MYKA | Miami Beach
A Greek yogurt ice cream shop will open its first U.S. outpost at Robert Rivani’s Lincoln Theatre building in Miami Beach.
MYKA will open a 550-square-foot shop on Dec. 8 at Lincoln Theatre, according to a news release from Rivani’s eponymously named firm. Founded in Madrid by Natalia Morales and Javier Ezquerro, MYKA has outposts in 16 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.
Miami Beach-based Rivani paid $37 million in August for the Art Deco Lincoln Theatre building, a former theater now anchored by H&M, at 551 Lincoln Road.
In 2022, Rivani moved his firm’s headquarters from Los Angeles to Miami Beach, and has been investing in and renovating Miami Beach properties since then.
Playboy’s parent company, PLBY Group, will move its headquarters to Rivani’s office building at 1691 Michigan Avenue, from Los Angeles. Rivani is renovating the building, called The Rivani, and branded it as Class X to designate the caliber of the property.
Also at The Rivani, The h.wood Group is partnering with Rivani to open a Tokyo-inspired speakeasy.
Epic Stoneworks | Opa-locka
A stone supplier will move its Miami-Dade County industrial facility to Opa-locka.
Epic Stoneworks leased the entire 2.4-acre industrial outdoor site at 12705 Cairo Lane, including the 3,000-square-foot office building and 5,500-square-foot warehouse, according to a news release from the tenant’s broker.
Epic Stoneworks, which has its own stone quarry and also supplies stone from elsewhere, will move in the first quarter from its current space at 10605 Southwest 186th Street in south Miami-Dade’s West Perrine neighborhood.
Matthew Rotolante and Conner Milford of Lee & Associates South Florida represented the tenant.
KC Realty, an entity managed by Jose Carrero of Aventura and Nathan Kestenman, owns the Opa-locka property.
The lease marks a big expansion for Epic Stoneworks. Its West Perrine space consists of a 5,000-square-foot warehouse on a 0.6-acre property, records show.
Family First Life, Poliakoff Backer, more | Boca Raton
CDS Realty Investments’ Peninsula Plaza office building scored four new tenants.
In the biggest lease, insurance marketing organization and brokerage Family First Life took 6,500 square feet at the building at 2424 North Federal Highway in Boca Raton, according to a news release from the landlord’s broker.
Law firm Poliakoff Backer, and Austin-based independent registered investment adviser Echelon Financial each leased 5,400 square feet. The fourth tenant, an unidentified boutique brokerage focused on group health insurance, leased 1,900 square feet, the release says.
Brady Titcomb of JLL represented the landlord.
George Casey of Total Real Estate Consultants represented Family First Life, John Jaspert of CBRE represented Poliakoff Backer, Jason Stagman of Stagman Commercial Real Estate Advisors represented Echelon Financial, and Silvana Benitez of LRM Commercial Real Estate Advisors represented the boutique insurance brokerage.
CDS Realty is tied to Carl DeSantis’ Delray Beach-based CDS International Holdings, which has diverse investments, including in Celsius Holdings, Tabañero hot sauce and several South Florida office buildings.
CDS Realty paid $23.1 million for the four-story, 163,600-square-foot Peninsula Plaza in 2000, according to records.
Del Mar | Fort Lauderdale
A Mediterranean-inspired restaurant opened its first Southeast Florida outpost in Fort Lauderdale.
Columbus, Ohio-based Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, led by Cameron Mitchell, leased 17,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor dining space for Del Mar at the oceanfront Auberge Beach Residences & Spa, according to the tenant’s news release. This marks Del Mar’s largest restaurant and its first on the waterfront.
The Auberge condo towers are at 2200 North Ocean Boulevard.
The restaurant, which is led by general manager Travis Cusack and executive chef Mitch Brumels, has four private dining rooms, a beachfront bar, a wine cellar and a 5,000-square-foot outdoor terrace.
Del Mar’s other Florida outpost is in Naples. It is expected to open a roughly 12,000-square-foot restaurant at downtown West Palm Beach’s Nora District early next year, according to Del Mar’s website and the Nora developers.
Del Mar also has a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.
The Coffee | Miami
A Brazilian specialty coffee brand will open its first U.S. café in Miami’s Wynwood.
The Coffee leased 1,700 square feet at the Wynd27 apartment building, where the outpost will have seating for 42 guests, according to the tenant’s news release. The coffee shop is expected to open at 136 Northwest 27th Street on Wednesday.
The Coffee, led by CEO Carlos Fertonani, was founded in 2018 and has expanded to nearly 25 countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America. It’s known for its Japanese-inspired minimalist aesthetic.
New York-based Kushner Companies and the Miculitzki family’s Wynwood-based Block Capital Group developed Wynd27 as part of the two-building multifamily project that also includes the Wynd28 building.
New-to-market firm in food industry | Medley
First Industrial Realty Trust and Butters Construction & Development scored a tenant at their First Park Miami in Medley.
An unnamed firm leased 55,600 square feet at the warehouse at 8801 Northwest 87th Avenue, according to a news release from the tenant’s broker.
Erin Byers and Lauren Pace were part of the Colliers team that represented the tenant. Devin White of CBRE represented the landlord.
The name of the tenant wasn’t released. Byers only said it’s a new-to-market firm in the food industry.
Chicago-based First Industrial and Coconut Creek-based Butters are developing First Park Miami.
Once fully built out, the industrial campus will consist of 13 buildings spanning 2.5 million square feet on a 126-acre site. The building at 8801 Northwest 87th Avenue was completed in 2022, according to records.
maman | Miami
French-inspired café and bakery maman will open its second outpost in Brickell.
maman, which also offers apparel and home goods, leased 1,900 square feet at a ground-floor commercial unit at the Brickell House condo tower at 1300 Brickell Bay Drive in Miami, where it will open on Monday, according to the tenant’s news release. The outpost will have indoor seating for 28 and outdoor seating for 36.
Founded in 2014 in New York, maman has expanded to more than 50 outposts in the U.S. In South Florida, the café is in Aventura, Coral Gables, Edgewater, Miami Design District, Miami Beach’s South Beach and Sunset Harbour, and Wynwood.
Its existing Brickell outpost is at 98 Southeast Eighth Street, according to maman’s website.
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