Miami Today: Week of Thursday, August 25, 2016

WEEK OF THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2016

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EFFECT OF CHANGES IN CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES ON PROPERTY PURCHASES BY FOREIGN BUYERS JUNE 2015 - JUNE 2016 COUNTRY

SAMPLE HOME VALUE USD 6/15

SAMPLE HOME VALUE USD 6/16

Argentina Brazil Canada China Colombia Great Britain European Union Japan Mexico Russia Peru Venezuela

$1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000

$1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000

EXCHANGE RATE CHANGE 6/15 - 6/16

64.7% 3.7% 4.3% 8.4% 14.8% 17.4% 0.7% -16% 17.9% 15.2% 4% 58.5%

ACTUAL COST AFTER CURRENCY & VALUE CHANGES (USD)

PERCENTAGE OF CHANGE IN COST

$1,811,614 $1,141,614 $1,147,009 $1,192,933 $1,262,860 $1,291,948 $1,107,625 $924,546 $1,296,452 $1,267,169 $1,143,638 $1,743,265

81.2% 14.1% 14.7% 19.3% 26.3% 29.2% 10.8% -7.5% 29.6% 26.7% 14.4% 74.3%

Source: EWM Realty International

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FINANCIAL TRENDS

Currency rate changes slowing luxury real estate sales, pg. 13

BEACH RENOURISHMENT BEGINS: Construction for the Miami Beach 46th Street and 54th Street erosional hotspots beach renourishment project began Tuesday, the US Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District announced. The corps’ contractor, Eastman Aggregate Enterprises LLC of Lake Worth, is to place 220,000 cubic yards of beach-quality sand from an upland sand mine on more than 3,000 feet of critically eroded shoreline near both areas. On Tuesday the company began mobilizing equipment at the 46th Street access and staging area and is to place sand on the beach in that area within the next few weeks. The $11.9 million project is part of the Miami-Dade County Beach Erosion Control and Hurricane Protection Project.

City eyes two EB-5 projects if program survives, pg. 14

THE ACHIEVER

BY SUSAN D ANSEYAR

TOLL GAINS TO SLOW: The Miami-Dade Expressway Authority’s explosive growth of both traffic and revenue is expected to begin leveling off next year after gains in fiscal 2016 of 28.7% in tolled traffic and 19.7% in revenues as the authority has increased collection points across its five-expressway system with broadened use of open road tolling. Gains in fiscal 2015 were 50.1% in tolled traffic and 41.5% in revenues. The future is expected to see “a normalization of business operations,” says Fitch Ratings as it assigned ‘A’ ratings to $99 million in authority refunding bonds and affirmed the same rating on $1.49 billion in outstanding revenue bonds. They system, Fitch wrote, “has a mature traffic profile with over 472 million annual toll transactions in fiscal year 2016...” While the system’s tolls can rise beginning in fiscal 2019 indexed to the consumer price index, Fitch cites “inherent political risks associated with toll increases...”

INDUSTRIAL LEASE RATES UP, VACANCY DOWN: The Miami industrial market has seen a slight increase in average lease rates to $9.41 per square foot and a slight decrease in vacancy rates to 4.4%, according to ComReal’s Mid-Year 2016 Miami Industrial Real Estate Market Report.

Average cap rates have increased to 6.62%, while average sales price decreased to $86.45 per square foot. Total inventory increased to 243,653,908 square feet. The largest lease transaction of the past quarter, the report said, was Pricemart’s new 330,000-square-foot. warehouse space at Flagler Station in Medley. The largest sales transaction was COFE Properties’ acquisition of the 167,000-square-foot Webster Business Park for $16 million.

Steven Altschuler

Photo by Marlene Quaroni

Leading the transformation of UM’s Health System The profile is on Page 4

Court clears counties’ way to block rail service

BY CATHERINE LACKNER

A court ruling has cleared the way for Martin and Indian River counties, both north of Palm Beach County, to continue their suit against the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) in an effort to block the second leg of the planned All Aboard Florida train service between Palm Beach and Orlando.

“U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper sided with Martin and Indian River counties, both of which objected to the USDOT’s award of $1.75 billion in private activity bonds for the All Aboard Florida passenger train project,” said a story in the Aug. 17 issue of The Bond Buyer. The actions will be “the first lawsuits ever to challenge a private activity bond allocation from the U.S. Department of Transportation,” the story said.

The crux of the counties’ case

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Counties are opposing 32 planned high-speed Brightline trains daily.

is that USDOT’s December 2014 allocation of private activities bonds – which generally are issued for projects that have some public benefit – “should have been considered as part of federal agency reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act,” the story in The Bond Buyer said. The attorneys for the counties also questioned whether any other financing

Metrorail’s growth aim is all in past

was contemplated.

The Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing program, an alternate federal plan, requires the environmental review, but the issuance of private activities bonds does not.

The two counties, along with an anti-train group called CARE FL, also said the 32 planned high-speed trains daily would cause harm to public services

and archaeological sites.

All Aboard Florida plans to begin train service from Miami to West Palm Beach next summer and is building stations along the route. If all goes as planned, the service would be extended to Orlando later in the year.

Both counties are considering their next steps, said the story in The Bond Buyer, though Dylan Reingold, attorney for Indian River County, said Judge Cooper’s ruling was a “really significant victory.”

