A 1930s Club With Two Modernist Towers Around It
Most Miami towers start with a cleared lot. This one started with a landmark. The Residences at The Surf Club sit at 9011 Collins Avenue in Surfside, wrapped around the restored 1930s Surf Club — the Mediterranean-revival social club that drew Winston Churchill and Elizabeth Taylor to this stretch of sand long before branded residences existed as a category. Rather than erase it, the project restored the club and set Richard Meier's pristine white towers on either side of it. Completed in 2017 by developer Fort Capital and Nadim Ashi, the property holds 119 residences across 12 stories, with Four Seasons operating the service. The result is one of the few addresses in the country where the amenity deck has actual provenance.
What Richard Meier's Design Actually Gives You
Meier's signature is restraint, and at this scale restraint reads as light. The towers are low and horizontal by Miami standards — 12 stories rather than the 50-plus that define Sunny Isles a few miles north — which trades altitude for proportion and puts nearly every residence in meaningful relationship with the ocean rather than far above it. The white-framed glass, deep terraces and the clarity Meier is known for are the point of the building; our directory rates it a perfect 10 on Quality and 9.9 on Waterfront, the highest quality mark in our Miami set. Interiors came from Joseph Dirand and Lee Mindel, two designers with very different vocabularies, which is why residences here do not read as a single show-unit repeated 119 times.
Four Seasons Service, Le Sirenuse and a Thomas Keller Kitchen
The dining roster is the part that surprises people. Le Sirenuse Miami — the only outpost of the Positano institution — sits on the property, as does a Thomas Keller restaurant. Four pools and a private beach complete the picture, and Four Seasons runs the service layer over all of it. For an owner, the practical meaning is that the building functions less like a condo with amenities and more like a residence inside a working luxury hotel operation: the staffing, the kitchens and the beach service exist whether or not you use them on a given Tuesday. That is the trade at the heart of this address, and it shows up in the dues.
Reading Our Directory's Pricing and the Dues Behind It
Our directory lists residences here ranging from roughly $5 million to $70 million, with an average around $2,500 per square foot and floor plans from 1 to 5 bedrooms — the highest per-foot figure of any building we track in Miami. Those are our directory's research estimates, not live comparables, and the spread from $5 million to $70 million tells you these are not interchangeable units. The dues deserve equal attention: our directory carries HOA figures near $2.40 per square foot per month, which on a large residence becomes a serious recurring number. That is what Four Seasons staffing, four pools, a private beach and a restored historic club cost to run. Before you tour, check /market-stats for where Surfside's current figures actually stand, and treat any per-foot average as a starting point rather than a quote.
Surfside, Post-Reform, and the Questions to Ask
Location here is a small beach town, not a nightlife district. Surfside is walkable — Harding Avenue's shops and restaurants, Bal Harbour Shops a short walk north — and our research puts the neighborhood's median condo price near $1,950,000 across roughly 12 buildings. It is also the town where Florida's condo-safety reckoning began, which makes the diligence questions unusually concrete on this stretch of Collins. A 2017 building is young, and this one is unusually well capitalized, but the milestone inspection and structural-integrity-reserve-study framework now applies broadly to Florida coastal condos, and reserve funding and any assessment history belong on your list here as anywhere else. Ask for the budget, the reserve study and the inspection status in writing, and read them before the view does your thinking for you.
Who This Building Is Actually For
The Surf Club fits a specific buyer: someone who wants hotel-grade service and architectural seriousness in a low-rise, low-density setting, and who reads a restored 1930s club as an asset rather than an oddity. With 119 residences and Four Seasons operating the property, this is a primary or serious second home, not a rental play or an entry-price investment — the dues and the $2,500-per-foot directory average settle that on their own. Buyers who want a 50-story view line or Miami Beach nightlife downstairs will be happier elsewhere. Buyers who want Meier's light, Le Sirenuse downstairs and a private beach in a walkable beach town will find very little that competes. Browse the building page and current Surfside listings, then confirm the live numbers at /market-stats before you tour.
Questions buyers ask about The Surf Club Four Seasons
What is The Residences at The Surf Club?
A Richard Meier project at 9011 Collins Avenue in Surfside, completed in 2017 by developer Fort Capital and Nadim Ashi, holding 119 residences across 12 stories with Four Seasons operating the service. Rather than clear the site, the project restored the 1930s Surf Club — the Mediterranean-revival social club that drew Winston Churchill and Elizabeth Taylor — and set Meier's white towers on either side of it.
What does a residence at The Surf Club cost?
Our directory lists residences from roughly $5 million to $70 million, averaging around $2,500 per square foot across 1- to 5-bedroom floor plans — the highest per-foot figure of any building we track in Miami. HOA figures run near $2.40 per square foot per month, which on a large residence becomes a serious recurring number. These are research estimates rather than live comparables; current figures are at /market-stats.
What restaurants are at The Surf Club?
Le Sirenuse Miami, the only outpost of the Positano institution, sits on the property, as does a Thomas Keller restaurant. Four pools and a private beach complete the picture, with Four Seasons running the service layer over all of it.
Why is the building only 12 stories?
Because Meier's signature is restraint, and at this scale restraint reads as light. The towers are low and horizontal by Miami standards rather than the 50-plus stories that define Sunny Isles a few miles north, which trades altitude for proportion and puts nearly every residence in meaningful relationship with the ocean rather than far above it.
What is Surfside like as a location?
A small beach town rather than a nightlife district — walkable, with Harding Avenue's shops and restaurants and Bal Harbour Shops a short walk north. Our research puts the neighborhood's median condo price near $1,950,000 across roughly 12 buildings. It is also where Florida's condo-safety reckoning began, which makes reserve funding and assessment history unusually concrete questions on this stretch of Collins.
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