{"id":285866,"date":"2026-05-27T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285866\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:54:11","slug":"bid-to-add-floating-fishing-docks-in-parks-13-million-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285866\/","title":{"rendered":"Bid to add floating fishing docks in parks $13 million short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tWritten by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/author\/admin\/\" title=\"Posts by Miami Today\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Today<\/a> on May 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/contact-us\/\" title=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BOM2026_002-scaled.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fishing.jpg\" alt=\"Bid to add floating fishing docks in parks $13 million short\" class=\"postimage\" width=\"483\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade would need at least $13.9 million that it doesn\u2019t have in order to fulfill a 2025 resolution seeing to aid patrons who use mobility devices or wheelchairs by installing adaptive fishing piers or floating docks at all county parks where fishing is available, a report to commissioners says.<\/p>\n<p>The commission asked for the adaptive docks or a report on their status from Mayor Daniella Levine Cava a year ago. After study of the parks, the report says 12 parks have fishing opportunities and only one \u2013 Deering Estate (The People\u2019s Dock) \u2013 is equipped with a hybrid floating dock and fishing pier that can serve those using mobility aids.<\/p>\n<p>A second park, at the Pelican Harbor Marina, has a fixed concrete pier and replacement with an adaptive pier is partially funded and expected to be complete in February 2028, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the East Greynolds Park fishing pier will be replaced with an adaptive fishing pier in coordination with the South Florida Water Management District. The report does not give a timeline for that replacement.<\/p>\n<p>As for the remaining nine park locations, the report says the cost to adapt an existing fishing pier or install an adaptive fishing pier or floating dock would be $600,000 to $1.1 million per location, depending on the size of the dock and the complexity of the work. Moreover, some parks would need funding for remediation at the site.<\/p>\n<p>All told, the report puts the cost of making the nine addition parks available for fishing for those in wheelchairs or needing mobility help as high as $13.9 million for capital funding. \u201cFunding is currently unavailable and would need to be identified in future years,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>The nine fishing-friendly parks that are not provided for to add these fishing opportunities are:<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0A.D. Barnes Park, where shore fishing areas with concrete pads would need to be modified or retrofitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Black Point Park and Marina, which now offers shore fishing at a concrete seawall that would need to be modified or retrofitted, in addition to spending about $2 million for remediation.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Haulover Park, where shore fishing with a concrete seawall would need modifying or retrofitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Homestead Bayfront Park, which offers shore fishing from a concrete seawall that would need to be modified or retrofitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Larry &amp; Penny Thompson Memorial Park, where a fixed concrete pier would need modification or retrofitting and $2 million in site remediation.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Matheson Hammock Park, whose fixed wood dock would have to be modified or retrofitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Amelia Earhart Park, whose fixed wood dock would have to be completely replaced.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Tropical Park, whose fixed concrete dock would need replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Bill Sadowski Hammock Preserve, whose primitive shore fishing would require a complete buildout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by Miami Today on May 27, 2026 Advertisement Miami-Dade would need at least $13.9 million that it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-285866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}