The Neighborhood

Brickell Vista has something for everyone. Minutes away from Coral Gables and Coconut Grove, you'll have great restaurants, galleries, schools, parks and easy access to highways. Hop in your car, drive a few miles and you'll be in the heart of Ocean Drive. Or better yet, take a short bike trail to Key Biscayne or Vizcaya, and start enjoying what the Florida lifestyle is truly about.
A brand new Publix Supermarket awaits you blocks away from your new home, along with Walgreens, restaurants and local shops. If you’re a sports and entertainment fan, you’ll enjoy having easy access to the American Airlines Arena. For college football fans, the Orange Bowl is nearby, and you’re only twenty minutes away from Pro Player Stadium.

Downtown is rapidly becoming the hottest new place to live in for the new millennium. The City is experiencing a 3 billion dollar cultural and commercial expansion that goes well beyond the Historic Riverside District. A complete renovation of the landscape between Brickell and Downtown is already underway. The plan also includes new parks, bridges, roadways, restoring riverbanks as well as shorelines, and developing more public access to waterways. Be a part of the new Downtown!

Downtown Miami
Downtown Miami

Downtown Miami is the central business district of Miami-Dade County and Miami, Florida. Brickell Avenue/Biscayne Boulevard is the main north-south road in downtown, and Flagler Street is the main east-west road in the Central Business District.

Downtown Miami is divided into four distinct areas, Uptown, Park West, the Central Business District and Brickell, and then themselves into many subdistricts. The northernmost area is Uptown, which is divided into the subdistricts of the Omni, Wynwood/Edgewater, and Midtown. To the south of Uptown, is Park West, the Central Business District and south of the Miami River, Brickell, divided into Upper Brickell and Lower Brickell. The CBD is separated from Brickell by the Miami River, NW 7th St marks the line between Park West and the CBD, the Dolphin Expressway separates Park West and Uptown, and Broadway splits Upper and Lower Brickell apart.

Public Transportation in the downtown area is used more than in any other part of Miami and is a vital part of downtown life. The Metromover train system runs 3 lines through downtown (the downtown loop, the Omni loop, and the Brickell loop), and the Metrorail, Miami-Dade County's heavy rail system, makes 3 stops in the downtown area at the Overtown/Arena Station, Government Center Station, and the Brickell Station.

The Metrorail has stops throughout Miami as well as Miami-Dade County with connections to Miami International Airport, all Miami-Dade County bus lines, Tri-Rail and Amtrak. The main bus station in downtown is located in Uptown, in the Omni.

 


AmericanAirlines Arena
AmericanAirlines Arena

The AmericanAirlines Arena is an arena located in Downtown Miami, Miami, Florida along Biscayne Bay and is used for basketball games and concerts. It was constructed as a replacement for the Miami Arena and was designed by the architecture firms Arquitectonica and 360 Architecture.

The AmericanAirlines Arena is home to the Miami Heat of the NBA.

The WNBA team Miami Sol played at the arena from the team's birth in 2000 to the team's folding in 2002.


Carnival Center for the Performing Arts
Carnival Center for the Performing Arts

Carnival Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on Biscayne Boulevard close to the historic downtown of Miami, Florida, USA. It is the 2nd largest arts center in the USA, after Lincoln Center in New York.

The Center was partly built on the grounds of the former Sears, Roebuck and Company department store, which was constructed in 1929 and which was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 1997. However, by 2001, the only surviving part of the original structure was a seven-story tower, as the rest had been demolished. It was decided to preserve the tower and incorporate it into the new performing arts center.

The new Center's grand opening took place on October 5, 2006 with many famous performers, politicians and movie stars, including Gloria Estefan, Jeb Bush, Andy Garcia and Bernadette Peters attending.

 


Metromover
Metromover

Metromover is a free people mover train system operated by Miami-Dade Transit. Metromover serves Downtown Miami from Omni to Brickell and connects with Metrorail at Government Center and Brickell stations. It originally began service to the Downtown Loop on April 17, 1986.

There are 21 conveniently located accessible Metromover stations located throughout Downtown Miami. Metromover links many of Downtown Miami's major office buildings, residential buildings, hotels, and retail centers, the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, the Cultural Plaza (Miami Art Museum, Historical Museum, Main Library), and the Brickell Financial District.

Running clockwise, the Downtown (Inner) Loop serves all downtown stations except Third Street station. The Outer Loop (Brickell and Omni Loops) runs counterclockwise around the downtown area servicing all stations except for Miami Avenue Station. The Brickell loop runs a line into the Brickell area to the south of downtown, while the Omni Loop contains a line with stations in the Midtown Miami area to the north of downtown.

The loops run from 5 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week. The Outer Loop operates on a continuous loop from 7 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week. This schedule is adjusted during events. Trains arrive every 90 seconds during rush hours and every three minutes otherwise