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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The Miami Heat continue to screw over Miami-Dade County by refusing to follow through on their promised waterfront park
In 2003, a part of Parcel B required seawall work that cost $6 million to fix. How did the Miami Heat pay for this? They didn't. They gave the land back to the county, but continued “to lease it for extra parking and staging at special events”. This allowed the Heat to keep using it while being responsible for nothing. In 2020, the city decided that enough was enough. After 25 years, the city council decided to…change the name of the property from Parcel B to “Dan Paul Plaza”. They named it…
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