{"id":54597,"date":"2025-11-20T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54597\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:34:10","slug":"bank-that-signed-miamis-most-expensive-office-lease-shuttered-by-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54597\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank That Signed Miami&#8217;s Most Expensive Office Lease Shuttered By Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after Banco Master SA signed a lease for nearly $200 per SF to take the remaining 27K SF in Miami&#8217;s most sought-after office building, the lender has been shut down by Brazil&#8217;s central bank and its controlling shareholder\u00a0was arrested this week.<\/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      Courtesy of OKO Group\/Cain International\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      830 Brickell\n    <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Banco Master never occupied\u00a0its space at\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-161456\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/830-brickell\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"161456\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">830 Brickell<\/a>\u00a0after inking the deal last year, and any construction that began never finished, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-20\/miami-s-most-expensive-office-abandoned-by-failed-brazilian-bank?srnd=phx-industries-real-estate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>.\u00a0The bank&#8217;s name is still displayed along the side of the building.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Daniel Vorcaro, the CEO and controlling shareholder, was arrested at a Sao Paulo airport earlier this week, where authorities say he was trying to flee Brazil, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-18\/ceo-s-arrest-and-a-bank-failure-shake-brazil-s-finance-industry?sref=xjLu1klR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s financial regulator, FGC, had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-20\/brazil-s-central-bank-was-warned-for-years-of-banco-master-risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly sent multiple warning letters<\/a>\u00a0to the central bank to express concern that\u00a0Banco Master\u00a0was expanding at an alarming pace with nontransparent assets.<\/p>\n<p>Executives at the company are now facing accusations of fraud, and its assets are being liquidated, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/brazil-central-bank-shuts-banco-140320421.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Banco Master, which also has offices in Brazil and\u00a0London, leased the last 27K SF on the 44th and 45th floors in 830 Brickell last year at roughly $190 per SF \u2014 marking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-07-30\/miami-office-tower-charging-nyc-rents-lures-midsize-brazil-bank?sref=xjLu1klR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">record price for Florida<\/a>\u00a0and on par with some of the priciest deals in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The deal\u00a0was a finalist\u00a0for\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-675\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/naiop\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"675\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NAIOP<\/a>\u2019s Office Lease\u00a0of the Year\u00a0in\u00a0its South Florida 2025 Awards of Excellence, according to a February release.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A representative for the building&#8217;s developers,\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-161455\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/oko-group\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"161455\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OKO Group<\/a> and\u00a0Cain, formerly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/cain-international\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"144933\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cain International<\/a>, declined to comment. A spokesperson for Cushman &amp; Wakefield, which handles leasing for the building, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 724-foot office tower at 830 Brickell Plaza was one of the first trophy office buildings to rise in Miami in a decade and helped change the narrative for Miami as a market for the business elite.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Billionaire <a class=\"tag tag-35536\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/ken-griffin\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"35536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ken Griffin<\/a>\u2019s <a class=\"tag tag-35537\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/citadel\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"35537\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Citadel<\/a>\u00a0signed on for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/south-florida\/news\/office\/citadel-expands-footprint-at-830-brickell-as-tower-nears-delivery-124687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">130K SF across eight floors<\/a>\u00a0while the hedge fund builds its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-07\/griffin-wishes-miami-tower-cost-only-1-billion-as-price-surges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$2.5B Miami headquarters<\/a>. It was followed by the likes of\u00a0Thoma Bravo, Microsoft and Kirkland &amp; Ellis, and it is 100% leased.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Featuring a sky lobby, a gym and a private club with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-16\/miami-office-for-citadel-microsoft-gains-25-000-members-club?sref=xjLu1klR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$25K membership on the 54th and 55th floors<\/a>, 830 Brickell\u00a0opened last year after years of construction delays.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Before delivering the 57-story, 640K SF building, Cain and OKO Group refinanced\u00a0their construction loan with $565M from Tyko Capital and a $184M mezzanine loan. The developers\u00a0are in talks with\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-2258\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/goldman-sachs\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"2258\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Goldman Sachs<\/a> 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>\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/south-florida\/news\/office\/jpmorgan-and-goldman-sachs-in-talks-to-provide-600m-refi-for-830-brickell-131781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a roughly $605M CMBS loan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year after Banco Master SA signed a lease for nearly $200 per SF to take the remaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25821,34100,25822,34099,225,227,226,25820],"class_list":{"0":"post-54597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-830-brickell","9":"tag-banco-master-sa","10":"tag-cain","11":"tag-cushman-wakefield","12":"tag-hialeah","13":"tag-hialeah-headlines","14":"tag-hialeah-news","15":"tag-oko-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54597","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=54597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}