Miami's Fifth or Sixth or ... Arts District

On March 1, 2007, the City of Miami Beach establishes the 6th, 7th, or ? arts district in the Miami Metro Area. CANDO, Cultural Arts Neighborhood District Overlay, is centered on the Convention Center, home of Arts Basel. Other institutions include: New World Symphony, Bass Museum, Miami City Ballet, Jackie Gleason Theater, the Miami Beach Botanical Garden and Art Center South Florida. Lincoln Road is the main social space with cafes, artworks and smaller performances.

Miami Metro is sprouting arts districts in the 21st Century: North Miami with MOCA, Design District, Wynwood, Carnival Performing Arts Center and with a lot of luck, Homestead. They join Coral Gables and Coconut Grove. Soon the Art Museum District. This is fueled by private collectors, international buyers of art and the need to produce quality street life activity to support the vast, vast quantity of high end residential development.

Just as the lush landscape, golf and sunshine sparked the suburban residential development from 1960-1995, now the arts lead the reinvestment. Active streetscapes, urban grazing and nightlife are the new key aesthetic features replacing nature.