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CLIENT NEWS: How a housing village rising at a Hialeah train station is changing a community

July 1, 2025

As commuters unload from carpools passing through the parking lot of a Tri-Rail station on a recent weekday morning, they’re greeted by a symphony of construction while waiting for their trains. Buzz saws and percussion drills crank up just 10 feet from the train platform, where workers in green vests and yellow safety helmets are building a new housing development. The eight-story residential building, named Metro Station 1, broke ground in May with a target completion by January 2026. The[...]

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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[...]

Firm Get Rezoning; Client Sells Property

May 20, 2016

‘Unbuildable’ Lot Gets Makeover, Sells for $13 Million A Miami developer in need of extra parking space is walking away with $13 million three years later. In 2013, Lyle Chariff owned the property that housed Cypress Room, now known as Cypress Tavern, an eatery on the edge of Miami’s Design District and across the street from a vacant lot. The president of Chariff Realty Group Inc. saw the empty slice of land as a solution for a parking crunch shared[...]

Developer Wants Miami Beach Marina

May 20, 2016

Fort Partners offers $100M for development rights of Miami Beach Marina site The developers of the Surf Club Four Seasons have big plans for a prime slice of city-owned waterfront property in Miami Beach, but neighborhood residents and city commissioners are skeptical about the proposal to add more residential towers south of Fifth Street. To help the project to move forward, Fort Partners and the operator of the Miami Beach Marina complex are dangling a $100 million offer in exchange for the[...]