Arts, Miami, Downtown

Momentum building in Miami’s new arts frontier: Downtown - Season of the Arts - MiamiHerald.com: " . . . developers and civic leaders seek out artists not only to encourage gentrification but to enhance downtown Miami’s profile as an arts center. The process gains momentum this season as two cultural pillars, Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, are joined by the Perez Art Museum Miami, which opens in December, and the National YoungArts Foundation, which launches live programming at its new Bacardi Building home in November. With three dozen buildings and more than 9,000 housing units in the works. the area is in the middle of a real estate boom. And the Downtown Development Authority has embraced the arts as an essential part of the mix. . .. There is a creative ecosystem downtown that is unique… and that will change the how the world looks at Miami.”. . . ." (read more at link above)

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