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CLIENT NEWS: $175 million boost coming to resurgent Overtown, Miami’s original Black neighborhood

October 21, 2025

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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CLIENT NEWS: Damac plans Hadid Architects-designed condo building on Surfside collapse site

June 13, 2023

The Dubai developer that bought the Surfside collapse site last summer submitted plans to build an oceanfront luxury condo building on the property, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Damac Properties, led by Hussain Sajwani, wants to build a 12-story boutique building with 57 units on the 1.8-acre property at 8777 Collins Avenue, according to a company news release. Damac closed on the site for $120 million nearly a year ago, one year after the Champlain Towers South condo building collapsed[...]

CLIENT NEWS: New twist on preservation: Creativity saves 1936 apartments from floods in Miami Beach

June 12, 2023

Several years ago, Jason Halpern, a New York developer with an affinity for historic buildings and neighborhoods, bought a mid-Miami Beach lot with a dilemma. It came in the shape of two old, architecturally mismatched apartment houses — one from the 1930s and the second from the early 1960s. From the start, Halpern and his JMH Development, which has won awards for preserving and adapting historic buildings for contemporary use in Brooklyn and Miami Beach, planned a luxury low-rise condominium[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Aldi to open its first Miami grocery in June

June 6, 2023

Aldi, a German-based discount grocer, has six Miami-Dade locations so it may surprise its fans to know that until shortly the chain has yet to open a location in Miami proper. That changes Thursday, June 15, when Aldi hopes for a lucky seven when it opens its newest store at 3750 S. Dixie Hwy. in Miami, near Coconut Grove’s Day Avenue and Higgs Street. The move comes amid Aldi’s plans to open 120 new stores in 2023, Grocer Dive reported[...]

Chambers USA Awards Firm Top Ranking in Zoning/Land Use Law in South Florida

June 2, 2023

For the third year in a row, Chambers USA, one of the oldest and most prestigious legal guides in the world, has ranked Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes in Band 1 in the area of Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use Law – South Florida, the highest recognition given by Chambers. Jeffrey Bercow, co-founder and managing partner of the firm, and shareholders, Michael Larkin and Melissa Tapanes Llahues, were also recognized in the highest categories for lawyers in zoning and land[...]

CLIENT NEWS: A Neighborhood Springs to Life Around the Douglas Road Metrorail Station in Coral Gables

May 22, 2023

It’s 5 p.m. on a recent weekday at the Douglas Road Metrorail Station, the unlikely hub of a buzzy, dense new urban neighborhood suddenly coming to life in the concrete shadow of the Miami-Dade County transit line’s elevated tracks. Just minutes apart, trains and Metrobuses disgorge working commuters and University of Miami students at the station, which is undergoing a multimillion-dollar overhaul. Free Coral Gables bus trolleys come and go, connecting passengers to the suburban city’s bustling downtown or to[...]