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Downtown Miami Construction
Hi. I just got back from Miami tonight and decided to upload some of the pics I took of downtown. All of the photos were taken May 5, 2007. Hope you like 'em.
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Lifestyle of the rich and the famous...
Ha! I'm the accountant in charge of the building on the left, the one with the blue glass. Hurricane Wilma hit two years ago and basically blew ALL the construction material off a building near it right through our building. What a mess, all the glass was blown out, whole inside trashed. Still paying bills on that cleanup...
What a boom! Miami is so hot!
Thanks everybody for your comments. I hope this doesn’t create too much turmoil, and I mean no offense but I feel the need to defend my hometown.
Miami isn’t the “third-world” city that many people seem to portray it as. It is one of the most luxurious and beautiful locations in the country. It has some bad neighborhoods (namely Allapatah, Opa Locka and Liberty City) but these neighborhoods aren't any worse than the slums of other large cities. The rest of Miami is very safe and pleasant. Perhaps next time I go to Miami I will take some pics of Cocoa Plum, Pinecrest, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables and some parts of East Kendall and you'll be blown away by the palaces that people call home down there. I think that the characterization of Miami as “third-world” is largely due to many people’s lowly opinions of Hispanics and Hollywood dramatizations of the South American drug industry. Miami’s crime stats are also very deceiving since the City of Miami includes some of the metro area’s most dangerous neighborhoods and none of its safe suburbs. Instead of taking the "third world" characterization of Miami as a fact, try coming to Miami and experiencing it yourself and I guarantee you will change your mind.
Furthermore, Miami's public transportation system is certainly an issue (I wouldn't have visited downtown that day if traffic wasn't so bad going to the Air and Sea show in Ft. Lauderdale) but to say that not much thought has been given to transportation is unfair. I used the Miami metro-mover free of charge to get around downtown the day I took these photos and if you look a little harder, you'll see that many of these photos, including the first, were taken from the station platforms themselves. All of the people living in these condos will at least be able to get around downtown using the metro-mover and metrorail. Also, Miami’s transportation system is undergoing one of the biggest improvement projects since the Big Dig. Here’s a brief list of the major projects that have already been approved.
Miami Intermodal Center (MIC)
Three new lines are currently being developed:
Finally, regarding SpaceMonkey's post on office towers:
Miami isn’t the “third-world” city that many people seem to portray it as. It is one of the most luxurious and beautiful locations in the country. It has some bad neighborhoods (namely Allapatah, Opa Locka and Liberty City) but these neighborhoods aren't any worse than the slums of other large cities. The rest of Miami is very safe and pleasant. Perhaps next time I go to Miami I will take some pics of Cocoa Plum, Pinecrest, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables and some parts of East Kendall and you'll be blown away by the palaces that people call home down there. I think that the characterization of Miami as “third-world” is largely due to many people’s lowly opinions of Hispanics and Hollywood dramatizations of the South American drug industry. Miami’s crime stats are also very deceiving since the City of Miami includes some of the metro area’s most dangerous neighborhoods and none of its safe suburbs. Instead of taking the "third world" characterization of Miami as a fact, try coming to Miami and experiencing it yourself and I guarantee you will change your mind.
Furthermore, Miami's public transportation system is certainly an issue (I wouldn't have visited downtown that day if traffic wasn't so bad going to the Air and Sea show in Ft. Lauderdale) but to say that not much thought has been given to transportation is unfair. I used the Miami metro-mover free of charge to get around downtown the day I took these photos and if you look a little harder, you'll see that many of these photos, including the first, were taken from the station platforms themselves. All of the people living in these condos will at least be able to get around downtown using the metro-mover and metrorail. Also, Miami’s transportation system is undergoing one of the biggest improvement projects since the Big Dig. Here’s a brief list of the major projects that have already been approved.
Miami Intermodal Center (MIC)
- $1.349 billion
- Completion expected in Q3 2011
- Will connect Miami International Airport, Metrorail and Tri-Rail
Three new lines are currently being developed:
- Airport Connection – 2.4 miles to be completed in July 2010
- North Corridor – 9.5 miles to be completed in 2014
- East-West Corridor – 10.6 miles to be completed in 2016
- $6 billion worth of capital improvements
- Completion expected in 2010
- $200 million
- Will connect Downtown and Midtown
- Completion expected in December 2011
- $1 billion +
- Construction contracts awarded
- Completion expected in January 2011
- Connects Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach
- Will be extended to Jupiter and connected to the MIC
Finally, regarding SpaceMonkey's post on office towers:
There are currently three office buildings that just started construction in downtown with final heights of 540, 617, and 640 feet. As for the supertall, we can only hope…SpaceMonkey said:
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