A fan found Jason and Lucia's apartment in real Miami. It was demolished years ago.

Someone in the community has worked out which real Miami building Jason and Lucia's apartment is based on, and it's a building that doesn't exist any more.

It was the Belmar Condominium, in Miami's Edgewater neighbourhood. Thirteen units, built in 1973, on a small triangular lot right across from Margaret Pace Park with open views over Biscayne Bay.

How they found it

They used the same forensic approach that's been reconstructing the Leonida map since 2022, and it's genuinely clever, so it's worth walking through.

They started with the skyline visible through the apartment window and matched it against modern Miami, which gave them a rough position and a viewing angle. The problem was that nothing stood at that spot any more.

So they went to Google Maps historical imagery and rolled the timeline back to the period when Rockstar would plausibly have been scouting locations. The missing building reappeared, in the exact spot and at the exact orientation the trailer footage implies.

Archived Zillow listings then confirmed the rest. Rockstar had recreated the exterior and, on top of that, the interior layout of the actual units.

What happened to the Belmar

Developers bought the whole building in a $12 million bulk deal in 2022, planning to replace it with Vela, a $300 million, 55-storey tower.

The project ran into zoning opposition and the application was withdrawn in 2023. As of 2026 the site's an empty lot, with the project listed as on hold.

So a thirteen-unit building from 1973 was demolished for a tower that never got built, and the most complete surviving record of what it looked like inside is going to be a video game.

Why this is the good kind of fan research

There's no leak here and no datamine. Somebody looked carefully at published footage, came up with a hypothesis, and tested it against public records until it held. Anyone can check every step of it.

It also tells you something concrete about how Rockstar builds places. The studio wasn't making a generic Miami apartment. Somebody stood in a specific building, in a specific year, and measured it.

That matches what art director Aaron Garbut told The New York Times about how much thought goes into rooms players may never enter, right down to which pictures hang on which wall.

Rockstar hasn't confirmed it

This is a community identification, and it didn't come from Rockstar. The evidence is strong and the method's sound, but the studio hasn't confirmed any of it.