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Sorry to have been absent from Flicker for so long. I've gotten horribly behind on processing photos. I've been out of town every other week all summer long, and barely have time to catch up on work the week that I'm back before I head out again.
This is Tip; he's owned by a friend who trains with the same handler I train with. It was taken in June at the first sheepdog trial I ever entered (with Spain, who did me proud). Here you see him running a pro-Novice course (outrun, lift, fetch, drive, and pen).
We've been extremely lucky this summer, with weather that's rarely too hot for running dogs in trials or training them. Not at all your typical mid-Atlantic unbearably hot and hazy summer!!!
Bal Harbour Ritz Carlton (previously known as Regent Hotel Bal Harbour and One Bal Harbour hotel)
10295 Collins Ave, Bal Harbour, FL 33154
*** Some Bal Harbour history...
The Ritz Carlton address - 10295 Collins Ave - Collins Avenue is also known as State Route A1A. SR A1A is a north-south Florida State Road that runs along the Atlantic Ocean, from Key West at the southern tip of Florida, to Fernandina Beach, just south of Georgia on Amelia Island. Jimmy Buffett's 1974 album title "A1A" makes sense - as the road is a beach lover's paradise. Locally 1A means the road by the beaches running from South Beach of Miami to Fort Lauderdale. 10295 Collins Ave. was previously the address for the Harbour House North which was demolished in 2004. The adjacent address 10275 Collins Ave was previously the address for the Harbour House Hotel now a condominium known as the New Harbour House. Collins Avenue leaves Bal Harbour via the Baker's Haulover Bridge. Before the channel was deepened and the bridge was built, a certain Mr. Baker used to haul-over fishing boats from the bay to ocean across the spit of land. The inlet was carved in 1925 to connect Biscayne Bay with the Atlantic Ocean. In 1949 a new bridge was built over Baker Haulover as earlier versions were damaged in hurricanes.
In 1929 a Detroit-based real estate development corporation purchased 245 acres of Bay Harbour raw land. Miami Beach Heights, Inc. was headed by Graham Paige automobile manufacturer Robert C. Graham, with associates Carl Fisher (Fisher's firm made nearly every headlamp used on automobiles in the U.S) and Walter O. Briggs (Briggs Manufacturing Company and owner of Detroit Tigers). The task of crafting a new community began.
The dream village that was envisioned over 70 years ago started with a name. Bay Harbour was not good enough, it did not represent the city's location on the Atlantic Ocean. The "b" was taken from the word “bay” and the "al" from “Atlantic” to create "Bal," signifying a city running from the bay to the Atlantic Ocean.
They hired urban planning firm Harland Bartholomew & Associates, to design the Bal Harbour Village. From the beginning, the Village was envisioned as a modern community that would maintain exceptionally high standards, provide superior services and foster civic pride. The west side was zoned for hotels and the east side zoned for residential. The development was halted during World War II, when the land was leased to the US Military for $1 a year. The Air Corps used the land to train soldiers and established a Prisoner of War camp. Bal Harbour was the first planned community in Florida to have its utilities placed underground. Following the war the first home was built in 1945 at 160 Bal Cross Drive. It was built by Mr. Robert C. Graham Jr., who was the son of Bal Harbour Developer Robert C. Graham.
In December 1946, the first hotel, Kenilworth-by-the-Sea, opened Oceanfront at 102nd Street for business. The the 160-room ten-story Kenilworth promoted the concept of “luxurious leisure.” Thomas E. Raffington was the Owner/Managing Director. The Kenilworth was made famous in the U.S. because Arthur Godfrey broadcast his tv show from a hotel balcony overlooking the Atlantic. Raffington sold the Kenilworth to associates of Arthur Godfrey and in 1953 re-opened the Golden Strand Hotel & Villas at 179th and Collins. In 1953 Raffington swapped the Golden Strand for the Copa Cabana later named the Ivanhoe Hotel (101st and Collins). In 1958, Raffington who lived at 148 Bal Bay Drive, sold the Ivanhoe to actress Gloria Vanderbilt and Herman Phillips. Phillips. Phillips was a majority owner of the Sherry Netherlands in NYC.
