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Home My WebLink AboutOMNI CRA 2013-02-28 AdvertisementMIAMI DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW Published Daily except Saturday, Sunday and Legal Holidays Miami, Miami -Dade County, Florida STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF MIAMI-DADE: Before the undersigned authority personally appeared MARIA MESA, who on oath says that he or she is the LEGAL CLERK, Legal Notices of the Miami Daily Business Review f/k/a Miami Review, a daily (except Saturday, Sunday and Legal Holidays) newspaper, published at Miami in Miami -Dade County, Florida; that the attached copy of advertisement, being a Legal Advertisement of Notice in the matter of (#19300) OMNI & MIDTOWN REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES BOARD MEETING - FEB. 28, 2013 in the XXXX Court, was published in said newspaper in the issues of 02/25/2013 Affiant further says that the said Miami Daily Business Review is a newspaper published at Miami in said Miami -Dade County, Florida and that the said newspaper has heretofore been continuously published in said Miami -Dade County, Florida, each day (except Saturday, Sunday and Legal Holidays) and has been entered as second class mail matter at the post office in Miami in said Miami -Dade County, Florida, for a period of one year next preceding the first publication of the attached copy of advertisement; and affiant further says that he or she has neither paid nor promised any person, firm or corporation any discount, rebate mission or refund for the purpose of securint for publication in the said Sword subscribed before me this 25 d (SEAL) , A.D. 2013 MARIA MESA personally known to me „�PaY poe�,, 0. V. FERBEYRE A >, -y`�s Notary Public - State of Florida My Comm. Expires Jul 9, 2014 �� a, Commission # OD 982536 '%e°;; Bonded Through National Notary Assn. OMNI & MIDTOWN REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES PLEASE ALL TAKE NOTICE that a Boards of Commissioners Meeting of the Omni & Midtown Redevelopment District Community Redevelopment Agencies is scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:00 pm, or thereafter, at Miami City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, FL 33133. All interested persons are invited to attend. For more information please contact the Omni & Midtown CRA offices at (305) 679-6868. (#19300) 2/25 Pieter A. Bockweg, Executive Director Omni and Midtown Community Redevelopment Agencies 13-4-248/2039115M rri co iV 0' " C7 tV N cri rn C) rn rn tom. BB THE MIAMI TIMES, FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 5, 2013 JTHE NATION'S #I BLACK NEWSPAPER As the fortunes ofmany Ameri- cans go, so goes Wal-Mart and the economy. Even as the world's largest oiler reported an 8.6 percent rise in fourth quarter profit during the busy holiday shopping season, it of- fered a weaker forecast for the coming months. The problem? The poor and middle-class Americans Wal-Mart caters to — and who are big drivers of spending in the U.S. — are struggling with risinggas prices, delayed income tar refunds and higher payroll taxes. It's widely known that Americans in the lower income brackets continue to struggle evenas higher earners benefit from improved housing and stock markets, but Wal-Mart's results ,signal that matters may be getting worse for them- Wal-Mart is the latest in a string of big -name companies from Burger King to tale to say that Americans are being squeezed by new challenges. But since Wal-Mart ac- counts for nearly 10 percent of nonau- tomotive retail spending in the U.S., it is a bellwether for the economy. Managing family business takes more than good genes More colleges offering courses to lead the way By Mary Beth Marklein Unlike many of his class- mates, Texas Christian University senior Guillermo Velilla will not be joining the ranks of job -hunters when he finishes school. He has one waiting for him at his family's business back in his native Paraguay. But that doesn't mean he has it made. "It is not as easy as it seems," says Velilla, 22, whose family owns a meat - processing plant, cattle ranches and related compa- nies. "There is competition outthere, and we need to keep the reputation of the family through hard work, honesty and commitment with the community." In a stroke of good tim- ing, Velilla this semester is enrolled in a class on managing a family -owned business. The course, which made its debut last spring on the Fort Worth campus, covers topics such as gover- nance and succession plan- ning, and is open to stu- dents regardless of whether their families are business o "Many of our business school graduates will also either go to work for a family business or obtain jobs that will deal with family busi- nesses clients," says Mark Muller, who teaches the Tony Holzbach, 23, a seni versity, tends plants at the Shed, in Keller, Texas. Similar undergraduate courses have been sprouting up on campuses nationwide lately, often riding the coat- tails of popular new entre- preneurship majors. New York University this spring for the first time is offer- ing an undergrad course on the topic. Savannah State University in Georgia plans to introduce such a class next year. Bostons Northeastern University launched a course in 2011. A few schools, including The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, have created family business majors in the last few years. Demographics and de - and may explain some of the recent uptick. Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., which graduated its first rl kha or at Texas Christian Uni- family business, the Plant class of family -business majors in 2006, says 42 percent of its business stu- dents and 37 percent of all students come from families involved in family busi- es. A number of schools, including Rice University in Houston and the Univer- sity of Denver, say enroll- ment in recently launched family business courses is particularly strong among international students such as Velilla. John Ward, co -director of the Center for Family Enterprises at Northwest- n University in Evanston, Ill., also says colleges and universities increasingly recognize that family -owned companies deserve a schol- arly spotlight of their own. Recent studies have found that family -controlled busi- nesses, which range from mom-and-pop hardware stores to corporate giants such as Wal-Mart, outper- formed other companies on several measures during the -And , according to data from the Family Firm In- stitute, a non-profit mem- bership association, 77 percent of U.S. new busi- er started as family businesses. They employ 62 percent of the U.S. work- force. Depending on how you define them, family -owned businesses account for 40 percent to 90 percent of the world's economy. "You simply cant ig- nore that," says Pramodita Sharma,professor at the University of Vermont, which offered its first family busi- ness in 2006, and global director of a research initiative focused on family business at Baboon College in Babson Park, Mass. Sharma, who grew up in India, where "everyone I knew was running a (fam- ily) bu ss," suggests that U.S. scholars, who long dismissed the topic as an important area of study, havecatching up to do. In atrecent family busi- ness at the Uni- versity of Vermont, finalists for the top award came from Spain, Canada and Sweden. Jeff Vanevenhoven, coor- dinator of the entrepreneur- ship major at the University of Wiscons n-Whitewater, says children of business owners bring to campus the sa me drive and passion Please turn to BIZ 1OD Carnival ship fiasco shakes cruise industry Company faces rough waters By Laura Bly and Jayne Clark The opening skit of `Satur- day Night Live" skewered the Carnival Triumph's ill-fated cruise, giving new meaning to °toilet humor" as ship- board entertainers tried to pacify a tough crowd of un- happy, unshowered passen- gers. And as the crippled ship remains docked and under investigation in Mobile, Ala., travel agents and investors re bracing for fallout that could rival the bad public- ity after last Januarya Con- cordia disaster, in which a Carnival -owned ship ran Wal-Mart aground and capsized in It- aly, killing 32. It's too early to tell wheth- er cruisers will be turned off by the aftermath of an engine room fire on the Triumph, which had left the ship adrift in the Gulf of Mexico since Feb. 11, said Steve Loucks, spokesman for Travel Leaders Group, network of independently owned and operated travel agencies. Loucks said his company hasn't fielded any cancel- lations over the past week and said cruise bookings this year are up nearly 10 percent over last year, when the Concordia accident had n effect. .Our agents have been fielding questions about safety procedures," Loucks said. 'After the -.Galveston Triumph passengers wearCarnival bathrobes ,"and head to their cars Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Galveston, Texas, after a bus ride from Mobile, Ala., to Triumph's home port. Concordia, new measures were implemented, and w believe something similar will happen after the (Na- tional Transportation Safety Board) investigation. But the difference here is there was no loss of life ° Michael Driscoll, editor of industry newsletter Cruise Week, said Carnival will be hit harder than other cruise lines, in part because its Carnival brand draws high percentage of first-time cruisers. Carnival also owns Costa Cruises, the compare} that operated the Concordia as well as Princess Cruises Holland America, Cunarc and P&O Cruises. A third Carnival ship, in Splendor, lost power at sea it 2010 and was towed back ti port under conditions sirni lar to those on the Triumph predicts tougher times ahead AssociatedFres, °Wal-Mart moms are the barometer of the U.S. household," said Brian Sozzi, chief equities analyst at NHG Productions who follows Wal-Mart. `Right now. they're afraid of higher taxes and inflation." Indeed,white wealthier households have seen their stock portfolios grow. poor and middle-class Americans have struggled to regain their finan- cial footing since the recession ended more than 3 years: ago. Stocks have roughly doubled since June 2009. Dividends and capital gains from stocks, which dispro- portionately benefit higher -income. Americans, are taxed at lower rates compared with ordinary income At the same time, while incomesfor most Americans have failed to keep pace with inflation since the,reces- n, that's been particularly true for middle. and lower -income people. GAS PRICES, HIGHER TAXES ADD TO THE DILEMMA Another hurdle for lower- and middle -income Americans has been the jump in gas prices since mid -Jan- uary. The average price fora gallon of gas rose47 cents inthe past month to $3.78 cm Thursday, according to AAA. Tax changes also have hit lower an middle -income households especially hard. On Jan. 1, Social Security payroll taxes rose. 2 percentage points after a temporary cut. expired, That sliced about $1,000 from the take- home pay of a household earning $50,000. Since the Social Security taxis levied against income only up tic $114,000. it disproportionately affects middle- and lower -income households. An even larger challenge for many lower -income Americans has been the government's delay in process- ing taxes and paying refunds. That's because me tax rates weren't set untila last-minute deal between the White House. and Congress on Jan. 1. So the IRS