Miami-Dade County Sent Eviction Notice to Miami Seaquarium Owners this Monday, after they missed the deadline to vacate the Virginia Key property.
Because the company “failed to deliver possession of the Property in a timely manner, (the county) hereby gives notice of its intention to commence an eviction action to remove Tenant from the Property,” reads a statement to Eduardo Albor, president of Dolphin Company and to which he had access Local 10.
The county’s decision to kick Dolphin Company off the property comes amid concerns about documented animal welfare problems in the parkamong other things.
The mayor of Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cavahad described the current situation of the Seaquarium as “unsustainable and unsafe” and assured that the conditions in the marine park were “terrible.”
To counter this eviction demand, The Dolphin Company requested $35 million in damagesand claims that an eviction is being forced without a “legal plan” for the animals.
Precisely, a question that many ask is: what will happen to the animals at the Miami Seaquarium? By the way, a compilation of Local 10 tries to give you an answer, pointing to some variants that have been taken for some years.
However, this Monday, the Miami Seaquarium operated normally. Legal analyst David Weinstein told Local 10 what “ultimately a judge will decide something here and may allow Dolphin Company to remain while they move through the process and litigate this”.
“We hope that Dolphin Company will take the necessary steps to vacate the facility and ensure that the transition is done in a safe and orderly manner, especially for the animals in its care,” the mayor said in a joint statement. Levine Cava and the county commissioner Rachel Regaladowhose district includes the Seaquarium.
“If they do not do so, the county will continue with the eviction process in court,” they said.
