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    January 20, 2012

    Grand Central Park Opens Today, But Is It A Waste Of Taxpayers' $200,000?

    ​When Tiffany Dallas, a master's student at Florida International University, started researching her thesis on redeveloping Overtown, she was fascinated by Grand Central owner Brad Knoefler's plan to turn a blighted patch of land opposite his club -- once the home of the Miami Arena -- into a tem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    "Weed Bombing" Transforms Downtown's Urban Blight into Psychedelic Bling

    ​​If you've been out drinking downtown lately and stumbled upon a street corner bursting with neon-colored weeds, don't worry: It's not an acid trip gone wrong.It's weed bombing."We're tired of living in a big dump overrun with weeds and trash," says chief bombadier Brad Knoefler, owner of downt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Marc Sarnoff's Campaign Can't Get Addresses Straight

    Last Thursday, we reported on the odd coincidence that a marketing consultant working on Marc Sarnoff's re-election campaign shared the same business address as the private law practice of the Miami city commissioner.Our post prompted Sarnoff's wife Theresa to submit an amendment to his most recent ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2011

    Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff gets new digs

    Last Thursday, we reported on the odd coincidence that a marketing consultant working on Marc Sarnoff's re-election campaign shared the same business address as the private law practice of the Miami city commissioner.Our post prompted Sarnoff's wife Theresa to submit an amendment to his most recent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Marc Sarnoff Has New Office Digs

    ​Miami city Commissioner Marc Sarnoff is starting the new year with new office digs. As reported here previously, the Coconut Grove politician had been operating his law firm out of the townhouse he owns at 3000 Shipping Ave. until his enemies reported him to city code enforcers for allegedly runn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Miami Officials Ignore DDA Member's Illegal Parking Lots

    Brad KnoeflerNitin Motwani runs illegal parking lots and the city of Miami lets him.​Nitin Motwani is one of those multi-millionaire Miami guys you may have never heard of, but he has the kind of suction at Miami city hall that allows him to do whatever he wants. As principal of the Falcone Group, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2008

    New DDA Chief

    Brad KnoeflerNitin Motwani runs illegal parking lots and the city of Miami lets him.​Nitin Motwani is one of those multi-millionaire Miami guys you may have never heard of, but he has the kind of suction at Miami city hall that allows him to do whatever he wants. As principal of the Falcone Group, ... More >>

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    Mission Man

    Miami's Downtown commissioner is still fighting, and still hopeful of big change

  • News

    February 10, 2000

    Screwing up the Center

    Years behind schedule and way over budget, the performing arts center is another Miami miracle

  • News

    July 30, 1998

    Brickell Keyed Up

    The bridge is often up in Miami's poshest and fastest-growing neighborhood

  • News

    March 19, 1998

    Mrs. Brickell's Neighborhood

    In the shadows of the skyscrapers lies a quaint little slice of Miami's past known as Southside. Soon it will be wiped from the face of the earth.

  • News

    February 5, 1998

    Taking a Name for Herself

    Antonia Gerstaker didn't get paid for her paintings on behalf of Brickell Village, but what she did get may be far more valuable

  • News

    December 5, 1996

    55 SW Miami Avenue Road

    A tale of Seminoles in canoes, little plastic men with parachutes, Connie Chung, a twenty-foot-tall high-heel shoe -- and Big Fish

  • News

    August 31, 1995

    So Long, Mila!

    Miami is going to miss you. Your vision for the city. Your political savvy. Your cosmopolitan sophistication. Your utter gall.

  • News

    June 9, 1993

    Program Notes

    Miami is going to miss you. Your vision for the city. Your political savvy. Your cosmopolitan sophistication. Your utter gall.

  • News

    October 17, 1990

    Viva Flagler!

    It's downtown's swirling kaleidoscope of sights and sounds and smells. Where the Latin mercado meets the American enterprise. Where commerce thrives and clerks cut deals. So why would urban planners want to kill it?

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