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Supposedly it gets good on Saturdays
Supposedly it gets good on Saturdays
Sunday, Oct. 11
Miami Broward One Carnival
Enjoy the annual parade of bands and concert at the Miami-Dade Fairgrounds, 10901 SW 24th St., from 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Tickets $27. www.miamibrowardcarnival.com
Viacom moves into new film studio in downtown Miami
Viacom International has committed to a three-year stint at the new facility
The 88,000 square-foot studio features two sounstages with 40-foot ceilings
The studio is a joint venture between the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency and EUE/Screen Gems studios
Billboards outside the new Viacom International Studios facility in downtown Miami. EUE/SCREEN GEMS
By Rene Rodriguez
rrodriguez@miamiherald.com
Viacom International has committed to a three-year stint at the new facility
The 88,000 square-foot studio features two sounstages with 40-foot ceilings
The studio is a joint venture between the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency and EUE/Screen Gems studios
Billboards outside the new Viacom International Studios facility in downtown Miami. EUE/SCREEN GEMS
By Rene Rodriguez
rrodriguez@miamiherald.com
- Viacom International Studios, which produces shows for Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central worldwide, has set up shop in downtown Miami.
The company will move into the 88,000 square-foot facility at 50 NW 14th Street unveiled Monday by the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency. Built at a cost of just over $14.5 million, the structure features two high-tech 15,000 square-foot sound stages with 40-foot ceilings, along with ample office space and post-production, dressing, wardrobe and conference rooms.
The building is the result of a public-private partnership between the CRA and EUE/Screen Gems Studios, a film and television studio company that operates 22 studios over 85 acres in New York, Georgia and North Carolina. Construction on the facility began last year. Viacom signed on to a three-year commitment on Aug. 5, the company said Monday.
“We’ve been building up so much volume of production in Miami, it was difficult to sustain it with third parties,” says Pierluigi Gazzolo, president of Viacom International Media Networks Americas and executive vice-president of Nickelodeon International. Previously, Viacom had been leasing various studio spaces and crews in Miami to produce shows such as Every Witch Way, the Nickelodeon teen sitcom about an adolescent witch currently in its fourth season, and its spin-off WITS Academy, which premiered on Nickelodeon Oct. 5.
“When we heard that EUE was doing their studio here, we jumped at the opportunity,” Gazzolo says. “Having one studio located five minutes from the airport and five minutes from the beach makes our job much easier, particularly if you’re trying to produce different series at the same time.”
EUE/Screen Gems, which will supervise the day-to-day operations and ensure the facility is operational will lease the building from the Omni CRA for 10 years at annual rent of $100,000, plus 11 percent of gross revenues.
Chris c00ney, the COO of EUE, says the dollar amount of the deal with Viacom was “proprietary.”
“We had worked with [Viacom] in Atlanta for five years, and we understand the needs of a producer,” says c00ney, who negotiated the deal with Viacom. EUE will provide all the hardware – cameras, lighting, electrical equipment – and serve as the liaison between the CRA and Viacom. “We have the best service in the business – that’s our hallmark – and I’m very proud of this partnership, because it was not easy to accomplish.”
Pieter A. Bockweg, executive director of the CRA, says the studio will have a dramatic fiscal impact on the Omni area in terms of economic development, creating “thousands” of direct and indirect jobs. Viacom will have 24 full-time employees working at the location, and will hire “hundreds” of crew members technicians and on-camera talent on a show-per-show basis. About 95 percent of them will be based in South Florida.
“From our perspective, the return-on-investment won’t be just dollar-for-dollar,” Bockweg says. “You will be able to see a big economic impact on the community, and Miami-Dade, very quickly once production starts. The impact will be instantaneous.”
Viacom International Studios, which will keep its long-time South Florida corporate headquarters at 1111 Lincoln Road, plans to move into its new digs in early November. The company currently employs 150 people in South Florida. Production on shows will start in January – the same month the Florida legislature will revisit the state’s depleted film and entertainment tax incentive programs designed to lure out-of-town productions to shoot here.
Speaking at a Monday press conference at which the studio was unveiled, City of Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado expressed hope that a new Florida tax-incentive program would be put into place “so we can be the Hollywood of the South.”
In an interview afterward, Carlos Lopez-Cantera, Lieutenant Governor of Florida, admitted the future of the state’s tax-incentive program was unclear. “We need to make sure that whatever product the legislature comes up with has a demonstrable return on investment for the taxpayers of Florida,” he says. “We need to be to quantify a return on those tax dollars via jobs and capital investment.”
