Inside Russell Galbut’s play for Miami-Dade’s historic courthouse

Russell Galbut and Moishe Mana are vying for the site of Miami-Dade County’s historic courthouse after a months-long auction failed to attract a buyer. Galbut offered to pay the county’s $35 million asking price as part of his redevelopment proposal. He wants to build a 70-story apartment tower near the courthouse steps at ​​73 West Flagler Street, adding ground-floor restaurants and café space and converting the upper floors with hotel rooms, offices and a bar at the top of the tower where the county jail was previously housed, the Miami Herald reported.  The developer’s proposal, submitted by GFO Acquisitions to […]

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