{"id":349266,"date":"2026-07-23T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349266\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:02:09","slug":"report-google-quadruples-miami-office-after-founders-mansion-buys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349266\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Google Quadruples Miami Office After Founders&#8217; Mansion Buys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after billionaires Sergey Brin and\u00a0Larry Page dropped a combined hundreds of millions of dollars on Miami real estate, the company they founded is growing its Magic City office presence.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/placeholder.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n      The office building at 1450 Brickell Ave.\n    <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tag tag-110322\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/alphabet-inc\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"110322\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alphabet Inc<\/a>., the parent company of Google, expanded its 10K SF office lease at <a class=\"tag tag-117343\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/1450-brickell-ave\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"117343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1450 Brickell Ave<\/a>. to 45K SF,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-21\/google-expands-in-miami-after-its-billionaire-founders-buy-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>, citing anonymous sources.<\/p>\n<p>Google and <a class=\"tag tag-5121\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/blanca-commercial-real-estate\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"5121\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blanca Commercial Real Estate<\/a>, which handles leasing for the building, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after Page\u00a0spent more than $170M in January to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiluxuryhomes.com\/larry-page-173-million-dollar-coconut-grove-buy-confirms-the-market-is-on-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">buy a home<\/a> in the wealthy enclave of Coconut Grove. Brin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/03\/real-estate\/sergey-brin-is-buying-a-50m-mansion-in-south-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">purchased a mansion<\/a> on Miami Beach&#8217;s Allison Island in February for $50M.<\/p>\n<p>The pair stepped down from their roles as executives in 2019 but still serve on the company&#8217;s board and hold majority voting control.<\/p>\n<p>Page and Brin, the\u00a0world&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/real-time-billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">second- and third-wealthiest<\/a>\u00a0people, are among a handful of wealthy individuals planting flags in South Florida amid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seiu-uhw.org\/ca-billionaire-tax-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a proposed wealth tax<\/a>\u00a0in California and an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/new-york\/news\/residential\/pied-a-terre-tax-hochul-mamdani-menin-134139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">annual fee on second homes<\/a> valued above $5M in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Google is now\u00a0the latest example of an out-of-state company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/south-florida\/news\/office\/new-tenants-that-moved-to-miami-post-pandemic-are-starting-to-grow-132926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expanding its Miami office<\/a>\u00a0after its CEO or company leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/south-florida\/news\/office\/ceos-companies-relocate-miami-office-space-133610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">move to South Florida<\/a>. That includes Palantir, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/south-florida\/news\/office\/colorado-based-tech-company-to-move-headquarters-to-miami-133260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">moved its headquarters<\/a> from Colorado to Miami after its founder, Peter Thiel, and CEO, Alex Karp, bought homes in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Google established its presence at 1450 Brickell Ave., owned by Amkin Management, roughly a decade ago. The 35-story, 586K SF skyscraper\u00a0also has 10K SF of retail on the ground floor, according to a brochure from Blanca CRE.<\/p>\n<p>Other tenants include JLL&#8217;s Miami office and <a class=\"tag tag-1670\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/jpmorgan-chase\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"1670\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JPMorgan Chase<\/a>, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/south-florida\/news\/office\/jpmorgan-chase-doubles-miami-footprint-expands-into-west-palm-beach-124792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">doubled its presence<\/a> at the building in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long after billionaires Sergey Brin and\u00a0Larry Page dropped a combined hundreds of millions of dollars on Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[142912,142911,142910,1970,5870,56584,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-349266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-1450-brickell-ave","tag-alphabet-inc","tag-blanca-commercial-real-estate","tag-brickell","tag-google","tag-larry-page","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349266","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=349266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}