City of Doral March Council Meeting - Keep Doral Beautiful Award, Girls Scouts and Doral White Course

This past March 14th, 2012, City of Doral had its monthly Council Meeting. Some of the topics discussed in the meeting include the "Keep Doral Beautiful" Award, the proclamation to Girls Scout troop and the issues with the redevelopment of the White Course at Doral.

For this month, the Keep Doral Beautiful award was given to the McDonalds at 9501 NW 41st St (Next to Univision Studios). This venue is operated by Menendez Management, a family operated company. They operate the six McDonalds in Doral. As a side note, Mr. Pete Menendez reminded that their McDonalds offer discounts to military personal.

The next item was the proclamation by Mayor Bermudez of the Girl Scouts' 100 anniversary. With this, 12 of March marked the Girl Scouts 100 anniversary. As an interest fact, Doral troop of Girls Scouts is the largest in Miami Dade County.

Another item discussed in the agenda was the push to get Doral citizens to get more involved in the future development of the White golf course in Doral. Commissioner Borgia encouraged citizens to understand the benefits and consequences of this development.

ComReal Miami will be at the next Council Meeting on April 11th 2012 at 6:00PM.

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Edison Vasquez | Industrial Associate

ComReal Miami, Inc. | Commercial Real Estate Services2335 NW 107th Avenue, Suite #2M02, Box 126

Doral, Florida, USA 33172

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City of Doral Council Meeting - Keep Doral Beautiful - Doral Trolley - Highlights

This past Wednesday February 08, 2012, City of Doral had its monthly Council Meeting. Among the items discussed, was a report of the performance of Doral Trolley, according to the City, rider ship has increased and now is up to an average of 17,000 riders/month. The City currently has 2 routes and will start a new route, Route 3. Visit City of Doral for more information.

The Mayor and City Councils also awarded the Keep Doral Beautiful Award to Sarlam Condominium Association, a warehouse building on NW 36th ST. The owners of the properties have made improvements to the landscape and keep the good image of the zone. Every month, City of Doral awards property owners who keep a good image to their properties and improve the overall image of City of Doral.

The complete agenda from the meeting can be found in this link.

The next Council Meeting will be on Wednesday March 14th, 2012 at 6:00PM. Meetings are 8300 NW 53rd ST Doral, FL 33166.

ComReal Miami, located in Doral, attends the City Council Meetings to keep up to date with relevant information to property owners in Doral. Feel free to visit our website to contact us for more information. 786-433-2380

Doral stimulus projects claim to create over 3,000 jobs costing over $90,000,000

Doral stimulus projects claim to create over 3,000 jobs costing over $90,000,000.

The proposed purchase of Doral commercial properties include public works, police, city hall, charter school and a recreation center. Doral distribution and trucking companies often complain about the proximity of schools that often cause congestion and access problems to their Doral warehouses. Another negative effect is that as the government buys Doral commercial properties, less ad valorem taxes will be collected which puts a larger burden on the remaining private owners to pay in. I hear of an upcoming Miami tea party to protest the high government spending.

So what would benefit Doral's economy more? Perhaps if the U.S. Congress approved the outstanding trade agreements with Colombia, Mexico and Korea. The Doral import/export market is tremendous with many Doral warehouses serving Miami international trade. More Doral manufacturing and exporting means more jobs.

For more information on the Doral stimulus projects in Doral visit http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_city/Doral/FL and/or http://www.usmayors.org/mser/stimulussurveyparticipantsdata.asp?City=Doral&State=FL. You can also easily search other cities across the state and country.

For 30 years, ComReal Miami has been based in Doral and has played an integral role in Doral's commercial development. Currently, ComReal represents over 1,000,000 sq. ft. of Miami Airport West and Doral warehouse spaces. In 2003, ComReal Miami negotiated with the City of Doral for it's lease acquisition of Doral office space on NW 53 Street.

Doral Freight Forwarder purchases property in Doral

Edward J. Redlich, SIOR, CCIM of ComReal Miami has announced the sale and purchase transaction of a 17,000 sq. ft. warehouse. The Class A, free-standing warehouse is located at 10850 NW 30th Street. in Doral, within the Beacon Industrial Park.

The sales price was $2,635,000 or $155 psf. The Seller was Gateway Warehouse & Consolidators; the Buyer was a Doral freight forwarder and packaging business and is originally from Venezuela.

“There are over two dozen warehouse buildings of this size on the market right now in the Miami Airport West submarket,” states Ed Redlich. “Although the prices per square foot of such warehouses have decreased from the highest sale of about $175 psf last year, values are still relatively high. I think a lot has to do with the fact that Miami is at the center of this hemisphere’s economy.”

The Espinosa family owns & operates Gateway Warehouses & Consolidators, which imports products from overseas and distributes them both domestically and to the South & Central Americas and Caribbean. This is the second time, in less than a year, that Redlich has represented them in a major transaction. In October 2006, Redlich represented The Espinosa’s in the purchase of their 40,000 sq. ft. Class A warehouse located nearby at 11125 NW 29 Street, also located in BIP, for $4,250,000.

Fernando Espinosa, Jr. is delighted to work with ComReal and Redlich for their “relentless pursuit and tireless effort”. Espinosa also added, “We required a specific building in a specific area, and Redlich found it when all others could not. Our company is extremely grateful and will always consider ComReal part of our team.”

For more information on this transaction, call Edward Redlich, SIOR, CCIM at (786) 433-2379, eredlich@comreal.com or visit www.edwardredlich.com