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CBIRS Request 765
 
Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #765
Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Old Fire House # 2
 
Requester: James H. Villacorta, Executive Director Organization: City of Miami Community Redevelopment Agencies
 
Project Title: Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Old Fire House # 2 Date Submitted 1/4/2008 2:47:53 PM
 
Sponsors: Bullard
 
Statewide Interest:
This project addresses the need to enhance and beautify public spaces by eliminating blighted conditions that perpetuate loitering, vagrancy, and other ill conditions that promulgate dis-investment. It will restore and preserve a landmark building that has been designated historic and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Presently, the building sits in disrepair and is in danger of deteriorating due to weathering and vandalism. The location of the building is on the fringe of the Central Business District of Downtown Miami that is experiencing a re-birth in this urban setting.
 
Recipient: City of Miami Community Redevelopment Agencies   Contact: Clarence Woods  
  49 N.W. 5th Street, Suite 100   Contact Phone: (305) 679-6802  
  Miami 33128   Contact email: cwoods@ci.miami.fl.us
 
Counties: Miami-Dade
 
Gov't Entity: Yes Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit):  
 
Project Description:
The City�s CRA seeks funding assistance to restore the architectural and structural integrity of the building for the purpose of adaptive re-use in providing an economic resource for the community. There is an immediate need to repair the roof to arrest active interior deterioration as a result of total roof failure. Roof construction will include replacement of failed roof decking and trusses, the installation of hurricane strapping, and re-roofing with clay tile. The second floor trusses that support the load bearing walls at and above the second floor have lost their structural integrity. They must be re-placed in order to strengthen the building above the second floor and ensure public safety. The scope includes the installation of impact-resistant windows, doors, concrete structural enhancements at windows, doors, and beams, stucco work and new exterior paint.
 
Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? No
 
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Enhancement to the Overtown and Omni Community redevelopment districts.
 
Amount requested from the State for this project this year: $2,000,000
 
Total cost of the project: $4,000,000
 
Request has been made to fund: Construction
 
What type of match exists for this project? Local
  Cash Amount $4,000,000  
 
Was this project previously funded by the state?   No
 
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?   No
 
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?   No
 
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? No
 
Is there a documented need for this project? Yes
  Documentation: Overtown Master Plans
 
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?   Yes
  Hearing Body: Community Redevelopment Agency Board of Commissioners
 
Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida?   No