By Ray Ampoloquio · Oct 12, 2026 Miami Dade county owns only one of six Miami Vice City tie ins for GTA 6 , and commissioners vote October 20 on whether to keep it.

It appears that not every corner of Miami is eager to strike a deal with Rockstar Games and become Vice City . The county that inspired the game is one such place. A plan to turn parts of Miami International Airport, PortMiami and Metromover stations into Vice City installations for Grand Theft Auto VI is in real trouble after several Miami-Dade County commissioners moved to pull the brakes.

A vote on October 20 could end the county's role outright as the rest of the campaign, the city and private deals, keeps moving.

The pushback came at the commission's regular meeting last week, reported by the local outlet The Miamian . Commissioner Rene Garcia led the opposition to an effort by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava's staff to have Rockstar pay the county to dress public facilities as Vice City . "I feel really uncomfortable with this whole thing," Garcia said, arguing the county should not work with a "game that's depicting Miami like a crime haven; Miami like a murder capital."

A late move by commission chairman Anthony Rodriguez to let the mayor negotiate a deal worth more than $1 million nearly flipped into a full ban. Commissioner Oliver Gilbert delayed a vote that would have ended the talks on the spot.

Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins pointed to county policy that bars Miami-Dade from advertising anything that promotes pornography, prostitution or violence. She recalled that in 2019 the county and the Miami Heat turned down a $10 million naming-rights bid from an adult-film company for the arena now called Kaseya Center. "We completely rejected that without consideration," she said.

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