The Downtown Neighbors Association will have a public safety town hall Wednesday with Miami Police Chief Manny Morales to discuss some “recent high profile incidents” in the urban core, talk about the homeless crisis and look at the 2025 downtown public safety action plan. DNA President James Torres has been very vocal recently about what […]
The Miami Downtown Development Authority, an entity that was formed in 1967 to promote the urban core and bring development, has a budget of $13.5 million through a special tax levy on properties within its district boundaries in downtown, Brickell and Edgewater. About a quarter of that is on salaries, some of which seem excessive and […]
It’s time to dissolve the Miami Downtown Development Authority Op-Ed by James Torres, President, Downtown Neighbors Alliance The Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA) was established 58 years ago in 1967, when Lyndon B. Johnson was president and Robert King High was Miami’s mayor. That’s right—this agency was created before Miami even had air conditioning in most buildings, let alone the […]
Representatives of homeowners in Downtown Miami, Brickell and Edgewater joined forces last week to respectfully ask the Miami Downtown Development Authority — an agency that focuses on promoting and strengthening the “economic health” of Downtown Miami — not to give $100,000 to the UFC for events at the Kaseya Center, formerly the American Airlines Arena. […]
Another one bites the dust: former Miami Beach Commissioner John Elizabeth Aleman, who had been selected as the executive director of the Miami Downtown Development Authority, resigned from her unconfirmed position Tuesday, because of the tenure (read: power shift) at City Hall. “I have concluded that the prospect of working within the current political climate is […]