Just a few short years ago, the historic heart of Overtown, Miami’s original Black neighborhood, lay desolate and lifeless just steps from Biscayne Boulevard and downtown. There were few if any shops, few homes, not a single grocery store, but lots of vacant lots, the result of decades of demolition, disinvestment and abandonment. Today, the change along the six blocks of Northwest Second Avenue and its immediate vicinity is nothing short of dramatic. The streets are busy with pedestrians, thanks[...]
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Yair Levy’s involvement in an attempted takeover of downtown Miami’s jewelry district is kaput. Now, Avi Dishi, Elysee Investments and Pan Am Equities are betting that Levy’s gamble of converting a 1920s, nine-story building into a bedazzling crown will pay off. An affiliate of Levy’s New York-based Time Century Holdings sold the mixed-use property at 1 Northeast 1st Street for $27.5 million to Dishi, a New York-based real estate investor, as well as affiliates of New York-based Pan Am and[...]
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The retail and office space at Sawyer’s Walk is now 100% leased, with completion expected this summer. It is the largest mixed-use project in Overtown in decades, with 1.5 million square feet. The development will include 175,000 square feet of retail, including a 50,000-square-foot Target store, a 25,000-square-foot Aldi supermarket, and new locations for Ross Dress for Less, Five Below, Burlington and Tropical Smoothie Cafe. There will also be 130,000 square feet of office space. MSC Group has taken all[...]
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Real estate firm Clara Homes has closed on the purchase of a Wynwood property where it plans a luxury apartment building under Florida’s Live Local Act. Clara paid $7.7 million for a 17,000-square-foot site at 2601 NW 6th Avenue, or $450 per square foot. Seller financing was provided at 5%, and a sale leaseback for at least a year to a year and a half was also part of the deal. Jordan Karp represented the buyer. Austin Burke was the[...]
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MSC Group has announced its new home in Downtown Miami. According to a statement, the MSC Group’s $100 million investment in Miami-Dade will bring approximately 250 South Florida-based team members from MSC Cargo, MSC Cruises and Explora Journeys under one roof in a new state-of-the-art facility within Block 55 at Sawyer’s Walk. MSC Cargo has had a presence Miami-Dade for more than 25 years and now MSC Cruises is moving to establish the Cruise Division’s North American headquarters as part[...]
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The Surfside commission gave Kushner Companies its blessing for a planned luxury apartment development that’s expected to include a synagogue. New York-based Kushner plans a nearly 90-unit residential project with a roughly 1,200-square-foot community or religious center on the 2.9-acre site at 9300 Collins Avenue. The commission voted 3 to 2 to pass a resolution approving Kushner’s site plan and a resolution for religious land use relief. The latter allows the developer to build underground parking to meet the National[...]
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