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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: Developers Breaking Ground Soon On Two Additional 39-Story Towers At Metrorail Station

March 6, 2023

The developers of Link at Douglas announced that they are now moving forward with plans for the second and final phase of the project. 13th Floor Investments and Adler Group are partnering on the project. In a press release this week, the developers said they plan to break ground in late 2023. Miami-Dade records show that the second phase received planning approval last year. According to plans submitted to county planners, the upcoming second phase is planned to include two[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Temporary Fire Station Planned To Expedite Construction At 1 Southside Park

March 6, 2023

Miami commissioners are scheduled to vote on a plan for a temporary fire station that would help expedite construction at Brickell’s massive 1 Southside Park. According to the text of the proposed resolution, site development for the 64-story tower is already underway. The city engaged a third-party engineer to review and comment on stucco cracking at the existing fire station and the deep soil mixing excavation containment system design at the construction site, the resolution continues. Both the city and the[...]

CLIENT NEWS: MG Developer Could Replace 20 homes in Hialeah with Apartment Complex

February 28, 2023

MG Developer wants to replace a full block of 20 single-family homes in Hialeah with an apartment complex. The City Council will consider a land use amendment for the 3.84-acre site a block west of the Hialeah Tri-Rail/Metrorail Transfer Station on Feb. 28. It covers 901 to 983 East 26th Street and 906 to 990 East 27th Street. Metro Parc Hialeah II LLC, an affiliate of Coral Gables-based MG Developer, has acquired 14 of the 20 homes there. It’s negotiating[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Related, BH unveil plans for Icon Aventura

February 28, 2023

Related Group and BH Group submitted a site plan for their joint venture’s proposed mixed-use project in Aventura. The developers plan Icon Aventura as a 26-story tower with 308 apartments, 12,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and a garage on a 4-acre development site at 2999 Northeast 191st Street, according to an application submitted to the city of Aventura. The assemblage includes an existing office building, Aventura View, that Related and BH plan to renovate. The partnership paid $51 million for[...]

CLIENT NEWS: North Miami Beach food market site could be replaced with 3 towers

February 28, 2023

The former home of Laurenzo’s Italian Market in North Miami Beach could be redeveloped into a mixed-use project with three towers. May NMB LLC, an affiliate of Lakewood, New Jersey-based Accurate Builders, filed a municipal pre-application with Miami-Dade County concerning the 3.03-acre site at 16445 and 16385 W. Dixie Highway, plus 2255 N.E. 164th St. The site currently has 52,120 square feet of commercial space, mostly the old market. Laurenzo’s Italian Market closed in 2019 after 69 years in business.[...]