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FIRM NEWS: Emily Balter Named Firm Partner

January 22, 2025

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes, an award-winning Miami boutique law firm specializing in land use, zoning, and environmental law, is excited to announce that Emily Balter has been promoted to Partner. A Miami native, Emily specializes in land use, zoning, and environmental law throughout Miami-Dade County. She provides expert guidance to developers, institutions, and landowners on local regulations and permitting, with a focus on plan amendments, rezonings, variances, special exceptions, and platting for residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects. Emily[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: Surfside approves Damac’s plan for collapse site

October 2, 2023

Damac Properties scored a key approval for its luxury condo project in Surfside, though it has to try to move a controversial garbage loading dock away from the planned collapse memorial. The Surfside Commission voted 3-2 in favor of the project on the Champlain Towers South collapse site, capping a contentious nearly six-hour meeting on Wednesday evening that included Mayor Shlomo Danzinger having two people escorted out and members of the commission repeatedly speaking over each other. At the center of[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Estate planning? Jamie LeFrak secures lot split to build waterfront homes for his kids

September 28, 2023

Jamie LeFrak is like a lot of parents. The LeFrak Organization vice chairman wants to keep his kids close. LeFrak bought waterfront residential land in Miami Beach last year with the idea of building homes for each of his four children, he said at a city meeting this week. It’s unclear exactly when he would build the homes but he said he is not in a rush. His and his wife’s oldest child is 12 and, “He doesn’t need a[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Last 1920s hotel on downtown Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard getting replaced by 104-story tower

September 27, 2023

For decades, the glass-and-aluminum facade of the YVE Hotel on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami has concealed a historic secret. Beneath the mint-green panels that cover the exterior of the 16-story tower lies a significant relic of Miami’s 1920s real-estate boom. Once known far and wide as the Miami Colonial Hotel, it is, all outward appearances aside, the very last of a row of grand hotels of the era still standing on Biscayne Boulevard. It won’t be for much longer.[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Robert Rivani, Mathieu Massa buying former Starwood HQ in Miami Beach for $82M

September 27, 2023

Robert Rivani’s Black Lion Investment Group is partnering with Massa Investment Group to acquire Starwood Capital’s former headquarters building in Miami Beach for $82 million, The Real Deal has learned. Rivani’s firm and Massa Investment, led by Mathieu Massa, are under contract to purchase the eight-story office building with ground-floor retail at 1601 Washington Avenue, according to a Black Lion spokesperson. Jeremy Hakala and Clay Sidner with Newmark are brokering the deal, which is expected to close later this year,[...]

FIRM NEWS: Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes Welcomes Two New Associates to the Team

September 22, 2023

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes is proud to welcome two new associates, Benjamin Sherry and Roberto Alvarez, to its distinguished roster of professionals. Benjamin excelled academically at FIU College of Law, graduating magna cum laude and ranking fourth in his class. In law school, he earned the prestigious CALI Excellence for the Future Award for his outstanding performance in his legal research and writing. He also served as a Teaching Assistant, mentoring fellow students in these subjects, and as[...]