FYI Miami: August 1, 2024

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CAUSEWAY TRAFFIC CHANGE: The westbound exit from the MacArthur Causeway onto Biscayne Boulevard is moving this week about a quarter mile further east, the Florida Department of Transportation says. The merge on the right lane just west of Watson Island has been removed. The bicycle lane on the causeway has also been closed and cyclists are being detoured through the Parrot Jungle Trail bicycle route onto the protected sidewalk of the MacArthur Causeway.

CONSUMER PROTECTION SHIFT: Miami-Dade County today (8/1) is merging its Consumer Protection Division into its Code Compliance Division and closing the consumer protection office that was at 601 NW First Court in Miami. Both divisions of the Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources will now by housed at 11805 SW 25th St. The new name of the combined operation is the Consumer and Neighborhood Protection Division. Consumer protection services include mediation of consumer disputes, tow truck regulation, filing for domestic partnerships, business license renewals, wage theft complaints, cashless retail prohibition enforcement, and the Community Association Registry. The community benefit of the merger, said Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, is more efficient consumer services.

BIG AIRCRAFT REPAIRS LEASE: Global Turbine Services has signed a 10-year lease with landlord Prologis at Beacon Industrial Park for an aircraft engine repair and overhaul facility including corporate offices. Global Turbine specializes in turbo engine repairs, overhauls and support services catering to commercial, corporate and military operators. The 77,900-square foot site is at 10814 NW 33rd St. in the Airport West/Doral market. For comparison, the space would have been larger than all but three Miami-Dade industrial leases in the second quarter, according to a report by Colliers, which said that the quarter’s average asking rate for such space in Airport West was $25.08 and that occupancy in those spaces declined by 50,384 square feet during that quarter. State Street Realty represented Prologis in the lease and Cushman & Wakefield represented Global Turbine. 

FIU BRIDGE SUIT FILED: After a US District Judge Allen Winsor on July 10 dismissed an initial version, a group of Tallahassee-based companies and their owner have filed a revised lawsuit over the possibility that they could be prevented from working on federally funded projects after being affiliated with an engineering firm that designed a collapsed Florida International University pedestrian bridge.