Miami-Dade extends historic courthouse auction after striking out again in bid to offload building

Downtown Miami’s century-old historic courthouse, a relic of a past era and the place where Al Capone was tried, is for sale — again.   After an online auction for the 28-story building closed at 5 p.m. Friday with zero bids, Miami-Dade County chose to push back the bidding deadline to Sept. 18, according to GovDeals.com, the web platform where the property is posted for sale. The auction was launched on July 1 with a floor asking price of $35.4 million, and was originally scheduled to close by July’s end but was extended several times. In the extension to Sept. 18, […]

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