Vol. 44, No. 11 February 5, 2026 Downtown property owners are taxed more, but see less BY GRANT MILLER Miami-Dade 250 Advisory Publisher For almost 60 years, if you own Committee’s first meeting property in Down- town, Brickell or Edgewater, you’ve been hit...
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Vol. 44, No. 11 February 5, 2026 Downtown property owners are taxed more, but see less BY GRANT MILLER Miami-Dade 250 Advisory Publisher For almost 60 years, if you own Committee’s first meeting property in Down- town, Brickell or Edgewater, you’ve been hit with a tax that nobody else in Miami has to pay. Since 1967, the Downtown Devel- opment Authority (DDA) has called this the “price of progress.” That’s a nice line, but the reality is a mess. People living here are asking a simple question: Where the hell is our money ac- tually going? This isn’t some vague govern- ment grant; it is cash pulled right out of our pockets every year – millions of it. Yet, try- ing to figure out how it’s spent feels like trying to crack a safe. Sure, the records are “public.” But, if you have to file formal requests, wait weeks for a reply, and then dig through outdated sys- tems or vague summaries, that’s not trans- parency. That is just making it as difficult as possible to see the truth. The DDA is s
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