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CLIENT NEWS: Robert Rivani pays $23M for waterfront Palm Island mansion

December 1, 2025

Commercial real estate investor Robert Rivani paid $23 million for a waterfront Miami Beach mansion, The Real Deal has learned. Rivani, who leads his Miami-based firm Rivani, formerly called Black Lion, plans to spend millions of dollars to renovate the 9,200-square-foot mansion at 16 Palm Avenue, according to sources. Rivani lives in Miami’s Morningside and purchased the home as an investment. The seller is Tom Sullivan, the founder and CEO of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee-based Lumber Liquidators, records show. Sullivan inked the[...]

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Firm Client Opens New Lincoln Road Store

May 1, 2015

Bercow Radell Fernandez Congratulates Its Client on Opening of New Lincoln Road Store MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) — Watch out, South Beach! The new Apple Store on Lincoln Road is officially open for business. Excited Apple fans cheered out loud when the doors finally opened to the new store, located just blocks away from its old location. The line to enter the store Saturday morning stretched down Lincoln Road. Customers who came out all agreed they liked this one better.[...]

Firm Obtains Approvals for Nike

May 1, 2015

Bercow Radell Fernandez Obtains Approvals for Nike Miami Beach Nike Goes Retro Deco Proposed Miami Beach flagship store gets thumbs up from Historic Preservation Board It’s not every day that the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board endorses the demolition of a building on the city’s pedestrian-only retail juggernaut, Lincoln Road, but Nike is not your average retailer. Nike’s plans to demolish a large one-story domed building that straddles the corner of Lenox and Lincoln Road — that has largely been derided as[...]

Firm Represents Hotel Developer

April 7, 2015

Hotel, two residential projects proposed in Miami-Dade County First, a hotel is in the works on the outskirts of ZooMiami, in an area that could also have a theme park. Nava Land filed an application with the county to build a 124-unit Value Place Hotel at the southeast corner of Southwest 160th Street and Southwest 117th Avenue. The four-story building would total 147,276 square feet and have 136 parking spaces. It’s on the edge of U.S. Coast Guard-owned land. The Miami Wilds[...]

Firm Represents Two Star Island Properties

March 11, 2015

Bercow Radell & Fernandez Representing Two High Profile Star Island Properties The request to demolish a 1935 mansion on Star Island has been put on hold after the owner met with historians and agreed to explore alternatives. The application to demolish 44 Star Island was not discussed at Tuesday’s Design Review Board meeting in Miami Beach because the owner asked for more time to weigh alternatives. Michael Larkin, an attorney representing owner Shay Kostiner, on Tuesday told the Miami Herald that Kostiner[...]

Firm Client Receives Design Review Board Approval

March 5, 2015

Bercow Radell & Fernandez Congratulates Client, Developer Pedro Martin Developer Pedro Martin has received the blessing of the Miami Beach Design Review Board to build a 200-foot tall high-rise that will include plenty of trees outside, and inside, the building. The 20-story, 64-unit condominium will replace the 10-story Howard Johnson Dezerland Hotel at 8701 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. Designed by famed architect Morris Lapidus and built in 1951, the Dezerland was originally known as Biltmore Terrace. In December 2013,[...]