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09/08/2026

A Miami court just reopened a question most people assumed was settled: where does a landmark's protection actually end? ⛪🏗️

First Presbyterian Church of Miami at 609 Brickell has been city-designated historic since 2003. In 2024, the Historic and Environmental Preservation Board narrowed that protection to the 1949 sanctuary alone — leaving the educational annex, the parking area and the rear of the property outside the boundary.

Next door, 619 Brickell by Nobu is approved at 75 stories and roughly 296 residences, designed by Foster + Partners with Sieger Suarez for 13th Floor Investments and Key International.

Neighboring condo owners challenged the boundary change. Their 2025 appeal was denied on standing — but on Aug. 14 a court ordered the board to hold the hearing again and re-vote. The tower's other approvals aren't affected.

From a public affairs perspective, this is the part of preservation policy that decides outcomes: not whether a building is designated, but exactly how far the line is drawn around it — and who has standing to contest it.

Worth saving if you follow Brickell development.

Photos: Phillip Pessar (CC BY 2.0). Source: Florida YIMBY.

112 apartments are breaking ground in Miami's Health District — and this one's actually happening. 🏗️DFRE is developing ...
09/06/2026

112 apartments are breaking ground in Miami's Health District — and this one's actually happening. 🏗️

DFRE is developing the project under Florida's Live Local Act, the 2023 law that trades density bonuses for workforce-priced housing. Plenty of developers have filed applications under the law since it passed. DFRE is one of the smaller group actually turning dirt.

From a public affairs perspective, that's the story worth watching — not who filed for Live Local Act benefits, but who delivers under them. That gap between policy and ex*****on is where projects like this either prove the law works, or stall out in headlines.

Source: The Real Deal

Wynwood just got its first project from a developer that's never built in the U.S. before. 🇪🇨🇺🇸Uribe Schwarzkopf, based ...
09/05/2026

Wynwood just got its first project from a developer that's never built in the U.S. before. 🇪🇨🇺🇸

Uribe Schwarzkopf, based in Quito, Ecuador, is launching sales on WOMA Wynwood — a 163-unit residential building designed by Dutch architecture firm MVRDV with local ex*****on by Kobi Karp. It's the firm's first project outside Ecuador.

Stories like this are why Miami keeps showing up on the list every time a Latin American company looks north. The city isn't just a market to sell into anymore — it's where the first project happens.

Source: The Real Deal

09/03/2026

Miami-Dade is trying to sell a 100-year-old landmark. So far, nobody's bidding. 🏛️

The historic Dade County Courthouse at 73 W. Flagler opened in 1928 as the tallest building in South Florida — 361 feet of Neoclassical stone under that stepped ziggurat crown. It's been a local historic landmark since 1985 and on the National Register since 1989.

Now it's on the block at a $35.41 million minimum. The auction has drawn roughly 50,000 views online and zero bids — the county just extended the deadline again, to Sept. 18.

The obstacle isn't interest. It's what comes with the building: preservation requirements, and the hard work of finding a reuse that actually pencils. One construction executive has floated a boutique hotel with restaurants and a penthouse, arguing the floor plates line up well with modern hotel layouts.

From a public affairs perspective, this is the version of adaptive reuse nobody talks about — where the landmark is the easy part and the deal structure is the whole problem.

What would you do with it?

Photos: Phillip Pessar (CC BY 2.0). Sources: Miami Today, The Real Deal.

Eighteen acres of city-owned land in Allapattah. Still waiting. 🏗️Miami's long-planned redevelopment of the GSA site rem...
09/02/2026

Eighteen acres of city-owned land in Allapattah. Still waiting. 🏗️

Miami's long-planned redevelopment of the GSA site remains in limbo months after officials said the request for proposals was ready to move forward — even as the city has been easing its development rules elsewhere.

From a public affairs perspective, this is the least glamorous and most decisive stage of any public land deal: the stretch between "we're ready to issue the RFP" and the RFP actually hitting the street. Sites don't stall because nobody wants them. They stall in procurement.

Eighteen acres, publicly owned, in a neighborhood absorbing more growth every quarter. Worth watching where this one lands.

Source: Miami Today

08/29/2026

Only in Miami. 🏓

Oleta Partners — a joint venture between LeFrak and Turnberry — has unveiled a floating pickleball court on SoLé Mia's Crystal Lagoon in North Miami, the first installation of its kind at a residential property.

A reminder that great placemaking is often the small, unexpected touch.



Music: "Deliberate Thought" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Only in Miami. 🏓Oleta Partners — a joint venture between LeFrak and Turnberry — has unveiled a floating pickleball court...
08/29/2026

Only in Miami. 🏓

Oleta Partners — a joint venture between LeFrak and Turnberry — has unveiled a floating pickleball court on SoLé Mia's Crystal Lagoon in North Miami, the first installation of its kind at a residential property.

A reminder that great placemaking is often the small, unexpected touch.

30 hours. 7,000+ cubic yards. One pour. 🏗️Edge House Miami has begun vertical construction in Edgewater after a continuo...
08/28/2026

30 hours. 7,000+ cubic yards. One pour. 🏗️

Edge House Miami has begun vertical construction in Edgewater after a continuous 30-hour foundation pour — a parade of concrete trucks delivering more than 7,000 cubic yards to the site without a break.

Miami's skyline keeps rising, one milestone at a time.

Big wins rarely come from one voice. 🤝Coalition building is one of the six pillars of what we do at H.E.H. Consulting: i...
08/26/2026

Big wins rarely come from one voice. 🤝

Coalition building is one of the six pillars of what we do at H.E.H. Consulting: identifying allies, aligning shared interests, and sustaining the kind of unified support that moves projects through Miami's public process.

The strongest advocacy isn't one firm speaking loudly — it's the right stakeholders speaking together.

Higher ed meets real estate. 🎓St. Thomas University has issued a request for qualifications for a partner to develop its...
08/25/2026

Higher ed meets real estate. 🎓

St. Thomas University has issued a request for qualifications for a partner to develop its Miami Gardens campus real estate — and potential partners are already lining up, with September 11 set as the deadline to respond.

Worth watching: how the university balances campus mission with the value of the land it sits on.

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