The company also says it invested $30 million in renovations to the Hilton hotel at the Omni.©2023 Westgate Resorts. Is is, however, pursuing plans to build a 50-berth yacht marina along its bayshore property. Genting at one point said it would retool its resort vision to drop the casino and focus on resort hotels, but the company never filed plans with the city. “Assuming approvals are granted, the station will be modernized and improved with private funds from Resorts World, creating hundreds of construction jobs in the process.” “The Adrienne Arsht Center Metromover Station is a critical mass transportation hub in the center of our prized Downtown Miami property and is in desperate need of revitalization,” Michael Levoff, senior vice president for public affairs at Genting Americas, said in an emailed statement Friday. In addition to the Omni mall and hotel complex to the north of the bus terminal, the company also owns the historic Boulevard Shops building, which was part of the purchase and is being converted into a lavish restaurant, immediately south of the bus hub. Genting bought the Miami Herald property directly east of the transit terminal for $236 million in 2011 and announced plans for the colossal casino, but its efforts have been frustrated by the Florida Legislature. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said in a memo that the deal with Genting would generate nearly $55 million in rent and revenue-sharing for the county over the life of the lease.

The redevelopment site, totaling just under one acre, includes Northeast 14th Terrace, a one-block-long street that would be permanently closed. Genting’s Resorts World Miami, whose efforts to build a massive casino resort in the Omni district have been stalled for years, was the sole bidder on a county request for proposals to redevelop the open-air bus terminal and refurbish the adjacent Metromover station. A conceptual rendering shows a rebuilt Omni bus terminal as part of a proposal by casino giant Genting for a new hotel tower on the site.Ī proposal by casino giant Genting to build a possible 300-room hotel on the site of Miami-Dade’s Omni bus terminal has cleared a big hurdle, winning the unanimous approval of the county commission’s transportation committee for a 90-year-lease of the public property.

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