Monthly Archives: September 2007
Mid Week Links
Property tax fight brews on two fronts [Miami Herald] S. FL Colombians aim for political unity [Miami Herald] Port lands cruiseline, will build $60 million HQ [Miami Today] Brickell’s Villa Magna gets name change, more focus on commercial [Miami Today] … Continue reading
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Development Outlook: Midtown Miami & Vicinity
Image: Midtown Four and Midblock
The Foremost Symbol of Miami’s Emerging Urbanism
Midtown Miami is, in many ways, the most obvious symbol of Miami’s rapid urban transformation. It exhibits Miami’s architectural star power, represents the most ambitious push west for urbanism in the city thus far, sits on a formerly blighted and infrastructureless area of the city, and incorporates large-scale commercial and residential elements. For all intensive purposes, it is a city-within-a-city.
Image: The shops at Midtown Miami’s northwest side
The Skeptics Viewpoint
Yet, despite this, there are those that recall the past failure of the much hyped Omni Mall when considering Midtown’s prospects for success. However natural this historic allusion may seem, the Omni, which never had the residential component Midtown has, is currently owned by a New York-based firm with billion dollar plans that span 10-15 years. Suffice to say times have changed. Then there are those that claim the project is… Continue reading
Back to Regular Programming
Out of town. BoB will return to regular updates on Monday Tuesday. Thanks for reading!
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Mid Week Links
Local Self-made condo conversions at Oppenheim’s Cube [CNN Money - Business 2.0] Fighting Mortgage fraud may ease taxes [Miami Herald] Rubio tries to salvage tax amendment [Miami Herald] Hotel project in South Pointe approved [Miami Herald] Florida has third highest … Continue reading
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Bogus Ammenities at Casablanca Villas?
Image: Casablanca Villas
Casablanca Villas is a new mid-rise development on Indian Creek and 63rd street on Miami Beach. It doesn’t have beach front access but claims to offer its buyers exclusive access to the ocean and rights to other ocean front amenities via a neighboring building. Take a look: Continue reading
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3rd Quarter 07′ Construction Tour: Miami Beach
Let’s take a tour through Miami Beach to take a look at the third quarter status of recently topped off buildings, ongoing construction, and recently started foundation work: Continue reading
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Weekend Links
Local News What Brickell condo slump? Beacon developer adds units [Miami Today News] Permit for mixed use two tower project sought [Miami Today News] Retail: Faltering allegiance [Daily Business Review] Developers and Restaurateurs taking bars and clubs to next level … Continue reading
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Biscayne Blvd. Planned Resurfacing & Uptown’s Retailization
Image: Section of Biscayne Boulevard in the Upper East Side undergoing an extensive reconstruction.
Biscayne Boulevard is undergoing extensive work along the CBD, but the area north of the I-395 up to 36th street, represents a separate phase of Biscayne Boulevard’s enhancement, and is currently unaffected by the Boulevard’s improvement initiative. According to DDA records, the work in the Uptown section of Biscayne Boulevard is expected to begin sometime this year with completion slated for 2008. An area that is currently affected by resurfacing work is Biscayne Boulevard north of 55th Street where stores with US-1 frontage are facing bulldozers, barricades, and crawling auto traffic. There’s little doubt as to the negative effect that the resurfacing initiative is having on those businesses. As a retailer, you don’t want a construction site situated on your front door step. As a consumer, you don’t want to have to traverse through construction traffic, dust clouds, and fragmented roads unless you have to… Continue reading
Signs of Urban Life: Retail Oulook (Uptown’s Pros – M&E)
Image 1: An under utilized retail structure with blue awnings on NE 24th street and Biscayne Boulevard is shown in the foreground with new developments surrounding it.
Continued from Signs of Urban Life: Development Outlook (Uptown’s Woes)
Uptown is the largest of the three primary urban core segments (CBD and Brickell Village being the other two). It contains four unique sub-segments:
- Media and Entertainment District
- Edgewater
- Wynwood Arts District
- Midtown Miami & vicinity
Map: Uptown and its four subsegments are shown above. The Media and Entertainment District is shown in blue, the Midtown Miami vicinity is shown in yellow, Edgewater in green, and Wynwood in red. Continue reading
Another Downtown Logo
A BoB reader from NYC, Joe, has submitted what he thinks should be the Downtown logo:
As a Gothamist living the hectic Big Apple lifestyle, he sees his second home in Brickell Village’s the Plaza as an outlet for relaxation, hence the upside down “A”, which represents a drink. Joe even included the skyline gap for realism. I’m not sure the DDA’ll dig the whole alcohol undertone, but I do. Cheers and thanks for submitting Joe! Continue reading
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