FROM the BRINK of EVICTION Lished a Go Fund Me Account Lil Greenhouse to Raise $15,000 to Save Lil Rebounds and Is Greenhouse
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Volume 97 Number 13 | NOVEMBER 13-19, 2019 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents FROM THE BRINK OF EVICTION lished a Go Fund Me account Lil Greenhouse to raise $15,000 to save Lil rebounds and is Greenhouse. When the cam- paign reached $2,710 on Nov. ready to grow 29, Gates said the campaign was over. DANIELLA PIERRE and “The donation money CAROLYN GUNISS helped them be victorious, [email protected] and we are grateful for the community’s support,” Gates Nicole Gates waited tables said at the time. Gates gave in a packed Lil Greenhouse everyone who a gift certifi- Grill during the lunch rush cate equal to the amount of hour on Tuesday. She greet- their donation. ed newcomers and repeat “People are still using them customers alike with a smile. today,” she said. But only two weeks ago, Gates told the communi- Gates and Karim Bryant, the ty she would use the money Miami Times photo/Philippe H. Buteau co-owners of the Overtown to pay “fees, Owed to the Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert speaks about eatery was facing eviction. A landlord, and December’s Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s veto at a year ago, summer, they had payment, taking us into 2019 press conference Friday at City Hall. to ask the community to help with a zero balance.” them pay bills associated Gates then secured a with the business – and even $15,000 bridge loan from Ur- rent. ban Philanthropies’ lending Miami Gardens to “We’re thankful for what arm, Non-Profit Community the community has done, Capital Corp. supporting us as a small Miami Times photo/Daniella Pierre Urban Philanthropies Phil Gimenez's veto: business, said Gates. After going through a more than a year not knowing Bacon said he was happy to Last summer, Lil Green- if the restaurant would have to leave its Overtown help because he knew the house’s landlord, the St. John location, Lil Greenhouse Grill has settled its rental dis- business had potential. The non-profit educates business ‘This isn’t over’ Institutional Missionary pute with its landlord, St. John Institutional Missionary Baptist Church started evic- owners on how to be suc- tion proceedings because the Baptist Church. cessful as well as provides neo-soul food restaurant had Greenhouse acknowledged be able to make it up,” Gates finding for those who need Residents say F1 racing near their fallen behind on its rent. owing $42,790.33 to St. John. recalled Monday afternoon. to scale. homes equal environmental racism They would go to court “We were a new business; Things got so hard that “Lending to Lil Green- three times before a settle- we had a tough summer; Gates took to social media house epitomizes what Ur- ment could be reached Oct. business got a little slow and and asked for donations. ban and Non-Profit is trying PHILIPPE H. BUTEAU the road closure. Currently, 22. It was that day that Lil we thought we were going to On Nov. 22, 2018, she estab- SEE GROW 4A Miami Times Contributor the County’s Transportation & Public Works Department Miami-Dade Mayor Car- determines whether a road is los Gimenez threw down the closed. AMENDMENT 4 gauntlet on the Formula One “This legislation would issue Friday ,with a veto of prohibit the Formula 1 race a measure meant to provide from taking place in its cur- oversight of racing. rent form,” Gimenez wrote in Miami Gardens officials a message with the veto. “And and community leaders re- while I remain sensitive to sponded to the measure, residents’ concerns in Miami pledging that the fight against Gardens, I believe it is pre- Formula One did not end mature to attempt to block with the mayor’s veto. an event of the magnitude of “Our community often Formula 1 outright.” feels the fight is over when Gimenez also picked apart they hear the mayor vetoing a report from the Office our commissioners resolu- of the Commission Audi- tion,” Betty T. Ferguson said tor about F1 in Miami-Dade from lectern, at a Friday af- County, and asked the Board ternoon press conference in of County Commissioners to the courtyard of Miami Gar- investigate how the report dens City Hall. “We don’t came into existence. want them to think the fight Gimenez wrote in a memo is over. It’s important that related to the veto: The they know this fight is go- County’s Division of Envi- ing to go on even though the ronmental Resources Man- mayor vetoed the resolution.” agement never reviewed it, Gimenez says he supports information from an air qual- Formula One in Miami Gar- ity scientist was missing, the dens as long as both the com- report about Formula 1 “falls Miami Times photo/Carol Porter munity and sponsors of the short” of the requirements of The red-colored bus will be touring the 67 counties to help ex-felons restore their voting rights. It stopped in race come to an agreement. the Commission Auditor to Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties last week. The Dolphins and F1 have an provide “objective, indepen- understanding. But they have dent, professional analysis.” yet to reach one with mem- The missing information bers of the local community was that the monitoring who consider dumping the network of the Texas Com- Court finds way around ‘poll tax’ race in their neighborhood mission on Environmental environmental racism. Quality “has not shown any 18 felons had their voting rights requiring ex-felons to pay or hate but out of love. They Filed by County Commis- adverse effects attributable to any fees, fines and restitu- believe that Florida should sioner Barbara J. Jordan, the F1.” The Texas Commission restored on Friday, dispite odds tion first. be a second chance state. vetoed resolution would have on Environmental Quality Voting rights activist and Once our debt is paid in full, halted temporary closures is headquartered in Austin, CAROL PORTER cian John Legend spoke in former felon Desmond Me- we deserve to be treated of roads next to residential where Formula One races are Miami Times Contributor Miami-Dade County court- ade, who also is the executive as every other citizen. We neighborhoods for the sake held during the city’s 10-year room and a block party was director of the Florida Rights should be able to vote again.” of a race until the Board of contract. The red-colored voting held later that day in Miami Restoration Coalition, spoke Meade also said that de- County Commissioners gets Formula One in Austin rights restoration bus wound Gardens. at the bus stop in West Palm spite what was transpiring to vote. takes place in the Circuit of its way through South Flor- The tour is supporting Beach on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the state and local levels, The resolution would also the Americas, over 14 miles ida, making stops in West Amendment Four, which saying that the stops marked he and his supporters saw have mandated the spon- from the city itself; there Palm Beach and Miami. Florida voters approved in the one-year anniversary of opportunities instead of ob- sors of a race conduct an air, are no residential neighbor- On the first stop, numer- November 2018. Supporters the passage of Amendment stacles. As far as Senate Bill noise and traffic study, and hoods near the race track. ous elected officials and vot- of voting rights for all have Four. 7066, Meade said, he, and for the mayor to make sure A Formula One event lasts ing rights advocates spoke accused The Florida Legis- “Amendment Four was others, were not there to talk County Commissioners have three days and takes at least in West Palm Beach and, on lature and the governor of passed by Florida voters,” about the loophole but to the results two hours per day. 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