Andres Viglucci

Two years ago, Spanish developer Pablo Castro settled with his family in Miami after selling off his Barcelona company, which specialized in building housing for the middle class, and he quickly recognized a singular opportunity.

After a decade of planning, delay and debate, the city of Miami Beach has broken ground on a scaled-down version of a multimillion-dollar renovation plan for Lincoln Road Mall that aims to restore some of the famed pedestrian promenade’s lost shine.

Ssshhh. The newest segment of The Underline, the 10-mile urban trail and linear park that will soon connect the Miami River to Dadeland beneath the Metrorail tracks, has quietly opened for use by people on foot, on bikes and on e-conveyances.

‘What we’ve done is make the best of a really bad situation.’

Two years after the discovery of a major, long-buried indigenous village on a Brickell redevelopment site prompted a major preservation battle, archaeologists excavating at a separate bayfront site owned by the same developer just blocks away have uncovered yet another significant Native American settlement and cemetery that’s several thousand years old.

‘We cannot let go of this jewel,’ said former Miami city commissioner Ken Russell.

‘We’re going to have more for artists, and more for the community.’

‘If you supersize something, it’s going to create a slew of other issues that really become cost-prohibitive.’

Two weeks after a floor partially collapsed during interior demolition work at the long-closed Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami-Dade County officials said they are moving ahead “on time” with their plan to revamp the historic theater.

This is the Rickenbacker Causeway today: As many as nine highway-style lanes of speeding, noisy traffic, bordered on either side by a narrow string of popular beaches, winding paths shared by throngs of cyclists and pedestrians, and perilously unprotected but heavily used on-road bike lanes.