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Penrod Brothers, the City of Miami Beach and Boucher Brothers Pier Park filed a joint stipulation Oct. 2 dismissing the 2023 lawsuit over the city-owned 1 Ocean Drive site with prejudice, closing a case that spanned state and federal courts.
Free Latin funk by the ocean, a rock legend at the Fillmore, a night of salsa, and two films worth leaving the house for — your Miami Beach weekend, Oct. 9–11.
A Miami-Dade man is suing the City of Miami Beach for more than $50,000, alleging a deteriorated pothole at 17th Street and Lennox Avenue threw him from his bicycle in June 2025 and caused severe, permanent injuries.
The Design Review Board met on October 8, 2026, taking action on four applications — approving a landmark beach club replacement at South Beach, two multi-family residential projects, and issuing an advisory recommendation against the proposed location of a sewer pump station near Mount Sinai Medical Center; the board also continued the La Gorce Country Club paddle court case to January 14, 2027, while the club completes a rezoning of a newly acquired adjacent lot that would allow further...
The City of Miami Beach has served a proposal for settlement in a negligence lawsuit brought by a Miami-Dade woman who says an on-duty police officer rear-ended her vehicle in May 2025.
The South Tower condo association says Paige Stone has no standing as a tenant and that her claims are unsupported, and it wants her to pay its legal fees. A hearing on the motion to dismiss is set for Oct. 22.
An architecture firm alleges in a new Miami-Dade lawsuit that a structural engineer's designs for The Perigon at 5333 Collins Ave. were deficient, citing an independent peer review. The complaint does not allege the design was built.
A resident of the Cosmopolitan Residences on South Beach has filed suit against the building's condominium association, alleging it failed for more than a year to silence disruptive mechanical noise from rooftop equipment and a neighboring unit's air conditioner.
The restaurant that opened its first U.S. location on Lincoln Road in 1997 reopened Sept. 17 at 1022 Lincoln Road, taking over from Issabella's after nearly five years.
Mayor Steven Meiner, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and Israel's consul general spoke at a Wednesday ceremony at Fire Station No. 2, where a former IDF soldier and a local student also shared accounts of the attack and its aftermath.
Family, colleagues and city leaders gathered at the Police Athletic League headquarters to unveil a plaque remembering Arthur "Big Art" Martineau II, the longtime executive director who died in January 2025.
Miami Beach's Planning Board directed staff to send the City Commission a recommendation letter urging a ban on obstructions in single-family swales and street trees limited to Miami-Dade County minimums.
The Planning Board voted 6-0 to approve permit changes for the former W South Beach, now the Waldorf Astoria, but sent outdoor entertainment at the pool deck and a new beachfront restaurant back to November after a fight with the Roney Palace over noise.
A reference of the week's public city meetings
Passed almost unanimously in 2023 as a workforce-housing bill, Florida's Live Local Act was amended in 2024 and again in 2025 — and each change reached further into local zoning.
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