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Brickell Avenue
Since the time William and Mary Brickell - the founding father and mother of Greater Miami and the Beaches ? named a tree-lined thoroughfare after their homestead, Brickell Avenue has been associated with wealth and prestige. Now, Brickell, Miami- the international banking and business center of Greater Miami, south of the Miami River - is taking on a new role as a vibrant place to stay, dine and reside.
For years city officials and urban planners have been pushing for -- and predicting -- a rebirth of Miami's central business district. After numerous fitful starts, the transformation of downtown Miami and Brickell Avenue into a 24-hour urban core has begun in earnest, with nearly $3 billion in projects planned and underway.
All at once, it seems, the City of Miami's long-ignored downtown has become the hottest ticket in South Florida. A huge Performing Arts Center is going up on the north edge of downtown, plans are afoot to transform the waterfront Bicentennial Park with science and art museums, and old warehouses are being transformed into loft buildings and nightclubs.
About the only place hotter than downtown is the Brickell neighborhood just across the Miami River, where a quilt-work of construction cranes signal an explosion of offices, residences and retail centers. The highest profile building there -- literally -- is the Miami Four Seasons Hotel and Tower, rising 70 stories above Brickell Avenue. Already topped off, it is the tallest structure east of the Mississippi River and south of New York City, and will house condominiums, offices and a Four Seasons Hotel. The rest of the Brickell building boom includes the low-rise Mary Brickell Village retail complex, several high-rise rental apartments, more condominium towers and the signature Espirito Santo office tower.
Adding a final layer to the mix is the Miami River itself, all but forgotten until just recently, when a small cadre of urban pioneers began building lofts on its banks, opening up the possibility of a vibrant riverfront community..
Taken as a whole, it is an immensely rich area, full of razor-sharp contrasts. Within its boundaries are Miami's most modem high-rises as well as its largest stock of historic buildings. It contains pockets of intense wealth, just blocks from the city's poorest neighborhoods. There are streets jammed with club-goers on weekend nights, but many more that turn into ghost towns as soon as the sun goes down. It is where Miami began, and, after years of neglect, it is now the crucible where the city is reinventing its future. All at once, plans are being launched to build thousands of residential units, hundreds of thousands of square feet of retail space, and a series of major cultural institutions. The collective magnitude of the projects is astonishing.
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