“Martin County is very pleased with the decision and believes that the public will have more information as a result of the court action than they’ve ever had before about the project,” said Stephen Ryan of the McDermott Will & Emery law firm, which represents Martin County.

Citing the litigation, a spokesperson for All Aboard Florida declined to comment.

Elevated Metrorail is extremely costly to build, county officials say, so street-level light rail seems best for Miami-Dade’s future transit.

Transit officials are looking more at light rail for six Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit Plan corridors while in some cases converting Metrorail cars for overhead power, transportation director Alice Bravo told Miami Today last week. She said the technology used for each corridor will be picked after individual studies on the six.

“The more we can bring down the cost of the corridors, the more transit lines we will be able to build,” she said.

A half-penny sales tax voters approved in 2002 to fund new transit called for 88 new miles of Metrorail in addition to such promises as expanding bus service and improving traffic signals to reduce bottlenecks.

Fourteen years later, officials are looking at cost-effective ways to do transit projects quickly. A group developed fresh ideas last summer after viewing the Denver Regional Transportation District’s light rail and commuter rail. MiamiDade transit and elected officials gathered data on how Denver’s community created its FasTracks, which includes 122 miles of commuter rail and light rail using multiple funding sources.

Light rail generally has less capacity and speed than heavy rail and metro systems but higher capacity and speed than street trams. According to Railsystem.net, light rail typically is a system with rapid transit-style features using electric rail cars operating mostly in private rights-of-way separated from other traffic but if necessary mixed with other traffic in city streets.

Modern light rail technology is flexible and adaptable, and whether a system is considered true rapid transit depends on its characteristics.

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Ernest Matthews shows transit chief Alice Bravo one of the first vehicles being assembled in Medley.

Hitachi assembling first three cars for testing in Metrorail’s new fleet

BY SUSAN D ANSEYAR

The custom-designed facility opened in March, said Mr. Melani, who pointed out feaIf you’ve never darkened the tures specifically for the asdoorway of a train manufactursembly of heavy-rail metro ining plant, it’s understandable to cluding concrete pits. He said at first mistake Medley’s Hitachi they were designed with two facility for a contemporary art lines to accommodate work/ museum and the first three of testing of eight cars simulta136 Metrorail cars being asneously to avoid bottleneck. sembled there now to replace Once the facility begins operMiami-Dade’s fleet as a unique ating at full production, Mr. Carl exhibit. said workers will be completing Everything in the airy six cars a month.

140,400-square-foot plant is When the cars arrive in Medspotless, from an elevated ceilley, he said, they’re basically ing latticed with steel to a glossy just metal shells. Prior to that, concrete floor. they’re made at a company It’s quiet; the three cars in called DRS Sustainment Sysproduction seem artistically tems in West Plains, MO, which placed; and stairways leading to has primarily defense contracts concrete pits, train tracks across for military products and techthe building and a north-to-south nologies for such uses as battlerolling platform to transfer cars field reconnaissance and surout of the building onto a platveillance. form are equally pleasing to the “DRS has the two largest eye. welding robots in the world Within a very short time, howbuilding these shells for the company’s first municipal contract,” Mr. Carl said. “We get the shell and undergo the full assembly of all components: doors, electrical systems, wheel & axel assembly, install the rooftop HVAC and the under-frame equipment that takes the cars down the track.”

These first three cars, he said, are all the way to the water test stage to ensure they’re water tight. The cars will undergo a specified water pressure for a specified time at a large sloped pit with an enclosure containing 400 spray nozzles. Once tested and proven qualified to withstand the deluge of water Miami can bring, interior work will begin.

The new Metrorail cars will be roughly the size and length of those they’re replacing but with improved components, thanks to 40 years of technology.

“Riders won’t see a lot that’s different inside but they’ll certainly hear and feel vast improvements,” Mr. Matthews said. Technology has brought many changes since the Riders won’t see the difference in the new train cars but will notice county’s existing Metrorail fleet a distinctly smoother ride thanks to 40 years of newer rail technology. was built in 1984, including disc ever, it’s clear the warehouse inside Miami International Tradeport is specialized for the sole purpose of train-car manufacturing and subassembly.

Owned by Hitachi Rail US, a subsidiary of one of the leading railway system suppliers, this is the Tokyo-based company’s first manufacturing facility in Miami and third in the US. Miami Today joined county Transportation and Public Works Director Alice Bravo for a tour of the facility last week.

Our guides included Mauro Melani, general manager of Hitachi Rail USA; Attilio Mirijello, logistics engineer at Hitachi Rail USA and site manager; Ralph Carl, an engineer and project quality manager; Ernest Matthews of the Transportation and Public Works Department, who oversees the project for Miami-Dade; and a few workers.

Full assembly of every Metrorail car component is done in the plant.

breaks that are essentially silent (compared with the screeching sound of tread breaks), computerized control of systems for a smoother acceleration, reduced use of electricity and more reliability.

Also in the works now is development of a quality plan.

Mr. Carl said the production people will sign off on the work they did; afterwards, the quality control people will do the same. “When the cars are complete, then the customer [Miami-Dade] says whether we’ve completed our function and follows up to make sure all specifications are met.”

The first three cars will be turned over to Mr. Matthews for “qualification” and go through strenuous testing, Mr. Carl said. Once criteria are established, the test will be set for the subsequent cars.

