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So now it makes you a "science denying kook" just because you don't want the government putting waste chemicals with very questionable health benefits and documented side effects in our water?
I'll keep my fluoride free water and toothpaste thank you very much.
Not really... I'm not considering the entire 75+ mile South Florida strip, which is the 4th or 5th largest metro area in the U.S., just the area contiguous with Miami City (including S. Beach). In that case, Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix and San Antonio are all bigger.
Downtowns serve whole regions, not just what's within a narrow area. Commuters don't stop at the city limits of course! Neither do people headed for a museum or stadium. Or companies that serve the region. And so on.
Most times I've hung out in Brickell, I've taken pubic trans and walked around which is easy; Brickell is well served by transit given the Metro Rail stop, near Brickell's center and the connecting, elevated, free, Metro Mover which circulates through Brickell and connects with north/old downtown. Brickell didn't have a ton of on street retail and I'm sure most is in BCC or Mary Brickell's Place, but there were tons of clubs and restaurants with street and 2nd level outdoor cafes that generate foot traffic. Car traffic can be heavy and parking is a beeatch, but the area is highly walkable... and scenic.
Your standards must be ridiculously high or your suffering from the grass-is-always-greener elsewhere syndrome, because I think a whole lot of folks would take downtown Miami as a whole, and especially Brickell, over most cities Miami's size ... and even bigger like, say, Detroit, San Antonio (Riverwalk and little else), Dallas (boring), Phoenix (ditto), St. Louis, Milwaukee, Baltimore (which has a nice, historic downtown, but I'll take Miami's), etc, etc... Not every place is going to be South Beach, which is wacko-crazy fun and the best people watching (esp girl watching) venue in America imho with wacko-crazy density and traffic (but zero public trans). We'll just have to agree to disagree...
Brickell was never downtown until recently the city labeled it as Greater Downtown Miami since it has gotten built up and downtown core still being the laggard. It combined areas to the north of downtown, too.
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