Stories written by Lidia Dinkova
Plans to expand a passenger train’s service area to downtown Miami depend on obtaining $69 million in public funding within two months. The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA), the…
February 11, 2015Read More
About a year after the Miami-Dade County Commission decided a Major League Soccer stadium is not to open at PortMiami, a county commissioner is now nudging discussions toward a different…
February 11, 2015Read More
A push to build a Major League Soccer stadium beside the Marlins baseball stadium has sailed past county officials, but a plan to create a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) encompassing…
February 10, 2015Read More
Miami-Dade government staff is looking into whether it can move court operations now housed at the county-owned courthouse to a different facility in Miami. So far, preliminary findings aren’t promising…
February 4, 2015Read More
A record in cruise passengers – nearly 4.8 million – sailed through PortMiami last year. That’s a 17% gain from 2013, when about 4.08 million came through, according to PortMiami.…
February 4, 2015Read More
Imagine a mixed-use development rising above what today is the Omni bus terminal in Miami. Also imagine a renovated bus terminal on the ground floor of that development. Miami-Dade County…
February 4, 2015Read More
Plans to provide express bus service on the Dolphin Expressway are moving forward as buses are to start running on the route in 2019. The $38 million project includes two…
January 28, 2015Read More
The Miami Marlins have given the county their final expense claims for building the baseball team’s Little Havana home – after three full seasons in the stadium. The Marlins say…
January 28, 2015Read More
Miami-Dade County is home to a growing number of condominiums, most of which are held by absentee owners. Based on county data that show the number of homestead exemptions claimed…
January 21, 2015Read More
A county hall drive to ease traffic congestion has turned toward running buses on thoroughfares originally slated for rail service. Miami-Dade County is taking a hard look at running buses…
January 14, 2015Read More
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