Voters in the City of Miami on Tuesday approved Riverside Wharf, a $30 million project along the Miami River. MV Real Estate Holdings, led by Alex Mantecon and Guillermo Vadell, won approval to lease a quarter-acre of property at 236 and 298 S.W. North River Drive from the city. They plan to build a 58,000-square-foot…
Plans for an 800-room hotel adjacent to the Miami Beach Convention Center were scuttled Tuesday, after voters backed the proposal but not by the required margin. The hotel has been touted by tourism officials as key to completing the convention center’s multimillion-dollar renovations. But it required 60 percent support to pass and it only secured…
Plans for an 800-room hotel adjacent to the Miami Beach Convention Center were scuttled Tuesday, after voters backed the proposal but not by the required margin. The hotel has been touted by tourism officials as key to completing the convention center’s multimillion-dollar renovations. But it required 60 percent support to pass and it only secured…
Wynwood Walls (Credit: Dan Lundberg) Wynwood could get a $100,000 streetscape improvement program, more police presence and change the parameters of its overlay district, if the Wynwood Business Improvement District leaders get their way. The Wynwood BID‘s board laid out its goals, along with some funding requests for a procession of city and county officials…
NEW YORK — Not many people can say they’ve walked in one of the Panama Canal’s empty chambers. But when Sarah Biser was invited to Panama to tour a new set of locks, she saw firsthand what could be accomplished through the construction contracts she facilitates. Biser leads the construction and infrastructure group at McCarter…
Renderings of the Marriott Marquis Miami Worldcenter Hotel & Expo Center MDM Development Group is reportedly going back to the drawing board for its convention center hotel in downtown Miami. The $525 million project, officially named the Marriott Marquis Miami Worldcenter Hotel & Expo, was originally planned to house about 365,000 square feet of convention…
The Miami Dolphins got shutout by the state Legislature in Tallahassee in their request for a $90 million sales tax rebate. Billionaire Stephen Ross’ team had filed an application to receive state sales tax rebates of $3 million annual for 30 years because of its improvements to Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens. The team…
A developer has proposed building an 8-story office/retail build near the Village of Merrick Park in Coral Gables. The application by Century Laguna LLC will go before the city’s Development Review Committee on March 25. It would still require city commission approval after that. Located on the 27,608-square-foot site at 390 Bird Road and 4012…
An Amazon warehouse (Credit: Scott Lewis) Amazon has inked a lease for a new distribution center at the South Florida Logistics Center, marking its second in Miami-Dade County. Building plans for the facility (click to enlarge) County records show Amazon signed a lease with Flagler Global Logistics for an industrial warehouse at 3200 Northwest 67th Avenue…
IDI Gazeley has proposed plans for an industrial building in Pompano Beach. The application for the Pompano Business Center is set to go before the city’s Development Review Committee on March 16. The 143,563-square-foot industrial building would be on the 11.3-acre site on the northwest corner of West Copans Road and Blount Road. It’s just…