For years, Miami residents, business leaders, church leaders, community activists and government officials have attended countless meetings to decide how I-395 would look between I-95 to MacArthur Causeway.

They agreed on a modern-looking bridge with two arches shooting skyward. The iconic structure known as the Wishbone Arch would be part of a project to do away with much of the concrete below the elevated highway, which blocks north-south access from downtown Miami to Overtown and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.