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CLIENT NEWS: Meruelo family, David Martin propose big plans for Deauville Miami Beach site

December 3, 2024

The Meruelo family and David Martin are proposing land use changes that would allow them to build a larger project on the former site of the Deauville Beach Resort in Miami Beach. Recent legislative changes would allow a floor area ratio, or overall project size, of 5.5. The 3.8-acre Deauville site at 6701 Collins Avenue currently has an FAR of 3.0 to 3.15. The Miami Beach Planning Board will vote on a comprehensive plan amendment and development regulations at a[...]

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Tom Robertson Named Partner

February 22, 2018

Award-winning Miami boutique land use and zoning law firm Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin is pleased to announce that Tom Robertson has been promoted to Partner. Robertson, a former Miami-Dade County attorney, joined the firm in 2015 as Senior Counsel. He served the County for 30 years, practicing in the areas of Environmental Law, Zoning, Real Estate Finance and Liens, Personal Injury, Contracts, and general governmental law. In each of these areas, he was active in litigation, including many jury and non-jury trials. He[...]

UPDATE: North Miami Beach Approves Uptown Biscayne (Firm Client)

February 21, 2018

Here’s the giant project that could replace that strip club on NE163rd Street Most strip clubs have reputations for being shady, crime-ridden, sleazy joints. But Dean’s Gold, the North Miami Beach strip club at 2355 NE 163rd St. that has sat on the northeast corner of the intersection of Biscayne Boulevard and 163rd Street for nearly three decades, has a different kind of rep. To locals, the place is a historical landmark, even if you’ve never set foot inside. Formerly[...]

Historic Miami Beach condo could be converted into hotel

February 7, 2018

A historic building in Miami Beach’s Collins Waterfront Historic District could be converted from a condominium into a hotel after significant renovations. On Feb. 13, the city’s Historic Preservation Board will consider an application from the Prince Michael Condominium Association, which is now controlled by a developer, for changes to the property at 2618 Collins Ave. Nearly all of the 90 condos were acquired in separate transactions starting in 2015 by 2618 Collins Capital Holdings and various affiliates. The company[...]

Developer proposes six-story building in Doral

January 30, 2018

A six-story self-storage facility has been proposed in Doral as the first of a two-phase project. The city received an application in December from Doral Center LLC, managed by Robert S. Lechter and J. Brett Houston of Resource Real Estate Group, to build a 110,165-square-foot self-storage facility. The address would be 10780 N.W. 27th St. The developers bought the 3.6-acre site that runs from Northwest 27th Street to Northwest 25th Street, just west of Northwest 107th Avenue, for $4.5 million in July 2017. They[...]

This building put Arquitectonica on the global map. That won’t stop its demolition.

January 29, 2018

It’s bye-bye Babylon. Miami commissioners have signed a death warrant for the Babylon, the distinctly colorful, ziggurat-shaped Brickell apartment house that was the first commercial building by homegrown design giant Arquitectonica and a landmark that helped set the stage for the city’s downtown revival. By a 4-1 vote and to plaintive boos from preservationists, commissioners overturned a 2016 decision by the city’s historic preservation board that declared the Babylon a protected architectural landmark, a designation strongly backed at the hearing by city preservation[...]