Final deal postponed until more details fleshed out The shady deal to hand over the historic Olympia Theater to the operators of a charter school for $10 is so half-baked that even Miami city commissioners, to their credit, asked Thursday for a more complete picture before they rubber-stamp it. Commissioners voted instead and unanimously to […]
For more than four decades, the Dade Heritage Trust — with a mission to protect what little historic resources there is in Miami-Dade — has been housed in a cute little cottage by the bay in the Brickell area that was the 1905 clinic and office of Dr. James Jackson, Miami’s first physician, for which […]
City officials in Coral Gables may be violating their own zoning code to accelerate the green light for demolition of an old home on Asturia Avenue that the city itself tried to designate historic earlier this year. Even Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli has lobbied on behalf of the politically-connected family that bought the property two years ago. Valdes-Fauli […]