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The go-to laundry service for many Coconut Grove residents moved west this week to a temporary location at 3634 Grand Ave., with plans for a new permanent facility around the corner on Douglas Road.
Demolition of the current community center at Ambrister Park will commence in the next six weeks, clearing the way for a new building twice its size, with an estimated completion date of July 2027.
With salaries and benefits consuming most of the city’s budget, a tangle of automatic and discretionary increases is quietly pushing costs higher year after year.
Current and former residents who are suing the City of Miami over the potential harm caused by the Old Smokey trash incinerator on Jefferson Street notched a victory last week when a circuit court judge certified their lawsuit as a class action.
Even as overall violent crime declines across the city, a decade of unsolved homicides in the Grove — all involving young Black male victims — has left families waiting for answers while law enforcement remains largely silent.
All of the city’s outside legal fees last summer and fall came after a judge blocked the city’s attempt to delay the 2025 election — including more than $60,000 tied to a rarely granted rehearing widely seen as a legal Hail Mary.
Finalized plans for Kirk Munroe Park are beginning to take shape, almost a year after developers first presented a redesign to the community.
Waymo’s self-driving cars are suddenly everywhere in Coconut Grove. But are they safe? Our intrepid reporter arrived alive, if a little late, after booking a ride home in one of the white robotaxis now cruising village streets.
A Feb. 22 shooting ended a six-month lull in violent crime, but most of the 56 incidents reported over the past month involved theft, disputes and other nonviolent offenses.
When construction projects close sidewalks, pedestrians are pushed into traffic — often with deadly consequences.
