miami: Carlos Alvarez: A Man with Many Plans - 02/11/09 08:08 AM
The mayor of Miami-Dade Country has major projects on his mind and hopes to stimulate the economy by giving Miami-Dade County a metropolitan makeover. 
Though Mayor Carlos Alvarez had these ideas in mind before the housing crisis and subsequent recession, he is "sticking by his guns" and thinks the recession presents even greater reason to start these projects. The projects the mayor is so vigorously supporting are the Miami Marlins stadium in Downtown Miami that will cost a whopping $515 million dollars and an underwater tunnel to the Port of Miami that will "tip the scales" at $1 billion dollars. His … (0 comments)