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Article: The new Miami. (Downtown Miami/Brickell Area Report).
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- South Florida CEO
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- November 1, 2002
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For years city officials and urban planners have been pushing for -- and predicting -- a rebirth of Miami's central business district. After numerous fitful starts, the transformation of downtown Miami and Brickell Avenue into a 24-hour urban core has begun in earnest, with nearly $3 billion in projects planned and underway.
Call them signs of the times.
On a Wednesday morning in October, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce held the second of its "Good Morning Miami" breakfast series. Entitled "The New Face of Downtown," the program attracted more than 250 people to the Miami City Club on the 55th floor of downtown's First Union Financial Center. The ...