Alyce Robertson

Buzz builds in downtown Miami as region's international hot spot. Could it be the Arsht Center? Museum Park? New restaurants? Affordable condos? Lebron James and the Heat? Luxury hotels?

In Miami, Condo Sales Rise as Prices Bottom Out, and a new urban community emerges. Alyce Robertson of the Miami Downtown Development Authority notes that more lights are on at night, and new shops and restaurants have opened.

CHICAGO (Reuters.com) - Miami businesses have been pulling out all the stops - including handing out free cocktails - to try to coax money from a large influx of tourists ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl.

The state's leading business magazine reports on the day and evening retail and retaurant activity taking shape throughout Downtown Miami's Central Business District and along the Brickell Avenue entrance.  If you have not visited downtown Miami lately, come see for yourself the change that's underway throughout this pedestrian friendly community that being driven by a thriving mix of commercial, retail and residential activity.

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Restaurants Open Later in Downtown Miami

MIAMI HERALD

DOWNTOWN MIAMI | LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

MIAMI HERALD  I  Aug 2009  I  Front Page

An occupancy report released Wednesday, commissioned by the Miami Downtown Development Authority, found that 62 percent of the new condos built since 2003 are, in fact, inhabited by humans.