14 ROC Miami — 125 NE 14th Street, Downtown Miami

Construction started in 2026 on 14 ROC Miami, a 31-story condominium tower at 125 NE 14th Street in Downtown Miami’s Arts and Entertainment District. The building will deliver 283 residences, with completion due in 2028.

Project Scope

The unit mix runs studios through two-bedrooms, roughly 410 to 964 sq ft, each with a balcony, smart home systems and contemporary finishes. 14th Street Miami Investments LLC, managed by Russell Galbut, is the developer. RSP Architects is design architect, MAWD leads interior design, Urban Robot handles landscape architecture, Seawood Builders is general contractor and Cervera Real Estate runs sales and marketing.

The building’s defining element is a sculptural base the design team calls the “roc,” a multi-level structure that reads as emerging from the ground before the tower rises above it. Functionally it houses resident self-storage and building mechanical systems, which is what frees the ground plane for an active street frontage rather than a parking podium.

The site sits north of the rising Signature Bridge and within walking distance of the Adrienne Arsht Center, Perez Art Museum Miami and the planned 33-acre Underdeck park.

Why It Matters

Unit sizes starting near 410 sq ft put 14 ROC in a segment Miami has underbuilt for years. The city’s condo pipeline has skewed heavily toward large luxury product priced for out-of-state and international buyers, while the people who actually work in the arts and hospitality economy around the Arsht Center have had almost nothing to buy.

The mechanical-and-storage podium is the more transferable idea. Putting back-of-house into a designed base rather than wrapping a garage is how dense urban sites get a usable ground floor, and Miami’s transit-oriented parking reductions are finally making that pencil.

The 31-story height and 283-unit count put this in Miami’s mid-rise condominium band rather than the supertall luxury segment, which changes how it gets built. Post-tensioned flat-plate concrete framing on a roughly four-day floor cycle is the standard here, with a hoisted exterior envelope and unit finishes trailing several floors behind the structure.

Florida Building Code high-velocity hurricane zone requirements govern the envelope. Impact glazing, tested assemblies and documented anchorage drive both cost and lead time on a Miami-Dade tower, and the balcony on every residence multiplies the number of tested door and railing conditions the team has to coordinate.

Project Team & Details