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Joe's opened on Miami Beach in 1913, before the causeway, and built itself around a shellfish nobody was eating: the stone crab, whose claws regrow, served chilled with mustard sauce. It closes for the summer when the season shuts and takes no reservations, which has not thinned the queue in a century.

Miami-Dade's first bus rapid transit service runs 20 miles along US-1 from Dadeland South to Florida City on a rebuilt dedicated busway protected by gate arms and prioritised at rush hour, calling at 14 new BRT stations with air-conditioned waiting areas. The county calls it the longest all-electric BRT service in the nation, paid for with $100 million each from its half-penny transportation surtax, the Florida Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration.

Co-chefs Sachi Statz and Victor Santos, from the family's Tinta y Café, open a Cuban-French bistro in Miami's Little Havana.

Miami-Dade County and Royal Caribbean Group broke ground on a $345 million single-berth cruise terminal able to process about 7,000 passengers per ship call, with a multi-level garage and a ground-level intermodal hub, sized for Icon-class ships. Demolition of the terminal that stood on the site began in July 2025 and the new complex is slated for completion in late 2027.

Inter Miami played its first match at the 26,700-seat Nu Stadium, the centrepiece of the 131-acre Miami Freedom Park built on the former Melreese golf course beside Miami International Airport, drawing 2-2 with Austin FC. The club had played out of Fort Lauderdale since 2020 while the site was fought over and built.

21 Air Flight 7598, a 32-year-old Boeing 767 freighter flying for Amazon Air from San Juan, overran runway 30 on landing at Miami International Airport and struck a van of airline cleaning workers and an SUV; five people on the ground died.

A week after 21 Air Flight 7598 overran a Miami runway and killed five people, Amazon said it had paused its operations with the North Carolina cargo carrier, which had flown Amazon Air packages since 2024.

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Residences Miami - nine stacked and cantilevered glass cubes holding nearly 100 storeys of condominiums and a 205-room hotel - is expected to reach its full 1,049 feet, making it the tallest building in Florida and the southern United States. Its superstructure passed level 85 and started the ninth and final cube in August 2026; delivery of the finished tower is set for 2028.

MIA is building a three-level Concourse K with six domestic gates, new baggage handling, a ground support equipment maintenance facility and airfield work, the first new concourse of its $9 billion modernisation programme. Construction broke ground in mid-2025.