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With more than a decade of service to Miami Beach residents, City Manager Eric T. Carpenter brings a wealth of experience to the city’s top executive position along with a well-deserved reputation as a compassionate and transformative leader.
Since his appointment as city manager in July 2024, Eric now leads more than 2,300 city employees and oversees some two dozen departments, including the Miami Beach Police and Miami Beach Fire departments.
A licensed professional engineer, Eric joined the city in 2013 as public works director. He was promoted to the position of assistant city manager in 2015 and deputy city manager in 2021.
As a negotiator, Eric spearheaded several development agreements on behalf of the city valued at more than $750 million. The agreements resulted in approximately 15 acres of additional park land for the enjoyment of city residents in some of the most densely populated areas of Miami Beach. He oversaw public improvements valued at more than $75 million as well as affordable and workforce housing units that will provide additional opportunities to diversify the residential population.
Eric was heavily involved with the passage and implementation of the $439 million voter-led general obligation bond program in 2018. In addition, he was instrumental in finding a path to raise over $300 million in capital for the city’s adaptation to sea level rise through creative methods such as tax increment financing and stormwater utility structuring.
He also led the effort to complete the renovation of the Miami Beach Convention Center, a nearly $600 million improvement that better positioned the venue to compete for high-end convention events. He played a key role in the creation of the Community Redevelopment Agency in North Beach that will fund community improvements for years to come. Additionally, he helped navigate the challenges of operating a tourism-based economy through the COVID-19 pandemic, which required significant midyear budget adjustments and employee furloughs to avoid sweeping layoffs.
Prior to joining the city, Eric served as director of Public Works for the City of Doral from 2006 to 2013. He was recognized as the 2010 Government Engineer of the Year by the Miami-Dade Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Eric received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering with a minor in chemistry from the University of Maryland in 1997. He also holds an OSHA-40 (plus 8-hour OSHA Supervisory Training) Certification and a Florida Department of Transportation Intermediate Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) Certification as well as a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Quality Management for Contractors Qualification.
He remains an active member of the South Florida Branch of the American Public Works Association, where he served as executive board chairman from 2017 to 2019.
He and his wife, Courtney have two children.
