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FIRM NEWS: Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin + Tapanes is thrilled to have Kyle Spohn and Olivia Clausen on board as part of our 2025 Summer Clerkship Program.

July 2, 2025

Kyle Spohn is a rising 2L at the University of Miami School of Law, where he ranks in the top 17% of his class and serves on the Inter-American Law Review. He is a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and has earned multiple academic awards, including the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Legal Communication & Research I. Kyle earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management, cum laude, from the University of Florida, with minors[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: European hotel chain to open 3rd Miami location in 2024

December 14, 2023

European hotel chain CitizenM is expanding in Miami-Dade. The Netherlands-based hospitality company announced it is opening its third Miami hotel, this one in South Beach next year. Slated for a summer 2024 opening, the 168-room hotel is setting up shop in Miami Beach at 1212 Lincoln Road. CitizenM, which brands itself as an “affordable luxury” brand, is the hotel’s developer. Miami-based architecture firm Gensler is working on the designs established by citizenM’s go-to architecture agency, concrete Amsterdam, which is headquartered[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Gindi family’s ASG sells Miami Design District retail building for $22M

December 13, 2023

The Gindi Family’s ASG Equities sold a retail building in the Miami Design District for $22 million. Alo Yoga, the property’s current tenant, acquired the nearly 5,000-square-foot single-story store at 101 Northeast 40th Street, according to records and Vizzda. The seller, an ASG affiliate, paid $10.5 million for the building in 2013. ASG is a New York-based real estate investment firm led by CEO Raymond Gindi. The Gindisfounded Century 21 Department Stores, a New York chain that offered clothes, perfumes and[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Plans For New Whole Foods In South Beach Submitted To Review Board

November 30, 2023

A developer has filed plans with Miami Beach’s Design Review Board to build a large new Whole Foods market in South Beach. In a letter, a representative of the developer wrote that the plans were very similar to plans approved by the same board in 2015. The approval expires 18 months after issuance if a building permit hasn’t been issued, according to a copy of the approval order. The Whole Foods is proposed to occupy the ground floor of a[...]

CLIENT NEWS: D.R. Horton has site near Florida City under contract

November 28, 2023

National homebuilder D.R. Horton wants to change the land use of a property west of Florida City to build single-family homes. The Arlington, Texas-based homebuilder (NYSE: DHI) filed a pre-application with Miami-Dade County officials concerning the 22.5-acre site at the northeast corner of Southwest 197th Avenue and Southwest 328th Street. D.R. Horton has the vacant property under contract from Lenore Gaynor, Mia Lamm, Melodie Berdoll, and Andrea Seidel. The developer intends to file a comprehensive development master plan (CDMP) amended[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Ari Pearl, Jonathan Leifer launch sales of Bay Harbor Towers

November 8, 2023

Ari Pearl and Jonathan Leifer are launching sales of their planned waterfront Bay Harbor Islands condominium, with Edgardo Defortuna’s brokerage at the helm. Pearl’s Hallandale Beach-based PPG Development and Leifer’s New York-based L3C Capital are partnering on the eight-story, 44-unit Bay Harbor Towers project at 10143 East Bay Harbor Drive, according to a press release. Condos in the building will span 1,900 square feet to 5,000 square feet, a spokesperson confirmed. Prices for the two-, three- and four-bedroom units will[...]