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HISTORIC TIME TABLE of the development of ADMSP

As of June 28, 2009

2004

1.	Creation of idea between Gerrit Schulz-Bennewitz and Peter Saile, the initiators, at a brainstorming session on the balcony of 7701 Collins Avenue, adjacent to the Altos Del Mark property, Nov. 24 – Nov. 26, 2004

2.	Nov. 26, 2004 to January 31, 2005 research and interviews about the public goals by Peter Saile and Dr. Anthony M. Weaver regarding the intended development of the property

2005

3.	Feb. 01, 2005 to February 28, 2005 development of the pre concept by Gerrit Schulz-Bennewitz’s Templeflower Art Company and first artistic rendering of the future sculpture garden image by Janina Saile’s gorgolproductions

4.	Feb 28, 2005. Peter Saile’s local Miami Beach team was enlarged by Juan Carlos Toca, the project manager of the Altos Del Mar single house project adjacent to the Altos Del Mar Park. JC engaged the well known MIA-Dade garden architect Bill Rosenberg, who drafted a first garden concept for the project

5.	Mar 04, 2005 meeting Peter Saile at 7701 Collins Avenue with the President of NBDC, Mark Weithorn and the Director of NBDC, Gary Farmer. Presentation and explanation of project concept and information of both gentlemen that a special purpose company in the form of a foundation, public charity or similar legal for will be created to work at the realization of the Altos Del Mar Sculpture Park. The pre information material was provided to them. Both NBDC Executives encouraged me to go ahead with the further development of the plan and felt that, if things were diligently developed and presented to the City of Miami Beach, it may have a chance to be approved. They recommended to work hard and that we will be required to show the necessary organizational, artistic and financial ability and strength for the development of such an important project. Randall Robinson and Gary Farmer offered further help along the now expected intensive and expected time consuming process of seeking approval by the City.

6.	Interesting Correspondence after the meeting of March 04, 05

From: Mark Weithorn [mailto:markw@dpi-miami.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:33 PM To: Peter Saile; Gary Farmer Cc: juan c. toca; Schulz-Bennewitz; tony@championartistmanagement.com Subject: Re: Sculpture Garden

Peter, Thanks for your email and your hospitality the other evening.

We too agree with your vision of creating something grande like a sculpture garden. I have forwarded your information to Commissioner Jose Smith who is a resident of North Beach. I have also given JC a list of tasks on how to organize this.

Please let us know how NBDC can help you move this project forward.

Mark

PS, Regards from Tony. We hiked the Everglades this weekend.

Mark Weithorn

Digital Printers International- DPI 16200 NE 13th Ave Miami, FL 33162 Tel: 305.948.2311 Fax: 305.947.7695 http://www.dpibizcards.com http://www.dpiShowcase.com

From: Peter Saile  Reply-To: Peter Saile  Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:21:31 -0800 To: ,  Cc: "juan c. toca" , Schulz-Bennewitz ,  Subject: Sculpture Garden

Dear Gary and Mark,

it was a pleasure meeting with you and Juan Carlos at my house. Your concern about North Beach, its further development and its future public conception has turned me on. I want to be part of this future of North Beach. I believe that TempleFlow www.templeflower.com , Gerrit Schulz-Bennewitz, Juan Carlos Toca and I have a concept, the 'TempleFlower Sculpture Garden Miami Beach', which will bring major attention to Miami Beach and especially to North Beach. We all love the arts and especially the art works from sculpturists. I am collecting sculptures for many years. We all are professionally involved in the arts, all of us practically a life time. Miami Beach is developing, let's jointly do everything that

Miami Beach – Steps toward to a key city in the world’s art scene

Cities are a group of memoirs, wishes, sign of language; they are places for exchange, as started in every History of Economy textbook, but all this these bartering consists not only of goods, it is also an exchange of words, wishes, of memoirs.

(Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities)

That hypnotic and brilliant quote from Italo Calvino offers a vision of the city.

