When Raul Parrinello drives to the jobsite every morning in Miami Beach, he can reflect with pride on what will become the area’s tallest building, the luxury condominium tower Five Park, rising quickly over busy Miami Beach.

An active slate of major exhibitions adds a different dimension to the Miami Beach Convention Center renovation and expansion

A $30-million Miami Beach flood-mitigation project along state Road A1A is facing further delays due to permitting issues with its roughly 1-mile-long seawall. 

After Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood experienced extreme foot-deep “sunny-day flooding” because of a king tide, city engineer Bruce Mowry and public-works director Eric Carpenter realized the city’s injection-well drainage system didn’t work.

For years, the city of Miami Beach had approached the concept of sea-level rise much like that of other coastal communities: with a lot of “talk talk talk” but not much action, says Bruce Mowry, city engineer.