FYI Miami: June 19, 2025

PAY TO HOLD ALIENS: Miami-Dade County could be reimbursed $50 apiece for as much as 48 hours of detention of aliens who’re being held based mostly on an immigration detainer by US Customs and Immigration Enforcement, or ICE, beneath an settlement the county is being requested to signal with ICE. The laws, introduced by Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez, was to be heard on the June 9 assembly of the Coverage Council, however the assembly was canceled as a result of the committee didn’t have a quorum. A vote on the settlement as an alternative goes to the June 26 county fee assembly for remaining motion. 

MORE JUDGES EN ROUTE: Florida lawmakers Monday evening authorized a plan that might add 22 circuit court docket judges and 15 county court docket judges. The eleventh Judicial Circuit, which is Miami-Dade County, would obtain three new circuit judges, and there could be 4 extra Miami-Dade County Court docket judges. The invoice faces remaining motion by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

POSITIONING MIAMI OFFICES: Miami’s workplace emptiness charge was second-lowest among the many nation’s 15 largest workplace markets within the first quarter of this yr, a brand new report from Colliers brokerage exhibits. Miami’s 11.6% emptiness was close to the 11.2% charge of Manhattan. San Francisco was highest of the 15 with a 30.6% workplace emptiness. Miami emptiness really rose a bit from 11.2% within the fourth quarter of final yr, as workplace house absorption declined by 81,019 sq. toes within the first quarter. The typical emptiness among the many 15 largest workplace markets was 20.1%. Manhattan had the best common asking lease for Class An area at $81.76 per sq. foot, with Miami second at $76.02. Among the many 15 markets mixed, the typical Class A asking lease was $44.02.

SHARING IN FEDERAL GRANTS: Three Miami-Dade communities will share in a mixed $1.2 million in grant funds to advance environmental cleanup, financial revitalization and neighborhood resilience. The funds from the US Environmental Safety Company might be funneled to the communities from the South Florida Regional Planning Council. The brownfield evaluation grant will assist the Metropolis of Miami Division of Actual Property and Asset Administration cope with the potential contamination in West Coconut Grove; tackle environmental limitations to redevelopment and help the creation of multi-family housing in Liberty Metropolis; and support a multi-purpose neighborhood middle and neighborhood resilience hub in Allapattah that can present entrepreneurship coaching, a neighborhood kitchen and emergency companies in excessive warmth. 

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