“The Last Dance” reminded us (not that we needed it) that basketball has been the driving force in Michael Jordan’s life, but golf doesn’t lag far behind. Cindy Boren, The Washington Post His Airness, who got hooked on golf as a student at North Carolina, welcomed rookie Scottie Pippen to the Chicago Bulls by giving him a set of golf clubs, the better to indulge another passion – gambling. “He was trying to lure me in so he could take…

Photos and details of The Grove XXIII, Michael Jordan’s ultra-exclusive, new private club in Florida By Derek Duncan See that field over there?” Bobby Weed says, pointing toward a few hundred acres of grassland abutting a distant tree line. “That’s my ocean.” Weed is standing outside the nearly completed clubhouse at The Grove XXIII, the uber-exclusive golf course he built for his client, NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan (it opened in the fall of 2019), explaining how Shinnecock Hills…

Rockwood Capital had provided funding for two dozen hotels beginning in 2007 by: Kevin McQuaid Ocean Properties Hotels & Resorts has bought out its financial partner in a Longboat Key resort, a sign of its confidence in the Gulf Coast hospitality market going forward. The deal involving the Zota Beach Resort, at 4711 Gulf of Mexico Drive, was one of two dozen Ocean Properties’ lodging assets in six states that Los Angeles-based Rockwood Capital invested in in 2007, records show….

Miami’s Adler Group is still planning to develop Riverside Center with a design that is similar to what was shown to voters in a 2018 referendum. In a statement released to The Next Miami, a spokesperson said that the Riverfront property would be developed “in consonance with the 2018 design.” The project will enhance the Miami skyline and riverwalk in a way that will make the community “proud,” the developer added. Last month, Adler was granted UDRB approval for a…

A skyscraper is coming to Miami Worldcenter, serving to further build out the evolving Park West neighborhood north of downtown Miami. It is designed by NBWW. Written by John Charles Robbins The latest project is Miami World Tower, planned for Block E of the sweeping development, at 700 NE First St. The new building is designed at 52 stories, to be home to 560 residential units and about 3,136 square feet of commercial-retail space. The site borders the Miami Worldcenter…