CLIENT NEWS: Miami Beach project promises to house working class in tiny units. Rents start at $2,000

April 16, 2024

A new law has paved the way for twice as many apartments for a Miami Beach development that targets the city’s working class with capped rents. After being presented and approved two years ago, Mia will return to Miami Beach’s Planning Board in late April with double the number of floors and apartments than originally planned after the passage of the Live Local Act. The state law allows developers to build higher and add more apartments — disregarding local zoning[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: Swerdlow proposes $3B project with 5k affordable apartments in Miami

February 13, 2024

Swerdlow Group is proposing a massive, mixed-use public housing project spanning 65 acres along Miami’s Little River and Little Haiti neighborhoods. The development could cost $2.6 billion and create nearly 5,000 workforce and affordable housing units. Coconut Grove-based Swerdlow Group responded to Miami-Dade County’s request for proposals to redevelop and expand four public housing projects, according to the Miami Herald. The entire project would include private land and would be mostly privately financed. It could take nearly a decade to[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: Massive Miami makeover? 5,000 affordable apartments proposed for aging industrial area

February 13, 2024

A gargantuan redevelopment proposal by a prominent Miami developer would dramatically reshape a nearly mile-long stretch of the city’s Little River and Little Haiti neighborhoods, bringing big-box stores, a new Tri-Rail station and nearly 5,000 affordable and workforce apartments to a hardscrabble area in dire need of new housing and jobs but leery of gentrification. Unlike much of the redevelopment now enveloping Miami, which is focused on high-income people and luxury apartments, the plan spearheaded by Coconut Grove-based developer Swerdlow[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: Construction Continues To Progress At 645-Foot Miami River Tower In Brickell

February 8, 2024

Glass railing installation is now nearly complete at the 54-story Miami River apartment tower under construction in Brickell, according to photos by Phillip Pessar. The 645-foot tower topped off last summer, becoming the westernmost tower in Miami to surpass the 600 foot mark. The Miami River tower will have 632 apartments. The first phase under construction also includes retail space, and a riverfront promenade open to the public. There are multiple other phases planned at the development, which is known as[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: Three Towers Approved in North Miami Beach

February 5, 2024

The North Miami Beach city commission voted 5-2 last month to approve a large-scale housing development that just weeks prior seemed to have little support. Developer May NMB LLC – a collaboration between New Jersey-based Accurate Builders and Kastel Development – brought forth a series of compromises in response to outcries from both commissioners and residents in December 2023 that the plan in its original form wasn’t cutting it. The proposal for 16385 NE 22nd Ave. consists of three towers,[...]

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Melissa Tapanes Llahues Appointed to The City of Hialeah’s Affordable Housing Task Force

February 2, 2024

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin and Tapanes proudly announces the appointment of Melissa Tapanes Llahues to the City of Hialeah’s Affordable Housing Task Force, where she was elected Vice Chair during the Task Force’s inaugural meeting held this past Monday. Council President Jesus Tundidor was elected to lead the Task Force as its Chair.  With a population exceeding 200,000 residents and a growing influx of immigrants, Hialeah faces pressing needs for accessible housing solutions, a challenge Tapanes Llahues is poised to[...]

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