Ryan Holtzman (left), Brian Gale (top) and Andrew Trench.
Ryan Holtzman, Brian Gale and Andrew Trench
Executive managing director; vice chairman; and executive managing director at Cushman & Wakefield
“We did Amazon. That’s a pretty good one.”
That was Brian Gale from Cushman & Wakefield when asked about his 2025 highlights.
The 75,000-square-foot lease that Cushman & Wakefield arranged last summer for the e-commerce hegemon at Miami’s Wynwood Plaza ticked a few boxes for the regional office market. For one, it was an expansion from 50,000 feet Amazon had taken but a few months earlier. For another, it was in Class A space. Thirdly, it was … Amazon — a marquee credit tenant that had previously not had an office presence in the Miami area.
“Since COVID, we’ve had this positive migration in South Florida that we’ve never seen before,” Gale explained. “And, so, all the financial services companies have come down here followed by the professional services companies, where their clients are coming down here and they want to service their clients. So a lot of law firms and groups like that have come to Miami for the first time — as well as the tech market.”
Gale, along with executive managing directors Andrew Trench and Ryan Holtzman and their team, were active in the South Florida office market before the pandemic. They now reap their experience to sow some of the region’s more prominent deals.
Besides repping Wynwood Plaza owners L&L Holding Company and Oak Row Equities in the Amazon deal, the team repped owners Brand Atlantic Real Estate Partners and Wheelock Street Capital on law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister’s 20,000-square-foot lease in October at West Palm Beach’s 300 Banyan. Other clients include, or have included, MetLife, Nuveen, CP Partners and Related Group.
Many of the deals that the C&W team works on are coming in at unusually high rents for the area, too. They were among the pioneers in that. In early 2025, they repped the owners of the 55-story Class A 830 Brickell in a lease with a rent of nearly $200 a square foot — a Miami record. Keep in mind that only a few years ago, $80 a foot would’ve been a record.
The team’s 2026 is looking solid, too: They have the exclusive on 75 percent of the new office buildings going up in Miami.
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