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CLIENT NEWS: Vast Braman Motors Edgewater remake to add two 60-story towers

April 25, 2025

Braman Motors, a long successful and foundational business venture in the City of Miami, is about to expand dramatically with a growth spurt of sweeping proportions that would include two new 60-story residential towers. The Braman company, utilizing special development options in the Miami 21 zoning code, plans to start construction on a phased redevelopment of several properties in the Edgewater neighborhood, ultimately bringing hundreds of new residential units, new retail-commercial uses, office space, parking for thousands of vehicles, and[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: Treehouse Hotel, cousin to 1 Hotel, to make U.S. debut in Brickell in 2025

March 10, 2021

Treehouse Hotel plans to make its U.S. debut in Miami in 2025. The nature-inspired hotel brand owned by Miami-based Starwood Capital Group’s SH Hotels & Resorts is coming to Brickell’s 1 Southside Park development. The project will be 62 stories tall and have 191 rooms, the company said. SH Hotels & Resorts also owns the 1 Hotel South Beach brand. The only other Treehouse hotel opened in London in 2019. Construction on the Brickell hotel at the 1105-1133 SW Second[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Here’s how much Suntex paid for Monty’s Raw Bar and adjacent marina in Coconut Grove

February 19, 2021

Suntex Marina Investors bought the long-term lease for Monty’s Raw Bar and Prime Marina Miami in Coconut Grove for $14.7 million, records reveal. Dallas-based Suntex Ventures purchased the 70-year lease for the marina, also called Bayshore Landing, at 2550 South Bayshore Drive earlier this month. Aligned Bayshore Raw Bar LLC, tied to Jose Hevia’s Prime Marina Group, sold the property. Records show Aligned Bayshore Raw Bar assigned the lease to Coconut Grove F&B LLC, a Delaware corporation signed by Bryan[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Iconiq buys Related and Block Capital’s Wynwood apartments for $77M

February 18, 2021

San Francisco investment firm Iconiq Capital paid $77 million for a mixed-use apartment building in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. Related Group and Block Capital Group sold The Bradley Wynwood, a 175-unit building that was previously leased to short-term rental operator Domio, to Iconiq. Domio, which shut down last year, had a 10-year master lease with extension options. In October, Related and Block Capital listed the building at 51 Northwest 26th Street for sale with a whisper price of about $90 million, before Domio shuttered. Berkadia[...]

City of Miami’s Miami 21 Task Force Elects Melissa Tapanes Llahues Chairperson

January 27, 2021

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes is pleased to announce that Melissa Tapanes Llahues has been elected chairperson of the City of Miami’s Miami 21 Task Force at its January 22 meeting. The ad hoc committee was created to conduct a comprehensive review of the Miami 21 zoning code, a form-based code guided by tenants of “New Urbanism” and “Smart Growth” principles. Tapanes Llahues was appointed by Commission Manolo Reyes to represent his district, District 4. Miami 21 represents the “Miami[...]

Melissa Tapanes Llahues Panelist on Upcoming FAWL Event

January 11, 2021

Melissa Tapanes Llahues will be a panelist discussing “Combatting Gender Pay Disparity: Year-End Performance Reviews and Salary Negotiations,” on January 21, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., via Zoom. Click here to register. The event is sponsored by the Miami Dade chapter of the Florida Association of Women Lawyers (FAWL). The organization is a volunteer bar association dedicated to actively promoting the advancement of women in the legal profession, expanding the leadership role of its members in the community at[...]