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Homestead developer gets earful, unwanted postponement

2015-09-27 02:45:13| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

The car dealer planning to buy Homestead's decrepit, city-owned bowling alley and turn it into a state-of-the-art Hyundai outlet was grilled by angry members of the City Council late Thursday, who said he was changing the plan he had agreed to just five months earlier. Jay Rivchin, the operator of Dadeland Dodge, wanted the council to grant him concessions regarding the construction timetable and design.

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How to win a (bowling) alley fight, Homestead style

2015-09-23 01:41:07| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

When the operator of Dadeland Dodge needed some political muscle to get a deal on 4.6 acres of taxpayer-owned property pushed through the Homestead City Council, he found a staunch ally in Jimmie L. Williams III. Williams, a bespectacled councilman and church pastor who sports trademark bow ties and - records suggest - may not live in the city he represents, became a fierce advocate of Jay Rivchin's proposal to build a Hyundai dealership on the site of a forlorn, long-shuttered bowling alley on U.S. 1. He worked tirelessly from the dais - and, it turns out, secretly behind the scenes - to ensure the public land sale went through without a hitch.

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