The James Hotel & Residences

231 East Flagler Street, Miami, FL

The James Hotel & Residences is an 82-story, $850 million mixed-use tower planned for 231 East Flagler Street in downtown Miami. The project is developed by Sonesta International Hotels Corporation with Mint Developers, and it pairs 336 turnkey residences with a hotel component of roughly 200 rooms on site, a combination that gives the residential floors access to a full hospitality operation rather than an imitation of one. Units will be delivered fully furnished, with floor-to-ceiling glass, modern interiors and skyline and city views, so owners arrive into completed homes rather than into construction allowances and a list of decisions about finishes. The amenity program is where the hotel scale becomes visible. Resort-style pools and a spa with snow and rain rooms sit alongside private cabanas, and the building's dining and bar venues are positioned at high elevation, including what is described as the highest-elevation luxury bar and restaurant in the Americas. If that claim holds once the tower is built, the top of the building becomes a destination in its own right rather than a residents-only room, which changes how the property functions: it is not only a place to live but an address that draws people upward from the street. A private four-story members club serves both residents and hotel guests, creating a layered social structure inside the building, with residential floors, hotel floors, and a club spanning four of them. East Flagler Street places the tower in the historic core of downtown Miami, an area undergoing sustained residential and hospitality investment, with transit, retail and the waterfront within a short distance of the address. Delivery is projected for 2030, and the scale of the investment behind the project, at $850 million, is the clearest indication of how the developers are reading demand for furnished, serviced, hotel-adjacent residential product in this part of the city.