In 1965, the Bal Harbour Shops was built by Stanley Whitman at a cost of $7 million, excluding the land. Stanley Finch Whitman was born into South Florida's ruling class. His father, William Francis Whitman, was a millionaire businessman from Chicago who built a successful business largely by printing the Sears Roebuck catalogue. He retired in 1915 with his wife, Leona, to a sparsely inhabited stretch of swampland named Miami Beach. Stanley grew up in an oceanfront mansion on 32nd Street and Collins Avenue with two brothers William Jr and Dudley. His father, who died in 1936, was the developer of Espanoia Way and builder of the Indian Creek apartments and the Whitman by-the-Sea Hotel (later named the Robert Richter Hotel). The Whitman family mansion was sold in 1948 to Chicago banker George D. Sax (he introduced drive-in banking) and in its place is the Saxony Hotel. The Saxony was the first luxury hotel built in Miami Beach and was the first hotel to have central air-conditioning. The profits from Mrs. whitman's property sales were largely used by Stanley Whitman to buy the land which became the Bar Harbour Shops.
In the 50's Stanley Whitman sensed that Lincoln Road to the south of Bal Harbour, which had long been the Fifth Avenue of Miami, was floundering. He teamed up with Robert Graham, the original Bal Harbour developer and later bought 16 acres of land from Mr. Graham which were originally planned for a gas station and grocery store. Whitman bought the land in 1957 for $2 per sq ft. or approximately $1.3 million for the 15 acres. Designed by Mark Hampton of the firm Herbert H. Johnson & Associates (Welton Becket & Associates started the design but were fired) the center would have 107,000 of lease space, 70 shops, restaurants and 1,000 parking spaces. Hampton's design tapped into the natural beauty of the area - using greenery and the outdoor light.
At opening in 1966 the high fashion stores in Bal Harbour Shops were paying Whitman an average of $5 a square foot or 5-6 per cent of gross sales, which ever was larger. A disappointment at opening was Whitman's inability to attract a specialty department store such as a Saks or a Bergdorf Goodman. One of the original restaurants was 257-seat Schraffts fountain, bar-lounge & restaurant. Schraffts was booted out following its purchase by Pet, Inc. and a decline in quality. Whitman got Stanley Marcus to open a 60,000 sq ft Neiman-Marcus department store in 1971, the first Neiman-Marcus outside the state of Texas. The longest lasting original tenant was FAO Schwarz which departed in 2006. Dining occupies 10 percent of the center’s square footage. Stanley Whitman hired a scientist to study wind flow through the walkways - and the walkways were changed to allow cooling sea breezes flow through the center. Bal Harbour Shop's security guards were uniformed like traditional Bahamian police, or gendarmes, in military-style black trousers, red tops, and white helmets. The official logo of the Shops is a silk-screened silhouette of a helmeted gendarme. Bal Harbour Shops are considered the world’s most productive shopping center. Bal Harbour in 2011 lost Louis Vuitton, Dior, Cartier and Hermes. Bal Harbour's leases prohibit tenants from opening a second store within 20 miles unless the center received a percentage of sales from the addditional store.
Stanley Whitman was very influential in the Bal Harbour community, helping to acquire a new zip code, traffic plans, landscaping and beach restoration, an improved water main and a resort tax. Stanley Whitman died in 2017 at age of 98. The Whitman family continues today to operate and own Bal Harbour Shops.
