Andres Viglucci

Florida engineers are developing new designs for a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University five years after the catastrophic collapse of the previous pedestrian bridge.

Under a $148 million Miami-Dade County plan recently ratified by Florida and federal highway officials, the historic but badly deteriorated bridges along the Venetian will be replaced.

Hurricane Ian’s devastation on the Southwest Florida coast sent a chill up the spine of anyone in Miami worried about the next big one — and it sharpened the focus of federal planners working to design and build new barriers to avoid a similar outcome for Miami-Dade.

Spanish-language social media and so-called influencers on YouTube and other platforms are rapidly becoming the chief source of news and information about Cuba among Cubans and Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade County.

In what’s being billed as one of the biggest and most ambitious urban redevelopment schemes in the country, Miami-Dade County has packaged 17 acres of downtown real estate and put it up for bid. The project would include a couple thousand apartments as affordable and workforce housing, and a new main library. But it could mark the end for the HistoryMiami cultural center.

A developer of luxury townhomes is buying the entire block just west of downtown Coral Gables and plans to raze all 13 buildings on it. That means 52 affordable, centrally located and critically needed rental apartments will disappear.

The Florida Legislature’s failure to pass a bill mandating regular condominium inspections leaves in place a lax regimen experts say is full of glaring loopholes that endanger residents of aging buildings.

The fair had been scheduled to take place Dec. 3-6 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.