Erik Rutter (left) and David Weitz.

Erik Rutter and David Weitz

Managing partners and co-founders at Oak Row Equities

By Greg Cornfield March 6, 2026 9:49 AM

In less than a decade, Oak Row Equities shot from regional up-and-comer to one of South Florida’s most consequential developers.

Led by founders Erik Rutter and David Weitz, Oak Row has almost $4 billion in development underway in South Florida, including multifamily, mixed-use, office and waterfront construction.

Last fall, Oak Row — along with L&L Holding — opened Wynwood Plaza, the 1 million-square-foot campus with luxury residences, high-end retail, and a 266,000-square-foot Class A office tower that’s leased partly to Amazon. And, in the early part of this year, the same Wynwood Plaza secured $335 million in refinancing from Blue Owl Capital.

“We signed leases that set the record time and again for highest rent per square foot in the given submarket,” Rutter said

Oak Row is also active in Miami’s booming Edgewater. Oak Row and Lndmrk Development broke ground last year on a 324-unit multifamily tower designed by Arquitectonica, thanks largely to $211 million from Bank OZK and Canyon Partners.

Oak Row’s biggest deal landed at the end of 2025, when Oak Row, OKO Group and Mariposa Real Estate closed the largest land purchase in Florida history. The group put down $520 million for 4.25 acres of waterfront in Miami’s Brickell District — which is zoned for more than 3 million square feet of development.

“Brickell Bay Drive is the crown jewel of our portfolio,” Rutter said. “It will be, for sure, a landmark tower in Brickell and all of Miami.”

Simultaneously, Oak Row’s 41-story project is underway in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, set to add 399 units and more new office and retail space on Biscayne Boulevard.

Oak Row’s footprint will continue to grow this year — both vertically in Miami’s skyline, and across the region’s expanding submarkets. The firm acquired a site for First & Fifth, a planned 500-unit luxury residential tower in Downtown Miami, and is advancing a 440-unit multifamily project in North Miami Beach.

“We believe we’re still really in the early innings,” Rutter said. “We want to be as active — if not more active — in 2026 and beyond as we were in 2025.”