Disciplinary paddles and a “Wall of Shame” might sound straight out of hazing rituals in a frat house basement. But according to one former employee of North Miami-based Kent Security, a manager in the company used both — along with other humiliating intimidation tactics — against guards working at a…
It’s official. South Beach’s historic Raleigh Hotel is about to get even swankier. None other than Macy’s fashion section maven Tommy Hillfiger bought the place up back in April, 2014 with plans to convert the hotel into a private club/hotel hybrid, and yesterday Hilfiger and his business partners won approval…
Limos. A rock band. Crab claws. Strippers. The night had all the ingredients for an epic bro-down.
Big changes could be coming to Lincoln Road, with the firm behind New York’s High Line cooking up plans to transform South Beach’s iconic but aging pedestrian mall. Those plans, combined with a vote at the city commission later this week on whether to let property owners form a business…
Start to feel nervous around the first of the month when the landlord comes to collect the rent check? You’re probably far from alone in Miami-Dade. It’s no secret that rents have started to skyrocket recently (and they weren’t exactly cheap before), but things have gotten so bad that Miami-Dade…
Janet Yarbrough-Moody says she isn’t chasing a lawsuit. But she does have a whopper of a story about Burger King involving an ice-cream sundae and a metal screw — and she’s furious that the Miami-based corporation isn’t taking the allegations seriously. “It’s like they don’t even care,” she says. “I…
If you work for a small or mid-sized business in Florida, well, you’re boss probably has a good outlook on business right now. Just be thankful that you have a job, because according to a new PNC survey, those business owners aren’t particularly looking to hire anyone new in the…
That room above that’s forgone traditional paint and wallpaper for LED lighting? It’s not the set for the next Daft Punk video. It’s the foyer (dubbed the “Digital Cave”) to one of the penthouses at the Bentley Bay South tower in South Beach. If you have $18.9 million lying around…
Lil Wayne is putting his Miami Beach mansion on the market. The move comes just weeks after the home was the center of a media frenzy spurred by what turned out to be a fake 911 call claiming people had been shot in the home. Turns out it was a…
In the 1950s, the only way for Beatrice Miller to get home from her after-school job picking peppers at her father’s farm was to cut through the cemetery — when it was getting dark. For the teenage girl, few things were more frightening. “I ran so fast my feet never…
When you think Florida you think retirees. Just about everyone has a grandparent or at least a great aunt living down here. We were the setting of the Golden Girls after all, and somehow the average age in Florida just keep getting older. So we may be a popular place…
Since December, Manhattanites and Manhattanites alone have been able to enjoy a one-hour delivery service from online retail giants Amazon. Now, Miami (along with Baltimore) will be the second city to get to try the service. Amazon Prime Now delivery has been launched in select Miami zip codes effective immediately. …
The vast income inequality in Miami is no secret. Barring traffic, you can be driving around and surrounded by mansions with well manicured, fenced in lawns one moment and then surrounded by slums ten minutes later. Homeless people sleep on sidewalks blocks from glittering luxury condo towers designed by some…
Miami’s condo boom may be slightly slowing down, but the real estate rush to snap up any remaining primo property is still in full swing. The owners of a building in the Design District have basically won the real estate lottery. Hardor Corp. bought up a building at 1 NE…
Colin Veitch spent 8 years as president and CEO of Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Lines. However, after stepping down in 2008, he had no intention of leaving the cruise industry behind. He hatched an ambitious plan to launch a new cruise line. Of course, launching a cruise line is no easy…
It was another night in paradise. Or so it seemed to the thousands of souls streaming up and down Española Way like spawning salmon on April 24, 2013. South Beach’s busiest block teemed with techno music and tourists. Hostesses in skimpy skirts flashed flirtatious smiles beneath glowing streetlights. Waiters with…
It’s a common complaint that Miami puts too many of its economic eggs in the baskets of tourism and development, but according to at least one recent study Miami actually has one of the most “diversified” economies in the country. WalletHub ranked Miami 18th out of 350 American cities considered…
For more than six decades, Mount Sinai Medical Center has been Miami Beach’s premier hospital. But now Baptist Health South Florida, another huge regional medical chain, wants to open a much smaller, urgent-care center in South Beach. Mount Sinai — along with the city’s planning board and chamber of commerce…
Opposition to the American Dreams Miami megamall is mounting fast. First ambitious school board member Raquel Regalado declared that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s support of the project has caused her to finally make the decision to run against him next year. Now a group of citizens are circulating a Change.org…
Announced yesterday as the largest mall in America, American Dreams Miami is being dubbed by developer Triple Five Group as the “largest entertainment attraction in the world.” Yes, the mall will end up being much more than a mall. See also: America’s Largest Mall Might Be Built in Miami Lakes…
Apparently Miami has not reached peak shopping mall. Not by a long shot. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced today that developers are planning to build the largest mall in America (possibly even the world) near the intersection of the Florida Turnpike and I-75 in Miami Lakes. The project is…
Real-estate booms don’t last forever, as anyone even passingly familiar with Miami’s history should know, and it appears the most recent downtown condo boom might have hit its peak. A new report from the Downtown Development Authority (DDA), which focuses on Miami’s urban core from Brickell up to midtown, indicates…
