Downtown Doral Disaster (Miami, Largo, Sunset: tenants, to live in, safe)

[tallrick]

As a true representative of why Miami has gone into the toilet, look no further than "Downtown Doral". It is amazing, and depressing how ugly this project is becoming. An instant eyesore of stack em and pack em suburbia. Now I am biased because my first business office we put in the Koger center in the early 90's. That was a well kept, affordable safe place in the boonies filled with government tenants. There was an IRS office in the next building! I made the trip to the office at least once a week to Key Largo and while traffic could get bad, it was nowhere near as bad as now. A trip out on NW 58 street would be a dirt road ride along dump trucks to the Turnpike or you could crawl on the Palmetto. But you had well groomed lawns, trees to shade your car in the parking lot, impeccable restrooms and an authentic mid-century feel. Now you have the same generic overfilled look of extremely cheaply built commercial space with residential projects crammed in as tight as the boxes we used to throw in the dumpster.

I know where this is going, it has the same feel of Bakery Center/ Sunset Place/Omni/Miracle Center where big money piled into a concept that flopped as soon as the novelty wore off. Even the Doral Golf course is getting this ugly garbage development along with the tacky Trump name. What a financial black hole. Can you imagine the suckers paying 200,000 to live in a pigeon hole and sit in traffic for an hour to get around? Amazing and disgusting at the same time.

[Fl1150]

I generally like density and I like the idea of Doral developing some kind of identity besides some endless suburbia in the middle of nowhere. As I can see you were use to the area being less developed an more country feeling but due to growth restrictions expect the developments to get tighter and tighter feeling.

[tallrick]

Doral at its best!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV8oNKyx27E