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…

Today we participated in our first Virtual Legislative Planning Board Hearing with the City of Miami Beach, and our Fontainbleau Ballroom Expansion was unanimously approved! The design is composed of a faceted curtain wall, angled roof trellis, and “bowtie” cladding. These elements express the rich history and architecture of the Fontainbleau Resort in a contemporary language. #nbww #architecture #miamibeach #miami #fontainbleau #mimo #morrislapidus #hospitality #hospitalityarchitects #thenewnormal #wfh

Michael Jordan is the principal owner of a golf club, named The Grove XXIII, in Florida. It’s invite-only. Here’s what you need to know about it. By: Josh Berhow If you’ve been watching ESPN’s “The Last Dance” the last four Sunday nights (and again tonight), then you are well-aware of Michael Jordan’s love for the golf course. But did you know he actually has his own golf club? Well, he does, because why wouldn’t he? Here are five things you…

“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…