Miami

Miami Transformed By Art Festivals

This article from the Miami Herald looks at the annual art fair Art Basel and how it transforms the city -- temporarily and permanently.

7 December 2008 - 9:00am

The Miami Herald

Miami's Downtown, Going Once, Twice?

Valued at more than $115 million during the boom, a prominent Hong Kong-based developer has bought the unbuilt Brickell CitiCentre development site for $41.3 million. Similar transactions are happening on other key properties in Miami's downtown.

14 November 2008 - 7:00am

Miami Herald

Little Havana Stadium Moves Forward

Despite controversy over its funding,location and impact, the Florida Marlins are likely to build a new retractable-roof stadium on the former site of the Orange Bowl in the city's Little Havana neighborhood.

12 September 2008 - 6:00am

Miami Herald

Not In My Back... Balcony?

Despite it's inherent legality, lit signage atop a high-rise condominium in downtown Miami is causing many a neighbor to complain.

29 August 2008 - 9:00am

The Miami Herald

Coconut Grove Looks to Revamp, Modernize Waterfront

Miami's Coconut Grove waterfront neighborhood may receive a makeover if city commissioners approve a new master plan. However, one questions remains: who is going to fund it?

25 July 2008 - 7:00am

The Miami Herald

On the Brink? Miami's Downtown Struggles To Revitalize

While mega-condo developments are enlivening districts in and around Miami's urban core, a long moribund downtown business district struggles to keep up. Many hope that small improvements will make a big difference in the area's quest for vitality.

2 June 2008 - 6:00am

The Miami Herald

Big Brother is Buzzing You

Miami may be the first American city to have its police force adopt Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to aid police in fighting crime, a development civil liberties groups are finding disconcerting.

28 March 2008 - 5:00am

Reuters

Miami in a Vice

In Miami, speculators inflated the housing market by buying and flipping condos. Now with the market deflating and a host of condo towers still under construction, Miami may be the worst major real estate market in the world.

16 March 2008 - 7:00am

The Globe & Mail

'Vultures' Descend on Cheapened Properties

Housing price drops in cities like Miami have "vulture-like" buyers swooping in to snatch up properties.

10 March 2008 - 5:00am

The Wall Street Journal

Mike Lydon

Cycling The Contours of Miami

Sun, 09/09/2007 - 15:01

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~Ernest Hemingway

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