Inevitably it seems that rivers are one of two things to a city: either a vital, vibrant artery stitching it historically together (think the Seine through Paris, the Sumida through Tokyo, or the Chicago River through the downtown Windy City), or an industrial, black water pipeline which, decade after decade, sacrifices a thriving, walkable waterfront for a...

Median home price in the U.S. is averaged at $300,000, which gets you, again on average, 1,700 square feet. But when you boil it down, those numbers don’t really mean anything, because they represent too wide an area. That’s precisely why Point 2 Homes applied those U.S. averages to the country’s 50 biggest cities to see what $300,000 could get a homebuyer. In...

The Miami new construction market is putting up some of the most impressive numbers in the nation this year, according to research from Dodge Data & Analytics. In October, Miami saw more than $1.108 billion in total residential construction spending, which is a whopping 217 percent increase from Oct. 2015. Furthermore, year-to-date construction spending is...

Miami considers plans for 888 Brickell office tower, Quadro apartments by Alta Developers, and Ellipsis condo Developers are seeking approvals for three major projects in Miami: a Brickell office tower, an apartment building on the Upper Eastside and a boutique condominium in Edgewater. The city’s Urban Development Review Board will consider all three proposals...

Walk into one of Tatiana Blanco’s parties and you’ll find guests gathered around a blank canvas, not a TV or the kitchen table. “I needed an outlet—a place where I could release my emotions more spontaneously. And I saw that my friends did, too,” says the sculptor from her home and studio in Key Biscayne, a small island town across the bridge from Miami....

Philippe Houdard could be Brickell’s future: He has gone car-less. Houdard, the co-founder of office-space sharing firm Pipeline, sold his Honda Accord when he moved to Brickell from South Beach last year. He walks when he goes to dinner. He takes Uber to meetings. “Brickell has the density to do everything I need within several blocks,” Houdard said. “It’s...