A collection of 103 studio to two-bedroom residences by Arquitectonica, two blocks from the sand in North Beach, Miami Beach
Ella Miami Beach is a 103-residence condominium at 6940 Abbott Avenue in North Beach, designed by Arquitectonica with interiors and furniture packages by Interiors by Steven G and landscape architecture by Christopher Cawley Landscape Architecture. It is a boutique building in a neighbourhood the rest of Miami Beach spent two decades overlooking, and it is one of the few new addresses here where the design authorship matches what the oceanfront towers a mile south are selling.
The ten-storey building reads as a stack of continuous white balcony bands wrapped around rounded corners, set above a fluted colonnade that lifts the ground floor into a covered paseo with approximately 2,200 sq ft of retail and cafe frontage. The amenity programme is placed almost entirely on the roof: a pool and sundeck turned west toward Biscayne Bay and the Downtown Miami skyline, and a pickleball court, observation deck and summer kitchen turned east toward the Atlantic. Residences run from studios to two bedrooms with ceilings of approximately nine feet, terraces served by power outlets, ItalKraft kitchens with panel-ready JennAir appliances, and the option of delivery fully furnished by Interiors by Steven G.
The setting is specific rather than generic. North Beach Oceanside Park sits two blocks east, the Miami Beach Bandshell is a five-minute walk, Carillon Miami Wellness Resort is minutes north along Collins Avenue, and Bal Harbour Shops is a seven-minute drive. These are not amenities the building claims credit for. They are the fixed public and institutional assets that make a neighbourhood hold its position once the construction cycle moves on.
This is not simply a boutique condominium two blocks from the sand. It is an entry position in the last stretch of Miami Beach still being priced as an alternative rather than a destination.
What Ella offers is proximity without ceremony: the beach two blocks east, the bay two blocks west, and a building small enough that neither requires a plan. The architecture works with that. Continuous balcony bands wrap the plan so that residences read outward rather than into a corridor, the rounded corners open the widest terraces to the water on both sides, and the colonnade at street level keeps the ground floor porous - shaded, walkable, and given over to retail and cafe seating rather than a sealed lobby wall.
Interiors by Steven G approached the residences as places to be lived in immediately rather than furnished over years. The palette is light oak, pale stone and white plaster, with the visual weight kept low so that a 342 sq ft studio and a 1,086 sq ft two-bedroom both read as calm rather than compressed. Kitchens are integrated behind panel-ready fronts, storage is built in rather than added, and the option to take a residence fully furnished means an owner can close and occupy in the same week - which matters considerably in a building where short-term rental is permitted.
The result is a building that asks very little of its owners: arrive, and the beach, the bay and the roof are all within a few minutes of the front door.
Ella occupies a positioning gap that is structurally difficult to reproduce on Miami Beach, for four distinct reasons.
First, permission. Short-term rentals are permitted here, subject to a certificate of use, while the overwhelming majority of Miami Beach condominium associations prohibit them outright - a restriction that is written into governing documents and effectively cannot be reversed by a later owner. Second, entry point. Studios and one-bedrooms starting in the $600,000s place an Arquitectonica-designed, new-construction Miami Beach address within reach of a buyer pool that the oceanfront towers exclude by price alone. Third, scale. Approximately 22,000 sq ft of amenity space divided across only 103 residences produces a ratio that high-density towers cannot match, and the rooftop programme uses both orientations rather than one. Fourth, irreversibility of the surrounding investment. North Beach's recent public spending - the rebuilt Oceanside Park, the Bandshell, the Boardwalk extension and the protected low-rise character of the North Shore historic districts - is already delivered and physically fixed, not promised.
This is not simply a smaller building at a lower price. It is a different set of permissions in the same postcode.
The investment case rests on a structural feature rather than a projected return: the right to rent short-term. In a market where nearly all condominium inventory carries a minimum lease term, a building that permits short-term rental sits in a materially smaller comparison set, and that permission travels with the unit rather than with the owner.
Supply reinforces the point. North Beach is constrained by the North Shore National Register historic districts and by height and density rules that keep most of the neighbourhood low-rise, so the number of sites able to accommodate a building of this scale is small and shrinking. New oceanfront supply on Miami Beach as a whole is effectively capped by the absence of developable beachfront land. Meanwhile the entry footprint here - studios from 342 sq ft, one-bedrooms from 550 sq ft - carries a lower absolute cost of ownership than the three and four-bedroom product that dominates new Miami Beach launches, which widens the resale audience rather than narrowing it.
The building was reported at approximately 70 percent sold when it topped off in March 2026, so remaining availability is limited and concentrated in specific lines and exposures. Buyers should independently verify rental permissions, certificate-of-use requirements, association rules and carrying costs before committing. No specific return projections are implied.
Arquitectonica has been designing Miami since 1977, and the practice's early work is a substantial part of the reason the city has a recognisable modern skyline at all. It now operates internationally, and its design for Ella is deliberately restrained by its own standards - curved balcony bands and a colonnaded base that read as a contemporary answer to the Art Deco and MiMo vocabulary of North Beach rather than an imposition on it.
