{"id":301542,"date":"2026-06-09T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301542\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:36:08","slug":"south-florida-business-news-kendall-shops-doral-whole-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301542\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida business news: Kendall shops, Doral Whole Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"

From new shopping options in Kendall to a Whole Foods opening in Doral, South Florida\u2019s business landscape is expanding. Here\u2019s a look at top stories making news across the region:<\/p>\n

\"Keva Keva Johnson, a swimsuit designer from Miramar, poses in her head seamstress’s studio on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Keva Johnson crafts her swimsuits from scratch and has developed a following for making swimwear for women of all shapes and sizes. Photo by Marra X. Finkelstein mfinkelstein@miamiherald.com New Kendall shopping center: MMG Equity Partners plans to break ground on The Shops at Kendall Town Center<\/a>, a 36,000-square-foot retail complex at Kendall Drive and Southwest 158th Avenue. Construction is expected to begin in early 2027 after a closing by late 2026, with about half the tenants food and drink establishments. The retail project anchors a larger 70-acre Kendall Town Center development<\/a> that also includes apartments, a Baptist Hospital expansion and a new school. Raising Cane\u2019s, Chase Bank and El Car Wash have already signed on for out-parcels.Whole Foods heads to Doral: The Amazon-owned grocer will open its first Doral location<\/a> on July 2, marking the westernmost Whole Foods in the Miami metro area. The 43,000-square-foot store at 10700 NW 41st St. near President Donald Trump\u2019s golf resort will compete with four nearby Publix supermarkets, a Winn-Dixie and an Aldi.Broward swimwear designer finds success: Miramar-based Keva Johnson has built Keva J Swimwear<\/a> into a business averaging 300 orders a month, with fans including singers Ashanti and Ciara. Johnson registered the brand in 2016 after moving back to South Florida from New York City, and her made-in-Miami suits start at $93.99.<\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From new shopping options in Kendall to a Whole Foods opening in Doral, South Florida\u2019s business landscape is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-301542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}