But c00ney says that while tax incentives are important, they are not driving the new deal with Viacom.
“This is about keeping an indigenous producer who could have gone anywhere here,” he says. “That’s a testament to the strength of South Florida as a place to do great work.”
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The population in Miami has grown at a faster rate than any other large U.S. city since 2008, according to a new study.
Miami is also the top ranked city for full-time job growth. Proportionally, more full time jobs were created in Miami during that period than any other major city.
Overall, Miami ranks second behind Austin in Wallethub’s index of large cities that have expanded most rapidly in socioeconomic terms between 2008 and 2014. The index included 10 key metrics, and Miami also ranked highly in measures of poverty rate decrease, growth in the number of small businesses, and household income growth.
Data for the study was obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Miami Adding People And Jobs Faster Than Any Other Major City
Miami is also the top ranked city for full-time job growth. Proportionally, more full time jobs were created in Miami during that period than any other major city.
Overall, Miami ranks second behind Austin in Wallethub’s index of large cities that have expanded most rapidly in socioeconomic terms between 2008 and 2014. The index included 10 key metrics, and Miami also ranked highly in measures of poverty rate decrease, growth in the number of small businesses, and household income growth.
Data for the study was obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Miami Adding People And Jobs Faster Than Any Other Major City
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Von!!!
Appreciation?
i mentioned earlier in the thread that miami been real deal gangsta for a minute
E. David Rosen, attorney for mob boss Meyer Lansky, dies at 90
Zealously guarded secrets of his clients, son says
Federal judge: Rosen was once Miami’s ‘go-to’ defense attorney
Attorney E. David Rosen, right, in his office with reputed mafia financier Meyer Lansky, left, in 1982. Kathy Willens AP
By Jay Weaver
Miami attorney E. David Rosen defended the reputed financial wizard of organized crime in America for years, yet he never said a word about Meyer Lansky outside the courtroom.
That was Rosen’s style, total discretion.
It was only recently — before the 90-year-old legal lion died of a lung disease on Saturday — that he let his relatives in on a seemingly benign secret about his infamous client: Lansky always addressed him as “Mr. Rosen,” or “Counselor,” never calling him by his first name.
Rosen’s son, Michael, who as a criminal defense lawyer worked with his father for 25 years, said he was a “legend” in the courtroom, attracting clients like Lansky because they respected him while he zealously guarded their confidences.
He said that his father, who launched his legal career as a federal prosecutor before starting his own law firm in the mid-1950s, drew spectators.
“When David Rosen was giving a closing argument, the defense bar and prosecutors would rush to the courthouse,” his son recalled Monday. “My dad would say in his usual self-deprecating manner, ‘I always thought my cross was better than my closing.’”
A prominent Miami criminal defense attorney, Joel Hirschhorn, called Rosen “the most understated yet powerful criminal tax defense lawyer in the country. Nobody could touch him. There are no words to describe E. David Rosen’s ability to read the cards in court. When he spoke, we all listened.”
Rosen was born in Pittsburgh in 1925. His parents, Nathan and Anna Rosen, moved him and his three brothers to Miami Beach in his teens. Rosen graduated at 17 from Miami Beach Senior High School, where he served as class president. He enlisted in the Navy and saw action in the Pacific.
The Navy also sent him to the University of Notre Dame, University of North Carolina and Harvard University to receive training in engineering and communications. After the war, he attended the University of Miami School of Law. He joined the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami in the early 1950s.
He caught the eye of a New York lawyer, Barnie Fleischer, who worked in Miami and specialized in defending clients charged with income-tax violations. Rosen also represented many lawyers, doctors and organized crime figures during his storied career.
His most notorious client was Lansky, who was pals and partners with vice overlord Charles “Lucky” Luciano and mobster-gambler Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. They made a small fortune off bootlegging in New York and New Jersey, then Lansky built an empire in the postwar era around gambling — with legal establishments in Las Vegas and Cuba and illegal venues in Miami.
But in the early 1970s, federal authorities began investigating allegations that Lansky and others had skimmed at least $14 million from the Flamingo Hotel casino in Las Vegas. Lansky, who had been hiding in Israel to avoid extradition to the United States, was charged with criminal contempt for not answering a subpoena to appear before the grand jury in Miami.
And when he was later indicted in the skimming case, Lansky was forced to return to Miami because no other country would take him.
Lansky faced trial on the contempt charge in a packed central courtroom before U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King. The jury, who all knew the aging mobster by reputation, convicted him. King sentenced him to one year and a day in prison, but allowed him to stay free on bond at Rosen’s request while he appealed the conviction. If he lost the appeal, King said, Lansky would have to surrender to start his prison term.
