United States

Southern Command Center

Doral, Florida

Built in 1997 as the original United States Southern Command (“SOUTHCOM”), this 160,000 square foot building sits on 9.04 acres at the apex of a business cul de sac within a block of the prestigious Doral Country Club. The SOUTHCOM award entrusted to SMPO marked the first move of a major, unified military command, and the first siting of a major command in an area other than a military base or federally owned building.

 

The SMPO-led team equipped the mammoth facility with a then state-of-the-art Command, Control, Communication, Computer and Intelligence (C4I) network which integrated the then-new Global Command and Control System essential for control of deployed forces. When the Command elected to construct an even larger neighboring facility at the conclusion of the SMPO-affiliated lease, the Miami Herald jumped at the opportunity to lease the original SOUTHCOM building and to invest $150,000,000 in the construction of an adjacent printing facility. Accordingly, the classic and imposing 20 year old building is now home to the headquarters of the Miami Herald under a long term triple net lease.