By Buddy Nevins, BrowardBeat.com, for SouthFloridaReporter.com, Jan. 9, 2016 – Southwest Ranches commissioners viewed construction of an immigration detention center as a valuable addition to the tax rolls.
Pembroke Pines commissioners pleaded with their colleagues to prohibit the detention center. Blinded by dollar signs from those potential taxes and historic bad blood between the two city halls, Southwest Ranches commissioners laughed them off.
Pembroke Pines commissioners got the last laugh this week.
On Wednesday, Pembroke Pines commissioners voted to buy the land inside Southwest Ranches that was once slated for a detention center.
Since municipal land owners like Pembroke Pines don’t have to pay taxes, Southwest Ranches can now count on this much revenue from the land: Zero, zilch and zippo.
