{"id":266398,"date":"2026-05-11T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266398\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:56:09","slug":"okan-tower-hits-50-stories-as-buyer-interest-percolates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266398\/","title":{"rendered":"Okan Tower hits 50 stories as buyer interest percolates\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 72-story <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridaagentmagazine.com\/2026\/01\/15\/okan-tower-financing-bayview-pace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Okan Tower<\/a> has reached 75% <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridaagentmagazine.com\/2024\/04\/10\/okan-tower\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">structural completion<\/a>, with 50 of its floors now in place.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The soon-to-be supertall, tulip-shaped structure is growing\u00a0at\u00a0one floor a week.\u00a0The\u00a0top-off of\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridaagentmagazine.com\/2025\/08\/18\/okan-tower-master-construction-permit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hilton Hotel-anchored<\/a> residential\u00a0high-rise\u00a0is\u00a0expected to take place in\u00a0August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Behar Font &amp; Partners,\u00a0the tower\u2019s\u00a0\u201ccurtain wall has already advanced dozens of floors up the structure, while a series of stepped floor plates are creating the layered exterior inspired by the form of a Turkish tulip,\u201d\u00a0according to an announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With an ultimate height of\u00a0902 feet, Okan Tower will be the second-largest tower in\u00a0downtown Miami, according to its developers, Okan Group.\u00a0Located at 555 North Miami Ave., the\u00a0building\u00a0will have\u00a0hospitality, residential, wellness and office components.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The project will be anchored by a 316-key Hilton Miami Bayfront Hotel, with 236 condo-hotel units managed by Hilton Hotels &amp; Resorts. The tower will\u00a0also have\u00a0163 Sky Residences and approximately\u00a064,000 square feet\u00a0of\u00a0class A office space.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReaching this stage of construction is a significant achievement for the project,\u201d\u00a0Okan Group\u00a0Chairman\u00a0Bekir Okan\u00a0said.\u00a0\u201cOkan\u00a0Tower\u00a0represents\u00a0years of planning,\u00a0design\u00a0and coordination. Seeing the building take its place on the Miami skyline is both rewarding and a clear reflection of the team\u2019s disciplined execution.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far,\u00a0residential\u00a0buyers\u00a0are\u00a0hailing from\u00a0Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Colombia,\u00a0Turkey,\u00a0Spain\u00a0and Denmark.\u00a0Fortune Development Sales is leading sales and marketing efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project\u2019s steady construction progress reflects the consistency of buyer interest we\u2019ve seen since launch,\u201d\u00a0Sales Director\u00a0Michael Sadov\u00a0said. \u201cPurchasers increasingly view\u00a0downtown Miami condos as an asset class of their own with all the lifestyle benefits that come with living in the epicenter of the most exciting city on the planet.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60657\" class=\" wp-image-60657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DJI_20260401105112_0522_D-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"866\" height=\"520\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-60657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Designed by Behar Font &amp; Partners, the tower\u2019s \u201ccurtain wall has already advanced dozens of floors up the structure, while a series of stepped floor plates are creating the layered exterior inspired by the form of a Turkish tulip.\u201d Via Okan Tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 72-story Okan Tower has reached 75% structural completion, with 50 of its floors now in place.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[114621,225,227,226,114622,948,50265,114623,60022,33847,875],"class_list":["post-266398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-bekir-okan","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-hilton-miami-bayfront-hotel","tag-miami-real-estate","tag-miami-real-estate-news","tag-michael-sado","tag-okan-tower","tag-sc","tag-south-florida-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266398","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=266398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}