Allen Morris Park Reopens In Brickell

Allen Morris Park, a Brickell pocket park in one of Miami’s busiest pedestrian areas, has reopened after years of being fenced off, according to Mark R. Brown.

The land for the park had been gifted to the city in exchange that it only be used for public park purposes, with an automatic reverter clause on the deed.

The city later allowed a restaurant to operate in a portion of the park, triggering almost nine years of legal action.

In May, commissioners adopted a resolution to enter a a licensing agreement for the Northern Parcel as a private park.

According to County records, the Northern Parcel has 7,780 square feet.

 

 

 

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Anon
1 month ago

It’s a cute little park – nice

Anonimo
1 month ago

Miami needs more of these small, covered, green spaces. It adds a ton to the pedestrian experience and cools the city during the hot months.

Anon
1 month ago

Yes. Parks are imperative for neighborhood well-being.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Sadly developers oversees just see dollar signs, and so do the commissioners. They will get their profits while quality of life declines, and then people leave Miami -we need some big city infrastructure updates to the streets and river walk in Miami. We can’t wait for developers to do it all one spot at a time –

save Brickell
1 month ago

We still have time to master plan the western side of Brickell with lots of pocket parks.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This appears to be a mere publicity stunt to showcase the new young lady commissioner. Does she genuinely comprehend the implications of a lease? The city could face eviction due to potential development. Regrettably, this move doesn’t align with the political advantage she envisioned; it seems to be a shortsighted decision. Instead, she could concentrate on concrete improvements, such as implementing speed bumps and crosswalks on all four sides of every single intersection, with shorter intervals for pedestrians. Additionally, she could establish the groundwork for the entire riverfront, which developers can later build upon, and acquire extra land in Brickell to create more parks at frequent intervals.

Anonymous
1 month ago

What about the park on Brickell Key? A bait and switch by swire? We want them to keep the park, brickell key is meant to be an urban oasis not a corporate center. Keep Brickell Key local!

Anonymous
1 month ago

There’s no park on Brickell Key. What are you referring to? Swire has land on BK that it has graciously allowed residents to use pending future development, but it has never been publicly owned.

Anon
1 month ago

The city should eminent domain every single story structure in Brickell and turn them all into parks.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Starting with that hippy cottage next to 7 Eleven!

Lechozo
1 month ago

who knows. Since the owner is so detached from money, he might deed it as long as the greenery is protected

Anonymous
1 month ago

About time. Looks great.

Anonymous
1 month ago

We need the state government to do its part to make Miami safer. The FDOT is to blame

“40 rounds went off, 40 rounds of bullets. I mean it sounded like machine guns, but they weren’t, they were just guns, multiple guns. And that’s why a lot of the cars are shot up in there.” All in a parking lot.

The FDOT needs to get rid of these crime filled parking lots where hoodlums congregate – we don’t need parking lots like the one next to Martí Park, they should be guarded parks – the open lots attract racers and shootings.

Anonymous
1 month ago

What are you talking about? That was in Ft. Lauderdale. This article is about the pocket park in Brickell. HELLO?

Remove FDOT parking lots
1 month ago

No it was on Miami Ave next to this park.

Anonymous
1 month ago
Anonymous
1 month ago

this article still has nothing to do with that shooting. Go to a community board about crime not a board about real estate and micro parks.

*NAME*
1 month ago

This parking lot is not next to the pocket park or owned by FDOT. Owner of the site, can you please curb the bots and other stupid commenters? It’s time to require folks to log in to comment.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I didn’t know FDOT had authority over a parking lot.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yes all the parking lots under the highways. We have tall parking podiums, we don’t need the land under the highways to look so desolate like a used car lot where drug addicts meet and do wheelies. Turn that land into green upscale space. Why isn’t this city investing in green spaces and working with the FDOT to repurpose all those ugly asphalt crime dens?

Lechozo
1 month ago

Are you in MIami even? FDOT has nothing to do with the parking lot between the Axis and the Bank. The shooting had nothing to do with homeless people that congregate *elsewhere*. Stop throwing confusion around.

