{"id":315980,"date":"2026-06-22T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:32:10","slug":"miami-dade-failures-over-fuel-yard-and-detention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315980\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade failures over fuel yard and detention center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gary<\/p>\n

Gary Wilcox, a Native American Indian, opens a rally with a traditional song welcoming protestors outside of Alligator Alcatraz located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Florida Everglades on May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

PHOTO BY AL DIAZ<\/p>\n

adiaz@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n

The Miami Herald Editorial Board<\/a> called out government missteps on two fronts last week \u2014 a PortMiami fuel yard on Fisher Island and an immigration detention center in the Everglades shrouded in secrecy. The editorials raise hard questions about accountability, transparency and what happens when officials act first and explain later.<\/p>\n

Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade commissioners voted 11-1 Tuesday to pursue eminent domain to seize a privately owned fuel yard on Fisher Island<\/a> that\u2019s crucial for keeping PortMiami\u2019s cruise ships fueled.The Editorial Board blamed the administration of Mayor Daniella Levine Cava for the county\u2019s missteps<\/a>. The county failed to buy the 10-acre property when it was for sale. The new owners \u2014 including developers Russell Galbut and the Related Group \u2014 bought the land for about $180 million and now are asking $400 million to sell it to the county, a price Commissioner Keon Hardemon called \u201cprohibitive\u201d.Royal Caribbean CEO Jason Liberty warned commissioners that without the fuel yard, the future of one of the county\u2019s largest economic engines would be \u201cprecarious.\u201d<\/a>Meanwhile, inmates at Alligator Alcatraz have been moved to other facilities for \u201csafety\u201d reasons as hurricane season approaches \u2014 a justification that \u201cstrains credulity\u201d given the center was hastily built in the Everglades last July<\/a> during hurricane season, the Editorial Board argues.The detention facility is projected to cost about $1 billion, and the state has received only a fraction of promised federal reimbursement, with secrecy and lack of transparency as hallmarks of the operation<\/a> from the start.If the site is emptied, Gov. Ron DeSantis owes Floridians answers about cleanup of the seized Dade-Collier airstrip, where environmental groups argue the state built \u201ca secret gulag in the Everglades\u201d<\/a> without permits or environmental review.<\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Wilcox, a Native American Indian, opens a rally with a traditional song welcoming protestors outside of Alligator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-315980","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\/315980","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=315980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}