Mercy's incompetence must not be rewarded
The following is one of the comments left on one of the posts below. It think it really sums up the situation and should be posted here so as not to be lost in the comments section:
Mercy Hospital is using the justification for selling their property to a developer because they say they need the money for improvement.
If Mercy is not already self sufficient after all these years in business as a not-for-profit without paying taxes, what makes them think that a few million bucks will make a difference. Eventually they will spend that money as well and have to sell more property.
Mercy Hospital must not be permitted to impose upon the neighborhoods quality of life just to help them raise funds since they are unable to properly manage their own business and budget for improvement.
Incompetence must not be rewarded, especially at our expense.
I have been reminded that Mercy does not need justification to sell their property - they own it and do not need to ask anyone's permission to sell it. That Mercy is smart to use this $96 million dollars to improve their facilities so that they do not have to pay a massive amount of interest on construction loan. That many of the surrounding neighbors want this project built.
So, why are we not heading the advice of the Planning and Zoning Boards that are against this project?
I suspect the Grove Village Council and many others including me are also not in favor of this project.
Miami has a glut of new condos (more then Manhattan) and it will take many years to absorbed them all. This glut is going to affect all of our property values, traffic, sewage and quality of life.I don’t think we need to build any more units for a long time, which will just continue to contribute to the glut.
I heard that the Mercy project developers are compensating some of the neighborhood groups with funds for the inconvenience that they will be going through.That sounds a little like a pay-off.
Our community does not need any more condos. We don’t want to reward Mercy Hospital for its poor management and greed. What we want are three of the five Miami City Commissioners to step up to the plate and vote down this Mercy project. We need our commissioners to fight for the rights of its citizens and quality of life.
Signed,
Harry Emilio Gottlieb
Mercy Hospital is using the justification for selling their property to a developer because they say they need the money for improvement.
If Mercy is not already self sufficient after all these years in business as a not-for-profit without paying taxes, what makes them think that a few million bucks will make a difference. Eventually they will spend that money as well and have to sell more property.
Mercy Hospital must not be permitted to impose upon the neighborhoods quality of life just to help them raise funds since they are unable to properly manage their own business and budget for improvement.
Incompetence must not be rewarded, especially at our expense.
I have been reminded that Mercy does not need justification to sell their property - they own it and do not need to ask anyone's permission to sell it. That Mercy is smart to use this $96 million dollars to improve their facilities so that they do not have to pay a massive amount of interest on construction loan. That many of the surrounding neighbors want this project built.
So, why are we not heading the advice of the Planning and Zoning Boards that are against this project?
I suspect the Grove Village Council and many others including me are also not in favor of this project.
Miami has a glut of new condos (more then Manhattan) and it will take many years to absorbed them all. This glut is going to affect all of our property values, traffic, sewage and quality of life.I don’t think we need to build any more units for a long time, which will just continue to contribute to the glut.
I heard that the Mercy project developers are compensating some of the neighborhood groups with funds for the inconvenience that they will be going through.That sounds a little like a pay-off.
Our community does not need any more condos. We don’t want to reward Mercy Hospital for its poor management and greed. What we want are three of the five Miami City Commissioners to step up to the plate and vote down this Mercy project. We need our commissioners to fight for the rights of its citizens and quality of life.
Signed,
Harry Emilio Gottlieb
posted by Tom Falco at 9:18 PM
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6 Comments:
It should be illegal to pay off dissenters. Disgusting. (And my Swiss bank account number is...)
I want some of that Related money. Where do we sign up?
Next we will see Related attempt to pave Morningside Park to build high rises on that waterfront site.
Perhaps condos can go downtown where there is public transportation?
I like Harry and he is right. We don't need more condos.
But why is he mad at a hospital? The hospital wouldn't be mad at him if he sold his property.
Harry is mad at Mercy because Mercy is terrible at running a business and Mercy is a terrible neighbor. Now that Mercy realizes its expenses exceeds its revenue Mercy wants to trash its neighbors even more by selling off its land piece by piece. Mercy's solution to losing money trashing the neighborhood.
If they want to build something permitted under their current zoning that appears to be their right. But to ask for a change in zoning to R4? That's trashing the neighborhood. Marc Sarnoff ran on a quality of life platform. Let's see how he votes.
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