MIAMI-The famed Fontainebleau Hotel has quit the Greater Miami and the Beaches Hotel Association over the trade group's support of the redevelopment plan for the convention center district.
The hotel, which boasts more than 1,500 rooms, and was the largest facility in the association, allowed its membership to lapse, according to the Miami Herald.
“We chose not to renew our membership because we feel the current vision of the association's leadership is not aligned with ours,” resort spokesman Joseph Gerbino wrote in an e-mail. “The Fontainebleau Miami Beach has always advocated an immediate renovation, expansion and upgrade to the Miami Beach Convention Center and we are not opposed to a hotel project, provided no public monies, taxes or subsidies are used in its development.”
Miami Beach is in the final stages of selecting a development team to redevelop its outdated convention center, add a ballroom, residential units, retail and an affordable hotel. See story in the Miami Herald.
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