Memo: ‘Relationships’ would help pass UDB expansion vote at Miami-Dade

A confidential offering memorandum distributed to potential investors last year, shows that the developers of the South Dade Logistics and Technology District — the complex of warehouses they want to build across the Urban Development Boundary — were counting on the “relationships” they had to make it happen.

This is important because the developers had five bites at the apple before the commission finally approved an adjusted application Nov. 1 to develop 311 acres of farmland into an industrial park. While the professional staff and every state and federal agency and environmental group — even Sen. Marco Rubio — urged the commission to vote against the application, many commissioners went out of their way to defend the developers’ position and make their case for them.

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