(Crystal Proenza is associate editor of RealEstate Florida.)

MIAMI-Plans for One Bayfront Plaza, Florida East Coast Realty's$1.8-billion mixed-use project, are advancing full steam ahead withthe company naming Alan Krause as construction manager. Krause hashad experience working with such landmark buildings, as he comes toFECR from Africa Israel Florida Holdings LLC, where he ledconstruction on Marquis, the city's second-tallest building.

The project is set to include two 70-story towers with twomillion sf of class A office space, 112,000 sf of upscale retailspace and an 850-room, four-star convention hotel with 120,000 sfof exhibition and banquet facility space. City leaders approvedpermits last year,and now a team of 24 consultants are working on a set of 8,300drawings to be submitted to the Miami Buildings Department no laterthan the first quarter of 2010, Tibor Hollo, founder, chairman andpresident of FECR, tells GlobeSt.com. The project at 100 SouthBiscayne Blvd. is expected to break ground in the first half of2012 for completion near the end of 2014.