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CLIENT NEWS: Ultra-exclusive country club in Miami Beach plans new clubhouse

September 10, 2025

The La Gorce Country Club has submitted an application to the Miami Beach Design Review Board to construct a new 74,000-square-foot clubhouse at its property at 5685 Alton Road. The proposal, which would replace an existing 45,000-square-foot clubhouse, is scheduled to be heard by the board on Sept. 11. According to a letter of intent filed on behalf of the club by attorney Michael Larkin of the Miami-based law firm Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes, the La Gorce requests[...]

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Jeffrey Bercow Named 2024 Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” in the Miami Area

August 22, 2023

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes PLLC attorney Jeffrey Bercow was recently recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2024 "Lawyer of the Year" for Land Use and Zoning Law. This is the second time that Bercow receives this award after being named “Lawyer of the Year” for the first time in 2021. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the "Lawyer of the Year," making this a significant and coveted accolade. These[...]

Four Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes PLLC Lawyers Recognized as Best Lawyers® Award Recipients and One Named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch™

August 22, 2023

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes is pleased to announce that four of our lawyers have been included in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. "For more than 40 years, the rigorous methodology of Best Lawyers has ensured the integrity and esteem of our legal recognitions," said Best Lawyers CEO Phillip Greer. "It is with great pleasure[...]

CLIENT NEWS: River Tower Tops Off At 54 Stories, Becoming Miami’s Westernmost 600 Footer

August 21, 2023

Chetrit Group’s first 54-story tower at The River District in Brickell has topped off, becoming the westernmost 600-foot tower in Miami. A top off ceremony was held at the Miami River Tower Phase 1 construction site yesterday, according to engineer JALRW. It took just 14 months from the start of vertical construction to top off. A foundation pour took place in June 2022. Other foundation pours that took place that same month included the 53-story Miami World Tower (already topped off),[...]

CLIENT NEWS: 29-Story Tower With Hundreds Of Micro-Units Proposed At Brickell’s Entrance

August 15, 2023

Plans have been filed with the county for a 29-story residential tower at the entrance to Brickell. The project appears to have been redesigned from an earlier proposal for the same lot. Miami’s UDRB review the project in April, when it was planned as a “meticulously designed” 24-story project. The property is being added to Miami-Dade’s Rapid Transit System Development Zone, allowing oversight of development by the county rather than the city. On July 31, a pre-application was filed with Miami-Dade[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Rise of the Car Wash Kings

August 10, 2023

El Car Wash was founded by two Miami-native entrepreneurs in 2010 and they grew to four locations. In 2019, two young NYC-based private equity partners, Geoff Karas and Justin Landau, arrived with new energy and an expanded vision for the business. It’s a classic story of reinvention and capital infusion. When COVID-19 swept in, Landau and Karas were already in hyper-drive. Although they had to shift their focus due to the pandemic, the velocity of expansion never stopped. Today, El[...]