Ultra Music Festival is not going to return to Bayfront Park in 2019.
Following a to disclaim the renewal Ultra Music Festival’s contract at Bayfront Park, the pageant organizers have been trying to find a brand new venue for the pageant. Hope was stored new contract could possibly be written and proposed for Bayfront Park, the venue the pageant has been staged at for the higher half the previous 20 years, however plainly hope is gone.
Miami Herald has revealed that organizers have been in quiet talks with metropolis ficials to host the pageant March 29-31 close to Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key. In reality, the pageant might probably be held in two areas concurrently. The proposed areas are the park subsequent to the Miami Marine Stadium and Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, solely about 12 minutes away from Bayfront Park.
That being stated, distance just isn't the one concern. The island the place Miami Marine Stadium and Historic Virginia Key Beach Park are discovered is accessibly solely by a two-lane bridge with restricted parking on-site. And with no motels on Virginia Key, 100% guests to the pageant shall be touring by car, making a necessity for shuttles or another variety various transport. This concern was briefly echoed by Commissioner Ken Russell, whose district consists of Virginia Key.
“I acknowledge the worth this occasion to native companies and motels in addition to the worldwide music scene,” he stated. “If Virginia Key is the proposal, I'll preserve an open thoughts however am very aware the sensitivities with regard to the setting, site visitors and our neighbors on Key Biscayne.”
“While we're, course, excited concerning the present proposal, this potential partnership represents a lot greater than Ultra’s affect on both South Florida or on the event revolutionary manufacturing components,” says Russell Faibisch, Ultra’s co-founder and CEO.
The Herald reviews a vote has been tentatively scheduled for November 15, although City Manager Emilio Gonzalez says the merchandise was solely positioned on the preliminary agenda as a result of public noticing necessities. He calls it a “work in progress.”
In addition to the brand new pageant venue, the contract would additionally embody a provision for cash for the development an African-American Museum on the seashore park. Historically, Virginia Key had the one native seashore that allowed entry to African-Americans within the ’40s and ’50s.
“This specific proposal was pushed equally by our sense company social accountability,” Faibisch stated, working with authorities to stop any “environmental points” with the proposed pageant. “Our imaginative and prescient, with the help environmentalists and different stakeholders, is to develop into the usual bearer in lowering environmental affect within the pageant area”
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