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☆ This Florida Mall Has Gucci, Prada … and Soon, Affordable Housing?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Patricia Mazzei | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In Bal Harbour, Fla., an oceanside village north of Miami Beach, a luxury mall says it wants to help tackle one of the nation’s — and Florida’s — most intractable problems: a lack of affordable housing. It is an unexpected move for a retail temple where Gucci, Chanel and Rolex are on offer. Affordable? But in a rare instance of bipartisan agreement, the Florida Legislature passed a law last spring intended to encourage projects like the one that the owner of the mall, Bal Harbour Shops, has in mind. And nowhere has seen more backlash to date than little Bal Harbour.

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☆ In Florida, Affordable Housing Joins Luxury Complexes
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Deborah Acosta | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Bal Harbour complex is home to about 100 luxury retailers. Photo: Scott McIntyre for The Wall Street JournalBal Harbour Shops in Miami-Dade County, a premier luxury mall featuring swanky brands such as Chanel, Gucci and Tiffany, is getting into the affordable-housing business. Whitman Family Development , the shopping center’s owner, filed plans with the city on Tuesday to build a roughly 20-story luxury hotel and three residential towers with 600 units within the complex. One building with about 240 units will be reserved for workforce housing, as part of Florida’s new housing law known as the Live Local Act.

Persons: Scott McIntyre, Chanel, Gucci, Tiffany Organizations: Wall, Whitman Locations: Miami, Dade County

Located just north of Miami Beach, the Shul of Bal Harbour is in the heart of South Florida's Jewish community. If Florida is to regain its status as a perennially competitive state, how Jewish voters perceive Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war will be critical. In South Florida, rabbis and community leaders are pushing their congregations to call their lawmakers and insist they back Israel as it ramps up its offensive. About 43% of Florida's Jewish voters supported Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, compared with 30% of Jewish voters who supported him nationwide, according to AP VoteCast. Ron DeSantis won 45% of Jewish voters in his re-election, when he flipped traditionally Democratic Miami-Dade County while also winning a majority of Latino voters statewide.

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☆ Florida Holdouts Against Condo Termination Duel With Real-Estate Firms
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Deborah Acosta | Photos Sydney Walsh For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Joe and Janet Dippell bought their oceanfront condo in 2008, they thought they would live there forever. The Bal Harbour, Fla., property featured its own restaurant and the Dippells’ 3,300-square-foot apartment boasted water views. But over the past two years, local developers have been trying to buy each of the Carlton Terrace’s 88 units. They plan to knock down the property and build a development where they can charge premium prices for more units.

☆ Ron DeSantis just announced he has a memoir coming out soon. Here's what we learned from his first book, a scathing take on Obama
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

DeSantis wrote the book during the Tea Party movement and before he ran for Congress. He did so throughout his 2011 book, "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama." According to NPD BookScan, which tracks retail sales of US print books, "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers" sold 125 copies through July of 2022. In one section of the book, DeSantis wrote that Obama lacked the humility of George Washington, the first US president. Obama, DeSantis wrote, "garnered flattering media coverage by a press thoroughly enamored with his progressive politics."

☆ DeSantis' scathing book about Obama shows his 'individual freedom' philosophy, his disdain for the media, and how he studies other politicians
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

DeSantis wrote the book during the Tea Party movement and before he ran for Congress. He did so throughout his 2011 book, "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama." DeSantis wrote the book as he was coming of age in politics during the Tea Party movement. In one section of the book, DeSantis wrote that Obama lacked the humility of George Washington, the first US president. Obama, DeSantis wrote, "garnered flattering media coverage by a press thoroughly enamored with his progressive politics."

Florida's east coast was placed under hurricane watch Monday as Subtropical Storm Nicole moved in its direction with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph. The storm, currently 520 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas, is expected to approach Florida's east coast by Wednesday night. A hurricane watch has been issued for Florida's east coast along Volusia and Brevard counties all the way south to Hallandale Beach near Miami, according to the National Hurricane Center. There's a storm surge watch for the east coast of Georgia and Florida from the Altamaha Sound to Hallandale Beach. A tropical storm watch for the northwestern Bahamas was upgraded to a hurricane watch Monday.

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