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CLIENT NEWS: Billionaire’s $20 million gift kickstarts Vizcaya expansion

November 13, 2025

As the landmark, publicly owned Vizcaya Museum and Gardens starts work on an extensive, long-planned restoration and enhancement of the estate’s historic farm village, the initiative has lured a large gift from billionaire Ken Griffin — and a surprising proposition from the financier that’s sure to draw significant scrutiny. On Friday, Vizcaya’s leaders are set to unveil a revised, detailed master plan for a revamped farm village along with a $20 million donation to the project from Griffin, the founder[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: 3 Live Local Towers With Nearly 1,400 Units Approved By Wynwood Board

June 10, 2025

Miami’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[...]

CLIENT NEWS: D.R. Horton plans 2 home communities in Miami-Dade

June 10, 2025

National 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[...]

Chambers USA Awards Firm Top Ranking in Zoning/Land Use Law in South Florida

June 6, 2025

Miami, 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[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Related Group, 13th Floor plan pair of high-rises in Miami

June 4, 2025

The 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[...]

CLIENT NEWS: LivWrk proposes 1,363-unit Live Local Act complex with three towers in Wynwood

June 3, 2025

LivWrk 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[...]