Blumberg fund to sell Brickell office tower

Blumberg fund to sell Brickell office tower

An investment fund run by prominent real estate investor Philip Blumberg, who is facing drug possession charges, is selling a 15-story office tower on Brickell Avenue for more than $60 million, part of the fund’s strategy to take profits amid the hot commercial real estate market.

American Ventures Property Fund has a contract to sell the 1401 Brickell Ave. building in Miami to Testa, a Madrid real estate firm that also owns the Mellon Financial Center office building in the Brickell area.