Miami Overtown developers agree to split ‘transformative’ project
In an unusual and unexpected move, a Miami commissioner on Thursday persuaded two developers competing to build a massive residential and commercial complex on public land in Overtown to split the baby, with each agreeing to take a city block to develop separately.
The compromise, engineered by Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, means the city’s Overtown redevelopment agency stands to get what it wants — a “transformative’’ project designed to repopulate and revitalize the long-blighted heart of the mostly black neighborhood — while averting a bitter fight that she said threatened to divide the community.