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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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Mixed-use Project Considered in Cutler Bay

July 18, 2016

City to consider project mixing residential, retail and CVS The Village of Old Cutler mixed-use project has been proposed in Cutler Bay in south Miami-Dade County. Clearwater-based Boos Development Group will seek approval of its site plan before the town council on July 20. It would be on the 3.64-acre site at 20002 Old Cutler Road, which currently belongs to Village of Old Cutler Corp., owned by Andres Stefano in Miami. The project would have a 15,852-square-foot CVS pharmacy store with a drive thru plus a three-story[...]

Firm Represents Townhome Developer

June 24, 2016

Developers propose 104-unit townhome project The Centerra Townhomes project has been proposed in Miami-Dade County’s Perrine neighborhood. The county received the application for the 104-unit project at 18000 S.W. 107th Ave. on June 6. Centerra Associations, a joint venture between Hollywood-based firms Cornerstone Group Development and M3 Developer Group, have the vacant property under contract. Centerra Townhomes would have 104 units in Miami-Dade County’s Perrine neighborhood. The 11.25-acre site was seized in foreclosure in 2013. The current owner is[...]

Starts Sales This Summer

June 23, 2016

Chetrit’s $1B mixed-use Miami River project to launch sales this summer Chetrit Group’s massive Miami River mixed-use project will launch condo sales later this summer, and is planning to bring on a major hotel flag, The Real Deal has learned. Melissa Tapanes Llahues, an attorney who represents Chetrit Group in its development, told TRD that she is now working on condo documents and permitting. She said the developers have hired Fortune International Group to handle sales, which will begin “in a couple of months.” She[...]

The Legal 500 2016 Recommends Firm Once Again

June 16, 2016

BERCOW RADELL & FERNANDEZ ONCE AGAIN RECOMMENDED BY THE LEGAL 500 2016 IN LAND USE/ZONING LAW JEFFREY BERCOW NAMED ‘LEADING LAWYER’ WHILE MICHAEL LARKIN AND TOM ROBERTSON NAMED ‘RECOMMENDED ATTORNEYS’ IN LAND USE/ZONING LAW (MIAMI) June 16, 2016 – Bercow Radell & Fernandez is pleased to announce that it has once again been named a “Leading Firm” in Real Estate & Construction — Land Use/Zoning in the 2016 Directory of The Legal 500 and that managing partner Jeffrey Bercow has been recognized as a “Leading Lawyer.” In[...]

Firm Awarded Top Rank by Chambers USA

June 7, 2016

CHAMBERS USA AWARDS BERCOW RADELL & FERNANDEZ TOP RANKING IN ZONING/LAND USE LAW IN FLORIDA; JEFFREY BERCOW ALSO RECOGNIZED (MIAMI) June 7, 2016 – For the fourth consecutive year, Bercow Radell & Fernandez has been recognized at the pinnacle of its specialty in real estate law. Chambers USA, one of the oldest and most prestigious legal guides in the world, ranked the firm in Band 1 in the area of Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use Law – Florida, the highest recognition given by[...]