Even back in 1998 under the Mayoral leadership of Steve Shiver the City of Homestead was looking to move City Hall and capitalize on the prime retail/commercial prospects of the current site. Yes, current Mayor Steve Bateman was a member of that council. Fourteen years is a long time to table an issue as important as a safe working environment.
From The Miami Herald: Monday’s decisions are only the latest in a City Hall saga that goes back to at least 1998, when the city floated the idea of selling the land the building now sits on. Homestead City Hall is on a prime piece of real estate: a busy corner of U.S. 1 and Campbell Drive. Back in the late 1990s, then-mayor Steve Shiver thought Homestead could fetch a pretty penny by selling the 18-acre site. The city’s most recent appraisal, in 2010, estimated Homestead could sell the City Hall site for $8.5 million.
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