This looks like it going to be a stand for a sculpture or statue in Bicentennial Park a.k.a. Museum Park. I see it as something that is going to block our water view. Since most of the water views are blocked in downtown, you would think we would get one tiny sliver of view unobstructed. It wasn't to be. They are building this big stupid thing right in the middle of this drop-dead pedestrian/auto water view, spanning all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Why must they always gum up parks? Florita is going there by Cundo Bermudez.
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I think it's going to be a statue of Lynda Bell's mother.
Heavens! I think more likely it will be of Jorge Perez.
I like statues but NOT THERE!
If there were no pedestal and the art were at ground level, and the art was a metal sculpture that does not operate as a solid, I would agree to it.
We, the public, should insist this pedestal be removed at once. Call your City commissioner.
And this is why Broward just laughs at us. Wait until they raise the tourist taxes more along with the surprise MDX toll increases. They'll tourism will be up, ours everywhere except the Beach will be down! Miami Dade politicians have the foresight of Chinese drywall Speaking of Bell! What idiots and the people who keep electing them deserve the blame too!
I hear they are going to move that Big Piece of Art that Loria has in Center Field there.
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What is that? It looks like an alien from Star Wars. How much did this fiasco cost the taxpayers? I smell Marc Sarnoff's fingerprints here.
I like the sculpture and the Artist.
I just would rather look at the water.
I assume the museum is donating the piece.
Parks in Sarnoff's district are business ventures.
Every decision Sarnoff makes is a business venture, for his cronies.
Sarnoff got rid of the hookers up and down Biscayne and got the homeless out of Morningside and Legion Park.
Parks in my neck of the woods are pretty nice. Better than before he was elected.
As far as that is concerned, ship it out to F.I.U and add it the sculpture garden there.
People in Miami always find an excuse to complain. The statue is fine and it deserves to be there just like all major cities have them. It does not block the whole view of the water. We are the ones laughing at Broward because the have NOTHING to offer that is interesting or cultural.
Sarnoff did not get rid of the hookers. They are still there. If any hookers left it was due to term limits. Sarnoff voted to give money to the Marlins. Bruno Barrerio, Dennis Moss and Spence-Jones also voted to give money to the Marlins. That money could have been used to buy more park land.
They have no appreciation for the absolute beauty of nature and the amazing environment we live in. For them it is nothing. No need to have a view of the water, as it is valueless, empty space. The quicker they destroy everything and make it a complete ghetto, the better and the more comfortable they feel.
They really should fill in that slip. Doing so would increase the size of Bicentennial Park by 42% (from 30 acres to 42.5 acres). It would greatly improve the connectivity from Bayfront Park and Margaret Pace Park, and would allow for Ultra to move out of the streets of downtown and back into Bicentennial where it belongs.
The project would cost on the order of $10M and could be financed a number of ways. One approach would be a public-private partnership that would allow for commercial development on part of the land near the arena. Depending on the size and duration of the partnership, it could also be used to fund the Museum Park renovation and other improvements to public spaces in downtown.
A more creative approach would be to partner with PortMiami. The port will soon expand one of their cruise ship berths and add two new ones (with a third coming many years later). The landfill from this expansion could be used to fill in the slip instead of being dumped somewhere else at a higher financial and environmental cost.
Which brings me to my final point: the environmental impact of filling the slip. Contrary to popular belief, the slip is not considered a critical area for Johnson's sea grass. The National Marine Fisheries Service does not list it as such because the water is too deep. In fact, covering the slip could be seen as an environmentally positive act since the soil at the bottom of the slip is probably still releasing toxins from its earlier life as a military and industrial port into Biscayne Bay.
As for your view, wouldn't you prefer to look out on lush, Museum Park gardens instead of a dilapidated racecar track with an old industrial port next to it?
Fill in the slip?
NEVER!!
How could one even imagine filling in the slip? It occurred to me that many people in Miami don't really live, they simply exist. Maybe they don't know how to live. Perhaps that is why all these issues are so problematic.
Someone imagined filling in the other two slips decades ago and now we have Bicentennial Park to show for it. By filling in the slip, Bicentennial and Bayside park could be consolidated into a massive park that could host events like the Dade-County Youth Fair, which will be moved to the Everglades if no other alternatives are found, and Ultra, which has turned into a huge ordeal for residents and businesses in downtown due to the closure of Biscayne Blvd.
The slip is just fine. If the taxpayers are forced to pay to fill in the slip the site will just be used as a parking lot by the Miami Heat and like the AAA Arena, the Heat will refuse to pay rent. Deadbeats.
The slip is from ww2.... It is what is left of the navy base in downtown miami .... Can't we put a historic marker out there that educates people? Our history did not start in the 50's.... So why don't we have anything to show for it?
Let's fill in the reflection pool on the mall in DC. It would the parks department an extra 2029 x 167 square feet to build more statues on. Until they cleaned it out and redid the underpinnings in 2011, it was filled with stagnant water. It is worthy to note that someone cared enough to fix it and not pave it over.
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