Miami, FL
County commisioners co-designate part of S. Miami Ave. as ‘Alicia Cervera Way’
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Miami-Dade County commissioners have handed a decision co-designating the portion of S. Miami Avenue from SE fifteenth Highway to SE thirteenth Avenue/Coral Manner as “Alicia Cervera Manner.”
The decision, which was ready on the request of prime sponsor Commissioner Eileen Higgins, District 5, and adopted with unanimous help on Mar. 1, honors Miami actual property pioneer Alicia Cervera Sr. for her direct, important lifetime contributions to this neighborhood.
Cervera Sr., typically referred to as the “Queen of Brickell,” has participated in each Miami actual property cycle since launching the Cervera Actual Property brokerage agency in 1969. She has performed a pivotal function in opening Miami’s door to the worldwide brokerage neighborhood and helped revitalize neighborhoods throughout the area, together with the Brickell monetary district, Miami Seashore’s South of Fifth, Bal Harbour, Coconut Grove, Downtown Miami and Edgewater.
Now 92, Cervera Sr. has labored with 85 builders and bought greater than 115 luxurious high-rise condominium towers, representing $21 billion in gross sales of greater than 70,000 items.
“I’m proud to acknowledge Alicia Cervera Sr. for her contribution to the event of Miami,” mentioned Commissioner Higgins, who formally unveiled the Alicia Cervera Manner avenue indicators throughout a personal ceremony hosted by the Cervera household on Apr. 13. “Thanks to your grit and imaginative and prescient, you will have most positively left your mark on this metropolis for generations to return. You will have defied the chances — as a girl, an immigrant, and an entrepreneur.”
Earlier than Fidel Castro took energy, Cervera Sr. lived with the privileges that got here with a diplomatic background — her father was Peruvian ambassador to the United Nations and Cuba. She was the spouse of a sugar producer.
The Cuban Revolution stripped her household of its holdings, and like so many others she fled in 1961 together with her husband, Javier, to affix their younger daughters in Miami.
Imaginative and prescient and arduous work prevailed, and 53-years later the agency she launched in 1969 with the help of her husband stays one among Miami’s most profitable luxurious condominium brokerages.
In 2016, Mayor of Miami Tomas Regalado proclaimed Oct. 18 as “Alicia Cervera Day” and mentioned that no different girl has had a bigger influence on the event of Miami since Julia Tuttle based the town in 1895. Right now, Cervera Actual Property has eight South Florida workplaces and a workforce of greater than 300 actual property brokers. Collectively together with her daughters and companions, Veronica Cervera Goeseke as CEO and Alicia Cervera Lamadrid as managing associate, they proceed to function Cervera Actual Property as a family-owned enterprise, together with members of the third era.
“Cervera Actual Property was born with the aim to serve builders and out of a imaginative and prescient that Miami might sooner or later grow to be a world capital,”Cervera Sr. mentioned. “Now, trying on the Miami skyline of this Magic Metropolis we name dwelling, I see my desires grow to be actuality. To my esteemed colleagues, to my associates, to the whole Cervera Actual Property household and to my beloved household, I prolong my deep appreciation to your help alongside this journey.”
Amongst these current to commemorate the milestone achievement have been Cervera Sr.’s daughters, Veronica and Alicia; her son, Javier Cervera Jr., a distinguished actual property developer and CEO of Cervera Actual Property Ventures, in addition to members from the household’s third and fourth era.
Particular friends in attendance for the ceremony, included Florida State Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez; Commissioner Manolo Reyes; Commissioner Jorge Fors; Commissioner Jesus Tundidor; CEO of Arquitectonica Bernardo Fort Brescia, and CEO of Artefacto Paulo Bacchi.
Previous to the disclosing, Commissioner Eileen Higgins introduced Cervera Sr. with a proclamation declaring Apr. 13 as “Alicia Cervera Day” in Miami-Dade County. Moreover, State Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez introduced Cervera Sr. with a particular lifetime achievement proclamation on behalf of the Florida State Senate and the Miami Affiliation of Realtors, respectively.
Along with her skilled work, Cervera Sr. is an avid supporter of her neighborhood, together with the American Purple Cross and the Adrienne Arsht Heart for the Performing Arts.
For the previous 40 years, she has been president of Clinica San Juan de Dios Miami Basis, a hospital for disabled youngsters in her native Peru. In recent times, Cervera Sr. has been a vocal advocate for the necessity to construct inexpensive housing and believes it is among the largest challenges going through our neighborhood.
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