Mayor to announce plans for the Liberty City Rising Project

(MIAMI, January 30, 2015) – Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Audrey M. Edmonson, and community partners, will announce plans for the revitalization of Liberty Square and Liberty City on Monday, February 2, 2015, at 10 a.m. The revitalization of Liberty Square is a $74 million commitment to transform the public housing project and create jobs in the neighborhood.

The revitalization is expected to create approximately 2,290 jobs and more than $285 million in economic output within the next four years. This project will work closely with Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez’s Employ Miami-Dade initiative assist in providing employment training for residents before the development projects break ground in the beginning of 2016.

“The diversity of Miami-Dade should be represented in the workforce that builds the new Liberty Square and new projects in Liberty City,” said Mayor Gimenez. “With a mixed income and mixed use community, diversity will also be reflected in those that will reside there.”  

This is the largest project that the Department of Public Housing and Community Development has ever taken on. The Liberty Square is currently compromised of 709 units and has approximately 2,000 residents.