Interiors by Steven G brings more than forty years of South Florida interior work and supplies not only the residence palette but the optional furniture packages, so the specification stays consistent from the lobby through to a delivered, furnished home. Christopher Cawley Landscape Architecture, founded in 2005 around Art Deco and historic renovation projects, handles the landscape and the street-level paseo. Sales and marketing are directed by ONE Sotheby's International Realty.
The design team is integrated from architecture through to the furniture that arrives in the residence, rather than a set of names attached to separate scopes.
Access to full documentation is arranged privately on request. Detailed floor plans, the current price and availability schedule, furniture package specifications, rental programme documentation and association budgets are available upon request.
North Beach is the northernmost stretch of Miami Beach, running from roughly 63rd Street to the Surfside line, and it has spent most of the last century as the quiet end of the island. That is what it still trades on. The building stock is low-rise MiMo and Art Deco protected across the North Shore historic districts, the streets are walkable and shaded, and the beach is wide and comparatively empty. What has changed is the public investment: a rebuilt North Beach Oceanside Park, the Miami Beach Bandshell's year-round programming, and the Boardwalk running south from here to South Pointe. It draws a resident who wants Miami Beach without South Beach, and an owner who reads the direction of travel.
The balance here is unusual for the island: a neighbourhood dense enough to walk to dinner, groceries and a concert, but low enough that the sky is still visible from the street. Bal Harbour and Surfside supply the shopping and hotel infrastructure to the north, South Beach and the Faena District supply the nightlife to the south, and North Beach keeps neither on its own doorstep. For an owner, that is the point.
Two things separate it. First, short-term rentals are permitted here, subject to a certificate of use from the City of Miami Beach, while the overwhelming majority of condominium buildings on the island prohibit them in their governing documents. Second, the entry point: studios from approximately 342 sq ft and one-bedrooms from 550 sq ft place a new-construction, Arquitectonica-designed Miami Beach address below the threshold that oceanfront towers set. Add roughly 22,000 sq ft of amenity space shared by only 103 residences and a rooftop programme that uses both the bay and ocean orientations, and the combination is difficult to find elsewhere on the island.
Ella is at 6940 Abbott Avenue in North Beach, the northern end of Miami Beach, two blocks from the Atlantic and two blocks from Biscayne Bay. The beach, the Miami Beach Boardwalk and the Miami Beach Bandshell are all roughly a five-minute walk; Bal Harbour Shops is about seven minutes by car and South Beach about twelve. North Beach matters because its character is protected: the North Shore historic districts and the area's height and density rules keep most of the neighbourhood low-rise, which limits how much new product of this scale can ever be added. Recent public investment in the Oceanside Park, the Bandshell and the Boardwalk is already built rather than proposed.
The building holds 103 residences across ten storeys, in studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom layouts. Interiors run from approximately 342 sq ft for a studio to 1,086 sq ft for a two-bedroom, with terraces adding between 87 and 737 sq ft, so total areas range from about 429 to 1,756 sq ft. Current availability starts at 633,000 US dollars for a studio, with one-bedrooms in the 800,000s to just over 1 million and two-bedrooms from roughly 1.48 million. Pricing and availability change; a current schedule is provided on request.
Yes. Short-term rentals are permitted at Ella, which is unusual for a Miami Beach condominium. Each owner is required to obtain a certificate of use from the applicable governing agency, and issuance remains at the discretion of the City of Miami Beach and subject to prevailing law. The permission is a feature of this building rather than of the market around it, and buyers intending to rent should have the rental programme documentation and association rules reviewed as part of their own due diligence before committing.
It suits three fairly distinct buyers. The first is an owner who wants a Miami Beach base rather than a large primary home: a lock-and-leave residence, furnished, two blocks from the sand. The second is a buyer who intends to use the property part of the year and let it the rest, which the permitted short-term rental structure supports directly. The third is a buyer entering Miami Beach at a price point that the oceanfront market no longer offers. It is less suited to a buyer who needs three or more bedrooms, as the building tops out at two.
Architecture is by Arquitectonica, established in Miami in 1977 and responsible for a substantial part of the city's modernist skyline. Interiors and the optional furniture packages are by Interiors by Steven G, a South Florida studio with more than forty years of work behind it. Landscape architecture is by Christopher Cawley Landscape Architecture, a practice founded in 2005 specifically around Art Deco and historic renovation projects, which is a relevant qualification in a neighbourhood defined by protected MiMo and Deco building stock. Sales and marketing are directed by ONE Sotheby's International Realty.
The building topped off in March 2026 and completion is anticipated in early 2027; it was reported at approximately 70 percent sold at top-off, so remaining availability is limited. Long-term value here rests on three structural factors rather than a forecast: a short-term rental permission that most competing buildings cannot offer and cannot easily grant later, a North Beach supply constraint created by historic-district protection and low-rise zoning, and an entry footprint whose absolute cost of ownership keeps the resale audience wide. No specific return projections are implied.
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