Wal-Mart in Downtown Miami Performing Art Center a Pretty or Pretty Ugly Resident?

Miami always surprises me with its ideas, planning and vibe, what is the latest? A WalMart in Downtown Miami right next to the Performing Art Center?

Is it a good or very bad sinking idea? I wonder

Omni area has always been in the eye for investors and Miami to reorganize, to recreate and to re-develop into a place to shop, dine and go to a violin concert, but going shopping to wallmart was not on my schedule of things to do around biscayne bay in the middle of the night, god knows if this wallmart will be 24 hrs. Let’s face it, either you go to Wallmart or go to out in a smoking to a great play. either or but both mixed together? sounds like eating ice cream with kitchen. Can someone explain this to me again?

Miami Herald has published an incredible article in this regards and for some reason i think that Miami its selling at a cheap price a dream future all developers and residents were hoping for. The revitalization of the Biscayne corridor, are we going backwards?

what do you think?

Don’t box us in: A Wal-Mart in the emerging cultural center would be a giant step backward for Miami

Posted on Sun, Aug. 17, 2008

Credits: Miami Herald

BY BETH DUNLOP

SPECIAL TO THE MIAMI HERALD

Miami has always been a city on the verge, and it’s never quite clear whether it will embrace greatness or mediocrity. Drive up Biscayne Boulevard, a street with the potential for beauty and dignity, and you can see both possibility and stupidity — whole blocks given over to fast-food franchises, sprawling corner gas stations and more. It somehow seems like a high-stakes game of Mother-May-I, with baby steps forward and a giant step back.

But no backward step is bigger than the one the city is confronting now, a Wal-Mart next to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, on parking lots still owned by The Miami Herald with a sale expected to be consummated next year. Of all the bad ideas ever proffered for downtown Miami, this is the worst.

And shockingly so in a time and a place where we have already invested more than $500 million (counting the Arsht Center and the preliminary work on Museum Park) in public funds to create a downtown cultural precinct.

see full article here

Pretty shocking huh?