Mr. Mirijello said the entire

workforce at Miami’s first railroad-making facility is local.

Two-thirds of the 30-member staff is in the group assembling the cars now, while the other 10 are in management/administration. Once the plant is at full production, however, he said, about 120 workers from Miami-Dade will be producing the new Metrorail vehicles.

“We’ve found a lot of local workers have aerospace backgrounds,” Mr. Mirijello said.

He’s in the plant for the eight hours the workers are MondayFriday as well as some Saturdays, and is always there with Mr. Carl, who rarely works less than an 11-hour day.

All 136 cars are slated for delivery by 2019, with the first expected by the end of this year.

Those first new Metrorail vehicles are anticipated to go into service in late 2017, after completing their testing.

Photo by Susan Danseyar

County Transportation and Public Works Director Alice Bravo listens to Ralph Carl, quality manager, explain a step in the assembly along with Hitachi Rail USA General Manager Mauro Melani, at rear, and Ernest Matthews, front, who oversees the project for Miami-Dade.

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Sparkle of strong job gains hidden behind economic clouds A surprising bundle of healthy economic news sparkles through statistics released Friday that spotlight solid and continuing job gains in Miami-Dade County. The sole dark spot is that the Michael Lewis gains received so little public attention.

Figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the county’s percentage of unemployed workers continued a seven-year plunge from 12.4% in August 2009 to 5.4% today.

That means that 71,233 people in the county were unemployed last month, down from 85,013 in July 2015 and a huge plunge from the 151,466 who were jobless seven years ago today.

While even one person not at work is bad news for that family, economists at the Federal Reserve agree that about

4.5% to 6% unemployment is normal and even healthy, since it implies a dynamic economy where people can leave and then reenter the workforce or can change jobs.

In other words, by the Federal Reserve’s definition the economy in Miami-Dade shows about the proper range for unemployment in a healthy community.

The other side of the economic coin from unemployment is employment. And it’s there that some unexpected sparkle shines through in Miami-Dade.

Take the category of professional and business services, where Miami-Dade set an all-time jobs record in July, employing 164,300 persons. The prior high, in June, was 500 persons fewer. In fact, in the past year the county has gained 5,400 professional and business services jobs.

In several other categories the county approached its all-time highs.

In financial activities 81,400 persons were employed in July, just below the record 81,500 in March and 3,000 ahead of the 78,400 working in that sector a year

earlier. The category includes both financial and insurance jobs and real estate.

Leisure and hospitality jobs grew 3,600 from July 2015 to July 2016, though they were 1,100 fewer than the June peak for the industry.

Another huge growth was in construction, which gained 13.6% in jobs from July 2015 to July 2016, rising from 40,400 workers to 45,900.

As at any time, some sectors did lose jobs. Manufacturing, where operations in the county have been in decline for decades, fell 4.3% in the year. Information jobs fell 1.6%. And government jobs, another declining sector for years, fell 0.1%.

Still, the overall news is so good you’d think it would be trumpeted far and wide.

Instead, it’s hidden behind clouds like Zika, which is almost certainly costing some hospitality income and jobs already, and the condo slowdown that will also hit construction activity.

Then there’s the election, which this year is causing more doom and gloom about our economic present and future than the euphoria of hope that a presiden-

tial change usually brings forth. Don’t expect a bump up in our economy no matter which candidate becomes president.

Nevertheless, non-farm employment in the county has grown 1.9% in a single year and unemployment is in a range that federal observers find both normal and economically healthy, with record or near-record employment in some key categories.

Zika will create economic as well as health problems in the county – in fact, the economic aspect may in the end be the more serious of the two. Fortunately, we’re in a strong economic position as a county even as the mosquito battlefield expands in area.

Our community needs to focus on our growing job strength even as we prepare for the downers likely to come from Zika’s tourism impact, the condo sales slowdown and the election that remarkably few of us find economically appealing.

Despite the near-silence on our progress, our job gains are just too strong to ignore.

Series of Miami reforms helps overcome ethnic divisiveness The scene at a recent rally to support our “good cops” was very telling. There was Dr. Marvin Dunn, organizer of the event, waving the book he wrote on the McDuffie incident, which brought Miami to its knees in Xavier Suarez 1980. “No one can say that I am a defender of bad cops,” said Dr. Dunn; “but today we come to salute and support the good cops.”

Since 1985, when we were political opponents for the highest office in Miami, Dr. Dunn and I have collaborated on many initiatives to bring together disparate groups in our community – for example, the “Roots in the City” initiative, which is geared toward uplifting neighborhoods long neglected by government; and we jointly authored an article explaining and supporting police body cameras.

I would like to think that the relative peace we have seen in Miami, in contrast to the turmoil of other cities of similar

The Writer Xavier Suarez is a Miami-Dade County commissioner and a former mayor of Miami. racial diversity, is at least in part due to efforts to overcome the kinds of divisiveness that can tear a city apart, when a video catches a tragic incident of police misuse of deadly force. I would like to think that city and county leaders have made great strides, since the ’80s, in overcoming the dehumanizing tribalism that has plagued other parts of the country.

Among other reforms we have championed in the last three decades, the following stand out: Single-Member Districts: Together with leaders such as former Congresswoman Carrie Meek, we sued and obtained judicial decrees forcing the county and the school board to have single-member districts; as a result, both governing boards have proportionate representation of minorities.

