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Voters give SkyRise Miami liftoff
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Miami voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly endorsed SkyRise Miami, a swooping observation tower and tourist attraction proposed on a spit of land behind Bayside Marketplace.
The public supported the 1,000-foot tower — coupled with a long-term lease extension for Bayside’s operator — by a roughly two-to-one margin. The vote gives developer Jeff Berkowitz the green light to begin construction and triggers a $10 million upfront payment to the city of Miami.
At a campaign party held in a private room at the Hard Rock Cafe at Bayside, Berkowitz declared victory upon the release of only early and absentee voting tallies, which favored the agreement by more than 70 percent.
“It’s a mandate,” he said. “Up, up and away.”
Berkowitz said the SkyRise team would get to work next week reconfiguring utilities that serve the Bayside marina, which are currently under the pier where the tower will be built. The pier will then be excavated and a foundation can be laid, which he said should take about nine months.
He hopes to complete SkyRise — a hairpin-shaped tower with observations decks, an upscale restaurant and a ballroom — by the first half of 2018. He plans high-altitude attractions, such as a Tower of Terror-like ride that drops 50 stories along the tower’s shaft. There’s also the possibility of a casino if the Legislature ever allows it.
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