In a previously unannounced and unscheduled go, Commissioner Joe Martinez presented Trump’s plans at a regular public commission meeting June 5, 2012. Martinez is running against Mayor Carlos Gimenez in the August election.
Gimenez said he couldn’t comment on the plot because it was not on the regular meeting agenda. This was the first he had heard of it, he said.
Still, the commission voted unanimously for Miami-Dade to start a feasibility study on the project. Of primary concern to the commission is how much of the land in question near the Homestead Air Reserve Base is contaminated and not fit to build on.
Homestead Base officials told The Miami Herald they were unaware of Trump’s proposal. Smaller studios recently built in Miami have not had sustained success.
For Martinez, Trump’s plot is his second pitch to fellow commissioners for a similar project. He pitched the thought of a Homestead film studio for the first time in 2001.
He told CBS 4 News in Miami, “Back then, I thought it was such a fantastic thought that I thought I would just propose it to my colleagues and it would pass and people would flock here. I’ve learned. I’ve matured. And I knew I had to get someone with a name.”
So he got Trump.
http://www.miamidade.gov/district11/library/12-06-05-trump-studio-city.pdf
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