L ETTERS Downtown authority role in disaster is information In Michael Lewis’ editorial this month, he addressed the Miami Downtown Development Authority’s role when it comes to emergency response efforts. The fact is that the role of the Miami DDA is clearly defined when it comes to disaster response, and that is one of information dissemination and business recovery, not implementation.

The Miami DDA is not authorized to create and implement emergency response efforts, but remains in close contact and in alliance with those that do.

The Miami DDA stands ready to align with our colleagues at the city and county and receive direction from the respon-

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Diversity in Management: Miami’s police department was headed by three African-American police chiefs during my three terms as mayor (1985-1993). Miami-Dade County’s police department was headed by an African-American director during the first half of this decade. Upper management in both the city and county has been diversified both by political appointments and civil service rules that incentivized minority recruitment and promotion.

Diversity in Procurement: Both the city and the county have implemented programs that favor minority-owned businesses in procurement, for any contracts in which the county is the chief purchaser or contractor. In projects that use county land or county loans and grants, private entrepreneurs are encouraged (by every legal means at our disposal) to hire from the adjoining community.

Sensitivity Training: This program fostered understanding between police and youth. As part of the mentioned police-youth dialogue, the Miami-Dade Police Department signed an agreement with

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sible coordinating agencies so that we can accurately communicate critical information to downtown residents, business owners, workers and visitors in real-time. This top-down approach is not only guided by Emergency Operations Center protocol, but is essential to effective response management, without causing potential chaos or false alarm.

While the Miami DDA’s role is clearly defined, the agency and our staff are not strangers to disaster preparedness.

Deputy Director Sonja Bogensperger is Emergency Support Function 18 trained and ready to deploy under Miami-Dade County Emergency Management and I have worked in emergency response going to back to Hurricane Andrew, ran MiamiDade County’s Department of Environ-

mental Resources Management emergency response for 10 years and developed and implemented Miami-Dade County disaster assistance for employees during the 2005 hurricane season.

Many others on our staff have also been involved in disaster preparedness and response.

Protecting our community is of paramount importance and as recent headlines have shown, cities like ours are not immune to tragedy. But should an emergency or unpredictable situation unfold, the Miami DDA is prepared to assist and share information with the public as delivered by the coordinating agency responsible for directing course.

Alyce M. Robertson Executive Director

FIU that guarantees that each new officer engages in this series of structured discussions with young people from the areas they are responsible for policing with moderators from FIU. Youth Jobs and Resumé-Building: In the last year, county officials have implemented two initiatives that will help our youth to have a resumé that showcases work experience instead of a criminal past. One, which started this summer (in collaboration with the Children’s Trust and the School Board), employs 1,300 youths aged 17-18. Another, approved in recent months, treats minor marijuanapossession arrests as civil citations rather than criminal charges.

In a recent article, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said of the current spate of shootings by and at police officers: “We battle-weary survivors are left wondering whether we’ll ever be capable of displaying [a] virtuous humanity.”

As we count our blessings and push for continued reform, I urge our fellow Miamians to listen to our better angels, ignore the voices of division and hate, and embrace, again and again, our “virtuous humanity.”

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Film industry pictures scenario of talented grads leaving

BY CATHERINE LACKNER

Are Florida’s schools educating film students who then take their talents to other states because they can’t find employment here? The Film Florida entertainment production association, an advocacy group, is considering researching the issue, directors at the organization’s quarterly board meeting said Friday.

“We’d like to see how many graduates are staying in the state,” said board member Judson C. French Jr., who is director of research and innovation initiatives at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts.

“Some are getting Bright Futures scholarships,” he said, referring to the merit-based program that diverts some funds from the Florida Lottery to scholarships at state universities.

“We have recent Emmy winners who have come out of our schools,” said Graham Winick, film and event production manager for the City

of Miami Beach.

During the three-day meeting in Miami, members of the group toured the Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex, Miami Dade College’s new 9,000-square-foot facility designed to mirror a working animation studio. Built in cooperation with Pixar and the only one of its kind in Florida, the facility prepares students for immediate employment in video game design or animation, according to its website.

But are there jobs here? Industry sources say the Florida Legislature’s refusal to revive a moribund tax rebate program is driving business to other states, particularly Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana, which have aggressive and well-funded programs.

In 2010, a Jobs for Florida bill designated $242 million over five years for tax credits for film studios and other production companies. By March 2011, $227 million of the credits had been committed, with the majority going to so-called high impact television shows like

“Magic City,” “The Glades” and “Burn Notice.”

The state’s film incentives come in the form of tax credits based on the scope of the production, number of local people hired, the season in which filming occurs and several other variables. The credits can be sold at the end of the term if the production doesn’t need the equivalent tax relief.

For four consecutive years, the Florida Legislature did not approve any new incentives, and finally let the program end last month.

“Are you seeing a migration to Georgia?” Mr. French asked board member Herta Suarez, who is executive director of SAG-AFTRA, a labor union for performers.

It’s difficult to say, she replied, because actors can maintain a Florida address though they leave the state to work on projects elsewhere.

Nevertheless, members said the group will delve deeper into the available statistics to see if the talent drain can be Recent Emmy winners came from the local schools: Graham Winick. reversed.

