{"id":510,"date":"2004-06-25T08:24:12","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2004\/06\/more_from_miamis_pac\/"},"modified":"2004-06-25T08:24:12","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T15:24:12","slug":"more_from_miamis_pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/more_from_miamis_pac.php","title":{"rendered":"More from Miami&#8217;s PAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami-Dade Performing Arts Center currently (and perpetually) under construction has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/entertainment\/8942217.htm?ERIGHTS=8205352000211574467miami::ajreader@artsjournal.com&#038;KRD_RM=2pkiqlnilnorriiiiiiiijirkr|Sam|N\">bumped up its final project cost again<\/a> (username: ajreader@artsjournal.com \/ password: access), much to the frustration and chatter of county government and citizenry. I&#8217;ve touched on the huge and complex project before (first in <a href=\"52166.php\">this weblog entry last September<\/a>, and then <a href=\"58716.php\">again last November<\/a>), because it&#8217;s such an astounding bundle of intrigue, politics, power, and misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nA call for bids at the end of 2000 was hoping for a final construction cost of around $200 million. The lowest bid came in at $280 million. And that was just for construction, without architects fees and other softer costs. The latest estimates rise another $67 million above all previously estimated costs to $411 million ($254.6 million for construction, $89.4 for architect&#8217;s fees, land, and insurance, and an additional $67 million in proposed cost overruns). Beyond that pricetag, the center also says it will need another $17.4 million in fixtures, furnishings, security systems, phones, computers and other equipment, and another $10 million in pre-opening operating costs.<\/p>\n<p>\nMiami-Dade&#8217;s county commissioners were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/entertainment\/8988382.htm?1c\">publicly cranky about the new estimates<\/a>, and seeking some sort of head to put on some sort of platter. But it also seemed obvious to all of them that they couldn&#8217;t stop this train, and that even the estimates they were seeing were likely low.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt brings to mind an aphorism I heard at a recent leadership event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nThere are two phases to every project: too soon to tell, and too late to do anything about it.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nMiami is now in phase two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami-Dade Performing Arts Center currently (and perpetually) under construction has bumped up its final project cost again (username: ajreader@artsjournal.com \/ password: access), much to the frustration and chatter of county government and citizenry. I&#8217;ve touched on the huge and complex project before (first in this weblog entry last September, and then again last November), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}