Porto Bay Harbor

“The whole Island is surrounded by water. Here, some is yours.”

On the north side of Bay Harbor Islands, a seven-story building wears its privacy on its face — a screen of vertical louvers that lets the light through and keeps the street out.

Behind it sit eighteen residences, no two laid out alike, and a handful arrive with something almost no condominium offers: a pool of your own.

A Boutique of Eighteen, Built to Replace a House

Porto Bay is a collection of just 18 residences at 1130 100th Street, and among the luxury condos for sale in Bay Harbor Islands it belongs to a small category: buildings conceived to replace a single-family home rather than stack another apartment.

The premise is unusual and deliberate — full-floor and near-full-floor layouts, three- and four-bedroom plans, and four limited-edition homes with private plunge pools, two of them penthouses. The working name during sales launch was Pool Haus, and the reason was literal.

The developer is Redhoek+, the Brooklyn firm founded in 2017 by Lee Cohen and named for the Red Hook waterfront. According to The Real Deal, Porto Bay is the firm's second Bay Harbor Islands project and a deliberate sister to Solina Bay Harbor — the nine-unit building a few blocks south that Redhoek+ launched first, and which Cohen confirmed was more than 50% presold by the time Porto Bay went to market.

Architecture and interiors are both the work of Pliskin Architecture PLLC, which keeps the building's exterior logic and its interior detailing under a single hand rather than splitting them between firms.

The Building & Architecture

The façade is the building's argument. Rather than a flat curtain of glass facing the street, Pliskin wrapped the seven stories in a rhythm of vertical louvers that filter the low Florida sun, screen the interiors from the road, and still let air and daylight move through the rooms.

It reads as a quiet, modern object in a residential block — privacy expressed through architecture, not a gate.

Inside, the material palette is restrained and physical. Travertine defines the primary baths and kitchens, giving those rooms a sense of weight that drywall and tile cannot fake.

Kitchens pair custom cabinetry with natural stone countertops and the full Bosch appliance suite; bathrooms feature Phylrich fixtures throughout; and every residence includes an in-unit washer and dryer rather than a shared laundry.

Expansive glass walls open the great rooms to the terraces, and in several plans the terrace is not a balcony but an outdoor room — wide enough to dine, lounge, and, in the pool residences, swim.

These are specification choices, but they are also the difference between a unit and a home: travertine you can feel underfoot, a kitchen built for the way a family actually cooks.

Residences & Pricing

Floor plans run from roughly 2,183 to 3,390 square feet of interior space, with terraces from 641 to over 2,400 square feet — the range that lets a buyer choose between a tightly efficient three-bedroom and a four-bedroom with its own pool and lawn.

Anyone looking to buy a condo in Bay Harbor Islands at this scale is usually forced to choose between a townhouse and a teardown; Porto Bay keeps the square footage and adds the elevator, the doorman-era conveniences, and the low-maintenance reality of condominium living.

A representative sample of the collection:

• Residence 4D — a layout with three bedrooms, a den, and 3.5 bathrooms. The interior measures 2,183 sq. ft., with an 865 sq. ft. terrace.
• Residence 3C — three bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, featuring a 2,458 sq. ft. interior and a generous 1,120 sq. ft. terrace.
• Residence 3D — also three bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, with the largest interior among the three-bedroom options at 2,622 sq. ft., paired with a 641 sq. ft. terrace.
• Penthouse A — three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, and a private rooftop pool. The interior spans 2,569 sq. ft., with a 1,372 sq. ft. terrace.
• Residence 5A — the most spacious option: four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, plus a private pool and lawn. The interior covers 3,390 sq. ft., with an impressive 2,461 sq. ft. of exterior space.

The entry point is $2,000,000; published asking prices across the collection have reportedly reached the mid-$4 million for the largest pool residences.

Residence 5A is the clearest expression of the building's idea — a four-bedroom with a 29'7" × 24'8" great room opening to a terrace and a private pool set against its own lawn. This configuration does not exist in most island condominiums.

Penthouse A trades a fraction of that footprint for elevation, pairing a 40-foot great room with a private rooftop pool. Exact pricing and current availability for each line are confirmed on a unit-by-unit basis.

Amenities

The shared program is scaled to eighteen owners, not to a brochure. The crown is a rooftop pool terrace with open panoramas across the island's waterways and the Miami skyline — the kind of view that, in a building this size, never feels crowded.

Below it, a sauna and a cold plunge handle the contrast-therapy ritual, and a fitness center with current equipment covers daily training without a membership across the causeway. The logic mirrors the residences themselves: fewer doors, more room behind each one.

With four homes each featuring a private pool, the building also quietly answers the question most condo buyers give up on — where to swim without sharing.

Location & Lifestyle

Porto Bay sits on the north side of Bay Harbor Islands, a small barrier-island town between Indian Creek and the Broad Causeway. The water connection here is honest to name: this is not a dockage building, and it has no private marina or boat slips. The bay shows up as a rooftop panorama and as the texture of the island around you — not as a slip with your name on it.

