Real Estate Summit-The State or Real Estate in South Florida

Written by & filed in Commercial, Community, Condo, Development Pipeline, Events, Market Watch, Residential.

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The half-day conference will open with a look at The State of Real Estate, focused on current and future conditions of South Florida’s residential, commercial and credit markets. The morning session will feature a keynote address from Miami Worldcenter Group Principal & Managing Director Nitin Motwani and well-known expert speakers in each segment of the industry. The conference concludes with the fourth annual R.E.A.L. Awards luncheon honoring South Florida’s Real Estate Achievers and Leaders, individuals or organizations in the real estate industry or related profession who have achieved success in their respective fields while also showcasing leadership in the community. Among the awards presented will be the Lifetime Achievement Award to Armando Codina, Chairman & CEO, Codina Partners.
WORKING AGENDA
8:00 a.m. Registration, Networking and Breakfast
 
8:30 a.m. Opening Session and Keynote Address 
Keynote Speaker: Nitin Motwani
Principal & Managing Director, Miami Worldcenter Group
9:15-9:45 a.m. Emerging Trends Discussion
Speaker: Francisco Garcia, City Planner, City of Miami
9:45-10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:00-11:30 a.m.  Concurrent Panel Discussions
Residential Real Estate – Moderated by Ron Shuffield, EWM Realty International
Condo – Alicia Cervera Lamadrid, Managing Partner, Cervera Real Estate
Single Family – Michael I. (Mike) Pappas, President and CEO,  The Keyes Company
Luxury Markets – Anthony Graziano, Owner, Integra Realty Resources
Pre-construction – Peter Zalewski, Principal, Condo Vultures® LLC
Finance
Commercial Real Estate – Moderated by Jack Lowell, Flagler
Office – Tere Blanca, Founder,Blanca Commercial Real Estate
Retail – Paco Diaz. Senior Vice President . CBRE, Inc.
Industrial – Brian Smith, SIOR, Executive Director-South Florida, Cushman Wakefield
Lender – Ruben Pedron, Florida Market Manager for Commercial Real Estate, SunTrust Bank
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mimosa Reception
12:00-1:30 p.m. South Florida R.E.A.L. Awards Luncheon
Master of Ceremonies
Teresa King Kinney, Chief Executive Officer, Miami Association of Realtors®

Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
Armando Codina, Chairman & CEO, Codina Partners

2014 Award Categories
Commercial Real Estate Broker (Individual and Team)
Residential Real Estate Agent
Real Estate Finance
Developer (Residential and Affordable/Workforce)
Public Sector (P3)

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Mapping the 305

Written by & filed in Community, Urbanism.

Check out this clever map of Miami; it’s pretty funny. The Urbane team creates maps that replace names with locally crowd-sourced adjectives in a fun and informative way  so that you can empower yourself to find the next neighborhood to relocate or explore.

For the most part this map is right on. Have a suggestion for improvement? Leave it in the comments section and spread the 305 map love!

Rumor has it that Urbane is working on a Miami Beach and South Florida map.  Stay tuned.

Click here to purchase the Miami map.

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Via Urbane:

Ah, Miami—home of picture-perfect beaches, sculpted bodies, Latin American flair, and stunning Art Deco architecture. It’s the city where they bring the heat and party on the beach until the break of dawn. It’s home to King James and countless yachts and Coconut Grove estates worthy of kings. It’s also home to some fascinating neighborhoods, some based on Latin American roots, others based on art and design. We just can’t get enough of your hot and humid days, but we just can’t stand that expressway traffic near the airport! Visitors have so much to say about South Beach and its nearby collection of islands. What about the communities around it? After all, Miami Beach…isn’t Miami, which surprises most out-of-towners and flocks of snowbirds. Urbane presents our shout out to the capital of Pitbull and Gloria Estefan by presenting this map analyzing Miami neighborhoods in greater social detail. We can already feel ourselves sailing on the brilliant turquoise waters of Biscayne Bay!”

DawnTown 2014 Alternative Mobilities Design Competition Now Open

Written by & filed in Community, Cyclists & Pedestrians, Events, Urbanism.

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Recently, City of Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado declared March as Miami Bike Month. And why shouldn’t it?  Did you see the latest gathering this past Friday for Critical Mass?  Hundreds of people, including celebrity cyclists and NBA megastars Dwyane Wade and Lebron James, were in attendance for a 13 mile trek around Miami.  Cycling has become the latest “thing” in Miami.  However, it could be more than just a monthly ride.  Why not see cycling as a serious solution to the traffic congestion problems in and out of the city?  Cities like Amsterdam and Chicago seem to think of it as a real solution.  It doesn’t have to just be about bikes either, car sharing has become a major business as well and could also assist with making our streets safer.  What if there was a place in Miami, built infrastructure that helped promote these solutions?  Well there could be…..that’s where DawnTown needs your help.

We are officially launching our new architecture ideas competition for 2014, called Alternative Mobilities.  The competition is open to professionals and students of architecture and other design fields to come up with a new type of transportation hub. One that acts as a generator for new ways to move around downtown in a more sustainable fashion.

