Could 33133 be left without a post office?
Harry's photos have people talking -- not really acting, mostly talking -- and still there are no concrete plans for the post office. No pun intended, but many would love to see a parking garage go onto the torn up lot. Others fear that the post office is leaving altogether and many feel that trying to get the federal government to actually move fast is a waste of time, although they sure moved at lightening speed when people tried to stop them from cutting down the large trees last year. They literally sped up to spitefully kill the beautiful shade trees before anyone could legally step in.
City permitting issues of course is the easy way out, that's the excuse they are using now.
And according to Art Noriega, executive director of the Miami Parking Authority, there is a $40,000 study being done, still in the preliminary stages, on whether a garage on the location would be a good idea. They want to include retail space on the ground level, too.
Isn't Mayfair leasing its retail space as office space now? Why add more retail space to just sit empty? What are all the games about?
Does this study that is in the "preliminary stages" mean many more months, if not years, of waiting for the study, debating the study, having meetings after meetings, etc? Look at the Waterfront Master Plan, Tuesday's meeting (yawn) was postponed (what else is new), and the 27th Avenue Plan and the Playhouse Charrette and every other plan -- they take many long years to study and debate. In the meantime there is no place to park, the place is falling apart and the whole neighborhood looks like a bomb went off.
It must really have made some impression on all the visitors who came into town this weekend for the Goombay Festival and it looks like an embarrassing mess to those who come in for the Art Stroll and other events every month.
City permitting issues of course is the easy way out, that's the excuse they are using now.
And according to Art Noriega, executive director of the Miami Parking Authority, there is a $40,000 study being done, still in the preliminary stages, on whether a garage on the location would be a good idea. They want to include retail space on the ground level, too.
Isn't Mayfair leasing its retail space as office space now? Why add more retail space to just sit empty? What are all the games about?
Does this study that is in the "preliminary stages" mean many more months, if not years, of waiting for the study, debating the study, having meetings after meetings, etc? Look at the Waterfront Master Plan, Tuesday's meeting (yawn) was postponed (what else is new), and the 27th Avenue Plan and the Playhouse Charrette and every other plan -- they take many long years to study and debate. In the meantime there is no place to park, the place is falling apart and the whole neighborhood looks like a bomb went off.
It must really have made some impression on all the visitors who came into town this weekend for the Goombay Festival and it looks like an embarrassing mess to those who come in for the Art Stroll and other events every month.
posted by Tom Falco at 11:00 AM
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6 Comments:
a parking garage is not what we need. There is plenty of parking at cocowalk or in the various lots, if one feels the need to drive to the grove.
a PARKING GARAGE IS A GREAT IDEA BUT WE REALLY NEED THE POST OFFICE HERE IN THE GROVE,,,,
Affordable parking is the answer, keep in mind if multistory parking is added there is a mandate to add retail frontage in the city, so that would be perfect.
if you look at the city lot at mary and oak almost all of the retail is rented. i believe (not certain) the city has much more realistic rent rates than the folks at mayfair (knowing the city they've probably not updated their rent schedules in some time). anyway, more reasonably priced retail space would be welcome for stores that normally don't generate the revenue required to survive a mayfair or cocowalk.
How about a 3 - 4 story parking garage with a post office, and some other useful retail on the ground floor?
The Parking Lot at Cocowalk is no the option-- unless you want to pay $9.00.
the federal postal service was in cahoots with a developer before the trees were ever removed. rather than repair and upgrade the current post office building, it was found to be more profitable to sell the lot as a whole or as parcels, and an interested developer was identified. as part of the deal, the post office was to remove the trees under the guise of upgrading the post office parking lot, but in actuality, it was a demand made by the developer before the company would consider purchasing the lot and the post office building. the developer knew the problems a private company would run into when trying to remove years-old shade trees in the Grove, so the process was "expedited" by USPS, who knew full well of local regulations against such actions, but claimed ignorance on a federal level once it came time to answer for them.
now we're paying with local monies for an unnecessary parking study that in the end, will promote the sale of the federally owned building and leave the grove with more empty parking and retail space.
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