Article: Hotel Chains Blending In with Florida's South Beach Area.

By Cara Buckley, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 26--Ah, Washington Avenue, the heart of South Beach's clubland, one of the last vestiges of SoBe's edgier past. Near 15th Street, the sexy and the seedy converge. Behold crobar nightclub, Grooveman Music, the Madonna strip club and -- a Courtyard by Marriott?

Four blocks down, cast your gaze toward Level nightclub, the 1950s-era 11th Street Diner and, across the street, a delightful cluster of small Art Deco hotels that house -- a Best Western?

Welcome to South Beach's future or, at the least, its present.

Long the domain of one-of-a-kind boutique inns, ...

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