Our Neighborhoods Oak Square

Featured By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Friday, December 16, 2022

The Oak Square business park on the east side of Miami Lakes takes up an entire block along the north side of Miami Lakes Drive and Northwest 151 Street.       A variety of businesses are inside five buildings on the campus, and industries include aviation, banking, health care and automotive.       Oak Square is bordered by Northwest 57 Court to the East and Northwest 59 Court to the...

Town Topics: Main Street business owners, what are your plans for the holidays?

Community By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Thursday, December 1, 2022

Danny Nieves  Board Vice President, Main Street Players Board,  Aventura     “Thanksgiving, I’m going to spend it with my nuclear family, my mom, my sisters and my dad,” Danny Nieves said. “During Christmas and the New Year, I’m going to L.A. to visit a buddy of mine who lives out there. This is the first year since 2019 that I’m traveling during the...

Latin American Grill recovers after kitchen fire

Community By Linda Trischitta, Editor Wednesday, November 30, 2022

      A caller woke Reny Gonzalez at 3:30 a.m. with bad news: There had been a fire at his Latin American Grill in Miami Lakes.      “Part of the kitchen, the cook line, is destroyed,” Gonzalez said two days after the Nov. 19 blaze that fire inspectors told him started in the fryer.       The fire scarred the inside of the property, displaced his 40-member staff and left...

Our Neighborhoods: Corporate Courts

Community By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Wednesday, November 30, 2022

    Corporate Courts is a commerce center on the east side of Miami Lakes, along Northwest 151st Street near Northwest 59th Court.       Numerous businesses and a variety of industries are based at the yellow office park with green trim and awnings.       The complex was built in 1974 and renovated in 1986, according to the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser’s...

37th Annual Main Street Festival of Lights

Community By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Wednesday, November 30, 2022

     The Aguirre Obando family of Pembroke Pines and Miami Lakes have enjoyed the Main Street Festival of Lights so much that they brought a relative visiting from Costa Rica to the 37th annual event.       “Everything is bigger and nicer [this year],” Estevaly Obando said in Spanish. The family have attended the festival during four previous years and were among those who cheered when Santa...
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