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INDUSTRY NEWS: Builders Association of South Florida Celebrates Industry Leadership at 2025 Holiday & Awards Celebration

December 11, 2025

December 11, 2025 — The Builders Association of South Florida (BASF) hosted its annual Holiday and Awards Celebration this evening, bringing together industry leaders, elected officials, public-sector partners, and BASF members to honor another exceptional year of collaboration, advocacy, and community impact. The event was led by Master of Ceremonies Jose Felix Diaz, who opened the celebration by recognizing BASF’s commitment to its core mission: ensuring a streamlined permit process, advancing legislative advocacy, and strengthening partnerships across municipal, county, state,[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: These architects designed an 84-story tower in NYC. Now they’re coming to Brickell.

March 4, 2020

SHoP Architects will design a 62-story tower with 1,000 luxury condo units and 200 hotel rooms on the western edge of downtown’s Brickell area, according to Michael Stern, founder and managing principal of JDS Development. SHoP will collaborate with Kobi Karp Architecture & Interior Design on the project. JDS, the New York developer behind the Jean Nouvel-designed Monad Terrace in Miami Beach. SHoP — designers of Brooklyn’s Barclays Center — also worked with JDS on New York’s 84-story Steinway Tower,[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Developer could rebuild Brickell fire station with 62-story project

February 25, 2020

JDS Development Group is looking to assemble property in Brickell, including a city of Miami fire station, to build a 62-story project. The New York-based developer, led by Michael Stern, would build a new fire station for the city within its mixed-use project, and contribute millions of dollars to the city. The project would be directly west of the Brickell Metrorail Station, where the city wants to foster more development to encourage ridership. A similar, but smaller deal, for the fire[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Miami board approves major mixed-use, multifamily project

February 24, 2020

The Miami Urban Development Review Board approved a slate of mixed-use and multifamily projects that could add nearly 2,000 new apartments and more than 700,000 square feet of office and retail space between the Miami River in downtown Miami and North Miami Avenue in Wynwood. One development, Block 55, initially faced derailment, however, when the first board vote ended in a tie. But it was later approved. A partnership between The Swerdlow Group and Terra is proposing the mixed-use project featuring 402[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Fontainebleau Miami Beach reveals proposed addition

February 20, 2020

Jeffrey Soffer wants to build a new garage at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, with top-floor ballrooms. The proposed garage will be strictly for employees, which means hotel guests will continue to valet at the entrance of the storied resort. Miami Beach’s land use committee on Thursday recommended the project after hearing details about the new structure, which would be built on an existing surface employee lot on Collins Avenue between 43rd and 44th streets. The new building would connect to the[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Miami Beach, Crescent Heights, Terra agree to settle dispute over floor-to-area calculations

February 17, 2020

The city of Miami Beach has reached a truce with developers David Martin and Russell Galbut that allows the duo to move forward with their planned luxury condo project at 500 Alton Road. After a contentious back-and-forth with Galbut over the city’s monetary demands, Miami Beach commissioners approved a settlement agreement that allows the developers to exclude stairwells, elevator shafts and mechanical chutes in calculating the floor-to-area ratio of the proposed 44-story tower, known as Park on Fifth. At the same[...]