CBS does a little math for us: Corruption + 11 City Workers = Miami.
MDT is looking into using hovercraft for the 18 month pilot water taxi program. The two water taxi routes (Haulover-Miami and Matheson Hammock-Miami) would operate the $1.2 Million boats with a maximum capacity of 30-50 passengers. The hovercraft are being [...]
Posts under ‘Macy's’
News Briefs
All Eyes on Downtown
With the attention garnered on the appalling state of our downtown by Macy’s Florida CEO Julie Greiner last week, it appears that rehabbing downtown (with that, many of our street wanderers) is the hot conversation topic these days. Downtown is deplorable. We all know it; we’ve stated it countless [...]
Dowtown Thoughts
I can’t resist publishing some of the more notable comments on the Herald’s site regarding the state of downtown Miami…
The Good:
“All buildings downtown should be required to have awnings. The city needs to improve the condition and appearance of the streets and sidewalks, including landscaping where possible. Street lighting at night is horrendous. Businesses and [...]
What’s in a Name? A whole lot more than you’d think…
Disclaimer: The following post, you’ll find, has little to do with Transit or recent development, but I’d like to take the time to address the apathetic attitude of our locals when it comes down to our city’s culture, history, and identity by discussing the re-branding of our local brand Burdines to Macy’s.
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Miami, See it like Anything but a Native; Bayfront Park and Flagler
I continued my walking tour around the Citi Center and Wachovia towers and along the Intercontinental Hotel as I headed into Bayfront Park. I must begin by saying that Bayfront Park has incredible potential. It’s a beautiful public place which for the past decades has sadly been neglected. Efforts [...]
Macy’s One Day Sale: 22 E. Flagler St. Retail Building
As if renaming the legendary downtown department store to “Macy’s” wasn’t bad enough, now Federated [...]
