Mary Brickell rental project goes condo

A rental project in Miami’s Mary Brickell Village is going condo, the second Miami conversion in as many weeks.

The $65 million project was originally slated to be called EnV and offer rentals, but now the site, at 999 Southwest 1st Ave., will be developed by Starwood Capital and Lynd into a 34-story condo tower called Nine, according to BuzzBuzzHome. The 390 units start at 744 square feet and $300,000, the project’s web site said. Behar Font & Associates is the architect, and Fortune International is handling sales.

Last week Gold Krown Financial revealed plans to convert a rental tower in Miami’s Midtown as standing condo inventory dries up and demand from buyers continues to surge.

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Philippe Starckian Interiors Coming To Echo Brickell

[The spa at Icon Brickell]

exMiami reports that Echo Brickell's interiors will be by an old Miami classic,a goofy guy that did a lot to develop the signature contempo/pomo/graphico look of Miami in the 90s and early aughts:   Philippe Starck, designer of the Delano, the SLS South Beach, Icon South Beach, and many other flights of plush fantasy. Well, more or less. Less because they're actually being done up by an interior design firm Starck founded, called yoo. Interestingly, his name doesn't appear on the