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Breaking: Miami-Dade mayor moves to sell Alligator Alcatraz site to National Park Service
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a memo the detention center is "fundamentally inconsistent" with the county's environmental stewardship.
In a surprise move, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has asked county commissioners to turn over the county’s old jetport, and now home to the Alligator Alcatraz detention center, to Everglades National Park.
In a memo Thursday obtained by WLRN, Levine Cava said the county-owned site in the Big Cypress National Preserve is “no longer operationally or economically optimal for continued County ownership and operation.”
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