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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: Related, partner pay $51M for Aventura mixed-use dev site

July 29, 2022

Related Group and a partner scooped up an Aventura office property for $51 million, with plans to develop a mixed-use project on the site’s parking lot. Coconut Grove-based Related and Aventura-based BH Group bought the 4.5-acre property at 2999 Northeast 191th Street that includes the Aventura View office building, according to the buyers’ news release. The seller, an affiliate of Kendall-based Cofe Properties, had paid $38 million for the property in 2015, according to property records. The 10-story building was[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Ari Pearl, partners plan 700 apartments in North Miami Beach

July 25, 2022

Ari Pearl’s PPG Development wants to build an apartment complex on the Nova Southeastern University campus in North Miami Beach, The Real Deal has learned. The plan is for a roughly 700-unit, market-rate complex with indoor and outdoor amenities on the 8.8-acre site at 1750 and 1775 Northeast 167th Street, Pearl told TRD. Matt Press of EquiShares and Isaac Khabie of ARK Ventures are project partners. The development would be built under existing zoning, which allows for three-story to eight-story[...]

Jeffrey Bercow and Michael “Mickey” Marrero Named as “Top Lawyers” in the 2022 South Florida Legal Guide

July 13, 2022

Miami, FL, July 13, 2022 – Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes is honored to announce that Jeffrey Bercow and Michael “Mickey” Marrero have been recognized as “Top Lawyers” in the 2022 South Florida Legal Guide. Since its first publication, South Florida Legal Guide has set the standard for the definitive list of Top Lawyers in the region. Top Lawyers are nominated by their peers and then reviewed and chosen by the publication’s editorial department based on their level of[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Miami Beach gives green light to controversial Peebles, Sternlicht office projects near Lincoln Road

June 24, 2022

Controversial proposals to build offices in Miami Beach near the city’s famous Lincoln Road passed another hurdle on Wednesday. The Miami Beach City Commission voted 5-1 to approve a slew of items needed for the proposals to proceed. Vice Mayor Kristen Rosen Gonzalez cast the sole dissenting vote after hours of heated debate with the rest of the elected officials. Two development groups – one led by Don Peebles and the other by Integra Investments and including Barry Sternlicht as[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Preservation board approves NY developers’ South Beach office project

June 22, 2022

Developers Sumaida + Khurana and Bizzi & Partners can move forward with their Miami Beach office project after receiving the green light from the city’s historic preservation board. The joint venture between the two New York-based firms is planning a five-story office building with 3,125 square feet of ground-floor retail on two vacant lots at 944 Fifth Street and 411 Michigan Avenue. The building, designed by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza, will also feature mechanical parking lifts. On Tuesday, the[...]