The Big Squeeze

Uncertainty is the watchword for South Florida’s community banks as they grapple with the banking reform regulations resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act. Dodd-Frank already has more than 5,000 pages of

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Portal To The Future

Miami has joined the major league of cities with rail mass transit connections to their airports with the opening of the Metrorail station at MIA. Like the grand rail terminals

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The Final Frontier

The cows are still grazing in the fields near Hillsboro Boulevard and University Drive, but new homes in the distance show change is coming rapidly. Two of the nation’s largest

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Something’s off about new office space

The South Florida real estate market is again steaming ahead – perhaps to a frenzied destination – but new office projects still don’t seem to be attracting much development interest. 

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All Aboard

MIAMI STATION   Scope:   Station and transit-oriented developments will take up three million square feet on nine acres northwest of the Miami-Dade County Courthouse and two acres at Northwest

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Rebirth and transformation in our neighborhoods

Cranespotters.com founder Peter Zalewski is in the middle of a boat tour of the condo scene in the Miami area when he points to a couple of cranes and starts

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Slideshow: A spectacular 43-story view in Miami

It’s approaching cocktail hour on Friday afternoon in Miami, but I feel like I’m living an episode of Don Wildman’s “Off Limits” Cable TV show. I’m climbing inside the construction

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Wanna buy a $139 million home?

Le Palais Royal is being proclaimed the most expensive U.S. residential listing at $139 million. The more than 60,000-square-foot, French-inspired Beaux Arts mansion is along the Atlantic Ocean in Hillsboro

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It Pays to Be Hip

When investment and distressed asset veteran Bruno Duarte opened the U.S. office of Brazil-based real estate fund TRX, he needed an office that reflected the fund’s discerning investors.  It had

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FIGHTING THE ELEMENTS

The steel, fabric and glass ribbon is designed to create a cooler microclimate by scooping up breezes, providing a cover during rain showers and generating shade for walkways, shops, restaurants,

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Le Palais Royal

The more than 60,000-square-foot, French-inspired Beaux Arts mansion is along the Atlantic Ocean in Hillsboro Beach. The home’s name is similar to Domaine National Du Palais-Royal, a so-called village in

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Not So Scary

Sometimes bad stories end up with happy endings. A major political scandal arose when Tamarac’s Sabal Palm golf course was being converted to residential development land. Father-and-son developers Bruce and

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