Downtown residents may want to invest in earplugs now — the industrial kind — because the Ultra Music Festival just got something most Miami residents never get: long-term certainty. The Miami City Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve a 20-year agreement keeping Ultra at Bayfront Park through 2046. That’s longer than some of the condo […]
Just days before tens of thousands of bass-loving ravers descend on downtown for the annual sonic invasion known as the Ultra Music Festival, the one meeting meant to give residents answers about road closures, noise, traffic, and general survival strategies imploded Wednesday — because the City of Miami pulled out at the last minute. And […]
Delayed project has merchants begging for help Ladra doesn’t know who needs to hear this at City Hall, but East Flagler Street is not supposed to be a ghost town. Black Friday is going to be blacker than usual on Miami’s oldest commercial corridor, where mom-and-pop shops — the same ones the politicians love to […]
Representatives of homeowners in Downtown Miami, Brickell and Edgewater joined forces last week to respectfully ask the Miami Downtown Development Authority — an agency that focuses on promoting and strengthening the “economic health” of Downtown Miami — not to give $100,000 to the UFC for events at the Kaseya Center, formerly the American Airlines Arena. […]
After several hours of discussion and passionate public comment, the city of Miami Commission deferred making a decision on the repeal of the ordinances that allow LED billboards on city parks and a moratorium on approving any such signage for 30 days while new rules are adopted. Basically, they passed the buck to the state, […]