OD Miami will become the chain's first hotel outside Spain in 2020 and, as it has been doing with its other hotels, it will transform the emblematic Dade-Commonwealth building into a five-star boutique hotel with 169 rooms, taking care of its historical past, to become the new OD in Miami. This well-known building designed by Martin L. Hampton in 1925 became the tallest building in the city during the year of its construction. After the famous hurricane that hit Miami in 1926, its structure suffered significant damage and it was the stock market crash of 1929 that brought its splendour to an end, when it became the property of a bank that decided to reduce its height to seven floors and sell the steel of the last ten floors.
Now, the area of currently 4,000 m2 on 7 floors will be extended to 10,000 m2 on 17 floors, in a project to restore the original historic feel, carried out by the American architect R.J. Heisenbottle. Architect Charles Benson will develop the hotel construction project. The neoclassical façade of important historical value to Miami will be restored to give the OD Miami Hotel an impressive look and highlight the building's legendary image.
A curious detail of the OD Hotel Miami will be that the ground floor, the 32-ton stainless steel safe will be preserved and the hotel's boîte will be installed there.
