An affiliate of Urbanica Hotels has proposed a 35-story, mixed-use tower in the Edgewater neighborhood of Miami. The city’s Urban Development Review Board considered plans for the 0.93-acre site at 3200 N.E. Biscayne Blvd., 237 and 229 N.E. 32nd St., and 246 and 230 N.E. 33rd St. on March 20. The property is owned by Miami-based Green Circle Development LLC, which is led by executives at Urbanica Hotels. The site currently has three older apartment buildings with a combined 22[...]
Read MoreMiami, June 2, 2021 – 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. The firm is ranked highest among five South Florida firms at the top of this specialty area in the 2021 Chambers USA Directory. Jeffrey Bercow, co-founder and managing partner of the firm,[...]
Read MoreWhen she came from Boston in the late ‘90s to study at the University of Miami, Mileyka Burgos-Flores quickly got homesick. She missed the food and flavor of her Dominican family and she was desperate for a Dominican hair salon. The cafeteria workers she’d befriended at school had the answer: We’ll take you to el barrio, they told her. That’s how Burgos-Flores, executive director of the Allapattah Collaborative, got to know the neighborhood built up by Black Miamians and immigrants from[...]
Read MoreSuperblue Miami, the new private space for immersive art in Allapattah, has finally opened its doors. Originally set to open last month, the 50,000-square-foot space opened May 20 with seven works. Four of them come from Japan-based collective TeamLab, comprised of some 700 artists, designers, engineers and programmers under the direction of Toshiyuki Inoko. A team of 10 spent several months installing interactive video projections and soundtracks playing on the themes of birth, death and renewal. They include a first-of-its[...]
Read MoreThe Miami-Dade County Commission approved rezoning applications for two development sites in southern neighborhoods May 19, including one to redevelop the long-standing Norman Brothers Produce site. These plans continue the redevelopment wave sweeping south Miami-Dade County. As more people move to the area, infill development has become more frequent. That sometimes spells the end for long-running businesses, but it also allows their owners to cash out. Norman Brothers Produce has run a gourmet fresh food store in Kendall for more[...]
Read MoreThe Norman Brothers Produce market near Dadeland likely is nearing its end as a retail landmark after Miami-Dade County commissioners approved a zoning change allowing an assisted-living facility to replace it. The owners of Norman Brothers Produce are set to sell their iconic market to a developer planning to build an assisted-living facility after Miami-Dade County commissioners voted Wednesday to approve the zoning change needed for the project. “I used to go there for the milkshakes,” Commissioner Sally Heyman said after[...]
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