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Starting at 9 pm on July 4, 2010, residents of Aventura and their guests can enjoy the spectacular annual fireworks display being held over the grounds of the Turnberry Resort golf course.

The festivities can be viewed best from the condos on Country Club Drive surrounding the golf course, as well as from the roofs of the Aventura Mall parking garages.

Bring your own refreshments and chairs, if you want, and be sure to take along your camera to get some fabulous pictures and/or videos.

City Park Aventura Office Building

City Park Aventura will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on August 13, 2010.

The auction is the result of losing an $18.3 million foreclosure judgment against Aventura Land Trust and Yizhak Toledano, CEO of Sky Development (no longer in business) by HRCBJS Partners.

To be built on a 7.5 acre-site approved in 2006 by The City of Aventura, City Park Aventura was planned as a mixed-use project of commercial and residential properties, containing townhouses, apartment units, an office building, restaurant, hotel, and shopping center.

Located in the center of Aventura at the corner of  207th Street and NE 30th Ave, it was supposed to start construction in 2007, but the land remains vacant. Neither is the City Park Aventura Master Association, incorporated by Alex Tukh, David Levy, Yizhak Toledano, active. Formerly located at 2999 NE 191st St #Ph-2 Miami, FL 33180, the company was incorporated November 13, 2007 in Florida.

The project team was lead by Sky Development Inc., with financing by HRCBJS Partners and CSE Mortgage, leasing by Cushman & Wakefield, designing by the world-renowned Arquitectonia, and decorating by Paradigm Interiors of Coral Gables.

According to CEO Toledano, in September of 2007 the $180 million project supposedly had a waiting list of 600 buyers for the 104 residential units before the real estate market imploded in 2007. He is quoted as saying , “We are based here, so we understand the market. Having the knowledge of being a local business owner makes my life easier because I know the city needs something like this.” The developer even had a “Sky’s the Limit” grand opening party in December of 2007.

waiting in line for Apple iPhone 4s

IPhone madness struck at the Aventura Mall on Thursday, June 25, 2010 as the new generation of the Apple iPhone, the  iPhone 4, became available to the public for the first time.

A crowd of over a thousand people started to form a line Wednesday morning even though the Apple store was not scheduled to open until seven am the next day.

Fights broke out around four am, when tired customers-to-be got into turf wars over their place in line. Aventura police were summoned to dispel the crowds into adjacent strip malls and waiting areas.

Once allowed back into the Aventura Mall, Apple employees and Mall security kept the crowds in check, while the nearby eatery Piacere did a brisk business selling  coffee and pastries.

By ten am supplies of the new Apple iPhone 4 ran out for the unlucky ones without reservations. They will have to try again later to receive the new gadget, which is priced at $199 for the starter model.

Once users obtained the iPhone complaints surfaced about yellow discolorations on the screen and lack of reception when the iPhone is held a certain way, commonly referred to as the “death grip.” For more feedback on customer issues with the Apple iPhone visit their discussion forum.