Speaking of hideous massive parking garages in places where they shouldn’t be, Michael Lewis of the Miami Today News recently discussed the plans of a pretentious developer trying to get the city of Miami to contribute $200 Million to provide parking for his parking garage. I highly recommend that everyone reads this article immediately, seeing that the City Commissioners will be voting on this project next week (September 7th, my Birthday.) I ranted about this project a while back, you can read it here…
I pretty much agree with everything everyone has said about this development except for two key points: 1) the obstructed bay views of the PAC and the bay and 2) the Times Square Like advertising. The first point merits no argument considering the thing was built three city block inland and a block away from a major highway (I-395.) The second point needs to be considered for some location within our city, but, perhaps this is not the best location to create a Miami Times Square like area. We could definitely use a pedestrian friendly area in downtown with plenty of bright lights, advertisements, major Hispanic news networks, etc… Miami is the Gateway to Hispanic culture, so why not create a Times Square geared to our strengths?
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