Joseph J. Verdone

Joseph Verdone has extensive experience with land development, planning, design, permitting, and project implementation for both private and public entities throughout Florida.

His nearly 40 years of professional land planning and development experience includes a multitude of successful projects, including multifamily residential, high-rise, commercial, mixed-use, office, hotel, institutional, marine, wireless communication infrastructure, electric power generation, electric distribution, environmental, reservoirs, data centers, and large-scale mines.

Joe has spent the past 30 years with Carlton Fields serving the firm's corporate real estate developers, owners, and investors while developing a specialized urban development practice in South Florida. He has represented a multitude of large-scale urban, mixed-use, and high-rise projects that include: CityPlace DRI, CityPlace South Tower, CityPlace Office Tower, Esplanade Grand, The Strand, One City Plaza, Two City Plaza, Hyatt Place, Convention Center Hotel, The Mark, Watermark Towers, The Slade, Villa Lofts, The Metropolitan, The Prado, The Edge, Florida Department of Health, Burlington Self-Storage, Clematis Street Hotel, The Villas on Antique Row, PBC Convention Center Hilton Hotel, The Marina CMPD, Alexander Lofts, Central Park Plaza, North Bridge Center, Esperante, Phillips Point, T-Mobile Flagship Store Miami Beach, T-Mobile Regional Switch Sunrise, Sky Cove at West Lake, Forte RPD, Three Fifty Australian, Central Park Commerce Center, 1001 Tower, Kirksey Commons, Transit Village, 515 Fern Office Tower, and South Flagler House. He has also processed multiple downtown master plan amendments and transfers of development rights (TDRs), and has lobbied for text amendments and development incentive programs for his clients.

Joe also has extensive experience representing multiple large-scale electric power generation and distribution, data centers, telecommunications, agricultural, mining, and water resources and regional reservoir operations through regulatory and code enforcement processes. He has provided entitlement, permitting, and monitoring services for Palm Beach Aggregates since its inception, and has a long record of success doing so. His latest project is the Phillips Heavy 9,000-acre Southland Water Resource project in southwest Palm Beach County.

Joe prides himself on his ability to serve clients as a problem-solver and coordinator who is capable of moving projects from an abstract idea to reality. He also has experience helping his clients navigate regulatory monitoring processes, mount code enforcement defense, resolve compliance issues, and mitigate or reduce exposure to governmental liens and fines.

Joe has considerable experience working with building officials and contractors throughout the permitting and construction process, helping his clients navigate from concept to certificate of occupancy.

He also performs research, analysis, due diligence, and feasibility studies for the firm's real estate and financial clients. In this capacity, he has worked on a range of medium- to large-scale acquisition and financing projects. He is an associate member of the American Bar Association (ABA), American Planning Association (APA), and American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).

• Represents clients in a wide variety of land use matters ranging from zoning, entitlements, site planning, compliance monitoring, and enforcement defense.
• Represents clients to develop local land development policy and amend regulations, master plans, and comprehensive plan amendments.
• Represent clients to help navigate and obtain certificate of use, business tax receipts, liquor licenses, second hand sales, food processing and preparation, and other necessary approvals for regulated uses.
• Represent clients with environmental permitting and enforcement issues in diverse areas including industrial and municipal domestic wastewater treatment, water reuse systems, storage tanks, and hazardous waste permitting and regulation and a wide variety of industrial facilities.
• Research, analysis, due diligence, and feasibility studies.
• Negotiate settlements, consent order terms, and remediation plans associated with code enforcement actions.
• Represent regional water resource operators.
• Represent proposed large data center to help advance prerequisite development needs.

• American Institute of Certified Planners
• American Planning Association
• American Bar Association
  • Associate Member
• Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches
  • Trustee

• Survey and Research Technician, Florida Department of Natural Resources (1988–1989)
• Planner, Palm Beach County Zoning Division (1989–1994)
• Land Use Consultant, Joseph J. Verdone and Associates (1994–1996)