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Sun Sentinel
April 28, 2018
Cameras also follow a Biscayne Bay Pilot who is dispatched from PortMiami to carefully guide mega container ship the Maersk Sana through Government Cut while a Miami-Dade police chopper responds to a report of a submerged van in a canal. In the episode, the flamingos of Hialeah Park Race TrackÃâà...
Hospitality Net
April 28, 2018
McDermott brings more than 20 years of hospitality experience to his role at the helm of Pullman Miami Airport. ... on the board of The Greater Miami & Keys Chapter of the American Red Cross, a philanthropic organization that serves more than two million residents in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.
Miami Herald
April 25, 2018
When senior officials in Miami-Dade's government returned from an extended trade mission to China and Japan last month, the county took the .... The speech touted the county's declining unemployment rate and record traffic levels at Miami International Airport and PortMiami, while promising more effortsÃâà...
South Florida Business Journal
April 20, 2018
One of the largest hotel owner/operators in the United States will assume management of the Miami International Airport Hotel on June 1. The Miami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD) awarded a seven-year contract with a three-year option to renew to MCR Investors LLC last month. The New YorkÃâà...
Miami Herald
April 16, 2018
When President Donald Trump descended from Air Force One at Miami International Airport on Monday, Miami-Dade's Republican mayor said he wanted to be there. But the White House wouldn't give him an invitation. Despite upending Miami-Dade's immigration policy to mollify Trump in the early days ofÃâà...
South Florida Business Journal
April 11, 2018
The Miami-Dade County Commission on April 10 unanimously approved a $5 million grant for the billionaire Soffer family to expand their Fontainebleau Aviation jet center at Miami Opa-Locka Executive Airport. The grant was awarded to Turnberry Airport Holdings, which leases 41.4 acres from the countyÃâà...
Law360
March 22, 2018
Law360 (March 21, 2018, 6:19 PM EDT) -- A Florida judge on Tuesday tossed a challenge to Miami-Dade County's decision to modify an existing contract with luggage-wrapping company SafeWrap for services at Miami International Airport without putting it out for a bid, ruling the county properly decided not to rebid theÃâà...
South Florida Business Journal
March 22, 2018
Marine Harvest distributes seafood such as Atlantic salmon to more than 70 markets worldwide and has operations in 24 counties. It will relocate its Miami-Dade office from 8550 N.W. 17th St. and more than double its space. The new facility in Airport North Logistics Park should be completed before the endÃâà...
SFGate
March 21, 2018
Officials from the Miami-Dade Aviation Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have cut the ribbon on a newly renovated Terminal E federal inspection facility at Miami International Airport. “The facility is the first in the country completely dedicated to providing expedited passport screening viaÃâà...
WPLG Local 10
March 15, 2018
Miami-Dade police Director Juan Perez said the police department's homicide unit will take over the investigation as soon as search and rescue efforts are .... bridge they erected at the airport allegedly "broke under the weight of the plaintiff, causing him to slip" and fall on the floor of the airport's Terminal 4.
Pueblo Chieftain
March 7, 2018
The airport also offers passport clearance via Global Entry kiosks and is one of 24 airports and one cruise port (Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale) that now accepts the Mobile Passport Control app. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, which featured officials from the Miami-Dade Aviation Department and newÃâà...
CBS Miami
March 6, 2018
They have visited Miami International Airport, the police crime lab, and communications bureau just to name a few. Perez says the field trips are key so they can step out of their neighborhoods and witness the diversity in the community for themselves. And it appears their connection is working. Jean recallsÃâà...
South Florida Business Journal
March 6, 2018
Throughout Lester Sola's 25-plus years working in county government, he says he's always been intrigued by Miami's "city within a city," otherwise known as Miami International Airport. He now has the chance to run the organization as director of the Miami-Dade Aviation Department. Sola, previously headÃâà...
Miami Herald
March 6, 2018
Miami's top administrator this week met with David Beckham partner Jorge Mas about building a Major League Soccer stadium on the city-owned Melreese golf course, floating a 180-acre alternative near Miami International Airport as Mas is raising doubts about long-standing plans to build the stadium onÃâà...
South Florida Business Journal
February 28, 2018
This is the same bond program used to build a business park at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport where Amazon.com will have a major distribution center. Before Bombardier even ... The proposed facility in Miami-Dade would be about twice as large as the Learjet facility at FLL. “As part of a significantÃâà...
Miami Herald
February 27, 2018
It was the headquarters for a family-run money-laundering operation that skimmed millions from airport revenue. A married couple last week admitted to using the lounge in an operation that stole millions of dollars, using shadow bank accounts to loot funds intended for Miami-Dade's Aviation Department.
WPLG Local 10
February 27, 2018
MIAMI-DADE, Fla. - There is new facial recognition technology at Miami International Airport that is helping authorities to verify the identities' of travelers. There were ... "Miami airport has been the first in many things for passport screening, starting with kiosks -- one of the first airports to do that. All the way toÃâà...
Miami Herald
February 22, 2018
Miami-Dade commissioners on Wednesday endorsed Mayor Carlos Gimenez's new slate of department heads — including a replacement for ... Gimenez turned to Lester Sola to run the Aviation Department, which is dominated by Miami International Airport but includes the county's executive airports, too.
South Florida Business Journal
February 20, 2018
The Miami-Dade Aviation Department has a new director, coming nearly four months after its former director announced his resignation. County Mayor Carlos Gimenez appointed Lester Sola to lead the department, which includes Miami International Airport, the county's largest economic engine.
Miami Herald
February 19, 2018
An “explosive component” used during a K9 training exercise at Miami International Airport disappeared briefly Monday morning. Police were still interviewing a husband ... But it's not a device that could explode,” said Miami-Dade Detective and spokesman Lee Cowart. “It's not a bomb. It's nothing that canÃâà...
Miami Herald
December 31, 1999
MCM's broad county portfolio highlights just how large a player the company is when it comes to public works in Miami-Dade. MCM has won major contracts with the county's airport, seaport, Metrorail system, public housing arm, Water and Sewer Department, the county's general construction arm, andÃâà...
Miami New Times
December 31, 1999
Florida's Turnpike Enterprise and the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) are highway robbers preying on predominantly poor motorists struggling to have a roof ... I remember the days when there was only one toll on State Road 112 when you left Miami International Airport to get to Miami Beach.
ABC News
December 31, 1999
The Chicago-bound American Airlines plane sat at a gate at Miami International Airport Sunday for more than an hour due to the disturbance, according to a ... "Once law enforcement was on the aircraft, the passenger then became combative with the officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department.
NPR
December 31, 1999
The scuffle started after a woman who was traveling with her boyfriend accused Jacob A. Garcia of inappropriately touching her, Miami-Dade officers ... The Chicago-bound aircraft was still at the gate at Miami International Airport, so passengers were ordered to deplane as police officers were called in.
