OVERTOWN (CBSMiami) – Design renderings are giving Overtown residents a peek into the future.
“I love living here,” exclaimed Overtown resident Electa Edwards.
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“From all the pictures I have seen, they’re going to make it a pedestrian park that have water parks,” stated lifelong Overtown resident Jackie Bell, 84.
Bell says she’s enthusiastic about the “Underdeck” renderings illustrating the 33-acre public house, that will likely be developed by Florida Department of Transportation and the City of Miami, working beneath 395, from Overtown to Biscayne Bay.
”They needed to do one thing for the neighborhood as a result of they preserve destroying it,” Bell stated.
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Like again in the Nineteen Sixties when 395 was constructed, ensuing on this for Overtown, ”Slum and blight as a result of Black companies that have been right here they needed to transfer,” stated Bell.
”This 395 challenge disrupted Overtown. It was dubbed “urban renewal” however reality be instructed it ended up being city removing,” stated Dr. Nelson Adams, Chairperson of The Underdeck Committee.
Now, hoping to be taught from previous errors, by bringing new life to Overtown and past.
”We are optimistic that this Underdeck, this inexperienced house that can join, reconnect, if you’ll, Overtown to the different facet of the observe will likely be important,” stated Adams, “We need this public house to be simply that, for the public.
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Project leaders are nonetheless engaged on a remaining design, price range and official identify for the Underdeck.
