Neighborhood voices are joining with those from the local commercial real estate industry in questioning whether continued use of the site as a container yard is compatible with city's long-term growth needs.

"That tract, which is a wonderful piece of property, is the Chinese Wall that divides Miami from its growth to the north," Edie Laquer of Miami-based Laquer Corporate Realty Group Inc. tells GlobeSt.com.

"In its current condition and use by the port, it is an impediment to the natural growth to the north. We certainly can't grow to the south or to the west, and they won't let me fill in the bay to east."

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