High stakes for Hialeah: Is the citys 1925 race track – a national landmark – in imminent danger?
Posted on Sun, Dec. 10, 2006 ARCHITECTURE COMMENTARY High stakes for Hialeah: Is the city’s 1925 race track — a national landmark — in imminent danger? By BETH DUNLOP bdunlop@MiamiHerald.com In its day, Hialeah Park was one of America’s most important, and most spectacular, race tracks, built to the finest and highest standards of architecture and landscape design — a place of glamour, status and astounding beauty. Over the years, it was host to some of the nation’s greatest horses — Seabiscuit, Citation and Seattle Slew among them — and to an annual season of horse racing unparalleled except in a few tracks across America, no more than a dozen in the course of history. Last week, the track’s historic stables were demolished after years of neglect had left them decrepit and dangerous. The glorious French-inspired clubhouse lies in shambles, likewise long-neglected. The track’s owner, John Brunetti, wants to develop the site with a large-scale project, though he has neither the zon
