Port to court: Miami-Dade approves eminent domain move in Fisher Island fuel yard fight

Port to court: Miami-Dade approves eminent domain move in Fisher Island fuel yard fight

Miami-Dade is going to court to seize a fuel yard it passed on buying. In an 11-1 vote, the County Commission authorized Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to pursue eminent domain against the privately owned fuel depot on Fisher Island that supplies PortMiami. The move targets a roughly 10-acre fuel tank farm that Chicago-based developer HRP Group purchased last year for about $180 million and later offered to sell to Miami-Dade for $400 million. Levin…

The Fisher Island fuel depot long con may be over; now comes the bill

Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert isn’t the only one who got to say “I told you so,” on Tuesday. And after Tuesday’s nearly unanimous vote to move forward with eminent domain proceedings against the owners of the Fisher Island fuel depot, it’s getting harder and harder to ignore what looked suspiciously like a long con from the very beginning, like Ladra suggested. Remember when Miami-Dade County was preparing to pay something approaching $…