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Miami’s future skyscrapers: Part II
About a month after I posted about Miami’s future skyscrapers, where I introduced seven of Miami’s biggest high-rise projects, five additional projects have been revived and/or proposed for the Greater Downtown Miami area. The city is back to its old housing boom ways… 1400 Biscayne: 1400 Biscayne is being revived from the original building that […]
Redeveloping Downtown Pompano Beach
The City of Pompano Beach is actively working on redeveloping its historic downtown area. Pompano is a city of about 100,000 in northeastern Broward County, just north of Miami. Pompano is the third most important city in the “Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach metropolitan area,” with a big economic impact on the region, yet it has no […]
Miami’s future skyscrapers: Part I
By many accounts, the Great Recession is hardly over. With rising unemployment rates throughout Europe and continued stalled economic growth throughout the Western World, the global economy is still trying to recuperate from the excesses of the 2000s. The years between roughly 2002 to 2008 brought a massive building boom to Miami, particularly the Downtown […]
Everything the sun touches is FIU
As far as the eye can see, the ever-growing realm of FIU territory. Construction at Florida International University never stops. As of September 2012, there are about five projects under construction on campus: Parkview Hall, a 620-bed residence hall; AHC 4, a 6-story science building; AHC 5, another 6-story science building which will house the […]
Bringing back the Downtown Miami Burdines
Until March 6, 2005, in the heart of Downtown Miami where the city’s street grid begins on the corner of Flagler Street and Miami Avenue, stood the flagship store of Burdines, Miami’s proud hometown department store, proudly called, “The Florida Store.” For generations, Miamians and Floridians alike had called Burdines theirs, and the flagship store […]
Metro Atlantic 