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...area at the tip of the Florida peninsula known as the East Everglades. Like Everglades National Park, just to the west, it is still unspoiled, filled with palmettos and sawgrass, marshes and wildlife. And that is the problem. Eager to escape Florida's crowded, condo-filled coast, the homesteaders have picked one of the state's most ecologically fragile regions, essential to the environmental well-being of all of South Florida...
...Batista, 38, son of the island's late dictator, Fulgencio Batista, who was ousted by Castro in 1959. Jorge may be excused for being a little out of touch with political realities; he has lived mostly in Europe for the past 20 years. Now, from his Fort Lauderdale condo, he believes he "can feel the political heartbeating of my compatriots." But Jorge's counterrevolutionary passions are tempered by practicality. He works as a runway model at fashion shows and attends modeling school. "It is a finishing school for me," he says. "It will help me lead...
...injunction request was the latest in a long series of legal challenges to the ordinance, passed in 1979 in an effort to stem the tide of condo conversions in the city. "It hasn't lost yet," city councilor David Sullivan, who drafted the ordinance, said yesterday...
...amendments are designed to reduce illegal conversions, and shift the responsibility for infractions from purchasers to developers. The original law was adopted in 1979 in an attempt to slow the drain on Cambridge's rental housing stock from condo conversions. It requires that a permit be granted by the city before any rental unit is taken off the market...
Although Los Angeles is the capital of the solid gold condo, it is by no means unique in the U.S. Around Miami, at least 4,000 luxury units are under construction; most are sold out. One of the most lavish habitats, Grove Isle at Coconut Grove, Fla., has a garden graced with sculpture by Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson. Condo owners at the Turnberry Isle Yacht and Racquet Club in North Miami Beach have access to two Robert Trent Jones golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a marina, health spa and disco...