OMNI DEVELOPMENT PLANS: A county committee last week approved plans for the City of Miami’s Omni Community Redevelopment Agency to issue $150 million in bonds to finance community redevelopment projects. The six housing projects on the list included a Miami-Dade County School Board mixed-income to wer; a mixed-income tower at the site of Temple Israel, which moved from its long-time home at 137 NE 19th St.; and a Chapman Partnership for the Homeless mixed-income and transitional tower on Northwest First Avenue. Also on the list are development of a fire station and “grant support of public-private partnership mixed-use redevelopment opportunities with Miami-Dade Public Schools to redevelop several acres within the CRA district.” The full county commission gets the final vote on bond issuance. AIRPORT EXPANSION SITE: Miami International Airport is on a flight path to buy a warehouse and land west of the airport for $19.1 million so that the land will be available for indoor storage and construction staging for airport expansion projects under the airport’s $9 billion upgrade program. Once the airport modernization work is finished, the property at 1800 NW 70th Ave. is to be used for developments that generate revenues from commercial tenants. The Airport and Seaport Committee last week lent its approval to the purchase from Meuchadim of Miami LLC, which would be allowed to lease back the site for up to a year at $15 per square foot. COURTHOUSE TECH: A county committee has agreed to add $885,000 to the contract for information and technology systems for the new county courthouse to get added work done quickly so that the building on Flagler Street, which is already in use, can get its technology completed as it moves toward a final certificate of occupancy. The development contract for the building was awarded Dec. 19, 2019, to Plenary Justice Miami LLC – which designed, financed, operates and maintains the building – but the county kept the responsibility to buy and install all information technology. That work is being handled by Johnson Controls Inc., which will get the $885,000 addition to an $18.5 million contract. The county commission gets the final vote to seal that deal. GAS PRICES CLIMB: Average gas prices in Miami rose 25.2 cents per gallon last week to $3.74, according to GasBuddy. Prices in Miami are 87.8 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and 71.1 cents higher than a year ago. The national average price rose 23.2 cents over the week to $3.68, up 80 cents from a month ago and 66.1 cents from a year ago. These are some of the FYIs in this week’s edition. The entire content of this week’s FYIs and Insider sections is available by subscription only. To subscribe click here. The post FYI Miami: March 19, 2026 appeared first on Miami Today. ...read more read less