A developer has put together a plan to bring more residential units to the evolving Wynwood Norte neighborhood, along with several retail spaces. Owner-developer Kambucha LLC plans to construct the new six-story Rose Wynwood building at 444 NW 33rd St. The overall project will amount to 232,095 square feet of floor area, home to 140 residential dwelling units, 14 micro-retail units, and two retail spaces on the ground floor. The city’s Urban Development Review Board unanimously recommended approval with one[...]
Read MoreAward-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[...]
Read MoreHere’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[...]
Read MoreA 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[...]
Read MoreA 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[...]
Read MoreIt’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[...]
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