Surf Row Residences

About the Project

At 8800 Collins Avenue in Surfside, Surf Row Residences is the product of a tightly aligned partnership between three firms that collectively represent Miami's most sophisticated strain of boutique development. LD&D — led by brothers Diego and Alejandro Bonet, whose backgrounds span Wharton-trained finance, Cornell engineering, and over a decade of luxury construction management — brings an integrated approach that keeps design, development, and interior curation under one roof. Their partner ONE Capital, led by Daniel de la Vega, president of ONE Sotheby's International Realty, contributes deep market intelligence and a decades-long track record in residential ground-up development across Florida and internationally. IGEQ, the Miami-based development and investment firm of George Samarjian, rounds out the venture with extensive South Florida acquisition and mixed-use experience. Together, the three principals purchased the 0.7-acre site in August 2021 for $7.3 million, secured a $30.5 million construction loan from Maxim Capital Group — the fourth such financing partnership between LD&D and Maxim — and broke ground in late 2025, with completion targeted for 2027.

The building's architecture is the work of two complementary Miami firms: Alfonso Jurado Architecture, a multidisciplinary practice with more than 26 years of experience ranging from single-family estates to large-scale multifamily developments across Florida and beyond, serves as architect of record; Boris Pena Architects, a globally respected firm led by a senior architect with over three decades of practice, handles design architecture. The result is a three-story, low-profile structure that forgoes the vertical ambition of the Collins Avenue tower corridor in favor of a deliberately human scale — a building where sculptural facades with layered glass and integrated lush landscaping evoke the organic motion of ocean waves, wind-swept sand, and bird wings in flight. Curved balconies, natural materials, and a lush tropical surround give the exterior a quiet gravity that aligns with Surfside's residential character rather than straining against it. Boris Pena has described the project as conceived with a profound love that expresses itself across three dimensions: history, nature, and humanity — a rare aspiration in a market that rarely pauses to ask such questions.

Among the project's most compelling design decisions is a formal furnishing partnership with RH — Restoration Hardware — whose contract-grade collections now curate all shared amenity spaces, establishing a visual continuity of warm materials, tailored upholstery, and considered proportion throughout the building's common areas. For individual residences, buyers may opt into a fully turnkey RH package, available at a cost of approximately $50 to $80 per square foot, covering furniture, lighting, and soft furnishings throughout their home. The collaboration is not merely cosmetic: it signals a commitment to the kind of livable, lasting interior quality that a certain buyer — one who is less interested in statement finishes than in coherent, relaxed luxury — demands. It also removes the friction of post-purchase furnishing entirely, making Surf Row an especially compelling proposition for international buyers and pied-a-terre purchasers who want to arrive to a finished home.

The 24 residences — a number that has held firm through the project's evolution from an earlier eight-unit townhouse plan — offer one- to three-bedroom configurations ranging from approximately 894 to 2,004 square feet, with select units providing the option to combine layouts for larger floor plans. Interiors are finished to a standard that reflects LD&D's in-house design capability: Miele appliance suites with built-in wine fridges, Dekton countertops with full-height backsplashes, large-format porcelain tiles in either a coral stone or sun-bleached wood expression, and spa-calibrated bathrooms featuring freestanding soaking tubs, rainfall showers, and custom millwork vanities. Buyers choose from two curated design schemes — coastal palettes developed in collaboration with LD&D's interior team — and may further personalize their residence through the project's InteriorSelect configurator. Select residences step up to private rooftop terraces with optional plunge pools and fully equipped summer kitchens, bringing the building's indoor-outdoor ethos to its logical conclusion.

The amenity program spans more than 6,400 square feet and is calibrated for the resident who expects a hospitality-grade experience without leaving the building. A rooftop pool deck offers views across Surfside's low roofline toward the Atlantic. The Zen-inspired spa includes a steam room, dry sauna, hammam, and cold plunge alongside dedicated treatment rooms. A state-of-the-art fitness center and private yoga studio serve wellness-focused residents, while co-working spaces accommodate the growing cohort of high-net-worth buyers who work from their Miami residences as often as they play. Beach access and a dedicated beach butler service connect residents to the Atlantic moments from the front door, and 24-hour concierge and optional housekeeping bring the service standard into the residential day-to-day. The Surfside Tennis Center sits directly across the street, with private and group lessons available to residents. In a nod to civic responsibility unusual for a project of this scale, the developers have pledged $1 million toward improvements to 88th Street and surrounding public spaces, underscoring a genuine investment in the neighborhood's long-term quality.

Surfside occupies a singular position in Miami's luxury landscape — a small, walkable town of fewer than six thousand residents sandwiched between the cultural energy of Miami Beach to the south and the refined spending of Bal Harbour to the north. It is home to The Surf Club, where the Four Seasons operates one of its most celebrated Florida properties, and to the St. Regis Bal Harbour just steps across the municipal boundary. For buyers and investors, the neighborhood has taken on additional meaning since June 2021: the collapse of Champlain Towers South, while a tragedy that reshaped the town's identity, also accelerated a fundamental reassessment of what it means to own in a structurally sound, newly constructed building on this stretch of coastline. Demand for new, rigorously engineered product has intensified accordingly, and boutique projects of Surf Row's quality — low-unit-count, developer-integrated, architecturally intentional — have proven particularly resilient in this environment. With prices from $1.4 million and an anticipated 2027 delivery, Surf Row Residences offers a rare point of entry into one of South Florida's most tightly supplied and enduringly desirable addresses.

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Location

Surfside, FL 33154