Government Action Needed Urgently
1 month ago

Why worry about this small park when a shooting occurred near Miami Ave and 10th, making Brickell resemble Wynwood or Downtown? Our city leaders must address the crime issue by: 1) removing syringe signs, 2) increasing police visibility on Miami Ave, 3rd Ave, 2nd Ave, Underline, and Brickell Ave round the clock, 3) addressing street culture by eliminating loitering, and 4) enhancing infrastructure with speed bumps on every avenue, stop signs, and measures to curb reckless driving.

Anon
1 month ago

Shootings happen everywhere. Even in your precious perfect enclave.

Anon
1 month ago

This is either an anomaly or a warning sign that we need to improve our streets to add safety measures that eliminate racers, heavily increased policing, im not taking a chance so let’s turn the parking lots to parks, add patrolled police, escort late night loiterers away and keep Brickell the safe beautiful neighborhood it has been well into the future.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Anyone proposing speed bumps on public streets should be deported to Zamunda.

More Speed Bumps
1 month ago

These are meant to be slow speed streets, nobody should be speeding in Brickell.

Anon
1 month ago

Been asking our City and a county to do this! Some parts of brickell have it but we need more and more pedestrian focused crosswalks. Let’s organize!

Anonymous
1 month ago

and they’ve been laughing at you ever since!

Anonymous
1 month ago

You should move there and stop speeding for goodness sakes. We will need to organize a protest and block all your streets if this can’t be done.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You should move to a gated subdivision in Weston if peaceful streets are what you cherish. You can be That Guy that runs around wagging his finger yelling slow down.

Anonymous
1 month ago

We need them throughout Brickell and especially Brickell Ave. The little boys playing with their cars should go elsewhere to risk their lives.

Anonymous
1 month ago

How are speed bumps related to shootings and crime?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Because the people using brickell streets ro race are the same ones shooting – deter that crowd – even if they are unrelated both issues should be addressed. It’s all about the tone we set, and allowing speeding and lawless behavior breeds shootings.

Outside the Box solutions
1 month ago

One of those drug money yellow lambos was involved, probably the ones that speed and rev their engines across Miami- make the roads less conducive to this crowd and streets will be safer.

Anonymous
1 month ago

You sound jealous that they have cool cars and all you got is a greasy hand from the Metromover pole.

Anonymous
1 month ago

How are speed bumps going to stop shootings?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Adding speed bumps is apparently enhancing infrastructure. Never mind storm sewers failing every afternoon summer shower or a joke transit system.

Anonymous
1 month ago

We could do all at the same time, but we have enough public transportation in the core and it rarely floods. We are spreading the city too far out instead of improving the city structure we have in place. If we let the Brickell core die the branches will die too.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Someone intentionally ran into the crosswalk stop sign on SW2nd Avenue and it’s on the floor- – Proving my point! Instead of a little flap stop sign out speed bumps and red lights on every corner. It takes way too long to cross some streets and many people will run you right over.

Anonymous
1 month ago

As if you have to get to the latte shop in 90 seconds or less.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is the second largest financial district in the nation. We have meetings to go to and there are too many people driving around just to show off.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Sw1st*

Bait and Switch?
1 month ago

Why is the park being rezoned? Are they looking to redevelop it?

Obviously
1 month ago

Probably. The City has to lease this land even though it was gifted to them, because of some dumb move by the city commissioners that got the city sued to use it. The Miami city government is the worst in the country.

Anon
1 month ago

Knowing the commissioners they may have intentionally breached the agreement – such aholes and most corrupt I’ve ever seen

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’ll take a city commission capitulating over a park, over governments that run NYC or San Francisco any day of the week.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Hate to break it to you but Miami will be like those cities if you keep following commissioners like the ones here, they’re the same kind of corrupt corporate puppets that turned those other cities into parkless hobo tents

Jose
1 month ago

And the mayor, what a crook. He’s all talk and no show.

bob art guy
1 month ago

Love it. Sooo important to the appeal of the area – More Green Spaces Please!!
One criticism of the highly touted but totally ugly “Underline” – they missed out on the Green Space concept.

Love the Underline
1 month ago

They are planting almost every week and getting the community involved.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Fast forward five years from now, and a developer will want to buy it to build another horrible looking box like CitizenM.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Still laughing at the city’s complete and utter incompetence here. This park is now privately held and can, and will, be developed eventually.

Geo
1 month ago

Nice place for the homeless to sleep again <3

Anonymous
1 month ago

False. Parks are for recreation not homelessness. It closes at dark.