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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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FIU President’s Council Taps Partner to Lead Group

June 29, 2015

MELISSA TAPANES LLAHUES NAMED CHAIR-ELECT OF FIU PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL Melissa Tapanes Llahues, a shareholder of Miami zoning, land use and environmental law firm Bercow Radell & Fernandez, has been named Chair-Elect of the President’s Council at Florida International University for the 2015-2017 term. The President’s Council is FIU’s premier community relations board. It is comprised of business and civic leaders who act as brand ambassadors and advocates for FIU, influencing students by contributing their business and life experience. The council also[...]

Firm Client Buys South Beach Block

June 27, 2015

Bercow Radell & Fernandez Congratulates Client on Washington Ave. Purchase 601 Washington Avenue through 685 Washington Avenue in Miami Beach and Andrew Joblon Miami Beach-based investment firm Turnbridge Equities has purchased an entire block on Washington Avenue in South Beach for $36 million, with plans to redevelop the property, The Real Deal has learned. The firm assembled a string of buildings between 601 Washington Avenue and 685 Washington Avenue, on the east side of the street for the purchase, which was completed[...]

Tom Robertson Joins Firm as Senior Counsel

June 18, 2015

FORMER MIAMI-DADE COUNTY ATTORNEY THOMAS ROBERTSON JOINS BERCOW RADELL & FERNANDEZ AS SENIOR COUNSEL (MIAMI) June 18, 2015 – Bercow Radell & Fernandez is pleased to announce that it has hired former Miami-Dade County Attorney Tom Robertson as Senior Counsel. Robertson served the County for 30 years, practicing in the areas of Environmental Law, Zoning, Real Estate Finance and Liens, Personal Injury, Contracts, and general governmental law. In each of these areas, he was active in litigation, including many jury and non-jury trials. He was the general[...]

Firm Helps Client With Entitlements

June 10, 2015

Bercow Radell & Fernandez Congratulate Client on Property Sale Former Power Studios site in Design District sells for $14M Power Studios’ former site in Miami’s Design District has traded hands for $14 million, with plans to develop it into a two-story retail and entertainment venue, The Real Deal has learned. A partnership, majority owned by former banker Leonard Abess, as well as Chariff Realty Group partners Lyle Chariff and Mauricio Zapata, and others, sold the site on Tuesday, Chariff, president of Chariff[...]

Firm Obtained Approvals for Hotel

June 9, 2015

Bercow Radell & Fernandez Congratulates Client on Hotel Opening AC Hotel brings new Marriott import to Miami Sometimes when paving in paradise, you have to go out of your way to not put up a parking lot. That was developer Robert Finvarb’s take on the plot of land at 2912 Collins Ave., which once served as a contractor staging zone and future parking area for the Miami Beach Edition across the street. “The site juts into Collins, so it basically is in[...]