Tag: Coral Gables
EDITORIAL: Is the City Beautiful slowly becoming a Miami-Dade neighborhood?
By the Coral Gables Gazette Editorial Board Coral Gables was designed to resist becoming a neighborhood. For a century, it succeeded. George Merrick laid out the streets in the 1920s…
ANALYSIS: Coral Gables voters draw clear line on power and oversight
By the Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables voters reshaped their city’s charter in Tuesday’s mail-in referendum, approving seven of eight proposed amendments in a result that delivered a verdict…
EDITORIAL: A mandate, with limits, from Coral Gables voters
Mayor Vince Lago asked Gables voters to approve eight ballot questions. They gave him six.
Coral Gables votes to move elections to November
By Coral Gables Gazette staff The results of the first-ever fully mail-in ballot referendum in the history of the City of Coral Gables made history of another kind Tuesday evening,…
A woven sky arrives in Coral Gables, stitched by world-record artisans
By Coral Gables Gazette staff In 2015, in a town of 13,000 in Jalisco, Mexico, a group of women began crocheting for a patron saint’s feast day. They began crocheting….
Coral Gables advances plan for downtown maintenance program with assessment on property owners
By Coral Gables Gazette staff The Coral Gables City Commission has moved forward with plans to create a centralized downtown maintenance program funded by a mandatory assessment on commercial property…
Coral Gables seeks peafowl help after $25,000 spent removing 141 birds; coyote concerns grow
By Coral Gables Gazette staff After spending more than $25,000 and removing 141 peafowl, Coral Gables is escalating the issue beyond City Hall — voting April 14 to push Miami-Dade…
Golfer pushback forces Granada Golf Course deferral as greens still in the red
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Six weeks after the Coral Gables City Commission unanimously approved the most sweeping overhaul of Granada Golf Course in a decade, sustained pushback from the…
Lago introduces voter protection resolution, alleges illegal political messaging
By Coral Gables Gazette staff With the mail-in ballot referendum less than a week away from closing, political messaging in Coral Gables has intensified with some of it, according to…
The Villagers mark 60 years of saving Miami-Dade’s landmarks — and the buildings that almost disappeared
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Every building the Villagers have helped save tells a story the wrecking ball would have ended. The Biltmore Hotel. Vizcaya. The Miracle Theatre. The Black…
