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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: The New Target on South Beach is Finally Open, and it’s Different from the Rest

August 19, 2019

Breathe a sigh of relief, South Beach - your Target is finally open. The retail giant has opened its first Miami-area “compact store” - the first in South Florida - at the BLVD at Lenox retail development at 1045 Fifth St. in Miami Beach. And when we say compact, we mean compact. Shoppers used to the massive Targets in the suburbs may be stunned by the size of the new store. The South Beach target is almost 33,000 square feet,[...]

Three Shareholders Named to 2020 Best Lawyers®

August 15, 2019

Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin is pleased to announce that three lawyers have been included in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Jeffrey Bercow, Ben Fernandez and Michael Larkin. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. For the 16th year, co-founder and managing partner Jeffrey Bercow has been cited for his work in Environmental, Land Use and Zoning and Real Estate law. Two years ago Bercow was named the “2018 Miami Land Use[...]

Spaghetti Western Star Scores Approval to Build Controversial Brickell Tower

July 30, 2019

More than a year after a preservation effort failed to save Brickell’s Babylon Apartments from the wrecking ball, Miami’s elected officials handed the famed site’s owner another significant victory. The city commission voted 4-1 on Thursday to grant Babylon International’s request to upzone the property at 240 Southeast 14th Street from 12 stories to 24 stories. Commissioners Joe Carrollo, Willy Gort, Keon Hardemon and Manolo Reyes put aside objections from dozens of neighboring condo owners and residents, as well as an impassioned[...]

Miami Worldcenter Residences Plans More Parking for Bikes Than Cars

July 24, 2019

The developer of a major mixed-use residential project within Miami Worldcenter plans a building with more parking spaces for bicycles than for cars. So it may be no surprise that the site abuts a Metromover station. Akara Partners, a Chicago-based real estate investment and development company, is proposing the project in the multi-block Worldcenter development, rising in the Park West neighborhood. AP MWC Property Owner LLC is the applicant for the warrant to allow a new building in the Miami[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Link at Douglas Developers Score $47M Construction Loan

July 12, 2019

The developers of Link at Douglas scored a $47 million loan to build the transit-oriented, mixed-use project near Coral Gables. Adler Group and 13th Floor Investments secured the loan from TD Bank to build the development’s first tower, which will have 312 apartments and 6,000 square feet of retail, according to a press release. The 22-story tower was designed by Corwil Architects. Link at Douglas will be built in phases over the next five years. It will have a total of[...]