Seafood restaurant owners with political pull seek rent break from Miami-Dade County

Citing negative impacts from climate change, Miami-Dade officials may grant a rent break to a politically connected restaurant tenant leasing a county owned waterfront venue. Hammock Marine Corporation — a company owned by Rodney Barreto, chairman of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission, and Brian May, a lobbyist for several big name developers including billionaires Ken Griffin and Steve Ross — owns and operates Noma Beach at Redfish Grill, as well as a bait and tackle shop, at Matheson Hammock Park at 9610 Old Cutler Road in Coral Gables.  Hammock Marine leases the land underneath Noma Beach and the bait […]

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