{"id":406845,"date":"2026-09-22T03:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406845\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T03:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:44:12","slug":"dispute-over-five-park-bridge-prompts-independent-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406845\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispute over Five Park bridge prompts independent review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miami<\/p>\n

Miami Beach\u2019s planned signature bridge on Alton Road and Fifth Street will not be erected due to buried electrical lines.<\/p>\n

A promised $30 million pedestrian bridge at the entrance to Miami Beach has fallen through, and city leaders are pushing back on the developer\u2019s claim it can\u2019t be built. The dispute over the Five Park Miami Beach project has become a broader test of whether developers must deliver public benefits they promise.<\/p>\n

FULL STORY: A $30 million pedestrian bridge in South Beach has been canceled. What happened?<\/a><\/p>\n

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

The candy-colored, 158-foot bridge was supposed to span Fifth Street and Alton Road, making the busy intersection safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. Terra, the Coconut Grove-based developer, says underground Florida Power & Light utilities discovered 30 feet below ground in October prevent the bridge foundation from being built as designed.Terra CEO David Martin said engineers advised against proceeding because of risks to construction workers and critical power infrastructure. \u201cProtecting the workers who would build this bridge, safeguarding the public, and preventing damage to essential infrastructure must come first,\u201d Martin said.Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner isn\u2019t accepting the developer\u2019s conclusion. \u201cIf we find that they can do it, we\u2019ve got to force their hand,\u201d Meiner said. The commission voted 7-0 for an independent engineering assessment.Five Park residents told commissioners the bridge was a major selling point when they bought units in the 48-story luxury tower, where condos now sell for about $4 million. Resident David Fox called the developer\u2019s shift \u201csneaky and underhanded.\u201dCommissioner Laura Dominguez said the case exposed weaknesses in the city\u2019s development agreements and plans to introduce legislation requiring that public benefits be substantially completed before a certificate of occupancy is issued. Roughly $2 million in public money has already been spent on the bridge.<\/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":"Miami Beach\u2019s planned signature bridge on Alton Road and Fifth Street will not be erected due to buried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-406845","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\/406845","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=406845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}