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Giuseppe Zuozo opened the Anacapri Italian restaurant on Miracle Mile two years ago hoping to see the eatery packed daily with patrons. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For the most part, Zuozo has [...]

FLORIDA MARLINS FISHING FOR A NEW BALLPARK WANING LOCAL AND STATE SUPPORT AND A WEARY FAN BASE: HOW LONG CAN SOUTH FLORIDA KEEP PRO BASEBALL? South Florida is facing a [...]

ARMANDO CODINA DOESN'T CARE FOR CONFERENCE calls with stock analysts, media interviews or shareholder meetings. He likes to acquire and build. So, faced with a dwindling supply of land and [...]

as architect shape South Florida's evolving landscape, the choice between modernist and Mediterranean styles often comes down to profit and not aestheties. The cost of land and construction materials is [...]

Your Gateway to the World In the past three decades, Miami has emerged as the undisputed business and cultural crossroads of the Western Hemisphere. Regardless of what business interest you [...]

AMERICANS HAVE HAD A LONG FASCINATION WITH CUBA, ONE THAT CLIMAXED DURING THE 1940s AND 1950s, WHEN EVERY MONTH THOUSANDS TRAVELED BY PLANE AND BOAT THE 90 MILES SOUTH FROM [...]

Spend an hour talking with Don Shula, and one thing becomes clear: whether it is the X's and O's of a professional football game or vying for the best hand [...]

Anxiety creeps over attorney Steven C. Marks whenever he steps aboard an airliner. Marks represented the families of victims of the 1997 Silk Air jet crash in Indonesia, and images [...]

Agustin 'Tino' Herran's father and elder cousin gave him a tough act to follow. After all, how do you top building the nation's largest Hispanic-owned supermarket chain from scratch? Simple. [...]

Size matters to Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and its CEO Richard D. Fain. The size of the company's ships, that is. Fain and Royal Caribbean have duked it out for [...]

Over the past several years, business leaders in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties have found themselves promoting the same assets to give them an edge in the global market. [...]

'I know what these guys are doing all day long. They're in meetings with me,' says Konrad, who recently retired from football to be a full-time partner at AllenKonrad Asset [...]

In an industry where image and brand name can help drive up revenue, Technical Olympic USA Inc. (TOUSA) may be the biggest homebuilder you have never heard of. The single-family [...]

It's a good thing the Port of Miami-Dade is less than an hour away from International Warehouse Services (IWS) in Port Everglades. IWS CEO Fred Rogacki has a convenient alternative [...]

Port Everglades is seeing more cruise passengers and cargo, but protecting both from terrorism is making life costlier. 'We went from spending about $4 million a year [before the Sept. [...]

vFinance Inc.'s days as a small matchmaking Web site for financiers and venture capital-hungry entrepreneurs are over. The Boca Raton-based, publicly traded company has steadily grown to more than $1 [...]

Five years after emerging from the shadows of a Mexican cement conglomerate to seize a sizeable share of Latin America's information technology market, Miami-based consulting firm Neoris Inc. is now [...]

High-end furniture wholesaler Black & Lenet moved their showroom to the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach from the Miami Design District six years ago, hoping to sell [...]

The boys of Miami beach-based Hudson Capital LLC scoff at the notion you should never go into business with family or friends. The principles of the real estate development firm--Eric [...]

Gen. Bantz 'John' Craddock is the commander of the Doral-based United States Southern Command, a post he assumed in November 2004 after serving as the senior military assistant to Secretary [...]

Michael Shalom did not think twice when, in 1988 at age 18, he dropped out of college to start Intcomex Holdings LLC. After all, another aspiring information technology junkie named [...]

Thomas E. Lewis wanted to purchase a very big yacht this year, but instead he ended up buying the entire boatyard. This March, Lewis acquired ailing yacht builder Broward Marine [...]

Take a drive through the heart of Miami, Fort Lauderdale or West Palm Beach, and you are bound to come across the rainmakers that are changing each city's skyline: luxury [...]

Supra Telecommunications and Information Systems Inc. came to South Florida in 1996 hoping to carve away at BellSouth's telephone service empire. Eight years and one messy bankruptcy later, the small [...]

Discouraging smoking has helped the nation's No. 6 tobacco company, Doral-based General Tobacco, expand nationwide distribution of its discount cigarette brands. Now the company is going after high-end smokers in [...]

MAYOR Q&A: DONALD SLESNICK Since being elected mayor of Coral Gables in 2000, Donald Slesnick has helped spearhead the city's drive to attract more national retailers and restaurants, and improve [...]