JDS Development Group
Developer
JDS Development Group is a team of innovators and builders pioneering progressive new forms of large-scale urban development that challenge the status quo of the real estate industry. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in New York and Miami, JDS is a national firm focused on acquisition, development, and construction, recognized for its architecturally significant mixed-use projects that respond to each community and push the boundaries of engineering and design. JDS projects include Walker Tower, The Fitzroy, Stella Tower, other award-winning collaborations with the world’s top architects and designers.
Mercedes-Benz Places in Miami represents the fourth large-scale project between JDS and SHoP Architects. Other JDS and SHoP projects include the recently completed supertall 111 West 57th Street in Manhattan, on the ultra-luxury Central Park facing condominiums; Brooklyn’s first supertall The Brooklyn Tower, a mixed-use project of condominiums and rental apartments with retail in its base and the historic Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn; and The American Copper Buildings on Manhattan’s East River, a pair of copper-clad “dancing” towers with a skybridge and 760 luxury rental apartments.
JDS has long been active in the South Florida market, achieving record sales for Echo Brickell, Echo Aventura, and Monad Terrace by Ateliers Jean Nouvel. In the summer of 2023, JDS announced the supertall at 888 Brickell, Dolce&Gabbana, Miami, a condo-hotel project with the global fashion house
SHoP Architects
Architect
SHoP Architects is a New York-based global design leader, with iconic projects completed or underway across more than 72 million square feet on five continents. SHoP takes a high performance approach to design and planning that introduces definitive new and enduring architecture to the great city skylines and streetscapes.
Notable projects include Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, the American Copper Buildings and the supertall residential tower 111 West 57th Street in Manhattan, the new Uber Headquarters in San Francisco, the recently opened Collins Arch complex in Melbourne, Fulbright University Vietnam, Codrico Tower Rotterdam, and multiple diplomatic facilities including in Milan and Bangkok, under a Design Excellence contract with the U.S. Department of State.
The diverse and trendsetting work of the firm has been widely celebrated with a variety of honors, among them the Smithsonian’s National Design Award for Architecture.
Woods Bagot Studio
Interior Designer
Woods Bagot is a global architecture studio specializing in architecture, interiors and master planning. The interior design team, under the leadership of Krista Ninivaggi, curates innovative spaces for a diverse and forward thinking clientele, ranging from lawyers to DJs. The team specializes in bespoke interiors that work in harmony with the existing architectural context. A meticulous attention to detail instills even the largest projects with a boutique feel. From welcoming residential spaces to progressive workplaces to conceptual hospitality programming, the team’s designs promote new and unexpected interactions fostering a broader range of unexpected collaborations and innovation.
Woods Bagot Studio
Landscape Architect
Founded in 1999, Field Operations is a leading-edge landscape architecture and urban design practice based in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Shenzhen and London. Field Operations is renowned for strong contemporary design across a variety of project types and scales, from large urban districts, master plans and complex planning sites, to small well-crafted, detailed design projects. Regardless of scale, there is a special commitment to the design of a vibrant and dynamic public realm, informed by the ecology of both people and nature, rooted in place and context.
The ultimate aim is to bring beauty, health and vitality to the different kinds of environments where people live and interact. Given the current day urgency of creatively addressing challenges of changing climate, diminishing resources, environmental decline, social inequity and rapid urbanization, they focus upon design that thinks and acts big, that elegantly solves real problems, and shapes amore sustainable and resilient world for everybody.
SERHANT. New Development
Sales & Markening
SERHANT. is the first real estate company launched and designed for the marketplace of tomorrow. It grew from the #1 ranked sales team in New York City into a full-service firm that is revolutionizing the traditional real estate model.
SERHANT. New Development gives developers and financial institutions an unmatched advantage by providing insightful and results-oriented step-by-step guidance and support from site acquisition to final sellout for projects of all sizes, price points, and locations. It uses comprehensive market analytics to hone planning, design, and branding strategies, and it leverages SERHANT. Studios and ID Lab to deliver potent, breakthrough content and sales campaigns that are targeted and amplified through SERHANT. ADX, a tech-powered innovation platform.