{"id":43523,"date":"2025-11-12T08:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43523\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:29:47","slug":"brownfield-designation-aligns-costco-for-state-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43523\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownfield designation aligns Costco for state aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/subscribe\/\" title=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Subscription_skyscrapper_Green.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>Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/author\/admin\/\" title=\"Posts by Miami Today\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Today<\/a> on November 12, 2025<\/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\/2025\/10\/Breaking-News_Red.jpg\" alt=\"Brownfield designation aligns Costco for state aid\" class=\"postimage\" width=\"483\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Costco has been granted a brownfield area designation certifying contamination on 20 acres in Sweetwater west of the Dolphin Mall where it plans to build a membership warehouse. The brownfield designation makes Costco eligible for state regulatory and economic incentives.<\/p>\n<p>County commissioners without comment approved the designation last week near Northwest 21st Street and 119th Court where Costco Wholesale Corp. plans to develop the 158,588-square-foot warehouse with a liquor store and an ancillary fueling facility.<\/p>\n<p>The site would become ei\u00adther the fifth or sixth Costco in Miami-Dade County, depend\u00ading on whether it opens before a Cutler Bay site that Costco bought from the county this year for a warehouse. Other county loca\u00adtions are on West Flagler Street and in Kendall, Miami Lakes and North Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Documents sent to commissioners before they voted note that Costco operates more than 900 warehouses worldwide and ranks 12th on the Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. corporations by total revenue, \u201cdemonstrating that it has the financial resources to undertake until completion the required rehabilitation and redevelopment of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The total Costco investment in the site is to be $118 million, with expectations of 350 permanent jobs at the new warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>A brownfield area includes one or more brownfields, some of which may not have actual soil and groundwater contamination. The county document notes that contamination of the Costco site is \u201clikely resulting from its previous use related to solid waste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the local government by state statute issues a brownfield designation, but when Sweetwater expanded several years ago to add land between Northwest 117th and 137th avenues and Northwest 12th and 25th streets, its land annexation was conditioned on the county retaining regulatory jurisdiction as an Area of Countywide Significance. That left the final brownfield decision to the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advertisement Written by Miami Today on November 12, 2025 Costco has been granted a brownfield area designation certifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-43523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43523","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=43523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}