The upcoming Little River District is set to become the first fully integrated smart home city in Florida, according to an announcement by a technology company. SKYX Platforms Corp said it would be supplying smart home tech for the development. Each unit will be equipped with the smart home technology, along with free internet, the announcement said. Little River District is planned to include 5,700 affordable and workforce housing units, and is said to be the largest affordable housing development[...]
Read MoreMiami’s Wynwood Design Review Committee reviewed a proposal for three new towers at its June 3 meeting, and voted 4-1 to recommend approval. LIVWRK, a company based in Brooklyn, New York, is the developer planning the towers. The board also added a condition to its recommendation: more local art should be incorporated at the street level to further enhance the existing Wynwood streetscape. The towers would be built under Florida’s Live Local act, which generally allows more intense development than[...]
Read MoreNational homebuilder D.R. Horton (NYSE: DHI) filed plans for two new communities in the Redland area west of Homestead. Both of these filings are pre-applications with Miami-Dade County to set to Comprehensive Development Master Plan (CDMP) amendments that will require County Commission approval at a later date. In the bigger project, Arlington, Texas-based D.R. Horton has proposed 190 townhouses and 57 single-family homes on the 26.2-acre site at 19300 and 19360 S.W. 344th St., which is just north of the[...]
Read MoreMiami, June 6, 2025 – For the fifth year in a row, Chambers USA, one of the oldest and most prestigious legal guides in the world, has ranked Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes in Band 1 in the area of Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use Law – South Florida, the highest recognition given by Chambers. Founding and managing partner Jeffrey Bercow and shareholder Michael Larkin were again ranked in the highest categories for individual attorneys. Notably, Melissa Tapanes Llahues earned[...]
Read MoreThe development team of 13th Floor Investments, Related Group and LeFrak filed plans for a pair of towers a block from the Douglas Road Metrorail Station in Miami. Miami-Dade County officials received the pre-application from 3650 Bird Road Owner LLC, a partnership between Miami-based 13th Floor, Miami-based Related Group and New York-based LeFrak, for the 2.4-acre site at 3650 Bird Road. It previously housed an auto dealership. The developers purchased the property for $35 million in March from Coral Gables-based[...]
Read MoreLivWrk wants to build a 1,363-unit Live Local Act project in Wynwood, as developers continue to supersize their proposed projects under the state’s affordable and workforce housing law. The Brooklyn-based firm wants to develop three 45-story towers with 23,200 square feet of retail and 912 parking spaces on a five-lot assemblage on the northwest corner of North Miami Avenue and Northwest 24th Street in Miami, according to a city board meeting’s agenda. The development site is at 2400, 2412 and[...]
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