American Dream Miami mall opponents turn to Tallahassee for help
Two South Florida competitors of the proposed $4 billion Miami mega-mall/entertainment center could be turning to Tallahassee for help derailing the massive project before it gets started.
Arrested Development: Brickell’s Wacky, Glamorous Walgreens is, Sadly, Shelved
Architecturally adventurous Walgreens Drug Stores may have to remain a Miami Beach phenomenon for now (see here, and here, for example), as the much anticipated, flamboyant, fabulous Walgreens that was being designed by Demandt Architecture for a site at 296 SW 7th Street has been canceled. One of…
Goldman Properties Submits Plan For New Mixed-Use Project In Wynwood
This sure came out of the blue… environmental people should apply!!!!! Pass it around.The Sea Level Rise Committee was created to: (1) review any and all available information pertainingto sea level rise;(2) hold public hearings to receive public input;(3) issue a final written report…
Native American Relics: In a brightly painted old…
In a brightly painted old house surrounded by new condo towers, Ishmael Bermudez claims to have discovered Native American relics much like those at the Miami Circle and Met Square and is fighting to save them against encroaching development. There’s also a natural well, and perhaps even a Tequesta …
Photo tour the Completed, Eco-Crazy, 1 Hotel South Beach
News originally broke back in early 2013 that the old rambling barn of a hotel originally known as the Roney Palace when it was built in the 1960s (on the site of the former Roney Plaza, but that’s a story for another day), and then the Gansevoort, was going under the knife for its biggest transformation yet to become the 1 Hotel & Homes…
The Spring 2015 Linneman Letter: Oil Economics
NAI Global’s Chief Economist Dr. Peter Linneman tackles the oil economic questions that everyone has, “What do low oil prices mean?” and “Will they remain low?”not being protected [Miami Herald]3. Touring the completed, eco-crazy, 1 Hotel South Beach…
Retail site for sale near Lincoln Road in Miami Beach
What will become of vacant land along PGA Boulevard?
Six weeks after the sale of a prime piece of vacant land, Palm Beach Gardens officials are still waiting for word on the new owner’s plans. A 5.4-acre site near Downtown at the Gardens and The Gardens Mall sold in February for $8.5 million. The buyer is Gardens Corporate Center, whose owners include developer Guy DiVosta…
Purobeach wants to dive into the Miami market
Purobeach, a luxury beach club with locations from Portugal to Dubai, is scouting sites in Miami-Dade County, with plans to open two hotel locations, The Real Deal has learned. The upscale lifestyle concept feature…
Related Urban, county break ground on affordable housing community
Miami-Dade County and Related Urban broke ground on a public housing project in Miami today.Stirrup Plaza II, a 68-unit community geared toward low-income seniors and the disabled, is the seventh public housing project developed between the county and Related Urban.
Second Hollywood Beach condo tower completed this cycle
A second new condo tower has been completed in the Hollywood/Hallandale Beach market in Southeast Broward County, in this current South Florida real estate cycle that began in 2011. Construction of the new seven-story Positano Beach with 17…
Historic South Beach Hotel Sells
How Miami Neighborhoods Got Their Names
Ah, Miami-Dade County: the land of dreamers, visionaries, builders, and fabulously peculiar towns and neighborhoods. Before the real estate land boom of the 1920s it was a swampland, but that didn’t stop the country’s rich from coming to make their mark. These early pioneers came with big ideas that would be the beginning…