Funding for Museum in City of Miami Park Pulled from Agenda Today by Geniusofdespair
The Museum funding request for new digs in Bicentennial Park was pulled from the City Agenda. It is deferred till next month. Type the rest of the post here
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everyone should visit the efforts to save the very little green space we have by visiting www.commonsensemiami.com
Bicentennial Park is only 27-29 acres. It is priceless waterfront park land. It is owned by the taxpayers. Unfortunately City of Miami government has not maintained it well. Now we learn the City of Miami government wants to pave 10-12 acres of the park and spend $300 Mil to $500 Mil in taxpayer money to build 1-2 museums. A science museum might help childern. Two museums would be a crushing blow to Miami's scarce green space. If you object speak up.
Why can't the park remain open and green? Thousands of new condos are being built in that area. Won't the new buyers want to walk and play on a 28 acre green park?
Hmm. The future of Bicentennial Park is tough for me to weigh.
I'm all for museums, especially art museums. Large cities do benefit from excellent galleries. And the plans for the park with the science museum look great.
But, then again, the people do deserve a great park with lots of green space.
This matter should weigh the future long-term necessities, overall benefits, importance of the site, and future success of a park or museum.
We can always put museums downtown, in Wynwood or in Overtown. Or anywhere else off the water. We only have a few acres of priceless waterfront park land.
I have been studying. The City of Miami and Miami-Dade County only have enough money for at best one museum on Bicentennial Park, not two. Many people want no museums.
The forthcoming (June 14) Miami Commission vote on the $2 million Homeland Security bond issue is the last chance for the city government to have a major impact on the shape of Bicentennial Park. Subsequently, it is primarily a County driven issue in terms of the $275 million bond funding. Does the city really want to relinquish all control of the $200 million in prime waterfront land it has “given” for free to favored museums who were so effective in lobbying and may never come up with the matching money? Residents will loose out on parkland for years more in the process. Why can't the park be designed (in human scale) as a park for people by landscape architects sensitive to local conditions and reflecting public needs? The city should move ahead to open the park as soon and as inexpensively as possible so non-professional soccer or baseball players can play there and kids and families and tourists can enjoy it over the next several years. Enough delay in providing public parkland for the public in downtown Miami, an area with an embarrassingly small amount of open space! The museums may take forever in raising their funds - if they ever do. Write city commissioners and say no to the $2 million for the Miami Artt Museum.
9 comments:
everyone should visit the efforts to save the very little green space we have by visiting www.commonsensemiami.com
Bicentennial Park is only 27-29 acres. It is priceless waterfront park land. It is owned by the taxpayers. Unfortunately City of Miami government has not maintained it well. Now we learn the City of Miami government wants to pave 10-12 acres of the park and spend $300 Mil to $500 Mil in taxpayer money to build 1-2 museums. A science museum might help childern. Two museums would be a crushing blow to Miami's scarce green space. If you object speak up.
Why can't the park remain open and green? Thousands of new condos are being built in that area. Won't the new buyers want to walk and play on a 28 acre green park?
Hmm. The future of Bicentennial Park is tough for me to weigh.
I'm all for museums, especially art museums. Large cities do benefit from excellent galleries. And the plans for the park with the science museum look great.
But, then again, the people do deserve a great park with lots of green space.
This matter should weigh the future long-term necessities, overall benefits, importance of the site, and future success of a park or museum.
Even then, its still a difficult decision.
We can always put museums downtown, in Wynwood or in Overtown. Or anywhere else off the water. We only have a few acres of priceless waterfront park land.
Let us value priceless waterfront park land.
Check out commonsensemiami.com
We're going to tell the Art Museum to go fly a kite next Sunday afternoon at the Park.
I have been studying. The City of Miami and Miami-Dade County only have enough money for at best one museum on Bicentennial Park, not two. Many people want no museums.
Miami is broke.
There are no donors for the Miami Art Museum. Sounds like a poor recipe for success.
The forthcoming (June 14) Miami Commission vote on the $2 million Homeland Security bond issue is the last chance for the city government to have a major impact on the shape of Bicentennial Park. Subsequently, it is primarily a County driven issue in terms of the $275 million bond funding. Does the city really want to relinquish all control of the $200 million in prime waterfront land it has “given” for free to favored museums who were so effective in lobbying and may never come up with the matching money? Residents will loose out on parkland for years more in the process. Why can't the park be designed (in human scale) as a park for people by landscape architects sensitive to local conditions and reflecting public needs? The city should move ahead to open the park as soon
and as inexpensively as possible so non-professional soccer or baseball players can play there and kids and families and tourists can enjoy it over the next several years. Enough delay in providing public parkland for the public in downtown Miami, an area with an embarrassingly small amount of open space! The museums may take forever in raising their funds - if they ever do.
Write city commissioners and say no to the $2 million for the Miami Artt Museum.
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