The GTA 6 apartment shared by Jason and Lucia appears for the first time around the 6:20 mark of the Extended Look: a low, off-pink block with a surface car park out front and a pale blue high-rise across the road. Within about 24 hours of the video going live, an Instagram user going by prettyboycuh had posted a reel claiming to identify its real-world model. The catch, and the reason the find spread through Game Rant and then Kotaku on August 31, is that the building no longer exists. It was demolished in 2023.
The identification is not official. Rockstar does not comment on specific real-world references, and never has. But the match is unusually clean, and the method behind it says something useful about how Rockstar built Vice City.
How the GTA 6 apartment was found
The fan's reasoning, as described in the reel, was simple and slightly mad. Rockstar's current development effort on GTA 6 is generally dated to around 2013 or 2014, so rather than searching present-day Miami, prettyboycuh used Google Street View's historical imagery to look at the city as it was in 2013. The demolished apartment block turned up in that archive, in the Edgewater area of Miami near Bayshore Drive.
The supporting evidence is the neighbour. Directly across from the site stands the Quantum on the Bay condominium, a pair of pale blue towers that are still there today. The Extended Look shows a very similar tower in the same relative position, which is what turns "looks a bit like Miami" into a specific claim about a specific plot of land.
Kotaku's Lewis Parker, who checked the comparison, noted that the match holds for the building and its immediate surroundings but starts to break down when you try to trace the route Jason drives away from it. That is expected. Vice City is a compressed and rearranged Miami, and the site's guide to real Florida locations has catalogued plenty of landmarks that sit in the right city but the wrong place.
What this tells you about how Rockstar built Vice City
The most interesting part of the find is the date. If the match is right, Rockstar's reference photography for this block predates the demolition, which means at least some of Vice City is built from a Miami that has since been redeveloped. That fits what we know about the schedule. Rockstar's location scouting and photogrammetry passes for a project of this scale happen early, and a city like Miami changes fast: Edgewater in particular has seen a wave of demolitions and condo towers over the past decade.
It also fits the studio's stated approach to satire and setting. Rob Nelson told the New York Times and IGN that the team deliberately avoids very current references because they date quickly. A Vice City assembled from a slightly older Miami, with pink low-rise blocks in the shadow of glass towers, is a version of the city that is already half gone in reality. That may be by design, or it may simply be when the cameras went out. Either way, the effect is a place that reads as timeless rather than 2026.
For the character side of this, the apartment matters as a story location. The Extended Look's domestic scene, with Lucia bringing home clothes while Jason takes a beer and watches TV, plays out here, and it is where the Jason and Lucia relationship gets its quietest moments. An unremarkable block in a gentrifying neighbourhood, facing a luxury tower it will never be part of, is a very deliberate choice for a couple robbing their way up.
Where this sits in Vice City
Edgewater in Miami lies north of downtown along Biscayne Bay, between the arts district of Wynwood to the west and the water to the east. In GTA 6's geography, that would place the apartment somewhere between the Wynwood-inspired arts district and the bay, with the downtown skyline to the south.
That is inference on top of a fan identification, so hold it loosely. Rockstar's map remaps real neighbourhoods freely, and the bay-facing block might sit anywhere along Vice City's eastern shore. What can be said with some confidence is that the apartment is a mainland location, not Ocean Beach, and that the towers visible from it place it close to the city centre rather than out in the suburbs of Vice-Dale County.
Why fans keep doing this
Location hunting has been part of GTA culture since San Andreas, and it exploded with GTA 5, where nearly every Los Santos building was eventually matched to a Los Angeles original. GTA 6 has already produced a wave of it: the Kortz Center painting theory, the identified stretch of Ocean Drive in Trailer 1, the Space Coast launch pads. Trawling historical Street View to find a building that was knocked down three years ago is the logical next step, and it is the kind of thing that only happens for a game people have been waiting on since 2013.
There is no way to visit the real site now. The lot is empty land awaiting redevelopment. The in-game version, if the identification holds, will outlast the original by a long way.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the apartment location confirmed by Rockstar?
No. It is a fan identification, made by Instagram user prettyboycuh and reported by Game Rant and Kotaku. Rockstar does not confirm real-world references for its buildings.
Where was the real building?
In the Edgewater area of Miami, near Bayshore Drive, opposite the Quantum on the Bay condominium towers. It was demolished in 2023, which is why the fan used Google Street View imagery from 2013 to find it.
Does the route Jason drives match Miami?
Only partly. Kotaku found the immediate block matches well but the surrounding roads diverge quickly, which is normal for a Rockstar city that compresses and rearranges its source.
Does this tell us where the apartment is on the GTA 6 map?
Loosely. A Miami Edgewater equivalent would sit on Vice City's mainland bay shore, near downtown and the arts district. Rockstar has not published a district map, so treat that as a reasonable guess.
The Bottom Line
A fan appears to have matched Jason and Lucia's apartment to a real Miami block that was demolished in 2023, using Street View imagery from around the time Rockstar began work on the game. The find is unconfirmed but convincing, and its real value is what it implies: parts of Vice City are built from a Miami that no longer exists, which suits a studio that has said it wants the game to feel timeless rather than current.