[9] Kobi Karp provided design plans for a tower at 1101 Brickell Avenue by developer Leviev Boymelgreen.

It was approved by the City of Miami in 2006 and cleared by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for a maximum height of 851 feet (259 m) above mean sea level (AMSL) in 2005.

[A] In 2013 and 2014, respectively, the developers were working to ensure the building height would not be greatly reduced under the FAA's "emergency airspace"[10] or "one-engine inoperative" policies which were proposed at that time.

[24][25] At this point, the building was designed to include 821 residential units and 250 hotel units,[B] as well as approximately 83,000 sq ft (7,700 m2) of retail and approximately 39,000 sq ft (3,600 m2) of office space in the 13 story pedestal which would also include about 1500 parking spaces.

[31] Site preparation began in late 2013 with the clearing of the site and demolition of an existing parking garage, with foundation work by HJ Foundation, part of the Keller Group beginning in June 2014,[1] when California-based Tutor Perini was awarded the US$255 million contract as the main contractor.

[32] The continuous concrete pour for the approximately 14,000 cubic yard (11,000-cubic-meter (388,461 cu ft)) raft slab required hundreds of cement trucks operating for over 24 hours from numerous factories.

[36] In January 2016, the building received a temporary certificate of occupancy (TCO) for the lower 11 floors of the parking garage.

Hotels, parking garages, and condos generally have much less floor-to-floor height than high-rise office towers.

The firm has designed numerous supertall towers and skyscrapers worldwide, and frequently works with top architects and developers on marquee projects globally.

[40] On March 24, 2017, the same week the building officially surpassed the height of the Four Seasons Hotel Miami,[41] a small fire broke out on the 68th floor just before 7 pm.

[53] With a very high Walk Score, Panorama Tower is in the class of apartment buildings that have seen the most increase in value over time even into a market slowdown in 2017.