Did the cities of Fort Lauderdale & Miami actually stand up for themselves against a professional team?
When the city reminded the team of this contract agreement, Inter Miami had the nerve to ask the city to pay for the park. Why would the team do this? Especially when the lease agreement says nothing about the city paying for the public park? The team claims that during stadium negotiations, an unknown city person at some unknown time gave the team “certain agreements…but not all made it into the written contract”. After some time, the city told the team that they must build the park by July…
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Fort Lauderdale decides to build a previously agreed upon park and to bill Inter Miami owners
Now, Fort Lauderdale is getting ready to build a new $25 million park that will cost Inter Miami $13 million dollars (the city pays the rest) and should open by 2025. The park will include new fields for all sorts of sports and even a dog area. In addition, the city has now stopped the team from using the land for parking. The team was given a chance to pay the $1.4 million dollars in overdue building permit fees, but nothing was given, and the bills remain unpaid. Keep in mind that this is the…
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Inter Miami continues making secret, non-written down agreements with former city officials
Maybe patience is the way to go. Inter Miami seems like a truthful organization. Even though they are a new MLS team, it isn't like this ownership group has already been involved in a major cheating scandal. Except two years ago, when they tried signing several world-class players and lied about their salaries. MLS would eventually penalize the owner of Inter Miami and other executives with million dollar fines.
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Inter Miami: We agreed to build a park? Can we have some more public money then?
Four years ago, David Beckham and his partners (Inter Miami) came to Florida wanting to build a brand new soccer stadium. They asked the city of Fort Lauderdale for $170 million in taxpayer money.
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