Less than 10 months after it opened, Grand Central Park has now been sold to developers for $35 million.The park, always meant to be temporary, is on the former site of the Miami Arena and wedged in between the future sites of two new large-scale development projects…
An average family will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars raising a kid up until the age of 18, but that number might be significantly higher in Miami. According to an analysis by Bundle.com, Miamians spend the the third most on their bebés behind only two New York City boroughs…
Florida uses the federal government like a sugar daddy. The Sunshine State leads the other 49 in both the total amount of money and the money-per-capita it received from the feds in 2011. That doesn’t even include that high-speed train we didn’t get.According to a CNBC analysis, Florida received $577.80…
Cuban chain restaurant Las Culebrinas is the latest Miami eatery to face charges of withholding employee salaries. According to a lawsuit filed on September 17 in District Court, the franchise’s Coconut Grove outlet didn’t pay one employee for close to five years, and also kept other workers in the dark…
When it comes to the economy Florida consumers have been muttering “Oh man, I hate that stupid thing” for the past five or so years, but according to numbers released today Florida’ consumer confidence has hit its highest level in five year. Which means Floridians are feeling more optimistic than…
There are few places in America where the contrast between the rich and the poor are as stark as they are in Miami-Dade County. While the rich are popping bubbly on their yachts and going in on $400 bottle service, the poor black out their windows because they can’t afford…
As many as 1,209 workers could find themselves out of work soon. American Airlines has filed a notice with the state that it plans to layoff up to 1,414 people between November 16 and December 16, just in time for the holidays. The vast majority of those jobs will be…
Plans to erect a giant Walmart smack dab in the middle of the Wynwood/Midtown area have garnered headlines, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg for Walmart’s plans for Miami-Dade. The controversial big-box chain is looking to add six more stores in Miami-Dade in the next two years…
Miami Beach is quickly becoming the capital of parking garages designed by world renowned architects. This week, the community got its first in depth look at what the latest, designed by Zaha Hadid — perhaps the world’s leading female architect — will look like. To our relatively uninformed eyes, it…
Those of us with access to professional organizations’ Twitter accounts live in fear that we’ll accidentally send a tweet meant for our own personal followers. I for one wouldn’t want the entirety of @MiamiNewTimes’ followers to know that I had a dream that Diplo was dating my mother. Oh, wait,…
After announcing that he was sending his last Tweet ever back in May, Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen is officially back on the social networking and giving his period key a workout. Like, we seriously are wondering if Guillen has forgotten the correct way to type in his months-long Twitter…
So, um, yeah, this seems awkward and kind of emotionally unhealthy. Weeks after being arrested for assaulting his wife, Evelyn Lozada, after which she promptly filed for divorce, former Dolphin Chad Johnson got a giant tattoo of Lozada’s face on his leg…
Carolyn Kellman, a local lawyer whose fashion sense caught the eye of the Miami Herald back in 2007, was doing some shopping at the Dolphin Mall and picked up some black denim shorts at the Forever 21. However, she decided to return them, and quickly realized that she was refunded…
No other mall in the entire world rolls in the dough quite like the Bal Harbour Shops. The fancy mall rakes in $2,555 per square foot, according to the latest issue of Shopping Centers Today, which means it beat out ritzy shopping destinations in the likes of London, Dubai, and…
Jennifer Lopez sold her Miami Beach mansion for $13.9 million back in 2005. The new owners originally put the La Gorce Island home on the market for $29 million in 2010. It didn’t sell, so now they’ve changed the price. A discount? No. It’s now listed for $40 million. All…
No longer will Miamians have to drive to the far western reaches of Broward County to get our fix of cheap Swedish-designed furniture. IKEA is finally coming to Miami-Dade, with plans for a store in Sweetwater, next door to the Dolphin Mall, to open as early as fall 2014…
LeBron James’ latest sneaker line will go where no Nike sneaker has ever gone before: above the $300 price point.James debuted his new kicks in the Olympic’s gold medal game, and now Nike has announced they can soon be yours for $315. For comparison, the LeBron 9s sold for only…
Miami Beach is home to some of the world’s most luxurious resorts and chicest boutique hotels, so it makes sense that it would be home to a designer hostel.Once the domain of backpackers and college kids on a budget (and designed as such), the Freehand Miami, which will open in…
It’s nearing the end of summer, which means it’s nearing that time when we finally stop hearing our office worker friends in New York bragging about how they get to stop slaving away at noon because their offices pretty much close up shop during Fridays in the summer. We’d like to…
Hey, the Florida unemployment numbers are in for July, and — oh no! What’s this? A rise? We haven’t seen one of these in 12 months.Yes, Florida’s unemployment rate rose from 8.6 percent in June to 8.8 percent in July, the first increase after a steady stream of declines in…
There’s a good chance you’re an active Twitterer. Whether you’re Tweeting because the club you’re at is so boring there’s nothing else to do, or because your’re stuck in standstill traffic and decide to risk out a Tweet, Miamians like you Tweet a lot.A recent study of geotagged Tweets sent…
One day, all the big cities and luxury destinations of the world will have all the same hotels, outposts of the same five-star restaurants, and versions of the same clubs and boutiques. In fact, they practically do now. It’s like a McDonald’s and Starbucks for the high-end jet set.The Delano,…
