A battle is brewing for the soul of Miami’s most iconic neighborhood. Little Havana, the spiritual home of the Cuban diaspora that populated the area in droves following the 1959 revolution, is still mostly a blue-collar immigrant neighborhood. But proposed zoning changes for taller condos and more commercial development have…
Lincoln Road is basically a suburban mall in the middle of South Beach, and every suburban mall has that wing full of odd, sort of depressing stores. So it only makes sense that Ross Dress for Less is moving on to the strip…
Miami has overtaken New York City in a statistic it has long nationally dominated: the percentage of residents who rent their homes. According to a new report from New York University’s Furman Center and Capital One Financial Corp, 65 percent of Miamians rented in 2013, slightly ahead of the 64…
Well, here’s your local political story of the year with implications that could reverberate through Miami’s skyline and local government for years to come. Raquel Regalado, a school board member with much grander political ambitions, has teamed up with billionaire and expert political agitator Norman Braman to sue the City…
Miami’s latest condo boom is not meant for those who simply need a roof over their head. No, most of these skyscrapers are aimed firmly at the world’s 1 percent. Twenty-four-hour access to a basic fitness center and a decent pool just don’t do it for these folks when it…
Last weekend, construction equipment on an Overtown construction site was set on fire. It was a likely arson. The blaze provided a highly visible symbol of long-festering discontent in the historically black neighborhood. But residents themselves have been blighted by a much less apparent injustice: As the CRA and other…
Do you think you have the worst boss in the world? More than likely, that’s probably a bit of an exaggeration — unless you worked for Wilda Rodriguez, Victor Cabrera, and Teresa Ramirez. The three were managers at the former Airbus Alliance LLC and were recently ranked 64th on eBossWatch’s…
Miami may have tons of Cuban influence, but sometimes we forget that the closest foreign country to our shores is the Bahamas. Bimini is just a little more than 52 miles off the coast of downtown Miami (that’s closer than West Palm Beach), and a developer claims you’ll actually be…
The list of architects who worked on North Beach’s Biltmore Terrace Hotel reads like a dean’s list of Miami greats: Albert Anis, Melvin Grossman — and the biggest name of all, Morris Lapidus, the man behind the Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc. The rectangular beachfront space at 87th Street and…
Last month, the Miami Herald published a column titled “Downtown Miami a Magnet for Millennials.” That’s also a myth that the Downtown Development Authority and other city leaders like to push from time to time as well. Of course, we all know this is a stretch of the truth at…
Are you a happy happy worker? You should be, according to CareerBliss.com. The site calculated a lot of data and decided that Miami is the happiest city to work in the entire United States according to Forbes. Of special note to a Mr. LeBron James: Cleveland, Ohio came in dead…
Dear person reading this on either their WiFi-connected laptop or smart phone after having been directed here likely either by Facebook or Twitter: tech, alongside science, math, and engineering, is one of the fastest growing industries in the world right now. Sadly, Miami is doing a horrible job or attracting…
The relationship between Donald Trump and the City of Doral has more drama than an episode of Celebrity Apprentice. Mayor Luigi Boria originally planned to give Trump a key to the city yesterday before changing his mind within hours, claiming, “Trump doesn’t deserve my key.”…
Developers are busy dreaming up ways to fill downtown Miami with even more mega-skyscrapers. Airplanes taking off and landing at Miami International Airport regularly fly above downtown. It’s someone’s job to make sure skyscrapers and airplanes don’t become tragic problems for each other, and that someone is the Federal Aviation…
These days, Alex Rodriguez must spend more time in courtrooms and lawyer’s offices than he does on the field. The suspended slugger is now facing a civil lawsuit accusing him of screwing his former brother-in-law out of profits from real estate dealings in Miami’s Edgewater and Morningside neighborhoods. Back in…
The University of Miami is the original Nike school. Twenty-seven years ago, the university and the sporting brand signed a partnership that meant Nike would sponsor all of the school’s teams. That kind of arrangement is de facto now, but back in 1987, it was the first of its kind…
Update: Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine announced Atlantic Broadband will issue service credit. See bottom for more. New Year’s is a big day for cable and internet — you know, football games, holiday Facebook photos, Google searches on hangover cures. But thousands of Atlantic Broadband customers in Miami Beach were…
Hope your New Year’s Resolution isn’t to buy a new house, because residential property prices have surged higher here in Miami than in any other major market in the country according to the latest data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. Between October 2013 and October 2014, average prices here…
It’s almost 2015, which means minimum wage workers are getting a raise. Thanks to a state amendment passed by voters in 2004 that ties the minimum wage to inflation, starting on January 1 the minimum wage in Florida will now be $8.05 an hour…
The family also bought up the Versace Mansion for $41.5 million.
Everyone knows that Miami’s condo boom is being fueled by South American buyers, but many of the American citizens snapping up properties here tend to be New Yorkers. Well, the New York Times, whose coverage of Miami tends to be notoriously tone deaf when read by actual Miamians, is here…
Rick Scott was ostensibly reelected this year based on Florida’s economic recovery, but a new report from the Center for American Progress reminds us that that “recovery” has left many in Florida behind. That state lags behind in many poverty indicators, and Scott’s own decision not to expand Medicaid in…