Cheers in wings for low-budget film produced by Miamian B Y C ATHERINE L ACKNER

When “Moonlight,” an independent film written and directed by Miami native Barry Jenkins, has its world premiere at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival Sept. 8-18, members of the local film industry will be there to cheer on the production and its creator.

“We go to promote not just the destination but also the talent,” Graham Winick, film and event production manager for the City of Miami Beach, told members of the Film Florida entertainment production association, an advocacy group, at their quarterly board meeting Friday.

Filmed locally last October for about $1 million, it was a small-budget production, “but it is generating a lot of award buzz” and is scheduled for an Miami Native Barry Jenkins wrote and directed “Moonlight,” which premieres at Toronto Film Festival. October release, Mr. Winick

said. Brad Pitt’s company, Plan B Entertainment, was one of the film’s producers, he added.

“Moonlight” is a 111-minute drama based on the play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Starring Trevante Rhodes, Naomie Harris, André Holland and Mahershala Ali, the film deals with the challenges a young man faces as he grows up in an underprivileged neighborhood, and with his complicated feelings for his best friend.

This is Mr. Jenkins’ first film since 2008’s “Medicine for Melancholy,” which premiered at the SXSW film and multimedia festival in Austin, TX. That film, according to Indiewire.com, was shot in San Francisco for $13,000 with a five-man crew and an 80-page script.

Television programming executives again to meet in Beach

BY CATHERINE LACKNER

For the sixth consecutive year, Miami Beach will host “Content First,” the annual convention of the National Association of Television Programming Executives, directors of the Film Florida entertainment production association learned at their quarterly board meeting Friday. It will be held Jan. 17-19 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach and the Eden Roc Hotel.

Last year, about 8,000 executives, exhibitors, speakers and guests attended the event, said Graham Winick, film and event production manager for the City of Miami Beach. “It’s largely focused on second-screen and streaming content, and it’s in our backyard,” he said.

The opening reception draws network and cable television luminaries, added Sandy Lighterman, director of the Miami-Dade Office of Film & Entertainment.

It would be a good venue in which smaller companies could gain industry attention and create an impact, said Kelly Paige, newly elected

Film Florida president and owner of the Level Talent Group in Tampa.

During the convention, space will be set aside for Florida producers who want to meet with industry executives, Mr. Winick said. “The goal is to give them ‘office’ space.’ This is one of the best opportunities to get independent projects out there.”

Given the fact that technology and entertainment have become intertwined, the group also discussed taking part in eMerge Americas, the tech conference that’s set for June 12-13 in Miami. “It would be very easy for us to participate,” Mr. Winick said.

“Our presence is important,” Ms. Lighterman said.

In the near future, members of the group will attend the Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism Sept. 7-9 in Orlando, and will present the Film Florida Legends Tourism Ambassador Award.

It’s crucial, Ms. Paige said, to show industry Photo by Maxine Usdan officials “that there is film-induced tourism in Florida.”

The opening reception lures industry luminaries: Sandy Lighterman.

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Industry advocacy team weighs strategies to win film cash in Legislature

BY CATHERINE LACKNER

Stung by the Florida Legislature’s refusal for four consecutive years to revive a moribund tax rebate program, the Film Florida entertainment production association, an industry advocacy group, is considering its strategy for the 2017 session.

After the November elections, as many as 40 new legislators may be in Tallahassee, said Kelly Paige, newly elected Film Florida president and owner of the Level Talent Group in Tampa, at the group’s quarterly board meeting Friday. “It’s going to be a big education year, with a lot of new people coming in,� she said. “It will be a new challenge, with new leadership in Tallahassee,� agreed board member Todd Roobin, who is Jacksonville’s film commissioner. The group might want to “adjust our ask,� he said.

In 2010, a Jobs for Florida bill designated $242 million over five years for tax credits for film studios and other production companies. By March 2011, $227 million of the credits had been committed, with the majority going to socalled high impact television shows like “Magic City,� “The Glades� and “Burn Notice.�

The state’s film incentives come in the form of tax credits based on the scope of the production, number of local people hired, the season in which filming occurs and several other variables. The credits can be sold at the end of the term if the production doesn’t need the equivalent tax relief.

The Florida Legislature finally let the program end last month, which industry sources say is driving business to other states, particularly Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana, which have aggressive and well-funded programs. “The temperature of the water has changed since Governors Bush and Crist were up there, but we did go all the way to the Senate last year,� Ms. Paige said. “Those that get it, get it.�

But, said John Lux, the organization’s newly hired ex-

F ILMING IN M IAMI These film permits were issued last week by the Miami-Dade County Department of Regulatory & Economic Resources’ Office of Film and Entertainment, (305) 375-3288; the Miami Mayor’s Office of Film, Arts & Entertainment, (305) 8603823; and the Miami Beach Office of Arts, Culture and Entertainment-Film and Print Division, (305) 673-7070.

Machete Productions. Los Angeles. Wags Miami Season 1. Countywide, Unincorporated ESM Productions LLC. Philadelphia. Tidal X: Port of Miami. Pomtoc.

Machete Productions. Los Angeles. Wags Miami. Miami Beach citywide.

Exploration Production Inc. Scarborough. Mighty Cruise Ships. Port of Miami.

Joy Collective Ltd. Brooklyn. B-Roll. Countywide, Miami Beach citywide.

