Downtown · In progress
Historic downtown Homestead revitalization
Homestead Community Redevelopment Agency
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Homestead · Florida City · South Miami-Dade
The conversations rebuilding South Dade.
Every week, Julio Guzman and Demmetrius Knowles sit down with the mayors, business owners, and neighbors shaping the 305’s southern end. Straight talk on the wins, the setbacks, and what comes next.
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Start with the rebuild
Redevelopment · 41 min
Rebuilding Homestead: CRA Director Jared Beck on redevelopment
Two decades in urban planning, and he joined Homestead’s Community Redevelopment Agency just as state lawmakers moved to dismantle CRAs. What’s at stake for the historic downtown, and for home rule across Florida.
Downtown revitalizationHome ruleAI in city planning
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Homestead Police Chief Mario Knapp on leadership and the future of HomesteadRebuilding Homestead: CRA Director Jared Beck on redevelopmentInside the life of Mayor Steven Losner: Homestead history, politics and legacyHow Chefs on the Run put Homestead on South Florida’s culinary mapThe story behind Miami Clippers and South Florida barber schools with Alberto EirasHolistic dentistry at Florida City Dental with Karla “Kuki” Castillo
Rebuild Tracker
What’s being built
The projects changing South Dade, how far along each one is, and the episode where the people behind it explain it.
Housing · Planning
Homestead Housing Authority leadership and infrastructure upgrades
Homestead Housing Authority
Hear the update →Veterans · Community push
VA healthcare access for South Dade & the Keys
Veterans Not Forgotten student petition
Hear the students →Stages: community push 25% · planning 50% · in progress 75% · complete 100% — sandbox placeholders for the hosts to confirm
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On the mic
SLSteven LosnerMayor, City of HomesteadMKMario KnappChief, Homestead PoliceJBJared BeckDirector, Homestead CRAOWOtis WallaceFormer Mayor, Florida CitySSStephen ShelleyFormer Homestead Mayor · Farm ShareRRRichard RamirezCouncilman, Town of Cutler BayHFHarold FordPresident, NAACP South DadeAEAlberto EirasMiami Clippers · barber schools
Leave a trail of clues for the next generation.
TalkVisual305 digs past the headlines to the real decisions, setbacks, and turning points that shaped a career or a community. Recorded in Homestead, for the neighbors who will build what comes next.
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DKDemmetrius KnowlesCo-host
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The new episode, what moved on the Rebuild Tracker, and what’s coming up at city hall. One email a week.
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