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Miami’s new mayor has raised questions about the city’s $400-million Forever Bond program. Members of the Oversight Board who track program spending say the answers to those questions are hiding in plain sight.

Brevard County’s southern barrier island — one of the least developed areas on Florida’s Atlantic coast — is a quaint, still pristine paradise to the few thousand people who settled in mostly bungalow-style homes, many of them escapees from Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and other places they say were over-developed. And it all seemed at risk just a few years ago.

The Downtown Neighbors Alliance sent a letter to Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia asking him to probe the Downtown Development Authority, also known as the DDA.

The scion of a New York family of builders, he rescued the Fontainebleau hotel from bankruptcy, spurring a real estate boom.

Lake Worth Beach officials are proposing a 33,000 square-foot museum and mixed-use art campus to be located downtown — with a price tag at around $19 million.

The Florida Keys is poised to see a flurry of new development — despite warnings that island chain is already overpopulated with worsening traffic and rising flooding risks — thanks to a new bill set to become law at the end of the month.

West Grove residents are organizing their response to the contentious demolition and redevelopment plan of the Coconut Grove Playhouse happening in their backyard. They're hoping to push back against the commercialization of the space.

The Macfarlane and Golden Gate subdivisions have deep historic ties to the foundation of Coral Gables, and Miami more broadly. Now, a permanent marker on the corner of U.S. 1 and Grand Avenue memorializes that history.

An independent cost review of Key Biscayne's first phase of its massive infrastructure rehaul has found that an engineering firm's estimates were mostly correct. However, the cost of replacing stormwater pipes in the neighborhood around the elementary school was significantly higher than initially estimated.

For 30 years, developers and conservationists fought over the flowered sand banks of Castle Hill in Lake County. As construction crews move in, a driven group of plant experts and retirees races to salvage the area’s native plants.

The old movie theater at Loehmann’s is gone and the rest of the center is undergoing demolition but development plans remain uncertain.

The delay is only a week, but it was indicative of the unsettled and increasingly bitter mood surrounding the project and the current municipal election, where some candidates want to slam the brakes on parts of the Big Dig, the biggest public works project in the island’s history.