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CLIENT NEWS: Inside the developer gold rush to update Miami-Dade’s aging public housing

March 3, 2026

A collection of two-story buildings with orange stucco walls sits on a quiet lot along Miami’s busy Northeast Second Avenue. A few blocks west, single-story white homes with air-conditioning units wedged in windows and clotheslines in courtyards cluster underneath Interstate 95. These are some of Miami’s public housing complexes, built from the 1940s to the 1970s along a mile stretch in the Little River neighborhood, and now primed for their next era. Over the next eight years, Swerdlow Group plans[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: Cornerstone, Brookstone propose 354-unit multifamily project in Little Havana

November 18, 2025

The Cornerstone Group and Brookstone Partners propose a 354-unit multifamily tower in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, amid an apartment building frenzy in South Florida. Cornerstone and Brookstone, both based in Hollywood, want to develop an eight-story building with a 5,000-square-foot grocery store on a 2.4-acre site on the northwest corner of Northwest Eighth Avenue and West Flagler Street, according to an application attached to a Miami board’s agenda. The assemblage is at 826, 834, 842, 852 and 860 Northwest First[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Billionaire’s $20 million gift kickstarts Vizcaya expansion

November 13, 2025

As the landmark, publicly owned Vizcaya Museum and Gardens starts work on an extensive, long-planned restoration and enhancement of the estate’s historic farm village, the initiative has lured a large gift from billionaire Ken Griffin — and a surprising proposition from the financier that’s sure to draw significant scrutiny. On Friday, Vizcaya’s leaders are set to unveil a revised, detailed master plan for a revamped farm village along with a $20 million donation to the project from Griffin, the founder[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Miami Beach approves 2 rooftop padel facilities

November 13, 2025

Miami Beach residents can look forward to expanded padel offerings. At its Sept. 17 meeting, the City Commission approved two separate measures to build a total of up to 20 padel courts on the roof level of two public parking garages. The first project is on the roof of the G5 Parking Garage at 640 17th St., next to Lincoln Road. An affiliate of Coral Gables-based Padel X will lease 39,000 square feet there for 10 covered and climate-controlled padel[...]

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes PLLC Ranked by Best Law Firms® in 2026

November 6, 2025

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes PLLC is proud to announce we have once again been recognized in the 2026 edition of Best Law Firms®, ranked by Best Lawyers®. The firm has successfully ranked in the top tier in Miami for Land Use & Zoning Law as well as in Real Estate Law as well as in the second tier nationally in Land Use & Zoning law. For the third year in a row, the firm has also been ranked[...]

FIRM NEWS: Melissa Tapanes Llahues: Attorney is heading Builders Association of South Florida

November 5, 2025

Since becoming president of the Builders Association of South Florida (BASF) in May, Melissa Tapanes Llahues has been focused on guiding the organization’s goals to better the region’s economic and community development efforts. Ms. Tapanes Llahues said her vision has been centered on strengthening public-private partnerships, improving housing accessibility, and giving the region’s builders a voice. Climate resilience, mobility, and evolving infrastructure needs challenges are also top priorities, she said. Ms. Tapanes Llahues is known for her expertise in managing[...]