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CLIENT NEWS: 5,700 Unit Miami Development To Be ‘First Fully Integrated Smart Home City In Florida’

June 11, 2025

The upcoming Little River District is set to become the first fully integrated smart home city in Florida, according to an announcement by a technology company. SKYX Platforms Corp said it would be supplying smart home tech for the development. Each unit will be equipped with the smart home technology, along with free internet, the announcement said. Little River District is planned to include 5,700 affordable and workforce housing units, and is said to be the largest affordable housing development[...]

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Three Shareholders Named to 2020 Best Lawyers®

August 15, 2019

Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin is pleased to announce that three lawyers have been included in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Jeffrey Bercow, Ben Fernandez and Michael Larkin. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. For the 16th year, co-founder and managing partner Jeffrey Bercow has been cited for his work in Environmental, Land Use and Zoning and Real Estate law. Two years ago Bercow was named the “2018 Miami Land Use[...]

Spaghetti Western Star Scores Approval to Build Controversial Brickell Tower

July 30, 2019

More than a year after a preservation effort failed to save Brickell’s Babylon Apartments from the wrecking ball, Miami’s elected officials handed the famed site’s owner another significant victory. The city commission voted 4-1 on Thursday to grant Babylon International’s request to upzone the property at 240 Southeast 14th Street from 12 stories to 24 stories. Commissioners Joe Carrollo, Willy Gort, Keon Hardemon and Manolo Reyes put aside objections from dozens of neighboring condo owners and residents, as well as an impassioned[...]

Miami Worldcenter Residences Plans More Parking for Bikes Than Cars

July 24, 2019

The developer of a major mixed-use residential project within Miami Worldcenter plans a building with more parking spaces for bicycles than for cars. So it may be no surprise that the site abuts a Metromover station. Akara Partners, a Chicago-based real estate investment and development company, is proposing the project in the multi-block Worldcenter development, rising in the Park West neighborhood. AP MWC Property Owner LLC is the applicant for the warrant to allow a new building in the Miami[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Link at Douglas Developers Score $47M Construction Loan

July 12, 2019

The developers of Link at Douglas scored a $47 million loan to build the transit-oriented, mixed-use project near Coral Gables. Adler Group and 13th Floor Investments secured the loan from TD Bank to build the development’s first tower, which will have 312 apartments and 6,000 square feet of retail, according to a press release. The 22-story tower was designed by Corwil Architects. Link at Douglas will be built in phases over the next five years. It will have a total of[...]

CLIENT NEWS: Miami Beach Convention Center Hotel Wins Approval

July 3, 2019

All that’s left now: the aesthetic minutiae and the permits. Arquitectonica’s design for the 185-foot-tall, 800-room, $362 million Miami Beach Convention Center Hotel was unanimously approved by the Miami Beach Design Review Board on Tuesday. The hotel development team, led by developers David Martin of Terra and Jackie Soffer of Turnberry Associates, will still need to return to the city’s planning department to hash out details that include the look of balcony railings and privacy barriers, as well as the appearance[...]