*** The Hotel Development...
In the 1950s, Bal Harbour and Miami Beach were considered America’s Riviera, a magnet for the era’s top musicians and entertainers. During the 50's and 60's a total of nine resorts would line the Village’s Atlantic Ocean beachfront — the Sea View Hotel, the Bal Harbour, the Balmoral, the Ivanhoe, the Colony, the Singapore, the Beau Rivage and the Americana. These resorts attracted an upscale clientele. By 2004 all hotels had been demolished in favor of high rise condominiums except the 220-room Sea View Hotel located directly across from the Bal Harbour Shops at 9909 Collins Avenue.
WCI Communities would build the first hotel in Bal Harbour in 47 years. The 2004 original plans were for 185 condominium units (with some priced as high as $12 million) and 126 hotel units. WCI was the homegrown building and development company built by Florida developer Al Hoffman Jr. In the 1990s, Hoffman engineered the union of his own company, Florida Design Communities, with Westinghouse Communities, taking the combined company public in 2002. Hoffman was once the Republican National Committee's finance chair. WCI's specialty was leisure-oriented, amenity-rich master-planned communities and condo-hotels targeting affluent homebuyers. In 2000 revenue reached $1.1 billion. Profits reach $186 million in 2005 and plummet to $9 million in 2006. WCI filed for bankruptcy in 2008.
Smith Property had owned two apartment rental houses known as Harbour House North (10295 Collins Avenue) and Harbour House South (10275 Collins Avenue). Smith Property's intention was to sell-off Harbour House North and its 5 acres to a condo developer and have the building torn down (reducing the rentals market) and with the cash help with the renovation of Harbour House South. WCI acquired the 5 acre site from Smith Property Holdings. In 2004 WCI Communities signed an agreement for Regent International Hotels to manage WCI's 124 unit condo/hotel at One Bal Harbour tower. The new hotel will be known as The Regent Bal Harbour. Regent Hotels is a subsidiary of Carlson Hospitality Worldwide, the Minneapolis-based owner of the Radisson hotel chain. The residential condominium component was named The Regent Residences at One Bal Harbour.
Culpepper, McAuliffe and Meaders, Inc., (CMMI), an Atlanta-based international design firm, provided planning and interior design services for the condominium hotel, and interior design for public amenity spaces in the condominiums. The Coral Gables architectural firm of Nichols, Brosch, Sandoval & Associates designed the hotel structure's curvilinear façade with glass exteriors. Two side wings of the building dramatically intersect a 26-story tower. Pricing for the condos was $600,000 for 511 sq ft studio and $975,000 for 1,075 sq ft one bedroom. Each guestroom suite has a custom-designed private elevator featuring wood floors and a foyer with leather walls and custom artwork. All guestrooms have six-fixture bathrooms (sink, sink, toilet, shower, bathtub, bidet) either overlooking the ocean or Intracoastal Waterway. The glass-enclosed showers feature a signature Regent touch: the “toe-tap” groove for testing water temperature before entering.
In May 2006 three construction workers were killed at WCI's One Bal Harbour construction site. The workers were on the 27th level of the building, pouring its concrete roof, when the supporting frame structure below them gave way, dropping them to the 26th floor. Despite efforts by co-workers to save the men, a 3-foot layer of hardening concrete encased one worker and partly buried the others. The construction contractor was Boran Craig Barber Engel.
In March 2008, and over a year late, the $225 million Regent Bal Harbour celebrated its grand opening with opening room rates starting at $750 per night. The signature Mediterranean-influenced restaurant was known as 1 Bleu. Helmed by chef Gerdy Rodriguez (followed by Mark Militello in 2009) the restaurant was partnered with Le Cordon Bleu. The country’s first Guerlain spa was at the Regent. Later names of the restaurant were One Kitchen, Bistro Bal Harbour and currently known as the Artisan Beach House with Chef Paula DaSilva is at the helm.
