The vote, now scheduled for June 2, marks the latest setback in an ongoing battle over the proposed project to build a new Kelly Tractor headquarters outside the county’s Urban Development Boundary.
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Controversial Industrial HQ Back For Vote, Despite Unresolved Wetlands Deal
Kelly Tractor, a supplier of Caterpillar and other heavy equipment, is seeking approval for a 2.2 million-square-foot complex near Sweetwater. The opposition from environmental groups centers on building outside the Urban Development Boundary. Critics also object to the loss of wetlands.
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Officials, Activists Urge Miami-Dade Commissioners To Reverse Course On UDB Decision
The UDB, created in 1983, was designed to safeguard environmentally sensitive wetlands, farmland, and the Everglades from urban expansion. Despite those protections, commissioners voted to allow the heavy equipment company to develop 246 acres west of Sweetwater. Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava called on the county commissioners to sustain her veto of their recent vote.
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Blackstone Buys Industrial Development In Doral For $21 Million
An affiliate of Blackstone Group purchased an industrial development site in Doral for $21 million. Kelly Tractor Co., a local family-owned business, sold the 8.36-acre site at the southwest corner of Northwest 66th Street and Northwest 97th Avenue to B9 NW 97th Avenue Owner LLC, an affiliate of New York-based Blackstone.