Posts Tagged: ‘Convention Center’

Miami Beach Convention Center Advisory Board seeks to honor the late Leon A. Manne

January 10, 2014 Posted by Frank M

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This past December, the Miami Beach hospitality industry and the community at-large lost a longtime supporter in Leon A. Manne.

In suit, the Miami Beach Convention Center Advisory Board voted unanimously this week to honor their fellow member by renaming the center’s Executive Board room after him.

“We the members of the Miami Beach Convention Center Advisory Board ask that the City of Miami Beach Mayor and Commission, at its first official Commission meeting in January 2014, rename the Executive Board room in the Convention Center, ” THE LEON A. MANNE EXECUTIVE BOARD ROOM,” honoring his contribution to both the Center and the community,” wrote the board’s Chairman Stuart Blumberg to the City Commission.

The letter asked that any of the usual process, which would be time consuming, be waived so that an announcement could be made at a special service in early February that coincides with what would have been Manne’s 96 birthday.

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Quick Observation: The second half of the Miami Beach Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club with Roger Abramson

November 27, 2012 Posted by Frank M

boiling rage

There was a tense air among the Miami Beach Tuesday Morning Breakfast clubbers; distrust over the Convention Center project coursed through the veins of a decidedly older group, but with all the tenacity and evil-genius plotting of a limber anarchist collective.

The guillotine that is the vote to designate a developer for the 52 acre district, which could come as soon as the December Commission meeting, frightened and angered.

Something must be done everyone mouthed in different words.

I fear that like their younger counterparts, the Occupiers, they too might suffer from a damning disease where the body accomplishes nothing, becomes practically immobile, while at the same time the mouth can not stop from yapping revolutionary threats against the powers that be. Still I assume nothing, a citizen’s flag might yet fly over city hall.

Outside another movement was boiling with unrest; the “unpaid workers of David’s Cafe II” stormed the windows adjacent to the MBTMBC with their protest signs. They clawed at the glass like zombies trying to get at fresh meat; they groaned their tale of working and of the cafe’s owner pocketing their earnings. A pair of women who weren’t really paying attention to the clubbers’ discourse asked the waitress to draw the blinds, and continued their chit chatting when the problem was no longer visible. The handful of signers just got louder.

Spanish. English. Their angry accusatory chants were bitter, and sounded fresh. It had been months since they started this.

Bless the vengeful man who will not let go an injustice even to the detriment of his own life. The bile will undoubtedly shorten his life, but he rather not share the world with his enemy.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Quick observations are just that, a slice of what was seen. They are not meant to be complete articles.
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