Remember the Library, Art Museum, History Museum complex, Our Cultural Center? Might be set for demolition if all the properties mentioned in Gimenez's 40 page memo are sold. All the publicly owned parcels are downtown. How much did we pay for that complex anyway? A fortune down the tubes, Courthouse also is expected to be demolished.
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| Philip Johnson's designed the complex - said to be his first "transitional building from modernism to postmodern." |
Parcel B, on the bay East of the American Airlines Arena is also included in the memo.
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Deport Gimenez NOW.
Please share a link to the memo.
The Russian and South American condo investors will one day realize the developers sold them entire buildings without floor coverings to absorb noise. Read your condo docs investors.
So sad. I never go downtown now. With this, I say goodbye to downtown, as I will never ever go there.
Every Sunday morning I go to Church and I pray for the FBI office in Miramar, Florida to finally look into Miami-Dade County corruption and put away Gimenez and his highly paid lackeys. Who knows, they have to get lucky everyday, we only have to get lucky once
Please post a link to Gimenez's memo
Check out that new salary increase to $170k for Gimenez's mouthpiece Michael Hernandez. This from a mayor who claimed to come to office to slash waste. Yes, someone else's waste, now we are stuck with his.
http://www.miamidade.gov/mayor/library/memos-and-reports//2017/02/02.14.17-Report-for-the-Plan-Development-and-Maintenance-of-County-owned-property-in-the-Downtown-Miami-Area.pdf
I am a big admirer of Philip Johnson but honestly the Cultural Center is terrible and has been criticized as such almost since it opened. Instead of being part of a living, breathing city it literally creates a barrier between the arts/culture and the people it purportedly serves. Architecturally that makes little sense. I would have no issue with the whole thing being razed. I also wouldn't see any harm in having a private developer taking over but as part of the package constructing something new for both History Miami and the Public Library.
Tragic. But with the homeless problem downtown, it turned those gems into a wasteland. Bums were always stinking up the beautiful library, public restrooms were a nightmare, there was no where to sit on the plaza if you worked in the area - bums hanging out everywhere. Oh the smell of urine, the garbage all over. Good luck finding a place to sit in the library or use a computer - it was a shelter for them and they took full advantage of it. The begging, the wanderers...That was my experience years ago. Downtown west is a cesspool. They have got to clean up that homeless problem downtown. I was there for the groundbreaking of the cultural center. It was a once proud moment to a hopefully new downtown - but since it was located in "city" territory, it was doomed. Downtown Flagler St. is filthy and always has been. Very third world look to it - City Hall should be down located down there to witness this mess. It's always been "out of site - out of mind" with them.
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