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After sitting empty for nearly a year, a Grand Avenue storefront has reopened as Garin Art Caffé, blending food and art while advancing its owners’ hopes for a Bahamian-inspired revival of the corridor.
This weekend’s Key Biscayne Film Festival is expanding with a new cinema on the island. The festival opens Thursday night and runs through Sunday.
As West Grove residents fight to preserve their community, UM Professor Anthony Alfieri and the Center for Ethics and Public Service have become key allies in the neighborhood.
With demolition expected to begin in February, a block of Center Grove businesses — including the Grove’s oldest continuously operating restaurant — is giving way to new construction, signaling a major transition for the neighborhood.
Residents of the storied Mutiny hotel and condominium building on South Bayshore Drive are divided once again over a developer’s unsolicited buyout proposal – the third such proposal since late 2024.
A proposal to allow residential and mixed-use development on more than 660 properties with Civic Institution zoning failed amid concerns about affordability mandates and the churches’ vulnerability to developer pressure.
Miami District 2 Commissioner Damian Pardo is getting mixed reviews from constituents in Coconut Grove and elsewhere as he passes the halfway point in his four-year term. He faces reelection in 2027.
Though it accounts for only a fraction of city spending, the Office of Agenda Coordination offers a window into both the promise and the predicaments of cutting costs within the City of Miami’s ever-growing multibillion-dollar budget.
Spotlight reporter Jenny Jacoby is a die-hard Miami football fan. She was thrilled when the Hurricanes landed a playoff spot, and then crushed when the team tasted defeat in the biggest game of the year. But, she’s not giving up.
A state legislator is seeking to evict Miami-Dade County from the Coconut Grove Playhouse property and hand control of the project instead to a tiny town of 6,000 residents.
