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CLIENT NEWS: Swerdlow proposes replacing Miami public housing complexes with 5,000-plus apartments with affordable, workforce units

March 12, 2025

Developer Michael Swerdlow wants to develop 5,730 multifamily units with some affordable and workforce apartments, replacing five public housing complexes across Miami. Coconut Grove-based Swerdlow Group’s project also will include 370,000 square feet of commercial space such as offices and a school; 250,000 square feet of open space and amenities and a new Tri-Rail passenger train station, according to Miami-Dade records. The project would replace the existing public housing complexes of Victory Homes at 520 Northwest 75th Street, Newberg at[...]

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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.[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Tech Entrepreneur Plans Elementary School Expansion in Miami Beach

February 27, 2023

A private elementary school in Miami Beach is looking to expand along Washington Ave. John D. Marshall, founder of the mobile security company AirWatch, is seeking approval to build a four-story building to house upper elementary and middle school grades of the Basecamp 305 school, according to filings made to the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board. The investor, who sold AirWatch for $1.17 billion in 2014, founded the private institution so his children could go to school close to where[...]