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CLIENT NEWS: Lincoln Road landlords and brokers stage a comeback

November 18, 2025

Scott Sherman still remembers when landlords could get top dollar asking rents for retail and restaurant spaces on Lincoln Road, the outdoor pedestrian mall in Miami Beach. “Eight years ago, rents got ridiculous,” Sherman, who leads Miami-based Torose Equities, told The Real Deal. “They went from $150 to $300-plus a foot. Restaurants fled, national brands downsized and the street lost its energy.” Sherman, who was among the landlords steering the Lincoln Road Business Improvement District in the 2010s, returned to[...]

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Project Wins Preliminary Approval

June 15, 2017

Public-private partnership including Miami-Dade County wins OK A large mixed-use public-private partnership that includes Miami-Dade County as a player has won preliminary Miami city commission approval. Platform 3750 LLC proposes to build on 2.1-acres at 3750 S Dixie Highway (US 1). The county is a co-applicant for land use and zoning changes, which city commissioners approved on first reading May 25. A final vote has yet to be scheduled. The project includes new office, retail and residential uses on one[...]

Chambers USA Gives Firm Highest Rank

June 9, 2017

CHAMBERS USA ONCE AGAIN AWARDS BERCOW RADELL FERNANDEZ & LARKIN TOP RANKING IN ZONING/LAND USE LAW IN FLORIDA Managing Partner Jeffrey Bercow Also Recognized on Individual Level (MIAMI) June 9, 2017 – Chambers USA, one of the oldest and most prestigious legal guides in the world, has ranked Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin in Band 1 in the area of Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use Law – Florida, the highest recognition given by Chambers. Only five other firms in Florida placed at the top in[...]

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[...]