The opening general manager was Guenter H. Richter. In the 1970s, Richter held General Manager and Managing Director posts at The Washington Hilton, Washington DC; The Palmer House, Chicago; and The Waldorf Astoria, New York. During the 1980s, he was Vice President/Managing Director of the St. Regis Hotel, in New York, before becoming Vice President of Operations for Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, with posts including The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas and The Bel Air Hotel in Beverly Hills. Prior to joining The Regent Bal Harbour, Richter was the Managing Director of The St. Regis in New York. Since 2015 The current general manager is Sase "Sasha" Gjorsovski. Previously he was general manager at Turnberry Ocean Colony from January 2014 thru April 2015 and General Manager The Acqualina Resort and Spa from 2008 thru 2014.
In August 2008, six months after opening the Regent Bal Harbour, owner WCI Communities, Inc. filed for bankruptcy. WCI had $1.9 billion in debt of which $758 million was in default. The former trophy development of WCI Communities was sold in 2009 for $14.6 million to Bogota, Columbia natives 34 year-old Jorge Arevalo and 29 year-old Juan Arevalo and their company Elcom Hotels. Arevalo's money partner was Thomas Sullivan the owner of Lumber Liquidators. The sell to Elcom (elevation community) included the hotel's common areas, now named One Bal Harbour Resort & Spa, and 51 units. The land remained with the condo owners association. Regent Hotels departed upon date of the sale.
Gary Daniels, the president of 10295 Collins Avenue Hotel Condominium Association, was uneasy about the 2009 sale to Jorge and Juan Arevalo. The Arevalo's had no experience in managing a 5-star hotel, let alone the financial aspects of a condo-hotel. During the period 2009 through 2013 the Arvvalos were sued by condo-hotel owners for misappropriation of $1.1 million from the FF&E escrow account, for failure to pay $11.8 million in assessment fees for the 51 condos owned by Elcom and the siphoning of $2.6 million from hotel operations for sports cars and lavish entertaining. Elcom's former finance director said she was asked to doctor financial records. For a short while Benchmark Hospitality managed the hotel for the court appointed receiver. On October 2, 2014, Elcom Hotel & Spa, LLC went out of business.
On Oct 2, 2014 the condo owners association One Bal Harbour Hotel Facilities, LLC and its affiliates sold the Hotel for $12 million to LK Hotel LLC and LK Units LLC, affiliates of Miami's Lionstone Development. Lionstone paid $12 million at the bankruptcy-auction to the buildings condominium assocation to gain control of the One Bal Harbour Hotel, which included 9 hotel rooms and certain hotel operating areas. Ritz-Carlton assumed management of ONE Bal Harbour Resort & Spa on October 2, 2014. The luxury resort was named The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami. Headed by Alfredo Lowenstein and Diego Lowenstein, Lionstone Development also owns the Ritz-Carlton South Beach, the Epic Hotel & Residences in Miami and other hotels.
Lionstone is a family-owned company run by Diego Lowenstein, who serves as CEO, and his father, Alfredo Lowenstein. The company name comes from "lowen" which means lion in German and "stein" means stone. In 1966, the Lowenstein family purchased The White House Hotel, on the Ocean at Fifteenth Street, Miami Beach, which was their first Miami Beach investment. Lionstone’s interests include three hotels and two casinos in Curaçao, a hotel in Aruba, and a future development in Puerto Rico. Lionstone also has partnered with Sir Richard Brandon’s Virgin Group to establish Virgin Hotels in Chicago.
Compiled by Dick Johnson, March 2018
richardlloydJohnson@hotmail.com
Warren, PA. May 2018.
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The staff of Freddie's Beach Bar are getting creative in their attempts to separate our customers from their loose change.
GoPro tip: Stash the plug cover inside the case when charging, etc. Otherwise you'll lose it instantly.
Anthocharis cardamines
The Orange-tip is a true sign of spring, being one of the first species to emerge that has not overwintered as an adult.
The male and female of this species are very different in appearance. The more-conspicuous male has orange tips to the forewings, that give this butterfly its name. These orange tips are absent in the female and the female is often mistaken for one of the other whites, especially the Green-veined White or Small White.