Retail rebound

 You don’t have to look much further than the local street corner to realize retail is back in South Florida.  New retail developments have begun to spring up like lilacs after a long, cold winter.  Across the region, there is more than 2.2 million square feet of new retail space under construction.   And based

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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.  This real estate go-around, any genre of multifamily, big-box industrial or infill retail, catering to the Trader Joe’s or Chipotle crowd, are development darlings. And

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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 to have the right address, the right atmosphere, and it had to be ready right away. “We have high-net worth investors from Brazil and we

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