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Billion Dollar Golden Glades Traffic Nightmare Construction Begins; Miami Condo Life is the Wild, Wild West

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A roundup of South Florida real estate and neighborhood news:

Featured image is a Miami scene from Aventura Mall. Bottom image is an historic photo of the original pool, which was built in 1953, via the Biscayne Times/Elvis Cruz.

Another Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect Announces First Miami Building; Inside the Dolce & Gabbana Tower Coming to Brickell

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Sean McCaughan
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A roundup of the latest real estate and neighborhoods news around South Florida:

Feature image is South-of-Fifth office building by Eduardo Souta de Moura. Second image is lobby of Dolce & Gabbana condo hotel.

A House In A Tiny Private Airport Community In The Florida Keys Lists For $2.25 Million

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Sean McCaughan
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Located on Mile Marker 90 of the Overseas Highway, on Plantation Key, this is in many ways a typical Florida Keys house. Solidly built with concrete block construction, but raised on pylons to protect it from hurricanes and god-knows-what. It is not, however, a typical Keys house, because it has direct access to a private, 2075-foot-long airstrip that slices through the middle of this tiny, private airport community. The grass airstrip does double duty as a luscious front lawn for the 33 homes of the TavernAero Airport Park. It’s a giant, fabulous lawn. The community also includes a private marina, with a boat ramp and deepwater dockage, along Tavernier Creek, giving you easy access to the Florida Bay or the Atlantic Ocean. Listed for $2.25 million, the three-bedroom, three-bath house comes on a half acre of land, with plenty of room to build a hanger.

Miami Beach’s Huge Convention Center Hotel Design Gets Tweaked; Creditors Are Going After Rudy Giuliani’s Palm Beach Place

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Sean McCaughan
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A roundabout of the latest South Florida real estate news:

Feature image is a rendering of the future Grand Hyatt Miami Beach

inDrive, a Major Global Competitor to Uber and Lyft, Has Launched in Miami

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Sean McCaughan
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The duopoly of Uber and Lyft may seem to dominate the rideshare world, and in the United States they pretty much do. But there’s a third competitor that actually has a pretty humungous presence in other parts of the world called inDrive that’s starting to make a presence stateside. inDrive, which launched in the United States, beginning in Miami, last summer, is a lot like Uber and Lyft, but also completely different. For one thing, the company is Russian, or at least used to be Russian. Founded in the permafrost of Siberia as, we kid you not, a ridesharing Facebook group among friends, the company had explosive growth, eventually pulling out of Russia completely at the beginning of the war with Ukraine.

inDrive has a massive presence in hundreds of cities around the world, and markets in Latin America and Asia. The business model is different as well. Riders and drivers bid with each other for rides, coming up with a price that both can agree upon. The Big Bubble tried out the app, as both a rider and a driver, and even though the company definitely seems like it has more of a conscience, with policies that are aimed more toward doing the right thing than making a buck, it was still quite rough around the edges, and definitely didn’t have the level of polish Americans expect. But hopefully, this will improve in time, as the company becomes a bigger presence in the country, and more people learn about it.

A Fun Roundup of New News & Older News About Miami Real Estate

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Sean McCaughan
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Feature photo is a Palm Beach park scene.

The Historic Burdine’s Flagship Store in Downtown Miami is Now a Ross

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Sean McCaughan
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Oh, how the mighty fall. The historic Downtown Miami Flagler Street flagship of our beloved former hometown department store, Burdines, was for years a Macy’s after the department store behemoth bought it. Now, it’s a Ross Dress for Less. The multilevel space, which is really quite large, and includes two buildings and a three-story footbridge was once a showplace for a thriving Flagler Street, but in late 2019, news broke that Ross had signed a lease. At some point the pandemic hit, and the Big Bubble is unsure if Ross had a chance to open in that time, or waited for the pandemic to abait and quietly opened later on, along a much quieter Flagler Street, which is more likely.

The street itself is undergoing yet another redo, with upgraded sidewalks and other features, but there’s Ross. Bada bing, bada boom. Check out a few pictures of the old Burdine’s store, with a gigantic Santa Clause Christmas sign spanning the entirety of the footbridge, below.

One Park Tower Breaks Ground at SoLe Mia; The History of the New River Tunnel

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Sean McCaughan
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And other news:

Feature image is rendering of One Park Tower by Turnberry at SoLe Mia

The Seaquarium Could Shutter for Animal Mistreatment; The World’s Biggest Cruise Ship Has Set Sail From Miami

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Sean McCaughan
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A South Florida real estate news roundup:

Feature image is entrance signage for the Miami Design District on the side of a building.

Miami Beach, Do You Like the New Terrorist-Proof Planters On Either End of Lincoln Road?

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Sean McCaughan
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Lincoln Road still hasn’t really gotten back to its old self since the halcyon before-Covid-times, when the Miami Beach pedestrian shopping street was eternally packed with people and retail rents were sky high. Sure, people complained that all of the independent and artsy places that made Lincoln Road great years and years ago were being replaced, but Lincoln Road was busier and more successful than ever. That was also when, in 2017, multiple vehicular attacks over in Europe spooked the city administration into installing temporary concrete wall-like barriers, intending them to be replaced by something a little prettier in the near future.

Well, that near future came and went, and so did the pandemic, and now, finally, seven years later, we have our “prettier” answer: big, unpainted concrete planters. They’re very brutalist chic, which does coordinate with the famous 1111 Parking Garage on the west end of Lincoln Road, but may be just a bit drab for the eastern side. Perhaps they’ll paint those hot pink or something. What do you think, Miami Beach?

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