Patrick Fox, CEO of Consensus Strategies, a company specializing in specializes in strategic advocacy and survey research services for leading corporate and institutional clients, joins America’s Commercial Real Estate Show to discuss zoning and development trends all around the country for 2022. Discussion topics include strategies for building consensus within communities, how holding virtual meetings can […]
In this chart one can see that the T3 group of Miami 21 urban commercial zones, which includes T3-L, T3-R, and T3-O, is the most common zoning, followed by T6-8, then T5, and T4, whichT6-60 is the least common, followed by the most dense T6-80. If one looks at the same set of parcels, but […]
Florida Power and Light (FPL) recently reached out to me to inquire as to who I might know that could be interested in having FPL install a few electric vehicle (EV) fast charging stations at no cost. FPL will provide the EV chargers and cover the installation and maintenance. There also note that there would […]
Finding myself involved in multifamily development deals of late, I tasked myself with updating my general feel for area construction costs of such projects. What I discovered matched all such conversations of late and can be summed in a word; escalating. One conversation was with a principal of a substantial area general contractor. When I […]
Michelle Murdock, Chief Development Officer with Core Green Technologies, joins America’s Commercial Real Estate Show host Michael Bull to discuss HVAC technology that utilizes Needlepoint Bi-polar Ionization in order to make offices, restaurants, and other commercial proerty facilities safer and cleaner. She quotes some interesting results versus COVID that seem worthy of checking into.
This Wednesday, December 9th, at 6:30 PM the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTPW) will soon be hosting a virtual public meeting seeking input on the preliminary design of the second phase of The Underline, a 10-mile linear park and urban trail under construction that will transform the land below Miami’s Metrorail. […]
Downtown America is Becoming an Open Sewer as Dog Populations Multiply in Multifamily Towers As Americans have been moving back to the central business districts of its cities, a situation has been developing that has gone largely unnoticed except by those affected; downtown America is becoming an open sewer. In downtown areas it has become […]
In this Miami DDA Executive Committee meeting of May 15th, 2020, as one might imagine the talk is COVID-19 this and coronavirus that, and how it is expected effects on downtown Miami and the Miami DDA organization itself. The Executive Committee of the Miami DDA (Downtown Development Authority) guides the Miami DDA’s efforts to fulfill […]
In this COVID-19 social distancing policy compliant remote interview done by TRD’s Amir Korangy, Michael Shvo, CEO of SHVO, a real estate development company based in New York City with additional offices in London and Dubai, and highly active in Miami, discusses the implications of COVID-19 on commercial real estate and lifestyles overall. The core […]
Gopal Rajegowda, Senior Vice President of Real Estate Development with Related Companies, a New York based privately owned real estate firm with offices and major developments in Miami and other major cities including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Abu Dhabi, London, São Paulo, and Shanghai. appears in this episode of America’s Commercial […]
The current HUD Secretary Ben Carson shares thoughts about the future of housing and the role of the real estate industry, followed by questions and answers. He spends considerable time discussing Opportunity Zones, starting off by highlighting a visit at the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency district “where developers are building more than 250 rental housing […]
Headed by Ricky Trinidad, Miami based Metronomic bills itself as a progressive, innovative, and sustainable real estate developer with core values centered on social and economic improvement, community development, and local collaboration that exemplifies industry standards for quality design, planning, and construction. They note that “passenger drones have proven to be a new and safe […]
Amazon recently announced it will be splitting its second headquarters, commonly referred to as Amazon HQ2, between Queens, New York and Northern Virginia. However, the incentives given to the company have inspired a marked backlash due to a general feeling that the incentives were unfairly extracted from the winners. The gist of the complaint is […]
The Miami area, or more broadly Florida’s Miami-Dade county, has 67 Opportunity Zones within it. Opportunity Zones, introduced as part of President Donald Trump’s tax plan known, provide incentives for developers to build in low-income communities by providing substantial tax benefits. Within Miami-Dade county there are 67 designated Opportunity Zones. These are easily located using […]
Developers and investors across the United States are turning their attention to a new tax benefit program introduced as part of President Trump’s tax plan known as Opportunity Zones. These incent developers to build in low-income communities by providing tax benefits. In Miami-Dade county there are 67 designated opportunity zones, making this topic very much […]
Below is a map of current Miami Metrorail stations. For comparison, below is a map of potential Miami rail lines in the future. Who know which of these lines will come to pass. What is evident, however, is that in ten years it will be completely different from today, presumably greatly expanded.