What you get instead is proximity:

• The boutiques and Italian cafés of Kane Concourse (96th Street) are a short walk; Bal Harbour Shops, with Saks and its row of flagship boutiques, is under a mile; and the sand at Surfside is roughly a mile east.
• Aventura Mall is about seven miles north, South Beach about eight miles south (about twenty minutes off-peak), and Downtown Miami roughly fourteen miles.
• Miami International is about sixteen miles out — a 25-to-35-minute drive depending on whether you hit the causeway at rush hour. Per Walk Score, the address rates 71 (Very Walkable) and 84 (Very Bikeable), which tracks for a town you can cross on foot.
• For families, the draw is structural: Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbor K-8 Center sits on the island itself, a short walk rather than a commute, and the town runs its own police and fire stations.

The honest caveat is the flip side of the appeal — Bay Harbor Islands is quiet. There is no real nightlife on the island; after dinner, energy means a drive to Miami Beach or Bal Harbour.

• Buyers who want a building that hums at midnight are looking at the wrong island.
• Buyers who want to hear the wind in the louvers are looking at the right one.

A Saturday on the North Side

1. The island does not rush its mornings. Kane Concourse — the town's two-block downtown, with Robert Indiana's red "LOVE" sculpture planted on the median among the palms — barely stirs before nine, and the first move is usually coffee and a pastry at Bay Harbor Bistro & Bakery before the counter fills.
2. By late morning, the energy is on the water and the sidewalks: a bike loop around the island, a walk over the causeway, kids spilling toward the splashpads the town keeps near the parks.
3. Lunch, more often than not, lands at Emilio's Trattoria, the Kane Concourse Italian room that locals treat as a neighborhood living room — the kind of place where the owner reportedly works the floor, and the veal chop is a known quantity.
4. Afternoons drift toward Bal Harbour. A few minutes south, the open-air Shops anchor a different register entirely — Hillstone for a long lunch that becomes an early dinner, Makoto for sushi, and enough window-shopping to justify the valet.
5. The beach at Surfside, a mile east along Harding Avenue, is the unglamorous, un-velvet-rope alternative when the Shops feel like too much. The imperfect part is the same as the charming part: the island closes early.
6. By ten on a weeknight, the Concourse is dark, parking is valet or nothing on the busy blocks, and dinner past nine means leaving for some buyers that is the whole point.

The Investment Case

Bay Harbor Islands trades on the scarcity of supply and the consistency of demand, and the luxury condos for sale there rarely come in a format like this one. The clearest way to see Porto Bay's position is in relation to its neighbors.

O Residences, the 41-unit, nine-story building on the island, is a handsome tower-style condominium with a zero-edge pool — but it is a tower, with the density and shared-amenity logic that implies.

Indian Creek Residences & Yacht Club, developed by Horizon Group, leads with true waterfront and six private yacht slips under a dockmaster — a genuinely different product for the buyer whose priority is a boat.

And Redhoek+'s own Solina Bay Harbor is smaller still, at nine residences. Porto Bay threads between them: larger and more amenitized than Solina, far more private than O Residences, and — uniquely among the four — built around in-residence private pools rather than a slip on the water.

That combination of boutique scale and house-like privacy is the differentiator, and it is the hardest of the four to replicate, because it is a function of how the building was planned, not what was added later.

Frequently Asked Questions

When will Porto Bay be completed?

Porto Bay is a pre-construction condominium. Vertical work broke ground in early 2025, with delivery targeted for 2027. As with any pre-construction purchase, plan financing and occupancy around a standard multi-year build runway and confirm the current schedule with the sales team.

Can residences at Porto Bay be rented out?

The development has been marketed with flexible, rental-friendly terms. Still, the binding short- and long-term rental rules are set by the condominium's HOA documents, which are finalized before closing.

Buyers with rental intent should have the policy confirmed in writing before the contract, rather than relying on marketing language.

Who designed the interiors?

Both the architecture and the interior design are by Pliskin Architecture PLLC — a single firm responsible for the louvered exterior, the travertine kitchens and baths, and the overall material palette, rather than a separate interior studio.

What makes Porto Bay a sound long-term hold?

Three things, none of which depend on a headline statistic: a boutique count of eighteen homes in a town where land is effectively built out; a private-pool, house-replacement format that competing island condos do not offer; and a developer, Redhoek+, whose first Bay Harbor building sold strongly before this one launched. Scarcity of both the building type and the island itself is the core support.

How does Porto Bay compare to other Bay Harbor Islands condos?

In short: it is more private and pool-focused than tower-style O Residences, and it is not a waterfront/boat-slip product like Indian Creek Residences & Yacht Club. For a unit-by-unit comparison against those buildings and its sister project, Solina, contact a Bogatov Realty advisor.

Some buildings sell a view; this one sells a way of living that the island's geography usually reserves for houses — privacy, your own water, room to spread out — without asking you to mow a lawn or guard a gate.

Eighteen homes, a louvered face turned to the street, and a rooftop that gives the whole island back to you at dusk. The scarcity is not a slogan. There are eighteen of them, and four have pools.

“The bay belongs to everyone. The pool belongs to you.”

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