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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: Ultimate Equity Files Plans For Live Local Wynwood Towers With 1,300-Units

November 14, 2024

Plans have been submitted for a pair of 36-story towers called Ultimate Wynwood. Ultimate Wynwood is planned to rise 395 feet and include: 1,300 residential units 21,601 square feet of commercial 1,099 on-site parking spaces, with 2 basement levels and additional parking on levels 2-5 The development is proposed under Florida’s Live Local Act, which requires at least 40% of units to be income restricted. A total of 524 micro-units, ranging from 300 to 375 square feet are marked as[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Immigrant workers who are building South Florida fight for better pay, work conditions

November 7, 2024

For the past two decades Javier Torres has steadied himself on the high scaffolding of countless buildings to apply the paint jobs that protect them from South Florida’s harsh sun and soaking rains. The Colombian man, 64, is proud of his profession. It’s how he’s put his youngest son through college. But the work has also come at great cost. Surrounded by colleagues wearing hard hats at a recent evening in front of Miami-Dade County Hall, Torres spoke of the[...]

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes PLLC Ranked by Best Law Firms® in 2025

November 7, 2024

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes PLLC is proud to announce we have once again been recognized in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms®, ranked by Best Lawyers®. The firm has successfully ranked in the top tier in Miami for Land Use & Zoning Law and for Real Estate Law, as well as in the second tier nationally in Land Use & Zoning law. For the second year in a row, the firm has also been ranked in Miami[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Kristi House And M.U.J.E.R. Secure Historic Property In Homestead To Establish Permanent Service Center For Women, Children, And Families

November 4, 2024

Kristi House, Miami-Dade County’s only nationally accredited Children’s Advocacy Center, and MUJER, a one-stop domestic violence and sexual assault center, have closed on the purchase of a historic landmark property in downtown Homestead for $5.1 million. The facility, located at 240 & 250 N. Krome Avenue, will be co-owned and operated by both organizations, serving as a permanent, shared service center dedicated to trauma-informed care and support for underserved communities in deep South Dade. The 31,514-square-foot property consists of two[...]

The $2.5 Billion Plan to Transform Six Historic Blocks in South Beach

November 4, 2024

When it’s complete in 2027, Miami’s “Billionaires’ Beach” will be a sandier, sunnier version of Manhattan’s 57th Street or London’s Bishops Avenue. The bold name was coined by Michael Shvo, one of several developers collectively pumping more than $2.5 billion into a handful of blocks along Collins Avenue, the arterial that runs parallel to the city’s ruler-straight coastline. Many of the world’s best hotel brands are now preparing to fly their five-star flags over South Beach for the first time,[...]