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BlobfishBoy said:
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article289524064.html

A lawsuit has now been filed to evict the Seaquarium after they’ve failed to leave of their own accord after their eviction date.
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Hmm... I dont want to celebrate early, but I wonder what will become of the property after the dolphin company vacates.
I hope the County doesnt Zone the area to build more Condos that will be perpetually vacant due to pricing...
My hope is that the Seaworld Company purchases it to build a smaller local
 
Cuban-Floridian said:
Hmm... I dont want to celebrate early, but I wonder what will become of the property after the dolphin company vacates.
I hope the County doesnt Zone the area to build more Condos that will be perpetually vacant due to pricing...
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This isn’t how supply and demand works. More housing is good whether luxury or not.

I would love it if they kept it as an aquarium but seems unlikely.
 
Cuban-Floridian said:
Hmm... I dont want to celebrate early, but I wonder what will become of the property after the dolphin company vacates.
I hope the County doesnt Zone the area to build more Condos that will be perpetually vacant due to pricing...
My hope is that the Seaworld Company purchases it to build a smaller local
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Most likely it will be condos. While it would be really cool for Seaworld to buy it, that seems wildly unlikely. If anyone out of left field came in I would bet Merlin, but I don't think that is likely at all.
 
Captive Cetacean News on Instagram: "Mia and Calypso, two female Atlantic-Pacific bottlenose dolphin hybrids, were transferred from the Miami Seaquarium to Marineland Florida (Marineland Dolphin Adventure) on the 30th of May. Their ownership was transferred between the facilities on the 15th of May. This is the first transfer for both individuals, as they were both born at the Miami Seaquarium. In fact, this was the first time a bottlenose dolphin had been transferred out of the Miami Seaquarium in 44 years(1980). The reason for the transfer is unknown at the moment. Both individuals are at least half sisters, and are 75% Atlantic bottlenose, 25% Pacific bottlenose. Mia(first photo), 3 years old, was born in October of 2020 to Panama. Mia's sire is unknown, though it is reasonably suspected to be Sundance. Calypso(second photo), 10 years old, was born in April of 2014 to Panama and Sundance. Photos courtesy of @echo_beluga (used with permission) Source of transfer: Marine Mammal Inventory Report/MMIR (18th of July)"

Two female bottlenose dolphins, Mia and Calypso, were transferred from the Seaquarium to Marineland Dolphin adventure, another Dolphin Company owned facility (this one being AZA accredited).

To me, it looks like the Seaquarium is preparing for its eviction and is beginning to transfer its dolphins out.
 
BlobfishBoy said:
Captive Cetacean News on Instagram: "Mia and Calypso, two female Atlantic-Pacific bottlenose dolphin hybrids, were transferred from the Miami Seaquarium to Marineland Florida (Marineland Dolphin Adventure) on the 30th of May. Their ownership was transferred between the facilities on the 15th of May. This is the first transfer for both individuals, as they were both born at the Miami Seaquarium. In fact, this was the first time a bottlenose dolphin had been transferred out of the Miami Seaquarium in 44 years(1980). The reason for the transfer is unknown at the moment. Both individuals are at least half sisters, and are 75% Atlantic bottlenose, 25% Pacific bottlenose. Mia(first photo), 3 years old, was born in October of 2020 to Panama. Mia's sire is unknown, though it is reasonably suspected to be Sundance. Calypso(second photo), 10 years old, was born in April of 2014 to Panama and Sundance. Photos courtesy of @echo_beluga (used with permission) Source of transfer: Marine Mammal Inventory Report/MMIR (18th of July)"

Two female bottlenose dolphins, Mia and Calypso, were transferred from the Seaquarium to Marineland Dolphin adventure, another Dolphin Company owned facility (this one being AZA accredited).

To me, it looks like the Seaquarium is preparing for its eviction and is beginning to transfer its dolphins out.
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>another Dolphin Company owned facility

Huh, I thought Marine Land was owned by The Georgia Aquarium according to wikipedia
Just more proof of wikipedia being unreliable
 
BlobfishBoy said:
Miami-Dade county looks like it wants to end things before it drags out even further. Today the county filed a motion for default final judgement and immediate possession of real property in its eviction case against MSQ.

https://themedreality.com/wp-conten...eeOgsq6t_3RUA-QfKQ_aem_L0LBXSoPhVwk15lDTH1MOg
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I am certainly no lawyer of any sort, but it seems unlikely the court would give immediate possession and judgement due to default on a rent payment that was due on September 16th but was paid September 17th 11:59AM.
 
