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• Scenes from the ING Miami Marathon: the runners cross Belle Isle

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  They wore running gear and wedding gowns, kooky headgear and Kinesio tape, their own names (Go, Charles!) and the names of honored loved ones on their shirts and hats and shorts. And on their faces, the 25,000 or so runners, … Continue reading → [...]
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• Standard Hotel expansion gets lukewarm reception from Belle Isle residents

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  Belle Isle residents gave a The Standard hotel an uneven reception to its proposal to tear down its east wing to make room for a 160-space mechanical parking structure and a new, two- story building. In a presentation Wednesday night … Continue reading → [...]
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• Standard Hotel hosts Belle Isle residents tonight for expansion overview

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  The management of The Standard, the boutique hotel on Belle Isle in the old Lido Spa, meets with residents tonight at 6 p.m. to present plans for renovating part of the hotel and adding a mechanized parking structure. Belle Isle … Continue reading → [...]
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• Get ready for the ING Marathon on Sunday

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  The 2013 ING Marathon and half-marathon — the huge community event that brings 25,000 runners across the Belle Isle and the Venetian Causeway — returns in one week, on Sunday, Jan. 27. Ask the runners, and most will tell you … Continue reading → [...]
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• Collins Canal bike path should be complete by late April, city says

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  Stalled work on the Collins Canal seawall and bike path has resumed, and the project should be complete in late April, Belle Isle residents were told this week. Construction on the seawall and bike path was halted last fall after … Continue reading → [...]
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• The Standard plans renovation, construction of robotic parking structure

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  The Standard, the hip hotel and spa in the renovated Lido Spa on Belle Isle, is planning an ambitious reconstruction that includes rebuilding a wing of rooms and constructing a mechanical on-site parking structure. “The Standard is looking at an … Continue reading → [...]
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• Parttime Belle Isle resident wins case at Supreme Court

  Fane Lozman, former Marine, commodities trader and civic activist, won his case before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. He’s on the front page of The Miami Herald today. In a 7-2 decision, the Supremes decided the city of Riviera … Continue reading → [...]
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• Galbut unveils plans to 440-unit apartment-retail project to West Avenue Corridor residents

  The project that developer Russell Galbut wants to build to replace the crumbling South Shore Hospital building will house 440 rental apartments above 60,000-square feet of retail space with a swath of green space facing Fifth Street and underground parking … Continue reading → [...]
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• Toll delay: SunPass will come to the Venetian Causeway by 2014

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  A year ago, Mike Bauman, who heads Miami-Dade County’s Causeway Division, said the Venetian Causeway toll collection would be converted to SunPass by fall of 2012. This week, Belle Isle residents will learn why that hasn’t happened — along with … Continue reading → [...]
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• Galbut to present 600 Alton Road plans to West Avenue association

  The owners of South Shore Hospital, the gutted structure at the foot of the MacArthur Causeway that’s been an eyesore since Hurricane Wilma in October 2005, will present plans for a new development on the property at a community meeting … Continue reading → [...]
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