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Miami Beach to hold first vote on allowing 44-story condo in exchange for park
This project would be at the gateway to South Beach.
Landmark Mall’s big screen moment will have to wait as ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ pushed back
From everything we know, which isn’t much, Alexandria’s shuttered Landmark Mall will play a key role in “Wonder Woman 1984,” the sequel to the 2017 blockbuster starring Gal Gadot.
But if you happen to have a countdown clock ticking down to the Nov. 1, 2019, release, please reset it —for seven months later. Gadot announced on Twitter Monday that the film will be released on June 5, 2020, “thanks to a changing landscape.”
“This move lands the film exactly where it belongs,”…
Hilton goes micro with newest hotel brand
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HLT) is the latest hospitality company to branch into the micro-hotel space.
The company on Tuesday unveiled Motto, a new micro-room brand it plans to place in urban markets. The brand combines some elements of hostels — namely, the cost and size of the accommodations — with high-tech connected rooms and the ability for larger groups to stay together.
The move targets those travelers who currently stay in Airbnb or other types of alternative lodgings.…
Pulte plotting 239 ‘versatile’ town home units in Lake Elmo
“It's going to fit in pretty nicely and offer some housing variety that we currently lack,” said Kristina Handt, city administrator for Lake Elmo.
Redeveloped North Hills shopping center is up for sale
The Block Northway, the retail reinvention of an all-but-dead mall that ushered in such new-to-Pittsburgh retailers as Nordstrom Rack and the Container Store to the McKnight Road commercial corridor, is on the market.
Giarratana begins public push for controversial downtown land swap
For more than two hours Monday night, high-profile developer Tony Giarratana listened as advocates and opponents took turns debating the merits of the controversial land swap that would open the door for his next residential tower.
Advocates praised Giarratana's entrepreneurship and willingness to put forward a plan to redevelop downtown's Church Street Park, which in recent years has been marred by homelessness issues. Meanwhile, critics blasted the plan for its lack of transparency, accusing Metro…
DEP says ‘no’ to Hovsons’ massive development in Pinelands
The state Department of Environmental Protection has rejected a plan to build a massive housing and commercial project on 930 acres in the Pinelands National Reserve and watershed of Barnegat Bay.
The project in Manchester Township has been enmeshed in controversy for about three decades ever since an even bigger development was proposed on the site.
In denying permits for the latest project, the agency found the development violated stormwater standards and posed threats to threatened and endangered…
FPL proposes 225,000-square-foot office building
The electric utility could house 1,000 employees in the new building.
Affiliate of Charlotte’s second-largest real estate firm opens in Triad
Charlotte's second-largest real estate firm is opening an office in downtown Winston-Salem.
Fader RE, an affiliate of Charlotte-based Wilkinson ERA, will move into the Winston-Salem Foundation Building at 751 West Fourth Street, Suite 110. The owner is Clare Fader, who spent more than 11 years as a realtor with the Winston-Salem firm of Leonard Ryden Burr Real Estate.
The firm has three agents, according to the company's website, and a full-time stager/market preparation specialist.
“Winston-Salem…
Emerging Neighborhoods: Developers grab properties surrounding Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village
Editor's Note: This is one in a series of articles on South Florida cities and neighborhoods outside of the region's well-known hot spots. They are places that have recently seen an uptick in residents as well as retail and residential developers. These are South Florida's emerging neighborhoods.
Organic development in Fort Lauderdale's Flagler Village, just north of Las Olas Boulevard, is piquing the interest of developers who are proposing projects in the neighborhoods immediately surrounding…