But nada to connect ships to power and cut pollution Miami-Dade Commissioners will be asked on Wednesday to approve the design, construction, finance, operation, management and maintenance of a new terminal complex at PortMiami estimated to cost taxpayers at least $381 million over half of a 62-year lease with MSC Cruises. In the middle of […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez couldn’t backpedal fast enough from his plan to put a ferry to Cuba at PortMiami, which was announced Tuesday, although it’s obviously been on his plate for weeks, at the very least. He must have heard the collective gasp because Gimenez held a hastily called press conference Thursday afternoon to say […]
Miami-Dade County electeds, the governor and several business and civic leaders are right now celebrating the opening today of the $1 billion Port of Miami tunnel that took 30 years to build and that most of us will never actually use. Built for the cargo and cruise industry that drive one of the county’s biggest […]
In an interview with Jim DeFede that airs Sunday on Channel 4, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez calls the Port of Miami simply “a viable site” for a soccer stadium to accommodate the expansion Major League Soccer team that retired British player David Beckham wants to bring to Miami. Not the “best site.” Not even “a […]
All this hand-wringing about the possibility of a Major League Soccer stadium at the Port of Miami may be for nothing. It appears there is not enough support on the Miami-Dade Commission for the giveaway of 20 acres of land at the port to make way for the development of a 25,000-seat stadium. Miami-Dade Mayor […]
Opposition to the proposed Major League Soccer stadium at the Port of Miami continues to mount despite the lack of details on the plan. On Friday, the Miami Seaport Alliance — an organization created to fight the proposal — launched a video, radio, and digital advertising campaign across Miami-Dade County to, basically, scare folks about […]