The condo association for the Zaha Hadid-designed One Thousand Museum condo tower in downtown Miami is suing the developer over its allegedly unlawful vote to waive funding the association’s reserves.
It marks the second lawsuit the association has filed against the developer in a year. The association sued over alleged construction defects in February 2025.
The development team, which included Louis Birdman, Gilberto Bomeny, Kevin Venger, Gregg Covin and Todd Michael Glaser, completed the 62-story, 84-unit tower at 1000 Biscayne Boulevard in 2019. Buyers included billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin and celebrity power couple David and Victoria Beckham.
In this latest complaint, the condo association alleges the developer’s vote to waive funding the reserves for the third fiscal year resulted in nearly $1.4 million not being contributed to the association’s bank account. The association is seeking to recover that amount, plus more than $84,000 from the developer for its alleged failure to pay for some services.
The lawsuit, filed last week, alleges the developer “orchestrated” its vote to waive the reserves because it didn’t have the money to pay. It cites an article from The Real Deal published in March 2021 about the developer securing a $90 million condo inventory loan from Cirrus Real Estate Partners to stave off a foreclosure lawsuit filed by the Reuben Brothers.
The condo association, which at the time included a majority of units still owned by the developer, voted in December 2020 to forgo the reserves.
State law allows developers to vote to waive reserves or reduce funding in the first two years of the association, and after it turns control over to the unit owners. But the complaint alleges that the vote applied to the third fiscal year, and that some of the owners, including the developer, did not have a voting certificate on file with the association. The latter means that the number of authorized votes should have been reduced, the condo association claims.
The developers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The association’s separate complaint over alleged construction defects also names a number of subcontractors as defendants, and that lawsuit is ongoing.
The Beckhams sold their penthouse earlier this year for $24.6 million. Grammy winning singer-songwriter Marc Anthony, their close friend, sold his condo in the building last fall for $8.6 million, marking a loss compared to the $11 million he paid for the unit in 2022.
Griffin, who has amassed a significant luxury real estate portfolio from Miami to Palm Beach, listed his penthouse at One Thousand Museum last year. It’s on the market with the Corcoran Group’s Leah Barney, asking $21 million.
The downtown Miami tower, known for its exoskeleton design that was featured in the PBS documentary series “Impossible Builds,” marks the only residential building designed by Hadid in Miami.
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect died unexpectedly at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach while One Thousand Museum was under construction. Her firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, is now designing the Delmore, the luxury condo building that’s planned for the site of the deadly Surfside condo collapse. Damac Properties is the developer.
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