According to Forbes Magazine the Miami World Center mega-project, which promised to transform Downtown Miami, seems to be imploding. With the partners suing each other for fraud and Deutche Bank foreclosing on a number of the World Center lots, the project, which was supported by the City of Miami with special favors and taxpayer money, [...]
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FDOT District 6: Eso no se hace!
Proposed Boulevard concept, by Andrew Georgiadis
For several years now, the FDOT has been proposing changes to I-395, ranging from an elevated super highway to burying the highway underground, in an effort to add highway capacity, while not exacerbating the blight of the surrounding neighborhoods. According to the project director for the FDOT, the maximum clearance [...]
Guerilla Urban Planners Battle Red Tape
The Miami Herald finally caught up with Brad Knoefler’s Park West/Overtown greenway plan. The article explains the red tape facing Knoefler and his newly anointed Guerilla Urban Planner group. While the general plans are nothing but excellent for the area, figuring out funding, ownership, and maintenance has proven to be a tricky endeavor.
And while some [...]
Action Alert: Developer Leads Park West/Overtown Greenway Initiative
Developer Brad Knoefler of Miami-based NMA Investments, is keen on changing his Park West neighborhood. Already the proud developer and resident of 697 N. Miami — a real gem of an urban redevelopment project–Knoepfler now has his sites on creating an urban greenway with a 10ft multi-use path along downtown Miami’s highly underutilized FEC rail [...]
Thursday News Roundup
What a coincidence: seems like transit financing is a problem in NY where a combination of dropping real estate tax, sales tax, and state tax revenues are putting the MTA in the red. The conclusion reached in the article: we need more government subsidy to make up the difference.
President Obama is moving to undo Bush [...]
Miami World Center Passes City Commission
According to this recent press release, the Miami City Commission has approved the Miami World Center, an ambitious nine block, 25-acre redevelopment project slated for the Park West neighborhood, just north of Downtown. The glitzy pictures streaming on the project’s website promise a very sleek, but pedestrian-oriented district that, if nothing else, will transform [...]
Transit Tuesday
Here are some interesting going on lately.
The City of Miami PAB is set to vote on a allowing a special district for the “World City” development on 25 acres in Park West, Downtown Miami. This is a great project that has been in the pipeline for a while now that includes 9 blocks of mixed-use [...]
