The one and only issue that has me the saddest is the fucking Walmart moving into our rare endangered forest (sold by the University of Miami). It is pine rockland, the Miami Herald calls it among the world's most impreriled habitats. Even the Feds say the shopping center is likely to kill endangered species.
This by far is the worst thing happening in Miami Dade County and makes me feel like giving up. Walmart sucks. They don't give a shit. Why don't the do a land trade for a more suitable parcel?
19 comments:
The entire Richmond Pinelands parcel should be state park or preserve! No to Wal-mart! No to "Miami Wilds" theme park.
Maybe a protest at other Walmarts?
And stop shopping there people. That's the number one protest. The Walton kids, the worst kind of offenders, do nothings who inherited their money and can't do any good with it.
Why would the U sell them that land? Very poor decision-making going on there now. No concern for the larger community. Money grab just like everyone else.
Walmart is awful but the culprit here is the shopping center developer (and elected officials for rubber stamping it). Walmart would just be another tenant.
Donna Shalala and her people should be ashamed. When I moved to that area I believed all that land was government owned and wouldn't be turned into a Kendall Drive-like strip mall and apartments. 152nd street is already a traffic nightmare without adding this ill conceived development. Commissioner Moss should be more worried about destroying the quality of life for wildlife and people in this area and stop with his ego-driven "I want a theme park" agenda.
Preserve it, did you all not hear WWF recently found wildlife population has been halved in the past 40 years. The way we are going we are going human being is going to literally make life extinct on earth.
I thought the UM was self serving corporate butts all along, and now they confirmed it. I could go for a boycott.
That's your only issue with Walmart??? We have been boycotting the place for years. I could start listing why, but it gets long. Anyone that cares about the United States, its people, and the slave labor from other countries should have enough self-respect to never ever walk into a Walmart. If people had cut them off economically from the beginning, we wouldn't have to worry about this now!
We have to start somewhere. That walmat was initially slated for the Kendall Tamiami Airport and it's Pinelands.
Walmart got approval from City of Miami Commissioners to build a Walmart Supercenter on a small lot at Midtown Miami. 200,000+ sq ft. Neighbors have appealed to Circuit Court. Decision pending.
The new one in Cutler Ridge is completely out of scale for the area. There is no setback from US1 nor the other street in front of it. Because it is too big for the land area, there is a two story parking lot. It looks like something from someone's downtown area, not a low scale suburban area like Cutler Ridge. I wonder about the payola for this one.
Wetlands/Endangered Forests today...Shopping Centers tomorrow? I don't think so, that land should become a state park. I am so sick that something similar is going on along the Palmetto Bay/Cutler Bay border.
Walmart got a three (3) story Walmart SuperCenter approved by Marc Sarnoff and Keon "Hardly There" Hardemon. Zero lot line. On 31st Street and N. Miami Ave.
Disgraced ex-Mayor Manny Diaz and two of his staffers were hired by Walmart to lobby. Lobby, lobby, lobby...
Once it comes all the little Mom and Pop stores will dry up. They won't be able to deal with Walmart's pricing and one-stop shopping.
A yes, Manny Diaz, who said on the Dais that developers would kill for the old FCC lot. Then turned around and greased the deal with about 160 Millions free tax give away in advance before build out.
What a guy.
"Hardley There"? You mean to tell me he does-not show up for meetings?
Keon "Hardly There" Hardemon doesn't meet with constituents, unless money has changed hands. (Campaign contributions, money to Barbara Hardemon etc...) He might not know how to get to City Hall without a $120,000 per year taxpayer paid police/chauffeur driving a $65,000 City SUV. He definitely never visits the majority of D5 neighborhoods. He sure loves the $106,000 per year gig. $$$
So sad. The Black community has a real difficult time finding someone to take care of them. Mostly poverty pimps and people who prey off of them want to run to represent them, and when they win, they do little to help them. Such is life in Miami-Dade county.
Walmart sucks, but the University sucks more. The U got the first approvals for developing this land in 2005, and at the time they had endorsements from Fairchild Tropical Garden and others. It was going to be a Plater-Zyberk residential walkable community with limited commercial. That first approval was the only point to stop this thing. Incremental changes by the U since then have allowed this development to morph into the proposal it is now. I wonder if the developer has any recourse against the U if it turns out they can't develop it like they want to...
Of course, any development here is a crime against nature - these are globally imperiled habitats, nothing should be built there. Period.
Post a Comment