The City of Miami will no longer receive the millions of dollars in federal funding it was slated to receive to develop the Overtown park underneath the Signature Bridge project.

In March 2024, the Biden administration allocated $60 million to the city to help build the mile-long park under the $866 million new I-395/SR 836/I-95 Project, which will elevate and reconstruct I-395 and increase capacity on SR 836, I-95, and I-395. The federal grant from the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods grant was meant to address the lasting impacts of highway construction in the 1960s. Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" halted the release of the funding that was meant to reunite the highway-divided historically Black neighborhood of Overtown.

"The funding is aimed at reconnecting communiti

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