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Yeah, the Lyric Theater is something they better not think of getting rid of. There's too much history in Overtown for the entire neighborhood to be destroyed.
Polo89? have you seen the how many highrises are going up in downtown Miami? Overtown is in the way and developers will steam roll over it.
It's days are numbered as to what used to be the heart of black Miami.
Polo89? have you seen the how many highrises are going up in downtown Miami? Overtown is in the way and developers will steam roll over it.
It's days are numbered as to what used to be the heart of black Miami.
I doubt they steamroll Overtown, considering how much was spent gentrifying the area.
I don't know the exact figure. But the city kept making strides towards fixing the neighborhood, and capitalizing on the historic connection the neighborhood has to the Non Black-Hispanic, Non-West Indian community of South Florida:
I don't know the exact figure. But the city kept making strides towards fixing the neighborhood, and capitalizing on the historic connection the neighborhood has to the Non Black-Hispanic, Non-West Indian community of South Florida:
If I was offered the same job in either city, I would take Miami in a heartbeat. In Chicago, it's almost like people are depressed and in a cocoon for 6 months out of the year due to the unrelenting winters. "Spring" lasts for about 3 weeks, then the brutal, humid summer steps in. Average highs are in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Basically, Chicago gets the worst of every season. Miami is hot and humid in the summer, but at least you can go to the beach! (A REAL beach by the ocean, not a ****ty beach by a lake.) Miami winters are absolutely beautiful, perfect golfing weather.
Not to mention Chicago's taxes, world-renowned crime, miserable sports teams (besides the Blackhawks, but hockey sucks anyway), most corrupt politics in the country... I could go on. There's not really anything too great about Chicago besides its skyline.
Chicago has more of that old school urban rust belt density while Miami is becoming a newer urban osasis but lacks the rustbelt characteristic you normally find up north. As for waterfront, I'd have to give Miami the edge on the beaches and Chicago for it's mountainous skyline that have taken over a century to build. Miami still has a long ways to go to catch up to Chicago's size. That's a crap load of skyscrapers, highrises and row homes. Miami would have to essentially go into Dubai mode but it doesn't do oil.
I voted Miami. If you take the skyscrapers away from both cities, Miami is far more attractive with the intracoastal waterways, bayous, tropical feel. Highrises are not everything in a city.
If I was offered the same job in either city, I would take Miami in a heartbeat. In Chicago, it's almost like people are depressed and in a cocoon for 6 months out of the year due to the unrelenting winters. "Spring" lasts for about 3 weeks, then the brutal, humid summer steps in. Average highs are in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Basically, Chicago gets the worst of every season. Miami is hot and humid in the summer, but at least you can go to the beach! (A REAL beach by the ocean, not a ****ty beach by a lake.) Miami winters are absolutely beautiful, perfect golfing weather.
Not to mention Chicago's taxes, world-renowned crime, miserable sports teams (besides the Blackhawks, but hockey sucks anyway), most corrupt politics in the country... I could go on. There's not really anything too great about Chicago besides its skyline.
Even with Chicago's supposedly miserable teams, they still end up getting better attendance than most Miami sports teams lol.
I don't know the exact figure. But the city kept making strides towards fixing the neighborhood, and capitalizing on the historic connection the neighborhood has to the Non Black-Hispanic, Non-West Indian community of South Florida:
It seems like everything they'll build will either be Historically significant, or economically significant to Overtown residents.
Just read the articles. If 90 percent of the residents are renters like the article says then I'm assuming they can roll over overtown with success.
Renters are lunch to gentrifiers.
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