SF Business Journal Covers KOPF Deals
The Opa Locka Tenants Rights Organization (OTRO) is 100% in favor of developing the airport to it’s full potential. More business in the airport is good for everyone involved. In a series of articles in the South Florida Business Journal some of Adler and Miami-Dade Aviation’s wishes come to light.
The story Opa Locka Airport Seek 410 new Jobs states,
“An unnamed German aviation manufacturing company considering a move to Opa-locka Airport may add to the $450 million worth of development planned for the site.”
An incentive to wipe out current tenants of the airport without providing assitance for relocation or to mitigate the damage caused to those businesses. The very secretive deal has been put on hold according to certain sources due to the poor global economic outlook. The county and adler are still pursuing their evicition proceedings but with new found generosity in allowing current tenants to stay for one year. In exchange for this “deal” signers must give up their businesses after that year and all rights to sue for compensation and damages. As well as dropping their part 16 FAA complaint.
In New Developments Hope to revitalize Opa-Locka airport grounds the well intentioned plans of developing the airport are discused while touching on how the airport came to be in such a state of direpair.
“A quarter of the airport’s land was leased to developers who had not moved on any projects since leases were handed out in 1999. Many of the buildings on the airport grounds dated to World War II and, while general aviation was booming around South Florida, Opa-locka was only using about a third of its capacity.”
Ten years later the new chosen monopolistic lease holder, Adler Acquisitions has again failed to make any meaningful improvements to the airport. Millions have been allocated in infrastructure with only a partial fence to show for 3 years of development. The traffic control tower is condemned with the ATC staff working from a portable that does not have a visual line of sight to all of the runways and taxiways on the field. Dangerous and neglectful actions by Miami-Dade.
Lastly the article Adler to purchase land at Opa-Locka Airport chronicles Adler’s intial push to move onto the field. Good quick reads from the South Florida Business Journal to fill in the picture of the tenants struggle at Opa Locka Airport
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
And on what we shall stop?