SwampDonkey said:
I am certainly no lawyer of any sort, but it seems unlikely the court would give immediate possession and judgement due to default on a rent payment that was due on September 16th but was paid September 17th 11:59AM.
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Not a lawyer either, but seems there is precedent established for the court to follow.

I am guessing the county had this ready to go ahead of time, knowing if was likely to happen.
 
MidwestFan said:
Not a lawyer either, but seems there is precedent established for the court to follow.

I am guessing the county had this ready to go ahead of time, knowing if was likely to happen.
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Yeah, the difference here seems to be that the precedent case the court clerk rejected the payment as untimely and it seems in this case the court clerk accepted the payment, which could make it sticky. I would think that the clerk should have rejected the payment if they were going to go this route. But they were prepared ahead it seems.
 
I am a lawyer, but not in Florida and I don’t do anything with contracts or commercial real estate. Take this all with a grain of salt. But it does look bad for the Seaquarium.

There is language in the statute allowing for judges to grant an extension to payment deadlines “upon good cause shown,” so I was very curious if judges can extend deadlines. And I found that they can! …but only before the deadline. Even in a case where the trial court found good cause was shown, the court of appeals still held that extensions cannot be granted after the fact. I think the City of Miami takes this one.
 
Persephone said:
I am a lawyer, but not in Florida and I don’t do anything with contracts or commercial real estate. Take this all with a grain of salt. But it does look bad for the Seaquarium.

There is language in the statute allowing for judges to grant an extension to payment deadlines “upon good cause shown,” so I was very curious if judges can extend deadlines. And I found that they can! …but only before the deadline. Even in a case where the trial court found good cause was shown, the court of appeals still held that extensions cannot be granted after the fact. I think the City of Miami takes this one.
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Fascinating, thanks for all that!
 
I found this part interesting:
Napoleon told Local 10 News in an interview after the hearing that Miami-Dade County has put them in a sort of “Catch-22″ after citing them for unsafe structures not currently open to the public, such as the whale bowl, while also not issuing them permits to renovate it or demolish.

“The county claims that there are over 80 violations at the Seaquarium,” he said. “The county knows that we have actually corrected the vast majority of the violations that can be corrected. The other violations have to do with structures that are not even open to the public and not even in open public areas, so they are trying to claim there are violations on the property that simply don’t exist or can’t be fixed because they refuse to issue us building permits to fix anything. So the county is essentially placing us in a Catch-22 that is just completely improper.”
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So (supposedly) they actually want to make renovations but the county is not issuing them permits. To me that makes sense in the idea the a lot of the issues, apart from the USDA issues, stem from the county wishing to take ownership to re-develop the land, land that is very valuable at this point.
 
BlobfishBoy said:
It’s been confirmed that if mediation fails to reach a solution, the (no-jury) trial date for the case is set for April 7, 2025. It looks like the Seaquarium is gonna keep hanging on for now.


Until Lolita is Home on Instagram: "October 21 Both parties entered mediation over the case after a judge set a trial date for next year. - Attorneys for Miami-Dade had argued the Seaquarium missed a rent payment deadline on the county-owned property and filed the motion for default judgment and immediate eviction. But the judge denied the motion and instead set up a new rent payment plan. Miami-Dade had filed a lawsuit back on June 25 to evict The Dolphin Company, which owns and operates the Seaquarium, when the company didn’t vacate the premises in April after they were served with an eviction notice. The county moved to evict the company after U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that found issues at the Seaquarium, including inadequate care for animals and problems with the park upkeep. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava cited a “long and troubling history of violations” in a lease termination notice sent on March 7 to the chief executive officer of The Dolphin Company. The company was told to vacate the property by April 21, according to the letter from the mayor’s office. The lease was originally set to be up in 2044. An attorney for The Dolphin Company called the lawsuit “baseless and politically motivated” and said the company had cured any USDA non-compliance issues, many of which were inherited by The Dolphin Company when they took over operations of the park in 2022. Last month, the Seaquarium touted a recent USDA report that found zero issues at the Abusement park. -NBC6 Miami - #untillolitaishome #tokitae #ForeverTokitae #justice4toki #toki #eduardoalbor #ShutDownMSQ #thedolphincompany #miamiseaquarium #standupforanimalrights #animalabuse #failure #iamtokitae #dolphinabusementcompany #shutdownmiamiseaquarium"
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That's the American judicial system for you right there, in all its glory...
 
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