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Newsdata · Miami-Dade·June 15, 2026Miami-Dade County

Miami Wilds water park project crashes after judge nixes dev site lease due to “mutual mistake”

A controversial mixed-use water park project near Zoo Miami that’s been in the works for over a decade has collapsed, after a judge voided the development site lease. The developers –– Paul M. Lambert, Bernard Zyscovich and Michael Diaz Jr. –– working through the entity Miami Wilds LLC planned a water park, a 200-key hotel and between 15,000 and 20,000 square feet of commercial and dining space on a 27.5-acre site they had leased from the county, according to Lambert. Miami Wilds was to revamp and manage another 38.5 acres of parking lots to be shared between the development and [...] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.

A controversial mixed-use water park project near Zoo Miami that’s been in the works for over a decade has collapsed, after a judge voided the development site lease.

The developers –– Paul M. Lambert, Bernard Zyscovich and Michael Diaz Jr. –– working through the entity Miami Wilds LLC planned a water park, a 200-key hotel and between 15,000 and 20,000 square feet of commercial and dining space on a 27.5-acre site they had leased from the county, according to Lambert. …

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Sourced from Newsdata · Miami-Dade · indexed by Statura on June 16, 2026. Statura indexes Florida political news and tags it by industry and jurisdiction so government-affairs teams can monitor signal without scanning every outlet by hand. Read the full story at Newsdata · Miami-Dade

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