N House Productions. Miami. Carters. Countywide.

First Option Productions Inc. Miami Beach. Peach Patrol. Countywide, Miami Beach citywide.

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Film Florida will continue to retain a lobbying firm and to work with legislators who are pro-film industry, members said. They include Sen. Jack Latvala, who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development. “We have to maintain a presence in Tallahassee, continue to be at the table,� said board member Judson C. French Jr., who is director of research and innovation initiatives at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. “We have to remain relevant,�

Mr. Roobin said, “and on the local level, we have to have optics in Tallahassee.� “Burn Notice�was one of the high-impact television series that shared in tax credits for the film industry.

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Financial Trends Currency rate changes a brake on Miami luxury realty sales

BY MARILYN BOWDEN

Changes in currency exchange rates have some effect on the slowdown in sales of Miami’s luxury residential real estate, but that’s just one part of the larger picture, leading South Florida brokers say.

EWM Realty International two years ago reported 42% of homes in the $1 million-plus bracket sold to buyers from outside the US, says EWM Realty International President Ron Shuffield. Today, figures show, foreign buyers make up only 36% of that market.

Due to home value changes and a 64.7% hike in the exchange rate, EWM reports, an Argentine wishing to buy a $1.1 million home in Miami would pay 81.2% more in actual costs now than a year ago. A Venezuelan would pay 74.3% more.

Many other international buyers would face less dramatic but still hefty increases.

“We may have the largest pent-up demand we’ve ever had,” Mr. Shuffield said. “The reason is that while foreign buyers like to bring their assets here as a hedge against changes in currency valuation at home, these buyers have finally said the higher prices don’t meet their expectations. So a lot are standing on the sidelines waiting for prices to fall back to what they believe are more appropriate prices.”

Jay Parker, CEO of Douglas Elliman’s Florida Brokerage, said he believes that currency issues have played a significant role in the market slowdown,

EFFECT OF CHANGES IN CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES ON PROPERTY PURCHASES BY FOREIGN BUYERS JUNE 2015 - JUNE 2016 COUNTRY

SAMPLE HOME VALUE USD 6/15

SAMPLE HOME VALUE USD 6/16

Argentina Brazil Canada China Colombia Great Britain European Union Japan Mexico Russia Peru Venezuela

$1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000

$1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000

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64.7% 3.7% 4.3% 8.4% 14.8% 17.4% 0.7% -16% 17.9% 15.2% 4% 58.5%

ACTUAL COST AFTER CURRENCY & VALUE CHANGES (USD)

PERCENTAGE OF CHANGE IN COST

$1,811,614 $1,141,614 $1,147,009 $1,192,933 $1,262,860 $1,291,948 $1,107,625 $924,546 $1,296,452 $1,267,169 $1,143,638 $1,743,265

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“but I also believe that some countries that have been most severely affected have started to return to a more stable situation.”

“Miami has evolved from a boom-bust market to one that has tremendous strength and is able to withstand that type of pattern,” Mr. Parker said.

“Cycles are healthy. This slowdown will purge some of the low-hanging fruit and force sellers to become a bit more realistic with pricing or take their properties off the market and wait for prices to increase.”

Currency issues are just one

factor among many affecting the cyclical pattern of real estate markets, said Carlos Gutierrez, current residential president of the Miami Realtors Association, “and like the stock market, it can change overnight.”

In general, said Mr. Gutierrez, who heads the Gutierrez Group at Keller Williams’ Miami Beach branch, “buyers from Europe or South America view the US as a market where they would rather move their assets. So it depends on the situation of the buyer as much as the currency.”

Recent research released by the Miami Realtors Association

shows a change in the profile of international users visiting the association’s search portal – miamire.com.

The top 10 countries of origin in May 2015 were, in descending order, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, India, Russia, Philippines, the UK and France.

In May of this year, they were Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, India, Canada, Israel, Philippines and Mexico.

But this broader interest in Miami real estate seems to have at least as much to do with

safety concerns as with currency exchange rates.

Internet search patterns take a while to translate into sales, Mr. Shuffield said, but “we are definitely seeing more interest from India and other Asian countries. This is not showing up in sales yet, but direct flights from Turkey brought immediate results. The same thing happened a few years ago with Germany, when they realized that they can now utilize their properties here more quickly.

“When the French had a change in government and raised taxes,” he said, “we saw an immediate response to that.

Now, with global terrorism, the US is very appealing for the safety of their families as well.”

“As unfortunate as worldwide issues such as terrorism and political instability have been,” Mr. Parker said, “they continue to put the US in an attractive light. At the same time Miami is starting to look more like a major metropolitan area, but with comparatively lower prices.

“On the flip side,” he said, “we haven’t seen any real flight from this market to capitalize on the exchange rate. It leads me to believe that not only price and value but the concept of safety and security – and ultimately our perceived discount as compared with other metro markets – are what attracts foreign buyers.

“Currencies will even out, as they always do. We are moving expensive real estate in new developments, and that’s a telltale sign about the desirability of our market,” said Mr. Parker.

Bankers eye energy loans, but big fight is with credit unions

BY CATHERINE LACKNER

Issues from solar energy loans to what it deems unfair competition from credit unions dominate the Florida Bankers Association’s legislative agenda for the 2017 session.

Among the issues for mortgage bankers is the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loan program, said Anthony DiMarco, executive vice president of governmental affairs for the bankers association.