Talking about the key-cities in art, we have to add Miami Beach and Miami Dade County now. Miami Beach at this stage is a city which improves and stimulates the dialogue among the principal players in the art scenes of South and North. Having roots in classical South American Art as far as in modern western movements like the Art Deco, the shape of the City was determined by that influences. Art Basel goes Miami Beach, one of the important art news headlines in the recent past. That shows the growing importance of Miami Beach in the world’s art scene. For the first time, that major European galleries, art dealers, critics, journalist, artist etc. had to be present in such a huge assembly. The pulsing multicultural attitude of Miami Beach encourages people to be a permanent part of this feeling. Finally, the world wide accepted consequence is, that one the worlds major art fairs choose Miami Beach signalizing this location as the start of Art Basel in the new world. Europe started to open its mind for the aspects of Latin American art. Miami Beach is known for its multi cultural mix, which allows the integration of Latin Art. The geographical location of Miami Beach is the reason for a wide variety of art interests. Specialised museums of global importance have been curating various Latin exhibitions like Mexico: From Empire to revolution at the John Paul Getty Center. The Barbican in London had a Cuban and an Argentinean season last year. Miami Beach hosts similar Latin and major non Latin events. It is simply a place for a diversified cultural experience. No doubt, we are living in the web-age. What is the interaction between art, media and new technologies? The Internet has done a lot to spread cultural awareness in general, to make art perhaps more approachable and accepted as part of the everyday life and hopefully less of an elitist activity. The Internet widening peoples perceptions beyond the traditional canon of art, which, until surprisingly recently, was quite incredibly confined. The incredible growth of the Internet has caused an expanded awareness of people about different kinds of art. Among other ways, through virtual galleries offering local art for global perception. It is great that man can explore art in the Internet without being intimidated by the lack of knowledge or the gallery environment. These thoughts taken from an Interview with Kathy Hasswell (Host of the CNN Art Club) show us the way to the Miami Beach Sculpture Garden. The periods of sculpture are mirrored in the poetical street names of Miami Beach’s future garden. A finely tuned spatial and atmospheric ensemble invites the visitor into a sculptural world that unites the past, present, and future in an expanded realm of action and narratives. The objects and sculptures of the garden either multiply or break into fragments urban space. If diversity is the rule, the preceptors in the park share a common search: being participating spectators, partners willing to travel trough time zones. Coming back to Italo Calvino, Miami Beach will have a Sculpture Garden of memories and visions, the first sculpture garden that also can be visited virtually. The world’s attention will be on NORTH BEACH in Miami Beach and its sculpture garden at the most beautiful ALTOS DEL MAR location at the Ocean on Collins Avenue between 76th Street and 77th Street.

Let's make this our reality

I wish you a good and relaxing Sunday and please let's stay in close communications.

Best regards,

Peter Saile

PETER SAILE Managing Director ARTTRUST MASTERFORUM LTD 407 Lincoln Road, Suite 12-E, Miami Beach, FL 33139 Phone 305/538-8787, Cell Phone 646/456-8181 psaile@thecompanyltd.net

7.	Mar 08, 2005 followed the first meeting with an important City official at the NBDC office. Commissioner Jose Smith and the NBDC Executives Randall Robinson and Gary Farmer met Peter Saile, who explained the project concept to Commissioner Jose Smith. Although, he got the feeling that it will be a longer haul to get it approved, Peter Saile was encouraged from this meeting and reported the results to Gerrit, and they jointly decided to go ahead with the detail planning and invest their own funds

8.	March 31, 2005. Rudy and Betsy Perez declared their interest to help realizing the project and shortly after became the first financial donors outside of the initiating group of ADMSP

9.	April 01, 2005. NBDC provides Peter with a list of the City Officials, who need to be approached in the following time

10.	April 1, 2005 Loreyne Alicea offers her pro bono services to the ADMSP team

11.	April 19, 2005. Invitation to the NBDC Board meeting, where Peter Saile had the opportunity to inform the Board of Directors of NBDC about the project. At this meeting NBDC President elect Daniel Veitia got involved. The NBDC Board unanimously approved the support of the Altos Del Mar project

12.	May through November 2005, several meetings with Mayor Dermer, Commissioners Bower, Gross, Garcia, Steinberg, Cruz

13.	Dec. 1 and 3, 2005. Important Public Workshops organized by Joyce Meyers for the planning project entitled, Revitalizing North Beach Oceanfront Parks through Placemaking, which included the Altos Del Mar Park. The consultant was Project for Public Spaces from NY. In addition the plan was discussed at the Planning Board and the Finance and Citywide Projects Committee on August 17, 2007

14.	Dec. 20, 2005. Art In Public Places unanimously approves the Altos Del Mar Sculpture Park project, following the presentation of Gerrit Schulz-Bennewitz and Peter Saile

2006

15.	March 22, 2006. Planning Board discussion and recommendations regarding the North Beach Ocean Front Parks including Altos Del Mar Mar Park as an intended future park for cultural activities, which was a result of the December 05 public workshops

16.	June, 2006. Unanimous decision of the Historic Preservation Board to support the concept of a sculpture park at the Altos Del Mar Park.

17.	April through the end of 2006 was used for numerous meetings with City Officials

18.	December 4, 2006, meeting with the City Bond Committee and presentation of the ADMSP project by Loreyne Alicea and the new ADMSP Executive, the art historian and attorney-at-law, Marlene Saile, Esq., who becomes the ADMSP President in 2007

19.	January through December 2006 was used by the ADMSP planning team to further prepare details of the financial planning for the park

2007

20.	August 17, 2007. Finance and Citywide Projects Committee, decision to invest some funds into the Altos Del Mar Park beautification by planting grass and some trees

2008

21.	July 4, 2008. The City of Miami Beach informed ADMSP that the RFP Evaluation Committee recommended moving forward with the establishment of the Sculpture Park and initiate the negotiation process.

2009

22.	May 05, 2009. Unanimous decision of the Finance and Citywide Project Committee regarding the content of the management agreement between ADMSP and the City

23.	June 3, 2009. The Mayor and the Commission unanimously decided to approve the management agreement between the City and ADMSP

24.	June 18, 2009. Mayor Matti Bower representing the City and ADMSP-CEO Dr. Marlene Saile sign the management agreement in a special signing ceremony

25.	June 23,m 2009. The Miami Beach Planning Board unanimously approves the Concept Design Plan of ADMSP recommending the Commission to approve the CDP.

26.	July 15, 2009. Coimmission Meeting and decision of the Commission about the CDP