The resort was closed in mid-March and reopened June 1. By Matthew Arrojas The JW Marriott Turnberry Resort & Spa in Aventura shifted focus upon reopening in the midst of a pandemic. The 685-room hotel and country club temporarily shut its doors on March 23 due to forced closures of non-essential businesses amid the Covid-19 outbreak. The resort reopened June 1. VP and Managing Director Jeffrey Klein told the Business Journal that the hotel pivoted marketing to group and corporate…

A surface-level parking lot across the street from the iconic hotel could be turned into a five-story building with employee parking and a grand ballroom. By Matthew Arrojas South Florida’s largest hotel could receive 31,500 square feet of convention and meeting space on the site of an adjacent parking lot in Miami Beach. The owners of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach proposed the building that would rise seven floors.The bottom three floors would be dedicated to parking, and two of the…

#NBWW #miamiarchitect #coconutgrove #bigarchitects #terragroup via Curbed Miami The twisty towers of Grove at Grand Bay have been completed, marking the first residential towers to be built in Coconut Grove in over a decade. Developed by Terra, designed by Bjarke Ingels, and with NBWW as the architect, the twin 20-story towers are sold out and will be ready for move-in this fall. The project overlooks Biscayne Bay and Regatta Park, located just a couple blocks away from CocoWalk. Amenities include…

Susan Askew Jeffrey Soffer’s plan to add ballroom and meeting space to his Fontainebleau Hotel to make it more competitive with other South Florida meeting facilities gained the endorsement of Miami Beach’s Planning Board. Next stop, the City Commission which will need to approve a zoning change to allow a stand-alone structure with ballroom and meeting space on what is now a surface parking lot between 43rd and 44th Street and Collins Avenue and Indian Creek Drive. While the parking…

New 1,173-key Marriott property in Miami looks set to become the city’s premier conference and event hotel. by Sorcha O’Higgins The transformative Miami Worldcenter scheme One of the biggest developments in the United States at the moment is Miami Worldcenter, a transformative complex of retail, commerce, hospitality and exhibition space, as well as private residences and over 2,000 hotel rooms. According to its website, Miami Worldcenter will be “a dynamic urban core of diversity and excitement” that “brings a new…