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City Resolution Unlocks Funds For Historic Virginia Key Beach Park Museum

VIRGINIA KEY BEACH PARK
Depiction of the proposed Virginia Key Beach Park museum. Miami commissioners will vote on June 13 over a resolution to ask the county to release about $20.5 million to start construction on the museum.

After years of standstill, Virginia Key Beach Park took a step toward constructing its proposed civil rights museum.

Miami leaders unanimously passed a resolution Thursday, committing to help the park with the museum’s operational costs post-construction. The resolution prompts the release of funds allotted over 10 years ago from Miami-Dade County totaling about $20.5 million for construction of the museum.

The museum is planned to commemorate the park’s civil rights and environmental history. Opened in 1945 as a “colored only” beach, Virginia Key Beach Park was the only Miami beach, at the time, that permitted people of color.

Read more at our news partner the Miami Herald.

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