When elected officials want to make it easier to sell off public land, it’s usually not about efficiency. It’s about opportunity — for someone. And it’s usually not the public. The Miami City Commission last month voted to put a referendum on the November ballot so that the sale or lease of city-owned land can […]
As promised in the last couple of weeks, Miami-Dade Commission Chairwoman Audrey Edmonson moved Wednesday to block development of a Cuban Museum of History or anything else on the last few remaining slivers of vacant waterfront land downtown behind the AA Arena. “The residents want this because this is one of the last pieces of […]
A group of Miami-Dade residents fed up with the county’s inability to follow through on its promise to preserve a rare waterfront lot behind the AmericanAirlines Arena as a public space are basically taking it upon themselves to make it a park. No, literally. They are simply using the space as intended. They have gone […]