Cristiano Piquet has it all: fast cars, luxury boats, beautiful women, and a booming business. Since 2005, Piquet Realty has sold hundreds of millions of dollars of prime Miami condos to his fellow Brazilians. His handsome, freckled face has graced business segments on CNN and Al Jazeera. He even has…
We don’t need to tell anyone who’s attempted to park at Aventura Mall that the place is busy. It’s so busy, in fact, that it’s actually America’s second most visited shopping mall. The only mall more crowded than it actually has an indoor amusement park, so there’s no shame in…
Online shopping was a boon to buyers who sometimes felt a little embarrassment when buying certain products. The web’s anonymity may have made them feel like no one could judge them for, say, buying an industrial-sized vat of KY Jelly. But the mere presence of social media logos like Twitter…
There may be plans in the works, but Midtown Miami is still far from the reality of actually having a Walmart built. Walmart’s zoning change request has been put on hold by the city planning and zoning department just a day after another major developer in the Midtown area came…
Eager Jason Wu fans lined up by the masses earlier this month to be the first to get their hands on Target’s Wu collection, but in Miami, Kevin Wills and his girlfriend were way ahead of the game. The pair bought out more than $5,000 in Wu merchandise (nearly the…
When designer Jason Wu’s limited edition collection for Target went on sale earlier this month, a couple at the Midtown Miami Target store rampaged their way through the clothing section and made off with a large chunk of the collection. The story and accompanying YouTube video made blog headlines all…
For years the Bal Harbour Shops have not only reigned as the premier point for designer shopping in Florida, but as one of chicest in the world. But now a new challenger is about to emerge in Miami-Dade. Developer Craig Robins is quickly making his dreams of turning the Design…
Apparently, Hugo Chavez is a landlord’s nightmare. The controversial Venezuelan prez recently announced that he was closing his country’s consulate in Miami for good. Problem is, the consulate had just agreed to a ten-year lease for its Brickell office and hasn’t even bothered to pay rent for the last two…
Jackie Gleason may have thought, “As always, the Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world,” but the best place for a party pad in Miami? Apparently he thought that was on a golf course just outside of Hialeah. The television icon’s former home in the Country Club…
Jennifer Lopez is the latest victim of Florida’s foreclosure crisis. The condo in the Icon Brickell building she was shacking up in with her latest younger lover, Caspar Smart, has now been bought up out of foreclosure by someone else and Lopez will have to move out according to Gossip…
If you lined up to get some pieces from high-end designer Jason Wu’s limited edition budget-priced line at the Midtown Miami Target store on Saturday morning, you were stymied by a couple who quickly swooped in and bought the entire stock. Riptide has reached out to Target, and while they…
Unemployment may be staggeringly high in Florida, but according to a new analysis by On Numbers, the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area added the 11th most private sector jobs of any metro area in 2011. That only added up to 21,600 new jobs, though. And, in terms of percentage growth, the area…
We’re number one, and there’s nothing to get excited about. Using criteria that included violent crime, political corruption, foreclosures, and unemployment, Forbes.com has ranked Miami as America’s single most miserable city. We’re up from second place last year…
Miami’s urban core skyrocketed with glistening glass high-rises during the real estate boom, but little was done to turn the area’s neighborhoods into truly integrated, livable communities. Will the next step in the Magic City’s perpetual urban makeover include more neighborhoods where parks, retails shops, apartment buildings, and, uh, a…
There’s no longer a Gansevoort in Miami Beach. The hotel on 23rd and Collins is now known as the Perry. It’s a long overdue name change as the hotel hasn’t had anything to do with the owners of the original Gansevoort Hotel in New York for a few years now…
Micky Arison’s Carnival Cruise Lines has another Mickey with a cruise empire about to encroach on its turf. Mickey Mouse that is. Disney Cruise Line has announced that beginning later this year, it will be sail ships out of the Port of Miami for the first time…
Sure, Doral seems like a decent place to run the United States’ military operations in South and Central America, but is it a good spot to headquarter a once-proud metro newspaper? The Miami Herald might soon find out. The South Florida Business Journal reports the Herald is now in negotiations to…
PETA, a sad, attention-trolling parody of an animal rights organization, never lets a prime opportunity for cheap publicity go to waste, so they’ve decided to jump on the news that OJ Simpson’s Kendall close is in foreclosure. PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has penned a letter to the foreclosing bank, JP Morgan, and…
While it may be increasingly difficult to actually secure employment in Miami, those of us who have seem to love our job. That’s according to a new study by CareerBliss.com that analyzed more than 43,000 employee reviews across the country. It’s actually the second year in a row that Miami…
Sure, it’s hard to muster much sympathy for O.J. Simpson, but remember, he hasn’t been making much use of his house in Kendall lately. He’s got a steady residence for the next six to 27 years: a jail cell in Nevada. So don’t feel too bad that his Miami home…
Back in 2010, we dubbed The Webster the “best place to shop like there’s no recession,” but now the pricey Miami Beach boutique has partnered with a far more recession-friendly shopping destination: Target. Soon the place that sells, uh, whatever the hell this is for $9,000 will be opening limited-run…
You thought your 2011 finances were bad? Despite his NBA team having its best year ever, Micky Arison’s net worth dropped somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.3 billion last year, according to Forbes. Arison’s main source of income comes from his CEO role and hefty financial stake in Carnival Cruise…
