It might be too late to book a room in Downtown Miami for the much anticipated Super Bowl LIV, but it is never too late to enjoy a luxurious stay […]

South Florida is used to being a winter escape for Northeasterners searching for sunshine. But now, they’re bringing their businesses with them. Click here to read the entire article on […]

Inside the trends and investments shaping an international business and leisure destination. Click here to read the entire article from American Way.

The “the season” has arrived, when the art world and those seeking sun and fun converge in Miami. Art Basel Miami Beach, from December 5-8, and its concurrent exhibits and […]

A recent influx of very wealthy, high-profile Northerners to South Florida has been a boon to Florida law firms and their attorneys as the new arrivals bring businesses and complicated […]

The Trump administration’s tax law provided the catalyst for more of the very rich to transfer their permanent residence from high-tax states like New York to states known for their […]

To protect commercial properties along the waterfront in downtown Miami and by the Miami River, city officials and the real estate industry should implement natural lines of defenses, consider using […]

John Elizabeth Aleman has been named incoming executive director of Miami’s Downtown Development Authority when Alyce Robertson, the current executive director, leaves at year’s end. Click here to read the […]

The Miami Downtown Development Authority has concluded its search for its next director. Miami Beach City Commissioner John Elizabeth Aléman was chosen at the Nov. 15 meeting as the DDA’s […]

Miami Beach Commissioner John Elizabeth Alemán wants to trade her elected office for the top administrative position at one of the city of Miami’s largest tax-funded agencies. Click here to […]

Directors of Miami’s Downtown Development Authority voted unanimously to allocate $643,371 to install LED lighting in portions of Bayfront and Maurice A. Ferre parks, but $600,000 of that money will […]

Miami’s Brickell neighborhood was once a place where local lawyers and bankers congregated in office buildings by day, before heading to buzzier locales in the evenings. Click here to read […]

Homeless people living on the streets and sidewalks of downtown Miami are also relieving themselves on the streets and sidewalks of downtown Miami, turning the city’s core into an outdoor […]

Editor’s Note: This is one in a series of articles on iconic thoroughfares across the tri-county area that are undergoing significant changes. Our Strolling the Strip stories aim to give […]

Si usted camina por las calles del downtown de Miami verá algunos negocios cerrados y un reducido número de turistas. Los fines de semana, parece un pueblo fantasma. Pero este […]

What a difference a decade makes. Downtown Miami is not the same place it was 10 years ago when South Florida last hosted the Super Bowl, the country’s biggest stage […]

Miami’s Downtown Development Authority welcomed three new board members last week. They replace Alvin West and Jerome Hollo, who are leaving because of term limits, and Kim Stone, who resigned […]

Carl Icahn is moving his financial empire to an unassuming office building that’s just five miles from his Miami mansion — and more than 1,000 miles from where the rest […]

Wall Street tycoon Carl Icahn is moving his business to South Florida, multiple outlets have reported. Click here to read the entire article from The Miami Herald.

Billionaire Carl Icahn reportedly will move his New York hedge fund to South Florida next year, the latest Big Apple resident to flee the region for the Sunshine State. Click […]

Miami’s bustling Edgewater and Midtown neighborhoods have come a long way – one a formerly blighted community, the other a dusty rail yard. The communities’ revitalization over the pas 15 […]

One of the best parts about where we live is the ease of access to every part of the state. Yes, Brevard’s beaches are beautiful, however, as Florida has so […]

South Florida hotel occupancy rates fell slightly in the first half of the year as the supply of rooms increased faster than bookings, recently released data shows. Click here to […]

Nitin Motwani, managing principal of Miami Worldcenter, Downtown Development Authority board member, and board chair of the University of Miami’s real estate program, has a lot on his plate. The […]

Politicians and tourism boosters tout Super Bowls as major moneymakers for South Florida’s economy. Plus, they point out, the NFL has committed to building playing fields and improving other public […]

Nitin Motwani, managing principal of Miami Worldcenter, Downtown Development Authority board member, and board chair of the University of Miami’s real estate program, has a lot on his plate. The […]

Miami is becoming a new financial services hub, but how easy or difficult is it for transplants from New York, Chicago and even California to adapt once they’ve moved here? […]

Editor’s note: Michael Rodriguez is the leader of market research and insights at CBRE Mid-Atlantic and visiting research director at Smart Growth America. This June, he participated in a ULI […]

