Another Herald article talking about how "cool" it is to live in Midtown and for the first time residents actually find themselves walking to nearby locations to grab a bit to eat, get a cup of coffee or shop. By the way, Midtown is what us real Miamians consider Omni, Edgewater, Wynwood and Design District. Midtown was the name given to the area by developers as if the area already didn't have a name. Plus Midtown is such a sterile name compared to the original neighborhood names, so I hope the trend of calling the area Midtown doesn't catch on.
Anyway, we do learn some interesting facts about the area, such as the Shops at Midtown isn't doing so well yet, due to the fact most condos around it are still under construction. Also the old Picadelly/District space in the Design District is now owned by chef Johnathan Eismann who plans to open an Italian restaurant in the space. While Amir Ben-Zion, owner of Bond Street, Miss Yip and Buck 15 will open a restaurant-lounge in the Post Building, which is located in the same area. The eight-screen Living Room Theater is still going to open in the Design District in coincidentally the Living Room Building (the one with the big couch and lamp) at 40th Street and North Miami Avenue.
Herald also speculates that even when most of the condos finish around the area (well, the ones that haven't been scrapped due to lack of interest and profit), that the area still might look like a ghost town due to a number of investors looking to flip their condo. But with a bad sellers market, that is going to be hard to do.
Finally, what made me spit my more cup of orange juice was this crazy bitch who says she walks from her Parc Loft condo to the Daily Creative Food Co. Okay, I know someone who lives in Parc Lofts, and let me tell you, that area is still scary, especially at night. While that new condo construction on the next block will definitely improve things, I wouldn't call the area exactly walkable, but I applaud that bitch for being brave enough to walk past the crack pipes and used syringes just to get some food. Sweety, you do know there is parking at the Daily?
not really but it was ok
better for the ladies they have antik jeans!
I liked this quote from the article:
"I think the future of our city is there [Midtown]," Eismann says. "The excitement is there. South Beach has become very commercial, very congested, very poisoned with The Gap and Victoria's Secret."
It's funny they consider Gap and Victoria's Secret commercial but not Starbucks. There's also already a huge center of poisoning commerce right off Biscayne and 36th, so I don't see why they're saying Midtown is different from the beach. It's the same shit. It's all propaganda to get people to move there since the housing market there is currently-desolate, overpriced and becoming overdeveloped before it even matures.
"Once they kick Camillus House out of the area the unsightly bum problem will diminish."
i'd like to apologize on behalf of homeless people everywhere for being a pestering eyesore that should be replaced with something prettier and more detatched from reality..... really.
And Billermo, the answer to your question, its called the Upper East Side.
I know most of the homeless people here don't fall under that category, since the ones I see are usually schizophrenic or of a similar mental illness, or drug addicts. I seldom give them money anymore because the drug addicts will just buy more drugs and the schizophrenics will just think the coins are bugs used by the CIA to track them by satellite.
Anyway, the point is, as Midtown becomes more "pleasant" for people to live, you can bet they'll put pressure on Camillus House to move elsewhere because that's just how things go.
The groups that have poisoned SOBE are the following...
Flashy West Coast Assholes,
Dickhead NY East Coast Elitist,
Bougie South Americans
Those Crazy Euro tourist
and Miami's own Weekend Warriors mixed with a dash of frat and sorority folks.
Once in a while you'll get an asshole from Texas, but they usually have good manners.
Oh wait, no the gays and the Jews are still there. Funny enough, they were the ones that were there first.
Sounds like something I would do, but unfortunately it is not me. I perfer to sing on Biscayne and 17th...right next to the Checkers. We suburban dwellers are quite territorial, and the majority of SOBE belongs to Smelly Larry "The Esoteric Bard" and his crew. Also, we don't like to be called Homeless as we perfer the term Vocationally Challenged. Besides, I have a home. I live under a bridge with a few sex offenders....far away from the hoi polloi of south beach.