Through the PACE program, homeowners can get publicly funded loans to improve their properties with “green” technology, like solar panels or renewable energy. The improvements are financed through a long-term property assessment.

“But it jumps your mortgage,” Mr. DiMarco said, meaning the PACE loan must be paid off if the home is sold, and then the mortgage is satisfied. “The bank is No. 2,” he explained.

Lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have expressed reluctance to finance homes that have been improved through the program, “so it’s going to be more difficult to sell them,” he added. The bankers’ association would like the Legislature to create parity between PACE loans and mortgages, he said.

The group also backs legislation that would require anyone who agrees to surrender a home in a federal bankruptcy proceeding to declare the same in state court. “We’d like to see the admission that you intend to give up your home, so that it aligns with what is said in the bankruptcy,” Mr. DiMarco said.

Florida recently approved the limited distribution of medical marijuana; a proposal on the November ballot would make it legal throughout the state. The issue is problematic for banks, however, because the federal government still considers mari-

‘These are multibillion-dollar credit unions. They make it harder for commercial banks to make loans.’

Anthony DiMarco juana a dangerous drug, he said.

The Cole Memorandum of 2013, issued to all United States attorneys, largely leaves enforcement of marijuana-related laws up to

the states, with some exceptions.

“We’re watching the issue, and especially watching Oregon and Colorado, where marijuana is full-on legal,” Mr. DiMarco said. “As banks, we’re unsure what proceeds we’re allowed to take and what we are not allowed to take” from the sale of medical marijuana. “A lot of banks don’t want to touch it.”

The bankers association would like the state to set some clarifying regulations so that bankers can proceed without the threat of federal prosecution, he said.

Historically, “our big fight is with credit unions,” Mr. DiMarco said. Now, there is a new issue: credit unions want to lure small municipal and state operating accounts away from banks.

Though they don’t pose a threat to national banks, some of the larger credit unions – including Tampa-based Suncoast ($7.3 billion), Jacksonville’s Vystar

BrightStar Credit Union reaches out from Broward to Miami, pg. 16 ($6.1 billion), and Space Coast, in Melbourne ($3.7 billion) – have assets that rival those of small banks, he said.

“These are multi-billion-dollar credit unions,” Mr. DiMarco said. “They make it harder for commercial banks to make loans,” because they are nonprofit organizations and so pay no taxes.

“Half of all small-business loans in America are made by commercial banks,” he said.

“These loans allow the business to grow, and then the business will generally go to a larger bank.”

And there is another consequence that should cause concern in Tallahassee, he said: As credit unions take an ever-growing piece of the banking pie, “that is less and less tax revenue for the state.”

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Grocery aisles to replace alley for Gables Publix

BY CATHERINE LACKNER

Gurvirender Tejay says an ethical hacking lab is coming downtown.

Cybersecurity management’s program gains

BY KATYA MARURI

St. Thomas University continues to develop its cybersecurity management program as the curriculum enters its second semester this fall at the university’s downtown Miami campus.

Last December, Miami Today reported that Dr. Gurvirender Tejay, who joined the university as the first Gary Goldbloom Endowed Distinguished Chair in cybersecurity management, proposed a three-pronged approach in hopes of positioning the university as the South Florida hub for cyber-security.

Since then, 11 students have enrolled in the cybersecurity management program, which is expecting to graduate first class in October.

“These degrees will prepare graduates to play valuable roles in two of South Florida’s booming industries,”said Dr. Somnath Bhattacharya, dean and professor of accounting at the university’s business school in a release. “Downtown Miami is a prime location for these programs with companies from virtually every region of the world represented in Miami’s international trade and logistics community, and in cybersecurity.”

In programs elsewhere, students get only three to four security management related courses, whereas 80% of the university's cybersecurity management courses are security related and the other 20% are ethics and finance courses that are geared toward management, said Dr. Tejay.

The university’s cybersecurity management graduate and undergraduate programs aim to combine business skills with a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity management while focusing on concepts that are related to the protection of information and technology assets.

Outside the classroom, the program offers students handson experience through guest speaker lecture series, case studies, industry-based research projects, internships and simulated scenarios that are created using software programs.

“We are currently working with companies to develop an internship database for students and will have an ethical hacking lab at the downtown Miami campus this fall,” said Dr. Tejay.

“Right now, it’s all about getting the right content in place.”

Though the supermarket chain has a store within a few blocks of the site, Publix Supermarkets plans to open a new two-story grocery store with parking at 1542 S Dixie Hwy., across from the University of Miami.

Riviera Plaza Holdings LP plans to demolish the beige twostory building on the site now – home to retail stores including an outpost of Misha’s Cupcakes – and lease the property for a $10 million, 64,000-square-foot Publix store in its place.

Because the project will absorb an alley, approval from the Coral Gables Development Review Committee is required, which the development team requested in May. First the city’s Planning and Zoning Board, and then the city commission, must sign off on closing the alley.

Vacating the alley and allowing the project to move forward

Publix will handle traditional alley functions, said Mario Garcia-Serra.

“will provide a material public benefit by bringing a longawaited modern supermarket to this area of the city,” wrote Mario Garcia-Serra of the Gunster law firm, the project’s

land-use attorney, in a memo to the city.

