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The Miami metro is in a really unique situation though. There's still is a massive demand for actually going to a store and shopping because of the combination of its unique demographics and the huge wealthy international tourism and snowbird market that they have down there. Compared to places such as Seattle and San Francisco, where many tech geeks and the like really don't want to leave their house these days and actually prefer to use Amazon and such it creates a totally different kind of shopping demand. It's also a major reason why the nightlife around the Miami metro is much more prominent than almost anywhere in the U.S., especially compared to places like you guessed it Seattle and San Francisco. A huge percentage of people actually make shopping and nightlife their main priorities when they travel to the Miami area. Even if the malls died around Miami it's really not a totally bad thing because it opens up places to build high priority stuff in a metro area that is pretty much completely built out with no room left anywhere. Some people don't like shopping at an actual store but I still love it and couldn't really imagine living in an area that doesn't feel the same way. I'm pretty sure the Miami and NYC metros will be the last two large places in the U.S. to lose their high shopping and nightlife demands, which really is a great thing for those two cities if you actually stop and think about it.
Miami had better concentrate on the rising water. They're predicting one out of every 8 homes will be underwater by 2020. Florida shopping, will indeed be affected by this, as well as everything else in the state. Shopping malls will lose significance, as time goes on, I'm guessing. This article is alarming.
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Huh?...2020 is in a few months...sure you didn’t mean 2100 like the article predicted, in which case I will be 6 feet underground plus however many feet of water above the ground
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Miami had better concentrate on the rising water. They're predicting one out of every 8 homes will be underwater by 2020. Florida shopping, will indeed be affected by this, as well as everything else in the state. Shopping malls will lose significance, as time goes on, I'm guessing. This article is alarming.
Miami had better concentrate on the rising water. They're predicting one out of every 8 homes will be underwater by 2020. Florida shopping, will indeed be affected by this, as well as everything else in the state. Shopping malls will lose significance, as time goes on, I'm guessing. This article is alarming.
It is. Miami has nothing that can compare to the collection of retail blockbusters there. There is no equivalent to South Coast Plaza, Westfield Topanga or the Grove.
Besides, it's not even called Franklin Mills anymore.
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