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GlobeSt.com EXCLUSIVE: Doubts Cloud Plan for 54-Acre Container Site

MIAMI-Neighborhood interests are joining with the local commercial real estate industry in questioning whether Miami-Dade County should attempt to acquire what is widely considered the last large contiguous tract of undeveloped industrial land within the Miami city limits.

By David R. Corder | Updated on September 12, 2001

MIAMI-If the public interest means anything, Miami-Dade County may have a tough sell on any plan to use tax dollars to acquire a 54-acre industrial site now leased by the Port of Miami as a satellite container yard.

Neighborhood voices are joining with those from the local commercial real estate industry in questioning whether continued use of the site as a container yard is compatible with city’s long-term growth needs.

“That tract, which is a wonderful piece of property, is the Chinese Wall that divides Miami from its growth to the north,” Edie Laquer of Miami-based Laquer Corporate Realty Group Inc. tells GlobeSt.com.

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