Marc Anthony is opening a speakeasy in Miami, and unless you buy a condo, you’re not getting in. Marc’s, curated by the Grammy winner, will occupy the top-floor amenity level of HQ Residences Miami, a 35-story, 229-residence tower rising at 422 NE 29th Street in Edgewater. It’s the first residential project from HQ Hotels & Residences by sbe, the brand Anthony is a partner in alongside hospitality veteran Sam Nazarian, and it’s being developed by Black Salmon, the Boschetti Group and Constellation Group with architecture by Arquitectonica. Picture wood paneling, walls of vinyl, Latin music and late-night jazz. Residences start at $850,000; the bar tab, one assumes, is extra.
In Miami, going out is practically a civic duty. The traffic, the valet line and the velvet rope, however, are not. Which is what makes the pitch here so clever: the best room in the building may well be a bar, and your commute to it is an elevator.
A Listening Bar at the Top of the Tower
If the renderings are any guide, Marc’s is less nightclub and more hi-fi den: the kind of warm, low-lit room that encourages one drink to become three. Wood paneling and coffered ceilings give it texture, and amber lighting does the rest. Marble cocktail tables add a little polish to the deep, low-slung seating and darker finishes…