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CLIENT NEWS: Swerdlow proposes replacing Miami public housing complexes with 5,000-plus apartments with affordable, workforce units

March 12, 2025

Developer Michael Swerdlow wants to develop 5,730 multifamily units with some affordable and workforce apartments, replacing five public housing complexes across Miami. Coconut Grove-based Swerdlow Group’s project also will include 370,000 square feet of commercial space such as offices and a school; 250,000 square feet of open space and amenities and a new Tri-Rail passenger train station, according to Miami-Dade records. The project would replace the existing public housing complexes of Victory Homes at 520 Northwest 75th Street, Newberg at[...]

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Super Lawyers Names Shareholder “Rising Star”

June 6, 2017

SHAREHOLDER MELISSA TAPANES LLAHUES AGAIN SELECTED A ‘RISING STAR’ BY SUPER LAWYERS IN ITS 2017 EDITION MIAMI (June 6, 2017) – Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin, specializing in zoning, land use and environmental law, announced today that Shareholder Melissa Tapanes Llahues has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers-Rising Stars Edition 2017. Melissa has been selected a “Rising Star” every year since 2011. The Rising Stars edition is particularly selective, with 2.5 percent of the state’s under-40 lawyers represented. Once a year, Super Lawyers invites lawyers in each state to nominate the[...]

The Clay Hotel to undergo major renovation

May 22, 2017

The Clay Hotel in Miami Beach to undergo major renovation Project to include adding a roof deck, new stairwells, reconfiguring lobby UPDATED May 11, 11:30 p.m.: The Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board this week approved an extensive renovation of the 92-year-old Clay Hotel that borders popular Espanola Way. Clay Hotel Partnership Ltd. and Infinity Real Estate submitted plans for a phased renovation of a cluster of retail and hotel buildings at 1435 Washington Avenue that are currently known as The Clay[...]

New retail projects proposed on Lincoln Road and at Miami Beach hotel

April 12, 2017

1657 Michigan Avenue/947 Lincoln Road Two retail projects have been proposed in Miami Beach, one on Lincoln Road and the other at the Continental Hotel. Both applications went before the city’s Historic Preservation Board on Monday and will possibly be voted on at the board’s June 12 meeting. The two-story building at 1657 Michigan Avenue, which has a corner fronting Lincoln Road, was built in 1925 and is currently 8,625 square feet of retail and residential in two stories. Owner[...]

Developer proposes 308 apartments in Miami-Dade

April 11, 2017

A company led by Delray Beach developer Anthony V. Pugliese III wants to build an apartment complex just east of U.S. 1 in Palmetto Bay. The city will hold a zoning hearing on April 17 to consider the application for Park View on the 3.14-acre site at 9420, 9450 and 9500 S.W. 174th Street. The property currently has two single-family homes and a daycare facility separately owned by Jorge L. Morales, Pedro and Linette Gonzalez, and Raggedy Ann and Andy’s Pre School. The application[...]

Historic Buena Vista Post Office building in Miami’s Design District sells for $8.1M

April 6, 2017

4000 Northeast Second Avenue and Lyle Chariff The historic Buena Vista Post Office building in Miami’s Design District just sold for $8.125 million, marking a near-record price per square foot in the redeveloping neighborhood, The Real Deal has learned. The 2,287-square foot building at 4000 Northeast Second Avenue, which was the former site of the Billionaire clothing store, sold for $3,553 per square foot to a New York-based investment group that represents foreign investors, Chariff Realty Group President Lyle Chariff told TRD. The buyers are part[...]