Expected to draw more than 60,000 to Tropical Park, the sixth annual Miami International Agriculture and Cattle Show, Apr. 12-14, serves as a focus on the county’s position as a “gateway to domestic markets in agriculture,” according to the events founder, Miami- Dade District 10 Commissioner Javier Souto. Representatives from more than 24 countries include [...]
It was planned as a pep rally for high test scoring. But it equally became an impromptu rally for the University of Miami’s NCAA tournament basketball fortunes at West Kendall’s Winston Park K8 Center on Mar. 21. On stage before hundreds of students, teachers and administrators, University of Miami president Donna Shalala appeared to encourage [...]
Touring Miami-Dade parks and visiting spots became a new adventure for Goulds Park area youngsters, many of whom rarely had traveled outside their neighborhood. A six-week program took them on a bike trip to Cape Florida State Park, a boat tour of Miami River and a walking tour of history in downtown Miami through cosponsorship [...]
More than 100 West Kendall youngsters celebrated the Mar. 2 opening of Wild Lime Park’s canopied playground along with Miami-Dade Commissioner Juan Zapata and parks director Jack Kardys. The ADA-approved unit for the disabled combines colorful plastic overhead ladders, climbers and swings installed on a specially composed artificial grass surface to diminish potential scrapes and [...]
While Kendall decries a continuing loss of its vegetable “pick-em” fields, Miami-Dade County commissioners secured 152 acres for agricultural use for nine years at Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport it was announced Mar. 5. “We have over 600 acres being used for farming on airport land throughout Miami- Dade,” said Greg Owens, division director of Real Estate [...]
A two-year battle against increased tolls and other Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) decisions gained added momentum with organized opposition of Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations members. “The fight to put MDX under more direct control of the people will continue,” promised RollBackTolls co-founder Carlos Garcia during a KFHA-sponsored rally on Mar. 11. “It’s time we [...]
Newly elected County Court Judge Andrea Wolfson credits her election with “knowing people, their concerns, and how differently they live throughout our county.” Wolfson appeared last fall at three local pre-election forums sponsored by Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations saying she learned “in detail about your area’s primary concerns such as your traffic and growth [...]
Despite a growing protest of nearby residents, Pinewood Acres School plans to reopen in Sept. as Somerset Charter School with plans for a two-story campus development accommodating up to 2,000 students. For the past 60 years, the neighborhood private school has consisted of several one-story buildings on five contiguous lots along the west side of [...]
Completion of a multiyear project transforming Kendall’s Town and Country Center into a contemporary look for shopping and dining has begun with the start of Phase Three of The Palms. Following demolition of the former location of Keiser University last fall, construction began in January to add 84,000 square feet to the upscale Mediterranean-themed shopping [...]
An entrepreneurial expert in computers and graphic design has begun the third year of successful online retail throughout the U.S. and abroad. “Our focus is on quality, not quantity,” emphasizes Elias S. Hayek of Fox Project whose Mini Spider flashlight is the newest item in the Fox Light family, consisting of tactical and diving flashlights [...]
Struggling at times to keep its hangar open, South Florida’s Wings Over Miami Air Museum is looking for sponsorships, from $200 to $5,000, for its Mar. 15 “Golf Classic” at Miccosukee Golf and Country Club in Kendale Lakes. “Because of the way our lease is structured with Miami-Dade County Aviation, events like this are critical [...]
Charting a new direction that translates the growth and economic progress of West Kendall into potential incorporation is paramount among the objectives of newly seated Miami- Dade District 11 Commissioner Juan C. Zapata. Zapata, addressing 140 members and guests of the Greater Kendall Business Association on Jan. 31, urged that “you, as leaders of the [...]
Kendall’s most influential community voice — the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations (KFHA) — has organized a “grassroots” appeal of a U.S. Indian Bureau decision to place a Kendale Lakes golf course under the Miccosukee Indian Tribal Land Trust. Accompanied by protesting petitions of residents, Miami-Dade County filed a legal appeal on Jan. 24 claiming [...]
Determined to retain its recently approved trauma center, Kendall Regional Medical Center is rallying public and professional support in the face of a legal challenge from Jackson Health System, which operates the Ryder Trauma Center. In a competitive climate to maintain revenue streams, Jackson Health filed two petitions with the State of Florida in early [...]
