Metropolitan Miami Complex

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Downtown Miami’s newest development, the Met Complex, includes the residential tower, Met 3, which will be the tallest building in Miami and the office and hotel complex, Met 2, with an estimated construction cost of over $600 Million.

Met 2 consists of a 48-story steel office building with a concrete core. It is connected to a 44-story, 513 feet tall hotel of reinforced concrete construction over a 13-story pre-stressed parking garage. The hotel ballroom has trusses that span 110 feet, supporting seven stories of parking. The Met 2 complex has a total of 1.9 million square feet and is currently under construction. With the hotel topped off in May 2009 and the office building topping off August 2009. In addition to its multiple amenities, Met 2 is equipped with extensive health club facilities including and indoor basketball court and pool.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.