Downtown Luxury
What began as a hotel development has morphed into The Whitfield, a planned luxury hotel and condominium. A luxury hotel and condominium called The Whitfield is planned on a site…
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Mike Seemuth
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Mike Seemuth has 35 years of journalism experience as a writer and editor of articles on business, finance and economic trends for newspapers, magazines and websites.
Secluded South Florida
Coastal haven Hillsboro Beach has attracted a resort-style condo project that touches the Intracoastal on one side and the ocean on the other. A quiet coastal town in northeast Broward…
Going Vertical in Wilton Manors
Kaplan Residential is advancing plans for a six-story building with 190 apartments in a suburban city that rarely sees such big developments. Big real estate developments have been rare in…
Facing the Future
Even as it stirs controversy, facial recognition technology is becoming more pervasive in everyday life. As security cameras proliferated, so did the widespread assumption that almost everywhere we go, we’re…
Homegrown Hospitality
A 40-story, rental-friendly condo development downtown promises to further blur the distinction between hotels and high-rise homes. The startup of Airbnb in 2008 signaled the birth of the home-sharing industry…
New Entrée in the Boutique Condo Buffet
Sage Intracoastal Residences, a 44-unit condo planned for the north beach area, is the latest in a series of boutique condo developments with fewer than 100 units. The latest in…
Philanthropy on Federal
The five-story headquarters of the Jim Moran Foundation will become an instant landmark on Federal Highway next to Holy Cross Health and its Jim Moran Heart and Vascular Center. A…
Skyline Scenarios
A 47-story apartment tower would be the tallest building in Fort Lauderdale, surpassing a related rental development that would be 43 stories tall. But construction of these skyline-altering projects hasn’t…
A Makeover Years in the Making
Jimmy Tate, his brother Kenny and their partners will start selling condos planned at Bahia Mar in 2024 – 10 years after they acquired a lease on the city-owned property…
Triple Peaks
Near the tallest building downtown, an even taller apartment tower is under construction around the corner, and a condo taller than both may break ground early next year. In 2017,…