The Coral Gables City Commission voted Tuesday to hire outside counsel to pursue additional records from the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center Association.
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Coral Gables pauses Youth Center lawsuit, but reverter clause fight remains unresolved

By Coral Gables Gazette staff After close to a year of increasingly hostile rhetoric, in which the Coral Gables Commission directed the city attorney to move forward with litigation against…

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Side-by-side image showing a rendering of the proposed mobility hub and a photo of the office building at 475 Biltmore Way in Coral Gables.
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How Coral Gables plans to fund the Mobility Hub and Biltmore Way acquisition

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables commissioners took two significant steps toward reshaping the city’s downtown at their June 2 meeting, moving the long-delayed Mobility Hub closer to construction…

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Land-use and zoning maps showing the 520 University Drive property outlined near University Drive, Riviera Drive and Cadima Avenue in Coral Gables.
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Coral Gables advances zoning change for University Drive dog park despite neighborhood opposition

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Despite opposition from a multitude of residents who live closest to the site, the Coral Gables City Commission voted June 3 to advance a key…

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Close-up view of a blue Florida disabled parking permit hanging from a car’s rearview mirror inside a parked vehicle.
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EDITORIAL: Coral Gables helped expose disabled parking abuse. Now it must complete the response.

By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board When Miami-Dade County announced last week that it had canceled more than 4,700 disabled parking permits — more than 11 percent of the…

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Rendering titled “View into the Park from the Pavilion” showing the proposed Ponce Circle Park redesign with landscaped walkways, pavilion structures, shade trees and the Frank Stella sculpture rising from a fountain.
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Ponce Circle Park redesign draws early support, but questions linger over noise and sculpture

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables residents who attended a public meeting Monday on the proposed redesign of Fred B. Hartnett Ponce Circle Park were overwhelmingly supportive of plans…

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Portrait of Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez.
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Miami-Dade cancels 4,700 disabled parking permits while Coral Gables’ proposed crackdown remains pending

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Miami-Dade County has canceled more than 4,700 disabled parking permits following a sweeping countywide audit that officials say uncovered widespread irregularities in the system. The…

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A close-up detail of Daniel Supervielle’s painting Estados Unidos, showing a dense field of red, white, and blue brushstrokes, multiple American flags, scattered stylized faces, and a hand-painted banner reading “Football es Fútbol,” evoking the movement and energy of a World Cup stadium crowd.
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The World Cup crowd comes to Coral Gables in paint

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The 2026 FIFA World Cup will bring matches to Miami this month and next, and with them the particular phenomenon that has defined the tournament…

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A new dog park is planned across the street from the Coral Gables Branch Library.
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EDITORIAL: At proposed dog park, evidence should come before action

By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board For more than 50 years, zoning conditions on a parcel at 520 University Drive have preserved its use as overflow parking for the…

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A four-panel collage showing the medical office buildings at 475 and 495 Biltmore Way, an architectural rendering of the proposed Coral Gables Mobility Hub, the War Memorial Youth Center, and the 520 University Drive parcel with a pet waste station sign at the center of the city’s proposed dog park dispute.
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A $24 million acquisition, a $50 million bond and legal disputes headline Tuesday’s Coral Gables commission meeting

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The next Coral Gables City Commission meeting on June 2 compresses several of the city’s most consequential unresolved questions into a single agenda: whether to…

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An infographic showing three stacked bar charts comparing projected annual revenue retained and lost by Coral Gables under proposed homestead exemption increases. The bars show year-one losses of $6.1 million under a $150,000 exemption, year-two losses of $12.2 million under a $250,000 exemption, and losses exceeding $30 million under a $500,000 exemption, alongside a timeline illustrating the phased exemption increases from $50,000 today to $500,000 eventually.
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Governor’s property tax proposal could cost Coral Gables up to $30 million a year

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled his property tax reform plan earlier this week, and with it the City of Coral Gables can finally start to…

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