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CLIENT NEWS: How a housing village rising at a Hialeah train station is changing a community

July 1, 2025

As commuters unload from carpools passing through the parking lot of a Tri-Rail station on a recent weekday morning, they’re greeted by a symphony of construction while waiting for their trains. Buzz saws and percussion drills crank up just 10 feet from the train platform, where workers in green vests and yellow safety helmets are building a new housing development. The eight-story residential building, named Metro Station 1, broke ground in May with a target completion by January 2026. The[...]

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CLIENT NEWS: Miami Beach board approves pharmacy for North Beach project

June 11, 2021

Developer Aria Mehrabi’s future 12-story mixed-use project will now include a pharmacy, in spite of a recommendation from Miami Beach’s planning department to reject the request, due to its proximity to another drugstore. By a vote of 6 to 0, Miami Beach’s Zoning Board of Adjustments on Friday approved variances that will enable a CVS pharmacy to operate within a 30,000-square-foot Target store on the ground floor of Mehrabi’s tower at 6948 Abbott Avenue. The project will include 170 residential units, a[...]

Dan Espino Joins Firm As Partner

June 10, 2021

Miami, June 10, 2021- Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes is pleased to announce Dan Espino has joined the zoning, land use, and environmental law firm as a Partner. Espino is an experienced government law attorney with years of practice in both the public and private sector bringing with him a unique understanding of our firm expertise. Before joining the firm, Dan spent a decade representing municipalities as City Attorney. Dan served as the City Attorney for the City of[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Restoration Hardware to open Miami Design District store

June 10, 2021

Restoration Hardware, now known as RH, is planting a flag in the Miami Design District, The Real Deal has learned. The high-end furnishings retailer inked a lease at Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and the Comras Company’s buildings on the west end of the Design District, according to sources. Michael Comras confirmed that RH is a tenant of the project, with renovations expected to be completed later this year. He declined to comment on details of the lease. RH, which is expanding[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Michael Swerdlow’s Block 55 in Overtown lands nearly $8M affordable housing grant

June 4, 2021

A Michael Swerdlow-led mixed-use project in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood is getting local government financial assistance for its affordable housing component. Miami city commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved awarding an additional $2.5 million grant to Block 55, after previously giving the project $5 million last year. Swerdlow told commissioners that Block 55, which will feature 578 apartments for low-income seniors on top of 250,000 square feet of retail space and a parking garage, is on track to break ground in the[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Want to live in Coconut Grove but can’t afford it? New apartments on the way next year

June 3, 2021

Affordable housing is on the way to the West Grove, offering people a new option as gentrification changes the historic neighborhood with Bahamian roots. Across from the Douglas Road Metrorail Station, the mixed-income community Platform 3750 has been under construction since early May, said Lenny Wolfe, a partner at the Hollywood-based development firm Cornerstone Group. Cornerstone Group partnered with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Miami-Dade County and the city of Miami five years ago on the project.[...]