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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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Carli M. Koshal Named Firm Partner

January 15, 2020

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes, a boutique law firm specializing in land use, zoning and environmental law, announced today that it has promoted associate attorney Carli M. Koshal to a partner of the firm. She joined the firm in 2012. “We’re excited to add another promising firm associate to the ranks of ‘Partner,’ as a way to acknowledge her outstanding efforts on behalf of our clients,” said Jeffrey Bercow, managing partner. “Carli has an exceptional understanding of form-based codes,[...]

DBR: Law Partner Melissa Tapanes Llahues on Being ‘Part of the Story of Miami’

January 13, 2020

Melissa Tapanes Llahues’ parents knew she would be an attorney. As a child she showed fitting personality traits for the job. “I was told that I had a fire in my belly,” she said. If you’ve heard Tapanes argue, then you know exactly what her family meant. The granddaughter of a Cuban political prisoner under Fidel Castro’s regime is thorough, firm and confident. She is a land-use and zoning attorney at Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes in Miami, becoming its latest name.[...]

Melissa Tapanes Llahues Promoted; Firm Becomes Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes

January 6, 2020

Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin, a boutique law firm specializing in land use, zoning and environmental law, announced today that it has elevated shareholder Melissa Tapanes Llahues to name partner status and has changed the company’s name to Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes, effective January 1, 2020. The firm also announced that as a result of its recent growth, it will shortly be moving to larger office space on the third floor of its current building, the Southeast Financial[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Sterling Building on Lincoln Road Scores Hotel Approval

January 2, 2020

Sam Herzberg’s proposal to add a hotel to the 91-year-old Sterling Building on Lincoln Road cleared another hurdle. The Miami Beach Planning Board last week approved the 144-room project by a 6-1 vote. The hotel is one of two currently in the planning stages for the popular pedestrian mall. City leaders and Lincoln Road business owners say the hotels will attract more visitors and supplement the new convention center hotel that will be built couple of blocks north of the Sterling Building.[...]

Miami Axis Park Breaks Ground in Hialeah

November 25, 2019

Congratulations to firm client Lincoln Property Group on breaking ground on Miami Axis Park, a 415,000 SF state of the art logistics park in the City of Hialeah. Firm attorneys Melissa Tapanes Llahues and Maritza Haro participated in the groundbreaking.