A grateful Lansky thanked the judge, King recalled on Tuesday. “He looked at me dead serious, and said ‘Judge, I will not let you down.’’’
Lansky won his appeal on the contempt conviction, but stood trial again in the skimming case in Miami. He was acquitted of tax-evasion charges in 1973. A decade later, Lansky died at 80 in Miami Beach.
Years after the contempt trial, King said he asked Rosen if he correctly heard what his client had said to him in court. Rosen told the judge: “Yes, and he meant it.”
King praised Rosen as the “go-to” criminal defense attorney of his generation.
“Before there was Jay Hogan and Roy Black, there was David Rosen,” King said, referring to two high-profile criminal defense lawyers in Miami.
The family is holding a private service. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Legal Services of Greater Miami, 3000 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33137.
E. David Rosen, attorney for mob boss Meyer Lansky, dies at 90
E. David Rosen, attorney for mob boss Meyer Lansky, dies at 90
Zealously guarded secrets of his clients, son says
Federal judge: Rosen was once Miami’s ‘go-to’ defense attorney
Attorney E. David Rosen, right, in his office with reputed mafia financier Meyer Lansky, left, in 1982. Kathy Willens AP
By Jay Weaver
Miami attorney E. David Rosen defended the reputed financial wizard of organized crime in America for years, yet he never said a word about Meyer Lansky outside the courtroom.
That was Rosen’s style, total discretion.
It was only recently — before the 90-year-old legal lion died of a lung disease on Saturday — that he let his relatives in on a seemingly benign secret about his infamous client: Lansky always addressed him as “Mr. Rosen,” or “Counselor,” never calling him by his first name.
Rosen’s son, Michael, who as a criminal defense lawyer worked with his father for 25 years, said he was a “legend” in the courtroom, attracting clients like Lansky because they respected him while he zealously guarded their confidences.
He said that his father, who launched his legal career as a federal prosecutor before starting his own law firm in the mid-1950s, drew spectators.
“When David Rosen was giving a closing argument, the defense bar and prosecutors would rush to the courthouse,” his son recalled Monday. “My dad would say in his usual self-deprecating manner, ‘I always thought my cross was better than my closing.’”
A prominent Miami criminal defense attorney, Joel Hirschhorn, called Rosen “the most understated yet powerful criminal tax defense lawyer in the country. Nobody could touch him. There are no words to describe E. David Rosen’s ability to read the cards in court. When he spoke, we all listened.”
Rosen was born in Pittsburgh in 1925. His parents, Nathan and Anna Rosen, moved him and his three brothers to Miami Beach in his teens. Rosen graduated at 17 from Miami Beach Senior High School, where he served as class president. He enlisted in the Navy and saw action in the Pacific.
The Navy also sent him to the University of Notre Dame, University of North Carolina and Harvard University to receive training in engineering and communications. After the war, he attended the University of Miami School of Law. He joined the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami in the early 1950s.
He caught the eye of a New York lawyer, Barnie Fleischer, who worked in Miami and specialized in defending clients charged with income-tax violations. Rosen also represented many lawyers, doctors and organized crime figures during his storied career.
His most notorious client was Lansky, who was pals and partners with vice overlord Charles “Lucky” Luciano and mobster-gambler Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. They made a small fortune off bootlegging in New York and New Jersey, then Lansky built an empire in the postwar era around gambling — with legal establishments in Las Vegas and Cuba and illegal venues in Miami.
But in the early 1970s, federal authorities began investigating allegations that Lansky and others had skimmed at least $14 million from the Flamingo Hotel casino in Las Vegas. Lansky, who had been hiding in Israel to avoid extradition to the United States, was charged with criminal contempt for not answering a subpoena to appear before the grand jury in Miami.
And when he was later indicted in the skimming case, Lansky was forced to return to Miami because no other country would take him.
Lansky faced trial on the contempt charge in a packed central courtroom before U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King. The jury, who all knew the aging mobster by reputation, convicted him. King sentenced him to one year and a day in prison, but allowed him to stay free on bond at Rosen’s request while he appealed the conviction. If he lost the appeal, King said, Lansky would have to surrender to start his prison term.
A grateful Lansky thanked the judge, King recalled on Tuesday. “He looked at me dead serious, and said ‘Judge, I will not let you down.’’’
Lansky won his appeal on the contempt conviction, but stood trial again in the skimming case in Miami. He was acquitted of tax-evasion charges in 1973. A decade later, Lansky died at 80 in Miami Beach.
