Miami’s Joe Carollo grabs Ultra Music money for Bayfront Park slush fund

Miami’s Joe Carollo grabs Ultra Music money for Bayfront Park slush fund

Is there another no-bid deal for his wife’s friend? The Ultra Music Festival this year was a resounding success, according to all accounts. The city got much fewer complaints from downtown residents about the noise and trash left by the crowd of more than 150,000 people over a three-day weekend. The ingress and egress were […]

Group sues to stop Ultra festival, claims Virginia Key lease is illegal

Group sues to stop Ultra festival, claims Virginia Key lease is illegal

A group representing 35,000 Brickell area homeowners is suing to stop the Ultra Music Festival — which was kicked out of downtown Miami this year — from happening on Virginia Key at the end of this month. The emergency complaint filed Wednesday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court claims the city schemed to bypass the public bidding […]

Ultra out for Formula 1 could be Joe Carollo’s nod to CJ Gimenez

Ultra out for Formula 1 could be Joe Carollo’s nod to CJ Gimenez

People watching the City of Miami meeting last week were surprised when Commissioner Joe Carollo went with the majority and voted against the very contract he helped negotiate with Ultra Music Festival organizers, even after getting everything he demanded. The three-day electronic music event was kicked out of Bayfront Park, its home the past 18 […]

Miami City Attorney: ‘Our free VIP Ultra tickets were a-ok’

Miami City Attorney: ‘Our free VIP Ultra tickets were a-ok’

Whew! That was a close one! An assistant city of Miami attorney issued a report Thursday that said his boss and colleagues did nothing wrong when they accepted comp tickets to downtown Miami’s Ultra Music Festival, at least for the past two years in a row. Even though the Auditor General said that the city officials — […]