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› Miami will weigh proposals that could transform Virginia Key’s marinas and basin
Miami commissioners this week will consider the future of valuable waterfront city-owned real estate on Virginia Key — an exercise that typically yields few results and much controversy. Two proposals sponsored by Commissioner Ken Russell on Thursday’s commission agenda seem likely to spark the latter: a plan to create a 50-vessel mooring field in the Marine Stadium basin and a proposal for a no-bid, 75-year lease that would allow the current Rickenbacker Marina operator to redevelop 27 acres from the Rickenbacker Causeway to the Marine Stadium marinas.
› Pinellas commission blocks developer’s plan for 273 homes on Tides Golf Club
When developer Ron Carpenter’s company bought the 96-acre Tides Golf Club in 2016 for $3.8 million, the options for what he could do with the property were limited. Pinellas County allows land designated as open space, like the Tides, to be used as golf courses, parks, public recreation facilities or beach access. So in order to build the 273-home gated community overlooking Boca Ciega Bay he proposed three years later, Carpenter needed the county commission to grant a land use change to residential.
› Businesses Are Looking to South Florida for Class A Office Space
The Miami Beach area is becoming a hotspot for investors and business owners who want Class A office space. That’s according to Victor Ballestas of Miami-based real estate developer Integra Investments, who said the Miami Beach office market is changing significantly. Ballestas said that as people feel more comfortable going back to the office after a year of shutdowns, they want their work environment to be in a convenient area that feels like a home office.
› Thousands of desperate renters still wait for help in Florida county
More than a month after Broward County started to take applications online, no one who applied through the website has received any money, and none of the online applicants have been approved. A total of 5,738 applications have been initiated, and 2,605 of those have been submitted, according to data provided Tuesday morning by Broward County’s Family Success Administration Division, which is overseeing the program. But only 70 tenants who applied through a court mediation program prior to the portal’s opening have been approved for funds.
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