Directors of Miami’s Downtown Development Authority voted unanimously Friday to join the push to bring Tri-Rail into downtown by amending an agreement the authority signed when pledging $1.3 million in financial support. The new contract does not require the Florida Department of Transportation to be part of the deal.
The authority’s financial commitment to the project hasn’t changed, said Alyce Robertson, executive director.
Bringing commuter rail into downtown “has been one of the central tenets in our master plan for the past seven or eight years,” said board Vice Chair Neisen Kasdin, who is office-managing partner of Akerman LLP. “This is a necessary step.”