Included here is our competition brief:
Alternative Mobilities Competition Brief – FINAL

This time we around we are instituting a registration fee. Why you ask?  Many of you have alerted us that printing, mounting on foam core, and shipping your competition boards have cost you $100 to $150!  Instead, we’ve decided to reduce the amount of printed material by asking you only submit your projects digitally.  The fee allows us to do the printing for you.  It’s all explained in the brief above.
Currently, the registration fees are as follows:

EARLY BIRD………$25.00 US     (Register before March 27th)
REGULAR REGISTRATION……….$40.00 US  (After March 27th)

Act soon and take advantage of our early bird registration.  In order to do so visit our Eventbrite page:  https://dawntownmiami.eventbrite.com

GOOD LUCK!

Panel Discussion: University of Miami Real Estate Impact Conference

Written by & filed in Community, Development Pipeline, Events, Market Watch.

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The University of Miami Real Estate Impact Conference is one of my favorite real estate events of the year. Every year the conference just keeps getting better. A couple of weeks ago the University of Miami School of Architecture and School of Business Administration held the third annual Real Estate Impact Conference. The conference was held at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and featured UM President Donna Shalala as moderator to a keynote session with Starwood Capital Group CEO Barry Sternlicht.

For those of you unable to attend, you can still watch the lively panel discussion with some of Miami’s most well known developers.

The Invisible Asset Class Initiative

Real estate developers and investors discussed their initiative to have the industry recognize walkable, transit-oriented, mixed-use development as an asset class.

  • Robert L. Chapman, Traditional Neighborhood Development Partners (MRED+U board member)
  • Kurt Roeloffs, Former Chief Investment Officer, Deutsche Bank (RREEF) Alternative Asset Management
  • Mark L. Troen, Managing Partner and Principal, The Winnmark Group
  • Laura Heery Prozes, Co-Founder, Brookwood Group (moderator)

 

Think Differently! Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Commercial Real Estate

Innovative industry leaders offer insightful perspectives on how South Florida’s economic engines will impact the retail, office, hotel and industrial segments of the region’s commercial real estate market.

  • Avra Jain, Chairman and Founder, The Vagabond Group
  • Jodie W. McLean, President and Chief Investment Officer, EDENS
  • Vincent Signorello, President and CEO, Florida East Coast Industries
  • Charles Bohl, Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Real Estate Development and Urbanism, University of Miami School of Architecture (moderator)

 

The Power of the Residential Real Estate Market to Change a City’s Future

Visionary developers and investors behind some of the most notable U.S. residential projects will explore the power of the urban landscape to change the course of a city’s future.

 

Keynote Session

Click here for more information about the University of Miami Real Estate Impact Conference.

CLOG : MIAMI PANEL DISCUSSION AT MIAMI CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE (MCAD)

Written by & filed in Architecture, Community, Development Pipeline, Events, Market Watch, Urbanism.

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Saturday, March 1
7:00 PM
100 Northeast 1st Ave
Miami, FL 33132 

Above: Center for Architecture by Shulman + Associates, © Robin Hill.

When it comes to architecture, something is definitely happening in Miami today. Join CLOG’s editors and contributors in Miami for a panel discussion hosted by the Miami Center For Architecture (MCAD) celebrating the release of the new issue:MIAMI.

Moderator
Kyle May, Editor-in-Chief, CLOGPanelists
Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Co-Founder, Arquitectonica
Francisco Garcia Iglesias, Director, City of Miami Planning and Zoning
Allan Shulman, Founder, Shulman + Associates and Associate Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture
David Martin, President and Owner, Terragroup

Flavorish Market-New Gourmet Store Opens in Upper Eastside

Written by & filed in Quality of Life, Retail, Taste & Toast.

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Upper Eastside residents finally have a neighborhood market where we can bike or walk to.  Last week Flavorish Market opened its doors serving all sorts of tasty things like:

  • Wine
  • Craft Beer
  • Cheese
  • Cured Meat
  • Coffee and Tea
  • Sandwiches
  • Pastries
  • Bread
  • Grocery items
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I think the concept is great and I anticipate that Flavorish Market will do very well. The Upper Eastside desperately needs a small supermarket that could provide fresh groceries.

Flavorish Market will also offer a daily dinner special for takeout and they do deliveries as well. Like them on Facebook by clicking here.

Hours and location:

Mon-Fri 8am-7pm
Sat 9am-6pm
Sun 10am-3pm

7283 Biscayne Boulevard

MiMo Gem Uncovered

Written by & filed in Architecture, Development Pipeline, Mixed-Use, Office, Picture of the Day, Retail.

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Someone was clearly smoking something in the 70’s when they decided to cover this lovely MiMo building with this awful façade. Last week construction workers uncovered the original 1953 Art Deco façade. Historic assets like this gem add value to neighborhoods and they need to be preserved. The building is located in the MiMo Historic District: 7100 Biscayne Boulevard. It is a mixed-use building with a restaurant on the ground floor (Moonchine) and offices on the 2nd and 3rd floors.

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Historic Morningside House Tour- March 2nd

Written by & filed in Architecture, Community, Events, Historic Preservation, Residential, Single Family.

Morningside is one of my favorite historic neighborhoods in Miami. You can check out some of the beautiful Morningside homes from my previous post.

For more information about the Historic Morningside tour click here.

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Confirmed Food Trucks for the event:

Ms Cheezious – Grilled cheese, etc.
Moty’s Grill – Kosher/Mediterranean, Falafel, etc.
Latin Burger and Taco
Sugar Yummy Mama – Desert