, opened a 60,000-square-foot office in Coral Gables at 396 Alhambra Circle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/rialto-capital-management\/\" title=\"Rialto Capital Management\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rialto Capital Management<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/sabal-capital-partners\/\" title=\"Sabal Capital Partners\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabal Capital Partners<\/a>, alongside CP Group, <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2021\/06\/dow-chemical-one-biscayne-tower-sale-225m-miami\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchased<\/a> the 1 million-square-foot One Biscayne Tower for $225 million in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Juan Ruiz and Alex Marquez of Blanca Commercial Real Estate represented the ownership in negotiations with FC Barcelona. Danet Linares and Nicole Kaiser, also from Blanca Commercial, represented the tenant.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for FC Barcelona did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Julia Echikson can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/03\/fc-barcelona-one-biscayne-office-miami-us-hq\/mailto:jechikson@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jechikson@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona, one of Europe\u2019s most storied soccer clubs, is moving its North American headquarters from New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[97040,8001,25210,123,125,124,76197,97041],"class_list":["post-212083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-2-south-biscayne-boulevard","tag-channel","tag-leases","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-office-leases","tag-one-biscayne-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}