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Let the stars shine

If the success of Michael Simkins’ Innovation Center depends on income from gigantic flashing LED billboards, then the project is seriously flawed.

No one wants to derail this project and all its promises of benefits to Overtown, but the community doesn’t want or need two acres of advertising lighting up the night sky. Let the stars do that.

Dolly MacIntyre,

Coral Gables

This story was originally published July 4, 2015 at 1:00 PM with the headline "Let the stars shine."

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