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CLIENT NEWS: MG Developer lines up $39M loan to build Coral Gables townhome project

July 17, 2025

MG Developer’s pipeline keeps pumping along as Alirio Torrealba’s firm is about to score a $39 million construction loan for a Coral Gables townhome project. Miami-based Pine Bay Capital is providing the financing for The George, a planned development of 13 two-story townhouses at 717 Valencia Avenue that represents the final phase of MG Developer’s Biltmore Square community, a press release states. The loan is set to close soon, an MG Developer spokesperson said. Coral Gables-based MG Developer already completed[...]

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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[...]

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[...]