Business News tracks the transactions reshaping Miami: land sales, development approvals, chains taking over independent storefronts, hotel and office projects, hiring and layoffs. Each story asks a local question first, namely what changes for the people who walk past that address every morning.
Development deals, chains arriving, office and hotel projects, hiring and closures across Miami-Dade, reported for their effect on a particular block.
Every business operating in Miami-Dade County, from a Calle Ocho storefront to a Hialeah food truck, needs a Local Business Tax Receipt, and businesses inside city limits need a second one from City Hall.
The session's crop arrived with the new fiscal year, and Miami-Dade agencies spent the summer putting them into practice.
The court rejected a bid to block the DeSantis-drawn map on June 10; Miami-area districts stay as redrawn while the underlying case continues.
The state and the Army Corps signed the accelerated agreement on April 13, moving the project five years ahead and easing Lake Okeechobee pressure on both coasts.
The governor's office announced the seventh-straight record year on February 20, and Miami-Dade's ports and airport do much of the feeding.
The Floridians First proposal more than lifts seaport funding above last year's line, and PortMiami has historically taken the largest share.
State regulators approved deeper multiperil reductions than the insurer's own board proposed, with savings arriving on spring renewals.
The Legislature's plan keeps Sadowski Trust dollars flowing to Miami-Dade, but at roughly half of what housing programs received this year.
A $1.5 million ramp project began January 19 as the district also advances a premium transit study along NW 27th Avenue.
Fatima Perez and Richard Blanco Jr. return to the Greater Miami Expressway Agency as their terms go to the Senate for confirmation.