Miami Today - Jesse Scheckner

Miami International Airport’s (MIA) $5 billion capital improvement work is already underway, and after several delays, OK of bonds to fund the 15-year job was set to finally take flight Tuesday.

Now the bonds issue may once again be stalled, as a deferral request accompanied the authorizing item on the preliminary agenda for the April 7 Miami-Dade County Commission meeting. Whether the airline industry’s massive coronavirus hit factors into the board’s final decision remains to be seen.

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