Lease roundup: Restaurant Sant Ambroeus will open at Fifth Miami Beach project 

Sant Ambroeus | Miami Beach 

Italian restaurant Sant Ambroeus will open its first Miami-Dade County outpost in South Beach. 

Sant Ambroeus leased more than 7,000 square feet at The Fifth Miami Beach office building that’s under construction at 944 Fifth Street and 411 Michigan Avenue in Miami Beach, according to the developers’ news release. The restaurant will open late next year.  

Previous plans to open at Bal Harbour Shops a few years ago fell through.

Cyril Bijaoui and Noa Figari of Longstead at The Corcoran Group represented Sant Ambroeus. Aaron Butler of Avenue Real Estate Partners represented the project developers. 

Sumaida + Khurana and Bizzi + Bilgili –– a joint venture between Turkish investor Serdar Bilgili’s BLG Capital and Bizzi & Partners –– are developing the five-story The Fifth Miami Beach building with 60,200 square feet of office, retail and dining space. 

New York-based Sumaida + Khurana is led by Saif Sumaida and Amit Khurana, and New York-based Bizzi & Partners is led by Davide Bizzi and Alessandro Pallaoro.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a partner in The Fifth Miami Beach. 

Sant Ambroeus, which first opened in 1936 in Milan, opened its New York flagship outpost in 1982, the release says. The restaurant has outposts throughout New York and one in Palm Beach at 340 Royal Poinciana Way, according to the news release. It also has coffee bars in New York, as well as in Aspen and Milan. SA Hospitality Group, led by CEO Gherardo Guarducci, owns Sant Ambroeus. 

Giampiero Tagliaferri will design Sant Ambroeus’s South Beach interior space. 

FloSpine, Baptist Health, more | Florida Atlantic University Research Park | Boca Raton

Health care providers and other companies leased at Florida Atlantic University’s Research Park. 

Spinal implants company FloSpine, which has eight patents for spine devices, opened a 5,000-square-foot office at the Research Park in Boca Raton, according to the landlords’ news release. FloSpine recently closed a $1.7 million seed round for its Keylift flagship device.  

Baptist Health opened a 9,100-square-foot cardiac care ambulatory surgery center at the Research Park. Also, cardiac monitoring software company Aventusoft opened a 4,000-square-foot office, and cognitive assessments and care provider Thema Brain Health opened a 2,700-square-foot medical office, according to the release. 

Two tenants expanded. Instrumentum, a surgical instruments sterilization company, added 4,600 square feet to its 5,500-square-foot office that opened at Research Park less than a year ago. Health care professionals employment center MPLT Healthcare is developing a 7,800-square-foot office expansion, bringing its total space to 30,000 square feet. 

The Research Park also will have an elevated flight observation area with shaded seating, allowing the public to observe flights taking off and landing at nearby Boca Raton Airport. The airport authority is building the flight observation area. 

Pebb Enterprises and Banyan Development, both based in Boca Raton, own the ground leasehold interest in the seven-building, 308,000-square-foot Research Park at 3600-3998 FAU Boulevard. The companies paid $37.5 million for the buildings and leased the land from FAU’s governing authority, the Florida Atlantic Research and Development Authority.

Pebb is led by CEO Ian Weiner. Banyan is led by principals Jason Sher, Ross Feurring and Doug Feurring. 

Adam Starr of Pebb represented the landlords in Research Park leases. 

Elia | River Landing Shops & Residences | Miami

Restaurant Elia opened at the River Landing Shops & Residences mixed-use complex in Miami. 

Aden Hospitality Group, led by Engin Akdemir and Adnan Jafarov, leased 3,600 square feet at the development’s restaurant row along the riverwalk, according to a River Landing news release. Elia, which has a menu inspired by traditional Southern Italian recipes, opened this month. 

Coral Gables-based Urban-X Group, led by Andrew Hellinger and Coralee Penabad, completed the 2.2 million-square-foot River Landing in 2020. The project at 1400 Northwest North River Drive led the way in the most recent development wave that’s sweeping the Miami River. 

River Landing consists of 346,000 square feet of retail space, 150,000 square feet of offices, 528 apartments with market-rate rents, more than 2,000 parking spaces and a riverwalk. About 75 percent of the office space is occupied, according to the release. 

Mids Market | Little River | Miami 

A vintage and secondhand clothing store will open at AJ Capital Capital Partners’ adaptive reuse project in Miami’s Little River. 

Mids Market leased 12,000 square feet at 7200 Northwest 2nd Avenue, where the store will open on Aug. 17, according to an AJ Capital news release. Mids Market will include a museum of brands that have shaped fashion, art and culture. It also will sell vinyl records and host a weekly artisan and farmers market. 

Nashville-based AJ Capital is working on the roughly 21-acre adaptive reuse project in Little River with Miami-based MVW Partners. Founded by Benjamin Weprin, AJ Capital Partners bought a majority stake in MVW’s 320,000-square-foot portfolio in the neighborhood in 2021.  

MVW was founded by husband-and-wife team Matthew Vander Werff and Ashley Melisse Abess. 

Negroni Sushi Bar & Bistro | Downtown Doral 

Negroni Sushi Bar & Bistro will open its third South Florida outpost in Doral. 

The restaurant leased more than 6,000 square feet on the corner of Main Street and Northwest 87th Avenue at the Downtown Doral mixed-use complex, according to a Downtown Doral news release. Negroni Sushi will open by year-end. 

Alyona Tsutskova and Yanina Yefimova of Metro Commercial represented the landlord and tenant. 

Coral Gables-based Codina Partners is the lead developer of the 250-acre Downtown Doral. The firm is led by father-daughter duo Armando Codina and Ana-Marie Codina Barlick. 

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