Category: Miami International Airport
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With all eyes on COVID-19, Miami-Dade pols, insiders look to steer hotel deal and pass no-bid parks deal
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Amid the global pandemic, a couple of Miami-Dade commissioners are laying the groundwork to extend a no-bid contract to a holiday theme park operator and steer an abandoned Miami International Airport hotel deal to a development team featuring two entrenched County Hall insiders. -
U.S. Sugar and Hendry County seek to turn sleepy airport into cargo hub to rival MIA
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
At the heart of a controversial plan for a huge new development near the northwest edge of the Everglades – dubbed “Big Sugar City” by environmentalists – is a crucial, but less noticed proposal for a $400 million makeover of a flyspeck of an airport in rural Hendry County.
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