This Space for Rent

"What's at issue here is something akin to journalistic integrity," asserts Miami Beach developer Craig Robins, who owns Dacra Companies and has been agitating to transform the Bass from what he calls "a little nothing museum nobody respects" into a national-caliber institution. "If a newspaper came to me and said, 'We want to write a story about you but you'll have to pay us,' it would reflect poorly on the newspaper. I think it's clear that there is a lack of professionalism in the programming and the administration of the Bass Museum.