SFBW Staff, Author at S. Florida Business & Wealth

Virgin Trains USA starts work on tracks to Orlando

Hospitality May 21, 2019 |

Virgin Trains USA, formerly Brightline, has started a $4 billion construction project on the tracks between West Palm Beach and Orlando International Airport. Virgin Trains said the first load of

Prominent marketers form new agency

Briefcase May 20, 2019 |

Luke Freeman, CEO of Wizard Creations and Seth Rand, the former CEO of Rand Marketing, have launched Wizard Digital, a full-service digital marketing agency. Offerings will include website design, e-commerce

Up the River

Publisher's Letter May 20, 2019 |

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Developer Lissette Calderon plans flurry of projects

Editor's Choice May 20, 2019 |

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About those immigrants flooding into South Florida? Nevermind

Columnists May 16, 2019 |

Whether it was a trial balloon that popped or an administration that wasn’t coordinated, the latest word is there won’t be 500 immigrants a month arriving in South Florida. “@realDonaldTrump

Columnists May 15, 2019 |

Net operating income at Trump National in Doral fell 69 percent over two years ending in 2017, according to a Washington Post article. The article indicates that some consumers may

Not landing Amazon’s HQ2 wasn’t so bad after all

Real Estate May 15, 2019 |

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Michael Finney, president and CEO of the Miami-Dade Beacon Council, moderated a discussion about Amazon’s HQ2 with Nitin Motwani, managing principal of Miami Worldcenter, and Jeffrey A. Finkle, president and CEO of the International Economic Development Council (Photos courtesy of Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce)

Dear Rolling Loud Festival—please don’t come back

Columnists May 14, 2019 |

At what point is enough, enough? The headline in the Miami Herald said it all, “Deaths, shootings and arrests in Miami-Dade during Rolling Loud weekend” “Three shootings, one common thread,”

Columnists May 13, 2019 |

Moving into hip downtowns is supposedly one of the biggest trends mentioned nationally for office space, but it also comes with some blowback. The biggest ones I hear are cost

Major tool company relocates to Fort Lauderdale

Columnists May 8, 2019 |

The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance at its mid-year meeting announced specifics on some of the 1,038 new jobs the economic development partnership has helped foster during the first half of

Briefcase Miami/Dade

Briefcase May 7, 2019 |

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Wynwood 25 opening Kobi Karp’s latest project, Wynwood 25, is slated for occupancy in May. The 400,000-square-foot mixed-use development is the first big residential project completed in the neighborhood and has 289 rental apartments, 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and 340 parking spaces. Prices for the studios start as $1,400, with three-bedroom prices starting at $4,000.

Buena Vista, Indeed

Great Places and Spaces May 7, 2019 |

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