While New York and different much less accommodating cities are busy destroying the American dream and “haranguing” benevolent businessmen, Miami elected officers are welcoming, responsive, and devoted to civil service.Â
Our public servants are at one’s beck and name at any time when a difficulty arises, irrespective of how small. You merely throw them a textual content they usually’ll have your drawback resolved, lickety break up.
It’s that simple right here within the Magic City.
Granted, you might must be a billionaire or mega-wealthy investor to qualify for that privilege. But it is obtainable simply the identical, proper?
Sternlicht, head of Starwood Capital Group, laid out a case for Miami’s governmental exceptionalism throughout an look on CNBC’s April 4 version of Squawk Box. When co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin requested what he would do if he have been “King of New York” to repair town’s issues, Sternlicht responded that he’d decrease taxes, incentivize funding, and make it extra like Florida.
“The American dream remains to be alive in lots of of those crimson states. And the blue states, they principally mentioned enterprise is evil. That appears to be the narrative of one of many events, and that is simply absurd,” Sternlicht mentioned throughout the chat inside Squawk Box’s New York studio.
The Miami Beach resident then relayed an anecdote about how he was capable of pace up the police response to his buddy’s automotive accident in Miami over the weekend by taking pictures a textual content to the mayor.
“He nearly received killed by a driver and the police weren’t appearing rapidly sufficient,” Sternlicht mentioned. “I texted a buddy who texted the mayor, and the mayor was on it in 5 minutes and received the police. I imply that may’t occur up right here.”
It’s unclear how a lot the unnamed politician influenced the police response, and whether or not officers have been already en route. (New Times is trying into the place the accident occurred and if we’re coping with the City of Miami correct on this saga.)
Suffice to say that when Sternlicht wants a favor, native officers would do properly to bend over backwards.
Starwood Capital, a sprawling funding agency cofounded and run by Sternlicht, has greater than $100 billion in property beneath administration. Since its launch in 1991, the agency amassed an actual property empire that included the W Hotel and Sheraton manufacturers (earlier than a merger with Marriott), residential holdings throughout the nation, the in-house property administration firm Highmark Residential, and two of the most important business real-estate-financing operations within the U.S.
Sternlicht has served because the chairman or CEO of a half-dozen giant firms and constructed a 14,000-square-foot palace on Miami Beach.
With that sort of clout, we will not blame him for flexing.
But what’s a rank-and-file Miami resident to do for those who’re in a pickle, however you do not have a public servant at your disposal?
Don’t panic.
There’s all the time 9-1-1.