The Beacon Council, Miami- Dade County’s official economic development partnership, has announced the winners of the 11th Annual Beacon Awards. This year’s winners will be recognized on Thursday, Mar. 14, during the awards ceremony and luncheon aboard the Celebrity Constellation. “We are honoring individuals, industries and organizations which have contributed to strengthen our local economy,” [...]
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP is pleased to announce that it was named Benchmark Litigation's 2013 "Antitrust Firm of the Year – South" in recognition of the firm's work on some of the most complex, high-stakes antitrust cases in the United States. Bilzin Sumberg was also a finalist for Benchmark Litigation's "Regional Impact [...]
Pictured viewing photographs on display during the 50th annual Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Feb. 16-18, are Grove residents Rey Redlich and Christina Burns.
The Miami Foundation named Michael A. Marquez, previously the development committee chair, as the new chair of their board of trustees. The Foundation also announced two new appointees to its board: real estate investor Barron Channer and retired orthodontist Dr. Michael N. Rosenberg. “The board’s two new members are outstanding community leaders who know [...]
Keith Lockhart is leading the Boston Pops in a 10-concert, nine-city tour of the Southeast United States that includes a Mar. 5, 7:30 p.m., stop at the Arsht Center in Miami. The tour features a tribute to The Barbra Streisand Songbook with celebrated vocalist and award-winning songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway, whose songs are featured on [...]
The ARC Project Thrive program has received a new five-year accreditation stamp from NAEYC, the Academy for Early Childhood Program, based in Washington, D.C. The new term is valid until October 1, 2017. A letter to from NAEYC informing Irma Alvarez, School Director, of this valuable extension of its accreditation program states: “The administration, teaching [...]
Foram Group announced today that its 600 Brickell at Brickell World Plaza office tower has received LEED® Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. The 40-story, 600,000-square-foot mixed-use commercial tower in the heart of Miami’s financial district is the only building of its kind in Florida, and one of only a handful of its [...]
Pego Lamps has been providing top-quality lighting to homes and businesses in South Florida since 1980. A family owned and operated business, Pego Lamps features quality lighting for sale in two locations. They also offer lighting, lighting accessories and home decorating items online at their Pego Lamps website, www.pegolamps.com. The flagship store continues to operate [...]
The Guardian Ad Litem Program of Miami-Dade County is pleased to announce our participation in the Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run 5k (3.1 miles) on April 25, 2013 at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida at 6:45pm. The even twill be benefitting the United Way. In addition to our wonderful staff members and volunteers participating in the run/walk [...]
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP announced that Government Relations & Land Development partner, Brian S. Adler, was elected Chairman of the SAVE Dade Board of Directors in 2013, an organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and defending equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Miami-Dade County. As Chairman of SAVE Dade, Mr. [...]
CocoWalk, Coconut Grove’s preeminent open-air shopping and dining destination, is soaring into 2013. Tourists and locals are now welcome to visit the CocoWalk Visitor Center, as recently proclaimed by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB). The modern “high heel” brochure stand offers information on hundreds of things to do in Miami and the [...]
After 24 years, the highly anticipated St. Stephen’s Art Show (SSAS) will open doors on the three-day festival, Saturday February 16th through Monday February 18th with 160 artists This years poster by Rasa Saldaitas was chosen for its magnificent texture and the artists message that beauty is in the everyday. “This show surprised me with [...]
North Miami resident Dayle Fragin recently passed her 10,000th hour of volunteering at the Humane Society of Greater Miami, and Freddi Hyman has 5,000 hours under her belt. Why do people volunteer at the Humane Society of Greater Miami? It’s a good feeling to know that you are helping animals in need and making a [...]
United Way of Miami-Dade is recruiting 300 volunteers to become readers at more than 30 early learning centers throughout Miami-Dade County as part of its ReadingPals program. A $116,000 private grant for each of the next three years from Carol Jenkins Barnett, chair and president of Publix Super Markets Charities, and Barney Barnett, Publix vice [...]
