The 420-unit building, behind the Coney Island boardwalk, will complete the final phase of a trio of properties BFC has brought to the once-underutilized blocks between West 16th and West 18th Street.

Miami’s Freedom Tower opened on July 26, 1925, and first began as a hub for news, but became a memorable symbol for Cubans in South Florida.

The region’s extraordinary diversity of building styles includes missions, Victorians and the modernist office towers and ...