pushed back the start of tax -filing season to Jan. 30, two weeks later than usual. As a result, by Feb. 14 the govern- ment had paid only $55 billionin refunds, down from $77 billionat the same timelast year, according to an Pleaseturn to WALMART LOD Miss the Town Car? Cadillac seeks to be your limo of choice General Motors creates a special fleet version of its new XTS sedan By Chris Woodyard Limousine operators seeking to fill the giant black hole left by the demise of the Lincoln Town Car nnow have another suitor: Cadillac. General Motors luxury brand, which has long been in the chauf- feur -car market but never had the Iucess of Lincoln, has created a apeeial fleet version of its new XTS sedan. It has been given thedecidedly sexy name of the W20 Livery Package. It includes all the hack - eat extras that "black car" and limo operators demand, likeheat- ed seats, window shades and a plug-in for charging smartphones. It also has lighted door han- dles an the outside. LED lights, 19-inch wheels and other fancy touches. "We are bringing a new formula to thelivery customer;' says Don Butler, vice president of Cadillac marketing. "Every experience in a Cadillac, front seat or rear seat, meets a higher standard for luxu- ry, performance and technology." Limo operators loved the Lin- coln Town Car — asungainly as it might have been. — because of rear -wheel drive and because it was easy and cheap to repair. It was considered the ultimate in durability, with cars routinely logging hundreds of thousands of miles despite running 1S hours a day. Never mind that it was an in- credible gas hog. Lincoln has sought to maintain its leadership in the limo market by renaming the front -wheel -drive MKT crossover as its new Town Car. So far, it doesn't look like limo operators have exactly warmedto. the idea, leaving the field open for others to give it a try. Cadillac says Carey Interna- tional, the world's largest limo company, has bought 150 new Cadillac XTS W20s. It made the purchase after trying out 24 of them. GM quotes Carey CEO Gary Kessler as saying, based on. the experience, that buyingthe fleet was a "no-brainer' basedon how well the test cars worked out. Detroit can not pay its bills CITY on one-time savings tially, because the ti ed from 7D and cuts to a smaller state is operating un- confirmed of nonunion der an old emergency need resources — par- employees in an at- financial manager titularly in the form tempt to fix its fiscal law. The law will be of cash and addition- woes, the team con- replaced in March by al staff," he said in a eluded. new, mo a robust leg - statement. Snyder now has 30 slation rthat allows The team found the days to review the emergency managers city i expected to report and decide to fire a city's elected have a cash deficit of whether a state take- officials and break re than $100 mil- aver is warranted. contracts to lion by June 30 and Snyder said in a t - money. continues to cent interview that In his state of the debt tofund day -to- his staff has spoken city address last week, day operations. The to candidates for the Bing, who opposes an city's deficit of $326.6 city'- emergency- emergencymanager million in the current manager position. for the city, barely fiscalyear would have His spokeswoman mentioned a possible been $936.8 million said Tuesday no deci- takeover instead fo- wiit out such debt fi- sion is expected on a u inegn oneprogress. ing. Its restruc- possible appointment 'No erg y an- turing this week. ager to date;' he said, have fallen short, measures Any new manager and no declaration part because city of- would have limited of bankruptcy for the ficials have relied power, at least ini- city of Detroit" Airline to raise up its prices AIRLINES tation. The current conitnued from 6D round of increases are mostly applying to Delta, for instance, tickets popular with had tried a similar business travelers who pricelast often book last-minute week, but pulled back flights that could cost when other carriers between $600 and didn't match it. ar $1,500 round trip. This time around, JetHlue has taken there doesn't appear the price increase a j� be the same hesi- step further, however. It's also increasing the cost of tickets bought re than seven day before departure, Se- aney says. That move could spark other airlines. bythe weekend, to by ost fares on tickets purchased for leisure travel as well as busi- ness, Seaney says OMNI & MIDTOWN REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES PLEASE ALL TAKE NOTICE that a Boards of Commissioners Meeting of the Omni & Midtown Redevelopment District Community Redevelopment Agen- cies is scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 28, 2013 @ 12:00 pm, or thereafter, at Miami City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, FL 33133. All interested persons are invited to attend. For more information please con- tact the Omni & Midtown CRA offices at (305) 679-8868. (#19300) Pieter A. Bockweg, Executive Director Omni and Midtown Community Redevelopment Agencies SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY The Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency (SEOPW CRA) is hiring for the following positions: Grant Writer/Part-time -$30K (Miami, FL) Marketing Coordlnator/Full-time - $45K - $60K (Miami, FL) Program Manager/Full-time - $45K-$58K (Miami, FL) Office Assistant/Part-time - 08/hr (Miami, FL) Send resume by postal mail to: SEOPW CRA, 1490 NW 3rd Ave, Suite 105, Miami, FL 33136 or via e-mail at nraimiamiaov.com For more details on the open positions, visit our website at www.miamicra.com/eeopwcra, (#19301) Clarence E. Woods III, Executive Director Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency