MIAMI—Miami Worldcenter is already making a measurable economic impact. Developers hosted a construction job fair in Overtown this week at the Historic St. Agnes Episcopal Church.
Nearly 500 Overtown residents stood in line hoping to land one of the 10,000 construction jobs—including plumbing, carpentry, concrete, painting, general labor—that will be created during the first phase of the 27-acre real estate development. Miami Worldcenter is a $2 billion private commercial real estate development that will include retail, hospitality and residential assets on 10 blocks of vacant land in Downtown Miami.
“We were thrilled to see such a great turnout from the Overtown community at yesterday's job fair,” says Denrick Rolle, senior pastor of St. Agnes Church. “We are pleased for the opportunity afforded to us, here in the community of Overtown, to get people involved and employed. I hope for and anticipate even more opportunity as the development rises.”
The job fair for the construction development phase of the project prioritized residents living within the Southeast Overtown/Park West and Omni Community Redevelopment areas, the Overtown community, and then priority zip codes within the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County. Miami Worldcenter and The Relocation & Development Firm, in partnership with the Miami Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), the Miami-Dade Chamber, Commissioner Audrey Edmonson, Commissioner Keon Hardemon, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Mount Olivette MBC, St. Johns MBC, Temple MBC and Greater Israel Bethel PBC, hosted the job fair.
“I am very happy that Miami Worldcenter's developers followed through with the commitment in helping to support economic opportunities by hosting the first job fair in our historic Overtown community,” says Edmonson. “I had the opportunity to speak to many of the applicants that were there and saw firsthand the ongoing need for employment in our community. I will continue to work for you today so that our community will have a better tomorrow.”
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