“Furthermore, the applicant will mitigate the impacts of the alley vacation by internalizing the traditional functions of an

alley, including service and loading functions, as well as by providing structured parking. Vacating the alley is consistent with the city’s comprehensive plan because it promotes desired development in an area in which such development is needed. The proposed action will create a more pedestrian-friendly design, which will ensure the safety of pedestrians and vehicular traffic,” Mr. Garcia-Serra’s memo continued.

To sweeten the deal, the developer has also offered to contribute 1% of the aggregate project value to the city’s Art Acquisition Fund.

Publix has operated a store at 1401 Monza Ave. for decades, during which the residential neighborhood around the store was annexed and became part of Coral Gables, driving property values up. The grocery store chain, which is headquartered in Lakeland, did not respond to a request for comment.

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History of Grove coming back to life with new markers

BY CAMILA CEPERO

Coconut Grove now has eight new shiny historical markers commemorating local historic sites around the neighborhood.

Installed by the City of Miami Public Works, the local markers join a bigger family of identical markers throughout Florida, curated by the Florida Historical Marker Program.

The program recognizes historic resources, persons and events that are significant in the areas of architecture, archaeology, Florida history and traditional culture by promoting the placing of historic markers and plaques at sites of historical and visual interest to visitors.

“After a trip to Charleston and seeing all of the historical markers that they have, I said ‘why don’t we have these?’

Then I saw there was a historic marker at Virginia Key Beach and the process began,” said Joyce E. Nelson, president of the Coconut Grove Civic Club.

“I identified some of the key places in Coconut Grove and went forward with applying to the state. When Mayor Tomás Regalado heard about the markers, he asked that we help put 12 more. This is exactly what the Coconut Grove Civic Club wanted to happen. We hope that more and more people and organizations will want to have a historic marker.”

The process from application to installation was a year-long endeavor because although historical marker applications are accepted at any time, the Florida Historical Marker Council only meets quarterly throughout the year to review them.

The state Historical Marker Council is an appointed committee of three preservation experts from around the state.

After applications are re-

A Pan American Airways System plane in the 1930s outside the airline’s Terminal, which now is Miami’s City Hall, where a marker is placed.

Charles Avenue in the West Grove was originally Evangelist Street.

ceived, the marker council members may recommend changes to the proposed marker text during a review meeting.

After the meeting, Bureau of Historic Preservation staff will communicate all changes or requests for further information to the applicant and coordinate the final marker text.

Current marker costs include the sign, post and shipping and amount to a grand total of $1,900

Alexander Adams with a marker for Pan American’s seaplane base.

for a single-sided marker and $2,200 for a double-sided marker.

The civic club covered the bill for the markers and, as a gesture of goodwill, the City of Miami waived permitting fees for the markers and also installed all eight at no charge to the club.

Because some of the markers sit on city or county rights of way and others sit on public or private property, the project required extensive coordination between governments and property owners.

Now that the first eight markers are installed, the Coconut Grove Business Improvement District (BID) – a board of the City of Miami dedicated to protecting and enhancing the neighborhood’s commercial core – has agreed to fund additional markers.

The BID already has a historical tour map that it provides

to visitors, and while some of the eight new markers are on points of interest, the goal now is to place markers at all sites on the map.

The BID plans to budget enough money to apply for and install a few markers a year over the next several years.

The Miami Downtown Development Authority is taking cues from all of the marker action in Coconut Grove and showing interest in installing some markers of its own to go along with the improvements to historic Flagler Street and to highlight historical buildings in the area.

“There was a feeling that Coconut Grove was losing its identity,” said Alexander Adams, principal and founder of ALPHA Plan-Preservation-Urban Design, which helped coordinate resources, choose marker sites, present the application, and worked with the civic club through it all.

“We included markers across a cross section of the area including markers at city hall, which was originally Naval Air Station Miami, then Pan Am Seaport and now the City of Miami City Hall,” Mr. Adams said.

“This is an example where most people know the history of Pan Am Airlines associated with city hall, but few people know the area began during World War I and II as a US naval base. The US Coast Guard hangar site was the busiest Coast Guard station in the country when operations were moved to Opa-locka Airport,” he said.

“In the Center Grove, the Coconut Grove Women’s Club’s founding predates the City of

Miami. The current Coconut Grove Library is actually the second library on the same site and we were able to place a photograph of the original library for everyone to experience the site. Charles Avenue in the West Grove was originally called Evangelist Street due to the amount of churches along the street and this was the “main street” of the community before Grand Avenue.”

Standard Florida historical markers are dark blue cast aluminum, with a 30-inch high by 42-inch wide text area. The letters and Florida Heritage emblem are white. The markers sit on a 7-foot-tall concrete post coated with brushed aluminum.

A single-sided marker has the same text on both sides while a double-sided marker has text that is continued from side one to side two.

“We hope that this project will be an example that we can replicate to other neighborhoods,” Mr. Adams said. “We have a commitment to expand the programming within the Coconut Grove Business Improvement District and the Downtown Development Authority District to further the connection to our neighborhoods, cultural tourism and economic development, creating a synergy between our histories, tourism, tour buses, and educating new residents moving into these neighborhoods.”

To check out the Florida historical marker interactive map: http:// apps.flheritage.com/markers/ map/.

The Dinner Key Naval Air Station on the Grove waterfront was used by the military during two world wars.

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