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"The people are tired of these sort of corporate giveaways."

-- Commissioner Jonah Wolfson of Miami Beach

Seven thousand signatures could stand in the way of a billion-dollar plan to overhaul the Miami Beach Convention Center District.

The signatures were collected in a petition drive that takes aim at one of the most ambitious urban development projects going on in the country: Miami Beach’s plan to lease public land in the heart of South Beach to pay for renovations to the city’s inadequate convention center.

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