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CLIENT NEWS: Coral Rock scores $54M construction loan for Live Local Act project in Allapattah

December 30, 2025

Coral Rock Development Group scored a $54 million construction loan for a Live Local Act project in Miami’s Allapattah. Developers across South Florida have seized on the state workforce and affordable housing law by filing a flurry of proposals, but few have advanced their projects to the financing and construction stage. Coral Gables-based Coral Rock plans to start construction in the first quarter on the eight-story, 227-unit Dulce Vida apartment building on a 1.3-acre site at 1785 Northwest 35th Street,[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: Office-retail-parking offer in Miami Beach advances

June 13, 2022

An unsolicited proposal to redevelop a parking lot at 13th Street and Collins Avenue into mixed-used office, retail and parking garage is one step closer to reality after a favorable recommendation from the Miami Beach finance committee, and now comes with two levels of office space and a possible contribution from the developer to the city. Real estate developers Location Ventures proposed via unsolicited bid to transform the parking lot, at no cost to the city, into a $19.2 million[...]

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

June 13, 2022

Miami, June 13, 2022 – For the second 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. The firm is ranked highest among five South Florida firms at the top of this specialty area in the 2022 Chambers USA Directory. Jeffrey Bercow,[...]

CLIENT NEWS: The Man from Morocco, The Untold Story of Joseph Chetrit

June 8, 2022

Though his close friends and family might quibble over the precise ingredients required for a good Joseph Chetrit story, they can all agree on one thing: There’s probably a negotiation involved. Robert Verrone’s favorite took place during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, when the top debt broker and his father attempted to enter a soccer stadium with Chetrit, Chetrit’s wife Nancy and their four children. Verrone had secured prime fourth-row seats, and the group had flown into Germany for the[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Two Cranes Now Installed At Construction Site of 54-Story Miami River Tower

June 6, 2022

Vertical construction is now set to begin at a Brickell property where the 54-story Miami River tower is planned. The newly installed cranes are eventually planned to rise 760 feet above ground, according to a filing with the FAA. The Miami River phase 1 tower itself is planned to top off with a permanent height of 640 feet above ground, making it the only tower to surpass the 600-foot mark this far west in Miami. The first phase of Miami[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Miami-Dade commission delays UDB vote again. Developers win more time to make case

June 2, 2022

Miami-Dade County commissioners again postponed a final vote on expanding the Urban Development Boundary for an 800-acre industrial complex on farmland near Biscayne Bay, as developers maneuvered Wednesday to secure the needed political support for a change environmental groups are fighting. This was the second deferral developers secured in two weeks, after a May 19 meeting where they failed to win the nine commission votes needed to move the line that serves as a boundary separating rural areas from more[...]