Miami=Dadeland

[Alexdw85]

Originally Posted by Paul305

What Miami truly needs is its own craft brewery and not just some half-assed micro-brew like Titanic but a full-scale brewery that makes beer for beer drinkers rather than for the casual Corona and Heineken drinkers that make up so much of Miami.

At the Hogtown Beer Festival last weekend, there were at least 12 breweries from Florida with no less than four craft breweries from Jacksonville alone. Yet not one brewery was there to represent Miami. I think it really makes Miami look bad that we have the biggest market in the state and still can't get a good craft brewery off the ground.

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Funny, I live in Tallahassee and was thinking the same thing. They just opened up a new microbrew behind my place here, and I was wondering when South Florida would get some places. Atlanta has a bunch too. I think a micobrew might not appeal to the Heineken and Corona tourists on South Beach and Brickell, but Midtown or somewhere West would be a great spot.

[Paul305]

Tequesta Brewery in Jupiter is pretty good but they're on the wrong end of SoFla. Also, the demographics of Tampa are similar to Miami and yet they have Florida's best brewery in Cigar City.

[casamagda]

Originally Posted by CalleOchoGringo

Gordon Biersch?

Gordon Biersch is one of my favorite places, they made a great IPA last month.

Also, for that last 17 years or so, The Abby on South Beach has served up some great craft beers. Sadly, they have added windows and expanded in size.

[Paul305]

According to Bizjournals, the county could soon study the possibility of incorporating West Kendall. The boundaries of the city would be Bird Rd, Kendall, Krome and the Turnpike, which would give it a population of 116k based on NYTimes Census estimates, making it the third largest municipality in the county after Miami and Hialeah.

[dave8721]

Originally Posted by Paul305

According to Bizjournals, the county could soon study the possibility of incorporating West Kendall. The boundaries of the city would be Bird Rd, Kendall, Krome and the Turnpike, which would give it a population of 116k based on NYTimes Census estimates, making it the third largest municipality in the county after Miami and Hialeah.

Kind of weird borders. But I guess thats kind of the issue with that area. Its just a giant amorphous blob without any real landmarks or natural borders. For example the new Baptist West Kendall Hospital would not be in the new West Kendall (its on the south side of Kendall dr). Making the South boundary Killian or maybe 120th would seem to make more sense. Or just go all the way to 152nd and include the Tamiami airport area. Probably better for the tax base. You could create 50 small cities out west or 1 big city. Each has advantages and disadvantages.

[CF221]

What would be the advantage of 50 small cities out in the west? Would they act as barriers against suburban sprawl?

[dave8721]

No real advantages, just psychological ones that people seem to like smaller geographic cities that are "closer to the people". A smaller city probably has a better chance of actually being voted into place by its residents. People don't like sharing their cities with "others". Larger cities have larger resources to handle bigger problems but may not pay as much attention to the minutia of something like a speed bump being wanted on some residential street or a stop sign being down (in the real world a behemoth government like Miami-Dade County actually does a better job on small scale things like fallen street signs and potholes than most small cities do).

[brickell]

Anyone know what's going up in Dadeland just north of Collonade? Are they finally building the other two towers?

[dave8721]

I read somewhere that it is some apartment building. Smaller than the collonade towers if I remember correctly, more like 6 or 8 stories or something.