Miami, FL
Faster repairs expected for Miami-Dade’s transit elevators, escalators as supply chain issues ease
MIAMI – Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava expects repairs to broken elevators and escalators around Metrorail and Metromover platforms to speed up.
“The parts are starting to come in,” Mayor Levine Cava told CBS News Miami after the final public hearing on the county’s next fiscal year budget. “There was a huge problem with the supply chain during the pandemic, and we’re beginning to catch up so we can accelerate some of those repairs and replacements.”
The county had 17 elevators and escalators out of service Wednesday, according to Department of Transportation and Public Works data. The number grew to 20 Thursday. That happened as maintenance crews repaired and reopened an elevator at the Freedom Tower Station downtown.
CBS News Miami Reporter Larry Seward asked the mayor, “When will we see fewer elevators and escalators out-of-service around public transportation platforms?”
“You already are seeing fewer elevators and escalators out-of-service,” Mayor Levine Cava responded. “
Some Metro customers struggle to access public transportation because of maintenance issues.
Ernesto Mesa needed medicine Thursday afternoon. He lives downtown, a few blocks from a pharmacy. However, his arthritic knees make it so hard to walk that Mesa leans on a cane and public transportation to get around.
The quickest ride for him rolls overhead near the Adrienne Arsht Center Station: Miami-Dade County’s Metromover. However, the escalator is not working. A sign suggests passengers use the elevator, but it is down too. County records suggested repairs to that elevator would be complete on Friday. Instead, crews need until October to fix a valve.
“That’s important,” Mesa said. “I’m a disabled person. It’s difficult to get up and down (stairs).”
While some passengers carefully climbed stairs clutching walkers, Mesa chose to wait in the rain for another ride.
“I feel bad, man, real bad,” he said.
Still, 97% of Metrorail and Metromover conveyances are working, according to the mayor and DTPW. More help is on the way too.
Maintenance crews are beginning to catch up on repairs and potentially have a bigger budget to work with next fiscal year, the mayor said. Her budget proposal includes $20 million for transit repairs and replacement parts, 57% more than what the department had in its last budget.
The Cleveland Browns traded for an extended right tackle, former Houston Texan Tytus Howard, at the start of free agency as they began their rebuild of the offensive line that was awful in 2025. But Howard has played every position on the offensive line except for center, so if it’s all about getting your best five on the field, which it should be, there’s a chance Howard doesn’t play at right tackle in 2026.
While doing a mock draft on Peter Schrager’s podcast, former Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon had the Browns drafting Miami (FL) right tackle sixth overall. He talked about the issue with Howard, but said Mauigoa could either take over the tackle spot or be a really good guard.
Carthon said he knows that Mauigoa would be one of their best five, whether it is at guard or tackle. Some will say that a guy who may be best at guard isn’t worth the sixth overall pick, and I have to disagree. You should draft the best football players, and Francis Mauigoa is my highest-rated offensive lineman and seventh overall. It might be at guard, but I have a good feeling that Mauigoa will find a home in the NFL as a high-quality offensive lineman.
Inventory of homes and condos across the coastal Miami mainland and Miami Beach and the barrier island markets fell in the first quarter, marking the first big inventory drops since 2023.
The Corcoran Group’s first quarter reports don’t cover all of Miami-Dade County, but they offer insight into how the coastal markets, which have a higher share of luxury properties, are performing.
In Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Surfside, Miami Beach, Fisher Island and Key Biscayne, single-family home inventory dropped 15 percent annually to 398 listings, and condo inventory was down 13 percent to 3,919 listings.
On Miami’s coastal mainland markets, which include Aventura, Miami Shores, Upper East Side, Edgewater, downtown Miami, Brickell, Coral Gables and Coconut Grove, inventory slipped 4 percent to 4,584 condo listings and 555 single-family listings, down 6 percent year-over-year.
Here’s a closer look at the market:
Miami Beach and the barrier islands
Single-family sales rose 13 percent year-over-year to 85 closings, the first time they have increased since the second quarter of 2024. Condo closings rose 15 percent to 693 closings, the first increase since the last quarter of 2024.
Pricing dropped, with the median price of single-family homes down 4 percent to $3.5 million and the median condo price down 9 percent to $640,000. The average price per square foot was nearly flat at $1,119.
Still, buyers set records with their purchases. Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg paid $170 million for the waterfront mansion at 7 Indian Creek Island Road, and Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz paid $44 million, or $7,949 per square foot, for a penthouse at the Four Seasons Residences at The Surf Club.
Coastal mainland
Sales of single-family homes on the coastal mainland rose 16 percent to 220 closings. While markets like Coral Gables experienced declines in condo and single-family home sales, Coconut Grove home sales surged — up over 100 percent for single-family homes to 47 closings and up 55 percent to 87 condo closings. Condo sales rose 13 percent to 759 closings.
The median price of single-family homes across the coastal mainland rose 11 percent to just over $2 million. The median price of condos increased slightly, up 1 percent, to $602,000.
The priciest deals in the first quarter were the $32 million trade of 12 Tahiti Beach Island Road in Coral Gables, and the $19.8 million sale of a penthouse at Vita at Grove Isle.
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