Hyped beaches, active nightlife diverse gastronomy, shopping malls, and outler stores. With so many fun options, Miami attracts people from all over the world and has become one of the […]

Forget Wall Street Opens a New Window. , financial firms are seeking warmer weather – and lower taxes Opens a New Window. – in Florida. Hedge funds, private equity firms […]

It’s not often to describe a market nowadays as “under-retailed,” but that seems to be the case in South Florida. That would explain why Miami’s retail market posted the lowest […]

It’s not often to describe a market nowadays as “under-retailed,” but that seems to be the case in South Florida. That would explain why Miami’s retail market posted the lowest […]

Muchos comerciantes del Downtonwn de Miami están de acuerdo que es hora que una calle Flagler nueva se haga realidad como parte de una nueva visión para el centro de […]

Miami commissioners have approved $23 million in funding to relaunch the beautification of Flagler Street in the city’s Central Business District. The money will be used to widen sidewalks with […]

Kendall and North Miami surge as some of the best neighborhoods for home buyers. Brickell is among the hottest areas in town — as well as the most overvalued. And […]

As Miami continues to try to build a thriving, tech-driven startup ecosystem, a common complaint has been a lack of venture funding. Click here to read the entire article from […]

The long-delayed downtown Flagler Street project can finally move forward after the city approved $22.5 million in funding on Thursday. The approval was the last step needed before the project, […]

As Miami continues to try to build a thriving, tech-driven startup ecosystem, a common complaint has been a lack of venture funding. Click here to read the entire article from […]

The long discussed, once begun but never finished makeover of Flagler Street in downtown Miami will get going again after city commissioners unanimously approved the plan for a $24.4 million […]

An out-of-state development agency is lobbying Illinois businesses to move to the Miami area, using Illinois’ proposed progressive income tax structure as a conversation piece. Christina Crespi with the Miami […]

Give credit where it’s due to Miami’s Downtown Development Authority for consistent, successful focus on enticing niche financial operations to Miami, adding high-income jobs, ultra-high-income residents, and large-scale economic clout. […]

As Florida cities compete for companies looking to relocate to the Sunshine State, Miami is dominating the field. Click here to read the entire article from Florida Daily.

Los rostros de entusiasmo de los pasajeros del nuevo vuelo directo de Córdoba a Miami de American Airlines lo dicen todo. En poco más de ocho horas continuadas y sin […]

Recruiting missions by Miami’s Downtown Development Authority to lure financial services firms from the Northeast have been so successful that Chicago has been added to the itinerary, says Christina Crespi, […]

To city dwellers used to the chaos and grime of New York’s Penn Station or Amtrak’s functional-but-modest stations across the country, stepping into Virgin MiamiCentral, the hub of south Florida’s […]

For Chicago businesses leaders tired of the city’s dreary weather and/or worried about new Illinois taxes, Miami is calling. Click here to read the entire article form Crain’s Chicago.

UPDATED, June 8, 12:50 p.m.: To cope with rising seas, Miami may have to update zoning and building codes, increase seawall heights, re-write the city’s master plan for downtown with […]

Miami condominium developers are starting to get antsy about slowing demand, if their marketing email blasts are any indication. Click here to read the entire article from CoStar.

Miami-Dade is the most expensive metro in the U.S. for renters and one of the costliest for home buyers. This series explains why that’s so and what it means for […]

Once the preserve of office blocks, Brickell is now somewhere for high-earners to call home. Some 5,000 high-end condominiums have been built in the area since 2012, with around 5,500 […]

Miami’s residential market is going strong. The average sale price of existing condos in the greater downtown area climbed 2.7 percent year-over-year in 2018, from $405 to $416 per square […]

Italian-born developer Ugo Colombo is the man behind Miami’s tallest condo tower, Brickell Flatiron. The 736-foot-high tower is also the tallest condominium south of New York City. Click here to […]

Here’s one possible solution to Miami-Dade’s mounting housing-affordability and gentrification crisis: Fix up the places where low-income people already live and keep the rent down so no one’s pushed out. […]

Condo resale prices in downtown Miami climbed in the 2018, marking it the first increase since 2015, according to a residential market study by the Miami Downtown Development Authority and […]

Philippe Houdard, the co-founder of Pipeline WorkSpaces, talks about his company, the city’s transformation, and what makes Miami the ideal place for business. Click here to read the entire article […]

From Miami Beach to downtown, north to Sunny Isles and west to the suburbs, development and renewal in Miami-Dade County is measured in the billions of dollars. But it had […]

After an afternoon exploring Coconut Grove, I’m getting my head around the local yappy hour: a canine happyhour, when pets can upgrade their chicken and rice bowls with a Cuban […]

A new federal incentive program designed to help low-income neighborhoods is adding fuel to Miami’s real-estate boom. Click here to read the entire article from the Wall Street Journal.

