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Article: Beach party. (developments at South Beach cause high property values)
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- Florida Trend
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- June 1, 1996
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Property values are rising on South Beach as new development blends with the area's architectural assets.
Two and a half years ago, Neil Fritz moved from Central Florida to South Beach, that trendy, vibrant scene at the southern end of Miami Beach. As an apartment dweller there, Fritz enjoys 1930s-era Art Deco architecture, the nearby Atlantic Ocean and the hubbub of one of the world's most vital urban neighborhoods.
"I don't touch my car for weeks at a time," enthuses Fritz, 41, district manager of the Washington Avenue Association, one of South Beach's new business organizations. "These buildings have great architecture on the outside, but they have small ...