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While its main goal is growing its cruise westin hotel calgary and cargo business, the port is eyeing commercial development on prime waterfront property on its southwest westin hotel calgary corner, including westin hotel calgary a hotel and office tower within the next few years and up to five office buildings car rental agencies in the orlando international airport over the long haul.
The hotel would cater to cruise passengers car rental agencies in the orlando international airport and business travelers involved westin hotel calgary in port trade. Office space would target international trade and commercial interests, according to port director Bill Johnson.
westin hotel calgary "The southwest corner is some of the most valuable real estate in our community and in the entire state of Florida,'' said Johnson, the snowy-haired car rental agencies in the orlando international airport executive known for his sometimes-manic car rental agencies in the orlando international airport energy and loquacious style. "I hope to be one of the top ports in aesthetics, sustainability and one that is integrated into the downtown community, not some industrial dirty port.''
The preliminary car rental agencies in the orlando international airport plans are "just a conversation starter'' to be molded with input from the community and the port's stakeholders, Johnson car rental agencies in the orlando international airport said. The goal is to find a new revenue source for the debt-laden port, which is a self-sustaining enterprise of Miami-Dade County that operates without county tax dollars.
New revenue from a hotel, offices and a mega-yacht marina could boost the port as it shoulders the hefty costs of cruise and cargo upgrades that are the meat-and-potatoes of the master plan, said Kevin Lynskey, assistant westin hotel calgary director for business westin hotel calgary initiatives for PortMiami, the port's car rental agencies in the orlando international airport new name.
On the drawing board are a slew of efficiency-driven westin hotel calgary upgrades, including new cranes and cargo security gates, which along with the dredge, rail and tunnel are aimed at enabling PortMiami to double cargo business by the end of the decade on the same tight space it occupies in Biscayne Bay.
The dredge project, uncertain pending the outcome of a legal challenge by environmentalists, seeks to deepen the port to 50 feet for the larger container ships expected in 2014 when the widening of the Panama Canal is complete. Johnson has been aggressively wooing Asian shipping giants westin hotel calgary in hopes of landing at least one line.
And as the world's westin hotel calgary largest cruise port in passenger numbers, PortMiami anticipates growing to 5.9 million passengers in 2035 from 4 million in 2011, potentially with a new super terminal, more berth space for the sleek mega cruise ships and a multimodal transit center for taxis, busses and rental cars.
The master plan envisions car rental agencies in the orlando international airport retail westin hotel calgary shops and restaurants and an inner yacht harbor, mirroring Bayside. The port is considering restoring an old bridge to the mainland that could serve as a pedestrian walkway and link to a future bayfront promenade as the downtown area is transformed westin hotel calgary by two new museums the Miami Science Museum and the Miami Art Museum.
The concept of a promenade along Biscayne Bay is echoed in other big plans for the bayfront, including Malaysian casino giant Genting Group's plans for a resort complex, with or without gambling, on the site of The Miami Herald building.
The port would likely lease the land on its southwest corner to private developers in exchange for rent and a cut of revenue, a public-private partnership, port officials say, although nothing westin hotel calgary has been firmed up.
The office space could provide westin hotel calgary a new home for the World Trade Center, westin car rental agencies in the orlando international airport hotel calgary currently housed westin hotel calgary car rental agencies in the orlando international airport in aging quarters on port property, while serving as a magnet for international trade and commerce-related tenants, such as attorneys, freight forwarders and other international-trade car rental agencies in the orlando international airport types.
The World Trade Center has hired a marketing car rental agencies in the orlando international airport consultant to gauge interest in a port hotel and office space in the southwest corner, sprinkled in around car rental agencies in the orlando international airport the leased headquarters of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., a major port tenant through at least 2021.
"We hope in six to eight weeks to know what the market is and the desire of trade-related organizations [for space,]'' said assistant port director Lynskey. The marketing analysis won't address the mega-yacht marina idea.
"It's to say 'Here is an idea.' Not more than that,' '' Ajamil said. "As the port yearns to be more integrated to the downtown, there seems to be an opportunity to look at this concept. The vision of an inner harbor comes.''
Johnson floated the idea for commercial development car rental agencies in the orlando international airport in December to port stakeholders, car rental agencies in the orlando international airport stressing westin hotel calgary that it is conceptual. Among them were officials of the Downtown Development Authority, some of whom are concerned at first blush about potential competition from the port for coveted westin hotel calgary office tenants.
Marc Sarnoff, chairman of the DDA and a Miami city commissioner, confirmed the port's aspirations car rental agencies in the orlando international airport for commercial development are being met with a degree of ambivalence from downtown interests. westin hotel calgary "Everybody has a concern,'' he said.
Sarnoff said a port hotel and offices car rental agencies in the orlando international airport could have price advantages over others in downtown. Still, he recognizes the port as a key economic engine and finds the ideas of a mega-yacht harbor and baywalk alluring.
Pamela Weller, a senior general manager for General Growth Properties, which owns Bayside Marketplace, said she has seen only a preliminary PowerPoint presentation of the ideas for the southwest corner, which faces the Bayside shops and restaurants. Her initial reaction car rental agencies in the orlando international airport is positive.
"The idea of having a world-class hotel property on the port is a positive for the cruise lines operating ships here, since it will give us another option for our guests to stay close to the departure of their respective vessels,'' Royal Caribbean spokeswoman Tracy Quan said.
The push for a new revenue source westin hotel calgary comes as the port, already shouldering a massive $616.9 million debt as of Sept. 30, prepares to borrow another $384 million for its share of the tab for infrastructure improvements and other upgrades.
Port officials expect those investments to make the port more nimble and improve its capacity, ultimately paying big dividends. But in the near term it faces an increasing mountain of debt as it works on growing new revenue.
"From now until 2020 is a debt hump,'' Lynskey said. "We're running a very tight ship until 2020. After that, our financials look great'' as projections for revenue growth provide westin hotel calgary a stronger cushion.
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