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  • EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

    How much money does South Florida make?

    See how much South Florida's top executives get paid. Compare your pay with others in your industry and across South Florida.

    BENEFITS COMPENSATION

    When a paycheck is not enough

    The Miami Herald and Watson Wyatt surveyed 31 large local employers to help provide a picture of what types of benefits employees in South Florida receive.

    MEDICARE

    Selecting a Medicare plan may get easier

    Florida seniors enrolled in a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan will have a lot of sorting to do when the open enrollment period for 2008 begins.

    FOCUS ON SMALL BUSINESS

    Helping your business grow

    There are many ways for a small business to expand. We explore four: Reaching out to the global marketplace, making the leap from a home office to more professional digs, franchising your business and becoming a franchisee.

    DOWNTOWN MIAMI

    Fallout over Flagler

    We asked you to tell us what was wrong with downtown Miami's central business district, and did you ever: Dirty streets. Poor lighting. Inadequate parking -- and parks. Police nowhere in sight.

    READY TO AVOID THE DRIVE: Christian Rodriguez and his mother, Ada Portillo, enjoy shopping at the Whole Foods in Aventura. In October 2006, they were preparing to move to the Met Miami condo in downtown West Miami-Dade County, where they will be able to enjoy a Whole Foods market close to their residence.

    RETAIL

    Spaces to live, work and play

    Ada Portillo is tired of trekking 45 minutes from her West Miami-Dade County home just to eat a nice dinner. After she moves into her downtown condo at Met Miami, restaurants, a movie theater and a grocery will be right there.

    THE MARKET

    Real estate reality

    Planning to buy or sell your home in 2007? Look around first at the ''For Sale'' signs in your neighborhood -- they are key to understanding the housing market this year.

    HOUSING

    Middle class exodus

    He was known as Gator on KISS Country, 99.9 FM. But these days, Kevin Kilpatrick is living in the land of catfish and grits rather than gators and bagels.

    BIG PLANS: In 2005, this rendering of the condo tower was envisioned for the area behind 
the historic Freedom Tower.

    High-rises, high hopes

    In downtown, from Brickell Avenue north to the Edgewater neighborhood, up the Miami River and down historic Coral Way, great chunks of Old Miami are fast disappearing in a cloud of dust. In its place, the New Miami -- a dense, steel-and-glass forest of condo towers -- is rising from the rubble.

    Town centers are reinventing retail

    It would have been easier back in the early 1980s to build a shopping mall in Miami Lakes instead of a town center. But Carol Wyllie believed in remaining true to her father's vision when he created the city.

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