Royal Palm hotel in bankruptcy fight

Six years after opening the Royal Palm, developer R. Donahue Peebles has put the entity that owns the South Beach hotel into bankruptcy protection amid a dispute with the lender trying to foreclose on the property.

Cushman & Wakefield exec to launch own real estate firm

Tere Blanca, a top commercial real estate executive in Florida and current chair of Miami-Dade County's economic development arm, The Beacon Council, is going out on her own.

Florida land-buying program could be on chopping block

The Florida Senate is considering halting the state's premier land-buying program, Florida Forever, to stave off more pressing budget cuts.

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National Association of Home Builders push $150 billion plan

With lawmakers angling to pass an economic recovery package by the middle of next month, desperate home builders from around the country flew to Washington to spend Wednesday pushing a $150 billion plan to revive the housing market.

Home-equity credit delinquencies rise

Late payments on home-equity lines of credit rose to a record in the third quarter, showing consumers remain under financial stress as unemployment rises amid the credit crisis, the American Bankers Association reported.

COVER STORY

Goldman family bets on a Wynwood revival

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Joey Goldman sat at the bar of his new Wynwood restaurant, looked out at empty tables, and figured the place would end the day losing money.

• Wynwood a blank canvas for urban renewal

Real estate listings from Michael Y. Cannon

Location: 2734 E. Oakland Park Blvd. Seller: A.T.2.B, represented by Andree Brocvielle, president. Buyer: Aurea Investments, represented by Bernel Alfredo, managing member.

Wildflower auto tag sales pay for butterfly gardens, science projects

Bright red spikes of salvia flowers swayed in the winter breeze next to blue-flowering porterweed. Yellowtops, with flattish clusters of flowers, were forming a little colony, while the black-eyed Susans and the red-yellow Indian blankets formed sweeps of color in the wildflower beds at Broward College's north campus in Coconut Creek.

• Butterfly photos on display

OMBUDSMAN OFFICE

Mediators foresee gloom, doom in condo industry

Working for the state's Office of the Condominium Ombudsman is dirty, sometimes even ''disgusting,'' work, say Bill and Susan Raphan, who supervise the Fort Lauderdale satellite office.

Affordable Victoria's Armoire has evolved over the years

Seventeen years ago, Eddie and Anna Fuentes opened Victoria's Armoire in the Coral Gables building that house his father's printing business with a self-serving motive: Newly married, they wanted good furniture but couldn't afford the antiques they liked.