The park looks great now. It's better to leave well enough alone. For the first time, I actually like a park in the City of Miami and thought the City had done a good thing for the public. The park is not cluttered with crap or commercialism. The open green spaces are so few in downtown Miami, to have this in the heart of the city is an unexpected delight. But of course, this being Miami, anything that is free and good and open is eyed by private for profit special interests for their own enterprise. Let's not let that happen. What a dumb idea to consider tearing up the park to build an underground parking garage - on the Bay - and all this for an upscale restaurant?They are so intent on stealing this park from the public, piece by piece over the years. They have one museum that can only afford a shell and another that has private parties all the time. Let the dust settle, let the Science Museum open first. What else do they want from us.....tell the City of Miami commissioners: We need more time to digest this Manny Diaz idea as we might want to barf it up.
Thursday, October 08, 2015
NO WAY on Conservancy for Bicentennial Park (Museum Park) - will be heard today. By Geniusofdespair
The City of Miami is hearing the wacky PRIVATE Conservancy idea for Bicentennial Park (They call it Museum Park). It is happening too quickly without enough public input. Don't do it!! What is the rush, does Commissioner Marc Sarnoff need a legacy? The park has recently opened, give it a chance. I wrote about this dumb idea in depth. Read the damn article. As Clark Kent said in my article:
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Exactly! Rushing and sneaking things through before the people have a chance to organize is the City of Miami's M.O. Why is the Miami and Knight Foundation behind this? Why is Concrete Manny Diaz pushing this?
The park is a postage stamp compared to other city's waterfront parks. We already gave up half of Bicentenial's green space to the Museums. Fortunately they did a beautiful job on the remaining Park. The park should remain open and green, uncluttered and public and beautiful. In other words, the way it is.
Marc Sarnoff is a kleptomaniac.
Miami Beach allowed Nikki Beach and Smith & Wollensky in their parks. What could possibly go wrong with Miami's plan? Miami already rents park space to a concert venue. Stop calling them parks. They are commercial green space.
This is about the underground parking garage and the upscale waterfront restaurant, ala Monty's and the Grove Harbour projects on public waterfront land. The rapacious private developers And friends in office are using the Foundations and millennials as front groups for their PPP ventures. Stop the public land grabs.
Ultra Music Festival would love to use Miami Marine Stadium. Imagine the manatees claping their flippers to the sound of dance music.
This is such a disgrace and waste of our tax dollars. Please, people, vote for Grace Solares. We need to stop giving everything away to the rich and connected. I see that T. Sarnoff and Ken Russell (aka Seth Gordon) think this is a great idea!
Even more disgraceful is today's Miami Herald editorial wholeheartedly endorsing this stupid, wasteful plan. The publisher has no clue about how real people feel about these schemes and scams to use our public parks and waterfront land for private businesses.
UltraFest on Key Biscayne. I think I'll open a ferry concession on the main land to get residents to and from their homes.
UltraFest attendees sort of look as if they are fully insured, sober drivers to add to the weekend traffic going to Key Biscayne which is already backed up to the old Science Musuem on US1. What a holy hell of a mess.
To the residents of one of the richest zip codes in the nation, my ferry idea is a GREAT moneymaker!
As a resident of Downtown, I think this is a great idea!
Who is Seth Gordon?
Seth is a second string lobbyist...
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