[6] It would have had 11 wind turbines to its east and a collection of solar panels covering its southern face.
[10][9] A significant portion of the several hundred million dollar project was to have been funded a program where foreign investors buy EB-5 visas.
[12] Developer Jeff Berkowitz pledged repeatedly that SkyRise would be built at no cost to the city of Miami advertising during the campaign for the project's approval vote that "taxpayers win without putting in a cent.
"[13] He made the same claim with nearly the same wording, "not one cent of Miami money", in a city commission meeting in June 2014.
[14] But months earlier, in February 2014, he had quietly applied for fifteen million dollars in economic development funding.