Major Food Group and Boucher Brothers are pressing ahead with plans to redevelop a Miami Beach entertainment venue on city-owned land even as the current operator is still fighting to hold onto its ground lease. The joint venture will go before the Miami Beach Design Review Board Thursday, seeking the green light for a complete reconstruction of Nikki Beach, a waterfront restaurant and club at 1 Ocean Drive. Three years ago, the Miami Beach City Commission awarded a new concessions[...]
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New renderings of the 67-story Mercedes Benz Places tower under construction in Brickell were unveiled at an event last week. The building “has already set a sales record,” with 100 units sold in just the first four days of marketing. The image reveal event took place last week at The Concours Club ahead of the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix weekend. It was attended by Toto Wolff (CEO of Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team), Michael Stern (CEO of JDS Development)[...]
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As questions swirl about the future of Michael Stern’s Brooklyn supertall, the developer appears to be all in on Miami. Stern’s JDS Development Group paid $61.2 million for the half-acre site at 888 Brickell Avenue, where the firm plans a Dolce & Gabbana-branded condo-hotel tower, property records show. A company tied to Grupo Mezerhane, led by Mashud Mezzerhane, sold the site, according to records and real estate database Vizzda. New York-based JDS has been in contract for years to acquire[...]
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The Homestead Commission is discussing a large development which will be known as Sandero Landing. This is set to have 1,100 units, along with restaurants and stores. The development will be located on 90 acres of land. The project in question will be built on 90 acres on South 328th Street. The goal is to create a place where many people can live, work and play. There will be office spaces designed for people who live in the apartments. People[...]
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A 52-year-old office building in Miami's Brickell Financial District was sold to the developer who plans to replace it with a Dolce & Gabbana-branded tower. The 888 Brickell Ave. building, on 0.52 acres, was acquired by a subsidiary of Michael Stern's JDS Development Group on April 23 for $61.23 million, according to a report from Vizzda, a Tempe, Arizona-based real estate data provider. The seller was Alphatur Inc.. headed by Mashud A. Mezerhane, which acquired the building for $6.3 million[...]
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Robert Rivani’s Black Lion hunted down its biggest purchase in South Florida to date, but will have to compete with other heavy hitter developers in Miami Beach’s office market. The Miami-based commercial real estate investment firm paid $62.5 million for a Miami Beach mixed-use building, The Real Deal has learned. Black Lion is paying at a 42 percent discount off the previous sale price seven years ago. Black Lion acquired the ground lease for The Lincoln, a six-story building with[...]
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