COVER STORY
Goldman family bets on a Wynwood revival
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Joey Goldman sat at the bar of his new Wynwood restaurant, looked out at empty tables, and figured the place would end the day losing money.
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Joey Goldman sat at the bar of his new Wynwood restaurant, looked out at empty tables, and figured the place would end the day losing money.
Location: 2734 E. Oakland Park Blvd. Seller: A.T.2.B, represented by Andree Brocvielle, president. Buyer: Aurea Investments, represented by Bernel Alfredo, managing member.
Bright red spikes of salvia flowers swayed in the winter breeze next to blue-flowering porterweed. Yellowtops, with flattish clusters of flowers, were forming a little colony, while the black-eyed Susans and the red-yellow Indian blankets formed sweeps of color in the wildflower beds at Broward College's north campus in Coconut Creek.
Working for the state's Office of the Condominium Ombudsman is dirty, sometimes even ''disgusting,'' work, say Bill and Susan Raphan, who supervise the Fort Lauderdale satellite office.
Seventeen years ago, Eddie and Anna Fuentes opened Victoria's Armoire in the Coral Gables building that house his father's printing business with a self-serving motive: Newly married, they wanted good furniture but couldn't afford the antiques they liked.
Whole Foods, the upscale grocery store slated for the Met Miami complex in downtown Miami, has pulled out of the project. Whole Foods was supposed to go on the ground floor of a tower that has not yet started construction. Its arrival would have given downtown Miami its first high-end grocery store, and a spokesman for Met Miami said the complex plans to recruit another grocer for the space.
Rates on 30-year mortgages fell to a record low for the third straight week and borrowers took advantage of the drop, sending new applications soaring.
Mortgage fraud wreaked havoc in South Florida's housing market over the past several years, contributing to inflated sales prices that may have led to inflated property taxes for innocent homeowners.
Faced with the prospect of losing a pricey deal signed during the height of South Florida's property boom, The McClatchy Co. decided it's better to give the developer more time to close than putting the real estate up for sale again -- and perhaps receiving significantly lower offers in a depressed market.
The long-delayed, but potentially lucrative, deal to sell 10-acres of parking lots surrounding The Miami Herald Media Company's bayfront headquarters is going to take even longer.