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<\/p>\nA Toronto-based trade school is planning to sign a 30K SF lease in Downtown Miami to open a new campus, marking its first venture\u00a0in the U.S.<\/p>\n
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\n Omni Offices at 1501 Biscayne Blvd.\n <\/p>\n
Skilled Trades College is planning to ink a deal with a subsidiary of the Genting Group to lease space at 1501 Biscayne Blvd., also known as the Omni Offices, according to\u00a0data provided to\u00a0Bisnow\u00a0by\u00a0CBRE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Colliers<\/a> Senior Vice President\u00a0Kevin Gonzalez, who represented the landlord alongside Vice President Ana Paula, confirmed the deal to Bisnow, saying in a phone call Wednesday that he expects it to\u00a0close by the end of the month.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re honored to be selected for Skilled Trades College\u2019s first campus in South Florida,\u201d Gonzalez said in a statement. \u201cTheir decision to establish operations at 1501 Biscayne underscores the building\u2019s highly accessible and connected location, with immediate highway access and adjacency to the Miami Metromover.\u201d<\/p>\n A Colliers team of David Preston and Jonathan Carter represented Skilled Trades College in the deal.<\/p>\n Skilled Trades College, led by founder Ralph Cerasuolo,\u00a0offers 12-week preapprenticeship courses on electrical, HVAC, plumbing and intro to home renovations, according to its website.<\/p>\n This is Skilled Trades College’s first venture outside of Canada, Gonzalez confirmed, where\u00a0it has campuses in Vaughn, Ajax, Oakville, Toronto and Cambridge. The trade school didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n The 435K SF Omni Offices building is part of the 1.5M SF mixed-use Omni Center, a redevelopment of the former Omni International Mall<\/a>. It also has\u00a0300K SF of retail and a 527-key Hilton hotel, according to the Tower Commercial Real Estate website.<\/p>\n The office building has long been a hub for education. Key Point Christian Academy signed a 62K SF lease there last year, the South Florida Business Journal reported<\/a>. It was also the\u00a0home to\u00a0the Miami International University of Art and Design,\u00a0which\u00a0shut\u00a0its doors abruptly<\/a>\u00a0in 2023.<\/p>\n Other tenants that have an address at the building are the Miami Passport Agency, Passport Photos LLC and Subway.<\/p>\n \u201cSkilled Trades College will be a great addition to the tenant roster at 1501 Biscayne, which stands out for having the highest parking ratio in Miami\u2019s central business district, large and efficient 80,000-square-foot floor plates and robust infrastructure,\u201d Gonzalez said in the statement.<\/p>\n Resorts World Miami, a subsidiary of Malaysian gaming company Genting Group, purchased the site in 2011 and originally planned to turn it into a casino but never received approval, the SFBJ reported.<\/p>\n Genting Group, which didn’t respond to a request for comment, in June\u00a0sold off six parcels<\/a> less than a mile west of the Omni Offices\u00a0to an opportunity zone fund<\/a> led by two South Florida attorneys for $21M.<\/p>\n The deal comes as\u00a0tensions between Canada and the U.S. are high amid shifting trade policies and President Donald Trump’s<\/a>\u00a0rhetoric about turning the country’s neighbor to the north into the 51st state. Trump imposed\u00a0a 35% tariff on most Canadian goods<\/a>\u00a0and raw materials that went into effect in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto-based trade school is planning to sign a 30K SF lease in Downtown Miami to open a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6392,6391,6393,123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-5822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-biscayne-boulevard","9":"tag-colliers","10":"tag-genting-group","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-headlines","13":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","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=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}