ALL ABOARD FLORIDA SAYS NO TO BLACKS!!!!!

Block 56 Overtown

No Blacks are hired in the construction of block 56. After a year of litigation. The decision to remove the lawsuits against block 56 was made at the request of Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon. In a effort to work with the leaders of the Overtown Community we thought it best to fulfill the request of our Commissioner. We got a lot of backlash for this decision, but at the time we thought the Commissioner and SEOPW CRA would protect the community. We have been proven wrong. Florida East Coast Railway/ All Aboard Florida is the most disrespectful company in Florida. It has even come out that the FEC/ AAF officers that was used to arrest over 300 people in Overtown did not have Police powers. AAF even had to take the $1.7 Billion junk bond offering off the table in the face of skepticism among bond investors, who doubted that enough travelers would use AAF rail service to make it profitable. We knew from last year when the US DOT rejected AAF $1.6 Billion loan request that they would not be able to raise the funds needed to complete a passenger rail project. That didn't stop them from getting $17 million from Commissioner Hardemon. We have said from the beginning that AAF will build office buildings downtown. But as seen in Block 56 no Blacks will be hired. 

All Aboard Florida says no to Blacks!