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More than 77 organizations that serve Coconut Grove are participating this year in Give Miami Day, an annual online fundraising event that raised $43.8 million last year for nonprofits across Miami-Dade County. The event begins Saturday.
At Monday’s meeting of Miami’s Tree Ordinance Advisory Committee, developers offered their proposals for rewriting the city’s tree ordinance, while a committee member challenged city staff’s claim that state law limits the city’s authority to question certain tree removals.
The Save the Manatee Club has joined state wildlife officials in recommending that county officials reduce the size of the proposed Seaquarium marina, to better protect slow-moving manatees in Biscayne Bay.
Coconut Grove honored South Florida’s service men and women this week at an early morning graveside ceremony followed by a parade on Grand Avenue. Click the link below to see our photo spread from Wednesday’s events.
As new money washes over Miami, Coconut Grove is losing many of the quaint cottages that give the village its character. One architectural firm is bucking that trend by working with homeowners to renovate older homes – preserving the past while making room for the future.
As development reshapes the historically Black West Grove neighborhood, 23-year-old Jasmine Doyle is fighting to preserve the community that raised her.
Newly obtained records reveal months of legal objections and procedural questions before Miami officials approved an unprecedented transfer of density credits between two luxury condo projects.
The City of Miami will have to make do with less tax revenue, at a time when overall spending is primed to surge. That, and other news, in this election roundup.
Alexis Calatayud, the architect of the state’s controversial Live Local Act, won another four-year term in Tallahassee by narrowly defeating a challenger who made opposition to that law a central part of his campaign.
Developer David Martin is actively pitching his Seaquarium redevelopment plan to local residents even while he fights efforts to force a public referendum on the project.
