Looks like Lennar Homes, the country’s second biggest homebuilder and longtime Miami-Dade campaign donor, is back at the county commission asking for a little favor — the kind that turns farmland into profit. On the agenda for Thursday’s meeting: Application No. CDMP20250003 — doesn’t that sound friendly? — which is really about turning 20.1 acres […]
More farmland in the Redland went poof last week when the Miami-Dade Commission approved an application so developers can build Bluenest at Krome: 700 townhomes on 91 acres zoned for 223 single family, detached homes. The change in zoning from “estate density residential,” to “low-medium density” was approved at the Community Development Master Plan meeting […]
Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla lost his house to a foreclosure sale last November, even though he is fighting it now in court. And on Thursday, he lost the family farm. A Krome Avenue property owned by Diaz de la Portilla, who was suspended last September after he was arrested on a […]