Despite the end of our latest condo boom, Mami’s powerful magnet keeps luring investment of all sorts. Click here to read the entire article from the Miami Today.

The Biscayne Green project sponsored by Miami’s Downtown Development Authority, may get a nudge this week if, as hoped, the City of Miami receives a letter of concurrency from the […]

Once an empty wasteland few Miamians would dare visit at night, downtown Miami is quickly becoming a nightlife destination full of hip cocktail bars and sleek restaurants—and not just for […]

When Raphael Franzini moved to a Brickell apartment two years ago, he quickly realized that his commute over the Miami River was the most agonizing segment of his day. When […]

A familiar form of travel has returned to Miami’s streets and sidewalks after an extended time out. Click here to read the entire article from Miami Herald.

A Miami pilot program is set to be announced and it has to do with motorized, electric scooters. Click here to read the entire article from 4 CBS Miami.

Funded by investment giant Fortress, Brightline—soon to be rebranded Virgin Trains USA—is offering a new means of transportation in one of the most congested regions of the U.S. Is America […]

FHA tightening its standards on first-time home buyers, reports the Wall Street Journal. Forbes looks at how digital technology is affecting the commercial real estate industry. These are among today’s […]

The entrepreneur and his top lieutenants say they’re ready to move on plans to establish a “creative community” centered around art and tech and revive a tired stretch of Flagler […]

A report from the Miami Downtown Development Authority projects that based on proposals and plans for upcoming hotel developments in downtown Miami, the area could see as many as 12,000 […]

A New York City recruiting trip last week by the Beacon Council, the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau and Miami’s Downtown Development Authority was so successful that one new […]

The long-delayed redevelopment of Flagler Street between the Dade County Courthouse and Biscayne Boulevard appears to be a waiting game again, but its one that stakeholders say will result in […]

There’s an apparent cease-fire in the battle between Miami’s Downtown Development Authority and the US Coast Guard and the Florida Department of Transportation to enforce (and possibly expand) lock-down times […]

Representatives of Miami’s Downtown Development Authority, the Beacon Council, and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau were scheduled to venture to the frozen Northeast (temperatures predicted in the 20s […]

Viacom International Media Network (VIMN) Americas made downtown Miami its new home. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Executive Director Alyce Robertson, VIMN Americas president Pierluigi Gazzolo […]

Move over, South Beach. Miami’s downtown core is one of the fastest-growing destinations in the country. Florida’a population is growing at a rate of 900 people per day, second in […]

The office market in the central business district and Brickell is solid, observes say, and not likely to be blown off course anytime soon. To read the entire article from […]

When Nicole Martinez and her husband started looking to buy a home a few years ago, the couple began the search in their Miami Beach neighborhood. “We really wanted to […]

(Corrected Feb. 8 to show the final sales price for the parcel in the second paragraph was $29.6 million, and not $21.9 million as originally reported in public records.) In […]

Directors of Miami’s Downtown Development Authority voted Friday to commit $50,000 to the development of the open space under I-395 as the underdeck, a linear park that is meant to […]

Miami’s pursuit of Amazon thurst our region’s technology sector to the forefront, but new data from the Miami Downtown Development Authority indicate that tech companies have been eyeing our urban […]

In areas like Brickell and the city’s central business district, a flood of gleaming new skyscrapers have helped attract more residents to Miami’s urban core. A report from the Miami […]

Miami Worldcenter, a skyline-altering development in downtown Miami, has achieved the first of five milestones planned this year with the completion of a new 43-story apartment tower. To read the […]

Perhaps it is not surprising the area’s office market is changing but it may be news to some that downtown’s population now of 250,000 has helped it evolve from a […]