…A decade later, Goldman properties looked around at a hip, increasingly safe neighborhood, and said there’s gold in them thar hills: they financed Wynwood Walls, a graffiti exhibition, and encouraged graffiti artists to paint the town. Restauranteurs and shop owners routinely commission designs to cover their walls. At the time of this writing, almost every smooth surface in Wynwood has been sprayed with color…

The trees grow wild in the Coconut Grove (Cocoanut Grove), memorials to the wild men that built this place; renegades and scofflaws, veterans of the Seminole wars and Bahamian pirates, and maybe a snowbird or two to foot the bill. Mr. Brickell once promised the Grove’s first Commodore that “you will live to hear the […]

Book a window seat on the starboard side for your next flight to Miami. As you land, you’ll see a tower, rising like Proteus from the sea, that looks like it took a wrong turn on the way to Cadiz. A preacher’s son built her, chose her as the centerpiece of the city he intended […]