Lease roundup: Miami Freedom Park scores first tenants, Cardone scores Craft Miami restaurant in Flagler Village

Fever, PopStroke, ToroVerde | Miami

Miami Freedom Park scored three retail tenants for more than 125,000 square feet.

Fever, a live entertainment platform that curates large cultural events, preleased 30,000 square feet; Tiger Woods-backed miniature golf venue PopStroke preleased 75,000 square feet; and urban and eco-tourism firm ToroVerde preleased 24,000 square feet for an adventure park, according to a Miami Freedom Park news release.

A partnership among brothers Jorge and Jose Mas, David Beckham and Los Angeles-based Ares Management is developing Miami Freedom Park with a 25,000-seat stadium that will be home to Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami CF team and 1 million square feet of mixed-use real estate on the former 131-acre Melreese Golf Course at 1400 Northwest 37th Avenue. The developers have a 99-year lease for the city-owned site.

The complex will include offices, retail, entertainment, restaurants, 750 hotel keys in three buildings and a 58-acre public park, called Jorge Mas Canosa Park, and athletic fields, according to the release.

Construction started in 2023, and the project will be completed in phases starting next year. First to open will be the stadium, park, athletic fields, community spaces and the first few restaurants, retailers and entertainment venues, the release says.

InHouse Commercial, Newmark and Magellan Realty Group are leasing the retail on behalf of the developers.

Craft Miami, RP Heat | Fort Lauderdale

Cardone Capital’s The Manor at Flagler Village multifamily building scored two retail tenants.

Comfort food restaurant Craft Miami leased 4,500 square feet, and Pilates studio RP Heat leased 2,600 square feet, according to a news release from the landlord’s brokers. The Manor is at 501 Northeast Fifth Terrace in Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village neighborhood.

Jaime Sturgis and Kaley Tuning of Native Realty represented the landlord. Aaron Levy of South Florida Commercial Corporation represented Craft Miami, and Liz Metott of Native Realty represented RP Heat.

Funds affiliated with Cardone Capital, the Aventura-based firm led by business advice guru and multifamily syndicator Grant Cardone, bought the 382-unit The Manor last year. The purchase was part of Cardone’s roughly $500 million Broward County multifamily binge that year that also included the 468-unit Laurels at Jacaranda complex at 9733 Northwest Seventh Circle in Plantation and the 332-unit Edge at Flagler Village building at 475 N Federal Highway in Flagler Village.

Plum Market | Palm Beach Gardens

Plum Market will open a store in Palm Beach Gardens.

The market leased 30,000 square feet at the Prosperity Centre plaza, at 2410 PGA Boulevard, where Plum will be the anchor tenant when it opens in March, according to the tenant’s news release.

Records show Jacksonville-based Regency Centers owns the shopping center.

West Bloomfield, Michigan-based Plum opened its first Florida outpost in Aventura a couple of years ago. The market also plans to open at Palm Beach International Airport, first at Concourse B next summer and then at Concourse C in the spring of 2027, according to its website.

Princeton Longevity Center, LifeSpan Medicine, more | Miami

CP Group and DRA Advisors scored five leases at their Miami Tower.

LifeSpan MD’s Princeton Longevity Center and LifeSpan Medicine leased 14,700 square feet spanning the entire 42nd floor at the 47-story tower at 100 Southeast Second Street in downtown Miami, according to the landlords’ news release.

Also, law firm Boies Schiller Flexner renewed its 18,300-square-foot lease on the entire 28th floor, and law firm Boyd Richards Parker Colonnelli renewed its 12,400-square-foot lease, the release says. Wealth manager UBS Financial Services expanded its Miami Tower office to 39,900 square feet, and logistics firm Worldwide Express expanded to 3,800 square feet.

Gordon Messinger and Randy Carballo of CBRE represented the landlords. Blake Goodman and Lucia Hedke were part of the JLL team that represented Princeton Longevity and LifeSpan. Josh Hartman of Network Realty Advisors and Zach Talbot of Cresa represented Boies Schiller. Talbot and Alex Gerome, also of Cresa, represented Boyd Richards. Tony Jones of Cushman & Wakefield represented UBS Financial, and Allie McCracken of Transwestern represented Worldwide Express.

Boca Raton-based CP Group and New York-based DRA Advisors paid $162.5 million for Miami Tower in 2022, records show. Designed by the late I.M. Pei, a Pritzker-winning architect, Miami Tower was completed in 1987.

CP Group is led by Angelo Bianco and Chris Eachus. DRA Advisors is led by David Luski.

ACE Hardware | Hallandale Beach

Precise Property scored a retailer at its Hallandale Shopping Center.

ACE Hardware leased 12,000 square feet at 1620 East Hallandale Beach Boulevard in Hallandale Beach, according to a news release from the landlord’s broker.

Bryan Cohen and Chris McCarthy of Cohen Commercial represented the landlord.

Precise Property is a commercial real estate developer with properties in the U.S. and Canada. Its main offices are in Jupiter and Westmount, Quebec.

Christopher King | Palm Beach

Christopher R. King, creative director and entrepreneur in the luxury goods business, opened his flagship boutique in Palm Beach.

The Christopher King store opened in a 2,500-square-foot space at 201 Worth Avenue, according to the tenant’s news release. The Christopher King collection includes leather goods, accessories, tableware, linens, flatware and furnishings designed by King and made in his 7,000-square-foot factory near Florence, Italy.

Records show the building is owned by LenDan and managed by TRH Management.

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