Years after the contempt trial, King said he asked Rosen if he correctly heard what his client had said to him in court. Rosen told the judge: “Yes, and he meant it.”
King praised Rosen as the “go-to” criminal defense attorney of his generation.
“Before there was Jay Hogan and Roy Black, there was David Rosen,” King said, referring to two high-profile criminal defense lawyers in Miami.
The family is holding a private service. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Legal Services of Greater Miami, 3000 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33137.
E. David Rosen, attorney for mob boss Meyer Lansky, dies at 90
Report: Hedge fund billionaire bought $60 million Miami Beach penthouse
Kenneth Griffin, CEO of Citadel, is reportedly the buyer of the record-breaking $60 million penthouse at Faena House
The 12,516-square-foot unit has eight bedrooms and a 70-foot-long rooftop pool
Previous record was $47 million paid for an Indian Creek mansion in 2012
The penthouse that sold for $60 million at Faena House. Faena
By Nicholas Nehamas
The Times reported that “people familiar with the deal” said Griffin, the founder and CEO of Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel, bought the eight-bedroom penthouse at Faena House in Mid-Beach for $4,794 per square foot.
Kenneth Griffin. Associated Press
Griffin grew up in Boca Raton and attended Boca Raton Community High School, according to a profile in Chicago Magazine.
$7 billion Net worth of hedge fund mogul Kenneth Griffin
Forbes pegs Griffin’s net worth at about $7 billion. He paid $10 million above asking price for the 12,516-square-foot unit at the ultra-luxury 18-story tower built by Argentine developer Alan Faena.
The deal was done through a Delaware corporation that lists no owner or board members. Delaware state law does not require companies to reveal their owners. Wealthy buyers often use such tactics to obscure their identities and prevent them from showing up in public property records.
The previous sales record for a local home was an Indian Creek mansion that went for $47 million in 2012. The record for a condo was a unit at the Continuum in South Beach that sold for $27.5 million, or $3,342 per square foot, in 2014.
Report: Hedge fund billionaire bought $60 million Miami Beach penthouse
Kenneth Griffin, CEO of Citadel, is reportedly the buyer of the record-breaking $60 million penthouse at Faena House
The 12,516-square-foot unit has eight bedrooms and a 70-foot-long rooftop pool
Previous record was $47 million paid for an Indian Creek mansion in 2012
The penthouse that sold for $60 million at Faena House. Faena
By Nicholas Nehamas
The Times reported that “people familiar with the deal” said Griffin, the founder and CEO of Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel, bought the eight-bedroom penthouse at Faena House in Mid-Beach for $4,794 per square foot.
Kenneth Griffin. Associated Press
Griffin grew up in Boca Raton and attended Boca Raton Community High School, according to a profile in Chicago Magazine.
$7 billion Net worth of hedge fund mogul Kenneth Griffin
Forbes pegs Griffin’s net worth at about $7 billion. He paid $10 million above asking price for the 12,516-square-foot unit at the ultra-luxury 18-story tower built by Argentine developer Alan Faena.
The deal was done through a Delaware corporation that lists no owner or board members. Delaware state law does not require companies to reveal their owners. Wealthy buyers often use such tactics to obscure their identities and prevent them from showing up in public property records.
The previous sales record for a local home was an Indian Creek mansion that went for $47 million in 2012. The record for a condo was a unit at the Continuum in South Beach that sold for $27.5 million, or $3,342 per square foot, in 2014.
Report: Hedge fund billionaire bought $60 million Miami Beach penthouse
@Tony_Bromo you going to jouvert and carnival?
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bout to be in miami this weekend 
Nah not this year brother, Im handling so much business I cant even party lol. Im grinding until about June next year then I can do whatever I want
soon, you may not have to conceal your burner
Openly carry guns in Florida? Bill clears first hurdle in state House
Bill would let concealed-weapons permit-holders openly carry in public
Gun-rights advocates endorse it, but critics said the proposal needs work
Rep. Matt Gaetz says the legislation ‘restores and vindicates’ Second Amendment rights
Openly carry guns in Florida? Bill clears first hurdle in state House
Openly carry guns in Florida? Bill clears first hurdle in state House
Bill would let concealed-weapons permit-holders openly carry in public
Gun-rights advocates endorse it, but critics said the proposal needs work
Rep. Matt Gaetz says the legislation ‘restores and vindicates’ Second Amendment rights
Openly carry guns in Florida? Bill clears first hurdle in state House