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Old Posted Jan 30, 2018, 3:32 AM
Shawn Shawn is offline
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Originally Posted by bobdreamz View Post
This reminds me quite a bit of Singapore. I hope Miami is avoiding the mistakes Singapore repeatedly makes by housing a bunch of luxury retail in the podiums of all these podium-base residential superblocks. It looks nice from outside, but it's geared towards a demo which represents about 1-2% of the population (or as I suspect in Miami's case, the rich South Americans and Europeans who only spend a few weeks a year in these shining new towers).

Don't go down the SG route of filling every new podium tower's base with a repetitive LVMH and Richemont brand collection, perused only by wealthy tourists. It makes for really crappy street activation.

(really nice pics though!)
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