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The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade announces 2021 board

The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade has a few new team members onboard to continue its mission. The organization, which has provided $4 million of funding to support almost 500 programs serving over 75,000 women and girls throughout Miami-Dade County, recently appointed its 2021 board of directors. Newly elected board chair Gloria Romero Roses is a managing

Grant opportunities for arts organizations

Through its commitment to arts in South Florida, Funding Arts Broward (FAB), has awarded $3.6 million to date for organizations such as Japan Arts, Broward Performing Arts Foundation, Old Dillard Foundation, Slow Burn Theatre Company and Symphony of the Americas. And the funding continues with its 2022 grants. The volunteer-based organization is now accepting grant applications for 2022 funding. Local nonprofit arts

Aston Martin introduces DBX model at Miami residential tower

There’s a residential project in Miami set to make a suave mark on the city skyline. From global developer G&G Business Developments, Aston Martin Residences Miami, a luxury condominium tower, is the famed brand’s first real estate venture (rendering pictured above). Designed by Revuelta Architecture and Bodas Miani Anger, the striking 66-story sailboat shaped tower

Designs of the Times: Retro Interiors, Bauformat Kitchens and Luxapatio

Retro Interiors Category: Living space Big picture:  Presented with a client’s request to deliver a multifunctional living room that felt like a world-class vacation retreat—but with classical elements to give it character—the Retro team went to work, infusing this oceanfront space with subtle details and refined drama that hit all the right notes. The details:

Baptist Health opens new center in Plantation

The region’s largest not-for-profit health system—which includes 11 hospitals and more than 50 outpatient facilities—has a new presence in Broward. Baptist Health held a virtual ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new wellness and medical complex in Plantation. The 112,000-square-foot facility offers urgent care, primary care, endocrinology, cardiology, cancer care, orthopedics, spine

A&E Roundup: Early December

For the ocean. The Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation takes its fundraiser online. During the 12th annual event, Harvey and GHOF Project Manager Jessica Harvey will broadcast from their home port of Grand Cayman, where they will take viewers on a tour through the year of GHOF research. Viewers will get face to face with sharks, marlin

Metropica sees landmark sales at residential tower

At the edge of the Everglades, the Metropica is master planned community making its mark in Sunrise. And a recent sales achievement is signaling how significant the West Broward development is. ONE Metropica Residences recently saw 100 closings in 45 days. Designed by YOO, the building is the first residential offering in the 65-acre community,

Florida hospitals want you to #maskup

Florida’s hospitals are uniting to tell Floridians to wear masks while the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Nine of Florida’s top health-care systems, representing more than 50 hospitals in the state, launched an education and awareness campaign. The collaborative public service effort by Florida hospitals will run on TV stations, in newspapers and on digital platforms as

W Fort Lauderdale

W Fort Lauderdale

Only a select few South Florida hotels possess the discernible swagger that flows freely through the contemporary spaces at W Fort Lauderdale. It helps that the 24-floor property still wears its hip, airy, nautically inspired redesign so well—a $55 million soup-to-nuts revamp, finished in 2017, that touched all 517 rooms. But it’s also the result

Hoffman’s Chocolates announces holiday philanthropic initiatives

Proving that giving is sweeter than chocolate, the Greenacres-based Hoffman’s Chocolates, with stores throughout South Florida, recently announced it will launch several philanthropic initiatives to honor local health care heroes. “At Hoffman’s Chocolates, we think it is so important to continue to celebrate our local health care heroes and support our community during the pandemic