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...

      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...

    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...

     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...

     Since 1962, The Graham Companies has followed a master plan for the development of its dairy farm into the Town of Miami Lakes.     “It’s kind of unusual for a developer to come up with a plan and stay true to it for all of these years,” Stuart Wyllie, president and chief executive officer of The Graham Companies told the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce at their Nov. 16 luncheon. ...