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Market correction? Perhaps

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New board for NAIOP NAIOP South Florida, a commercial real estate development organization, has announced the following officers and executive committee for its 2019 board of directors: • President: Butters Realty & Management executive vice president and office leasing director Darcie Lunsford. (Left). • President-elect: Duke Realty vice president Stephanie Rodriguez. • Secretary: Legacy Bank of Florida senior vice president of commercial lending Patricia Bedley. • Treasurer: Raymond James Financial adviser Marc Kopelman.
Opportunity Zones

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The Death of the Office

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Demand Drivers and Hefty Costs

By Darcie Lansford It might be hard to fathom, with 1.1 billion square feet of those three-story, tilt-wall, big boxes that have been built since the Great Recession, that what America

Industrial Real Estate Still Shines, Despite Tariff Concerns

By Darcie Lansford Trade wars. Tariffs. Geopolitical meltdowns. South Florida’s commercial real estate sector shrugs off a plethora of concerns of a President Donald Trump-induced economic retraction like an Ebenezer

South Florida’s Growing Foreign Trade Zone

By Darcie Lunsford The phones at IMS Worldwide, a Houston-based consulting firm that helps companies, local governments and real estate developers establish and operate foreign trade zones nationally, have been

Interest rates rise, sales volume falls

By Darcie Lunsford There are times you want to set trends. Then there are times you simply want to follow them. And in the first quarter, South Florida broke out

The rising demand for industrial space

South Florida and the nation’s other supercharged industrial real estate markets are poised to get another shot of adrenaline. A boom in e-commerce fulfillment centers and smaller, in-town, last-mile depots

Proposed Trade Policy Would Affect Industry

By Darcie Lunsford The Trump administration’s shift from talking about reversing U.S. trade policy and toppling trade pacts to levying tariffs and engaging in high-stakes brinksmanship has sent a wave

For Now, Florida’s Growth Continues to Defy Forecasters

By Darcie Lunsford If it feels as though there is more commercial development going on these days, there is—despite so many experts saying (at least before December’s big tax-cut package)

Industry remains a substantial driver

All eyes remain on South Florida’s industrial sector as the dazzling belle of commercial real estate’s bull-market ball. Miami-Dade County’s fourth-quarter industrial rents hit an all-time high, ending the year

Tax Reform Act leaves CRE interests optimistic

By Darcie Lunsford Entering the fourth quarter of 2017, enthusiasm was waning among commercial real estate insiders over how much runway the third-longest economic expansion in the nation’s history had

Drew Limsky

Drew Limsky

Editor-in-Chief

BIOGRAPHY

Drew Limsky joined Lifestyle Media Group in August 2020 as Editor-in-Chief of South Florida Business & Wealth. His first issue of SFBW, October 2020, heralded a reimagined structure, with new content categories and a slew of fresh visual themes. “As sort of a cross between Forbes and Robb Report, with a dash of GQ and Vogue,” Limsky says, “SFBW reflects South Florida’s increasingly sophisticated and dynamic business and cultural landscape.”

Limsky, an avid traveler, swimmer and film buff who holds a law degree and Ph.D. from New York University, likes to say, “I’m a doctor, but I can’t operate—except on your brand.” He wrote his dissertation on the nonfiction work of Joan Didion. Prior to that, Limsky received his B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Emory University and earned his M.A. in literature at American University in connection with a Masters Scholar Award fellowship.

Limsky came to SFBW at the apex of a storied career in journalism and publishing that includes six previous lead editorial roles, including for some of the world’s best-known brands. He served as global editor-in-chief of Lexus magazine, founding editor-in-chief of custom lifestyle magazines for Cadillac and Holland America Line, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Modern Luxury Interiors South Florida. He also was the executive editor for B2B magazines for Acura and Honda Financial Services, and he served as travel editor for Conde Nast. Magazines under Limsky’s editorship have garnered more than 75 industry awards.

He has also written for many of the country’s top newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, USA Today, Worth, Robb Report, Afar, Time Out New York, National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Journal, Ritz-Carlton, Elite Traveler, Florida Design, Metropolis and Architectural Digest Mexico. His other clients have included Four Seasons, Acqualina Resort & Residences, Yahoo!, American Airlines, Wynn, Douglas Elliman and Corcoran. As an adjunct assistant professor, Limsky has taught journalism, film and creative writing at the City University of New York, Pace University, American University and other colleges.