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Controversial plan to replace South Shore Community Center with new Fire Station at 833 Sixth Street continued after board expresses design and siting concerns
Summary
The Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board continued the application to replace the South Shore Community Center with a new Fire Station at 833 Sixth Street after extensive public comment and board concerns about scale, ramps and demolition of a Morris Lapidus-era facility.
A plan to demolish the South Shore Community Center and build a new Fire Station at 833 Sixth Street dominated the Historic Preservation Board’s afternoon session, drawing sustained public comment, technical questions and concerns about scale, preservation and neighborhood impacts.
City staff and the project team presented a three-story, resiliency-focused fire station to replace the aging Fire Station No. 1 operations currently on Eleventh Street. The proposal — sited on city-owned land where the South Shore Community Center now sits — includes apparatus bays, living quarters, a lower-level garage…
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