"The Death of Wynwood" is the name of a post penned this week by Big Time Jones at Measuring Miami that makes the case that as corporations move into the Design District and Wynwood, the death of Miami's hipster art enclave is imminent.
So while I am certainly ahead of myself, simultaneously, I am not. Adjacent to Wynwood, the Design District has added Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Dior, and Prada. Hello Design District. Goodbye Bal Harbor. (and its claustrophobia) Target lives alongside Loehmann’s, Supercuts, Foot Locker, and Subway in midtown Miami, also next to Wynwood, so can you hear the clock ticking yet? Hipsters, artists, and franchises do not mix!I don't know about that.
But I do know that there's a Brickell Art Walk, a Grove Art Stroll, a Bird Road Art Walk, a brand new Little Haiti Sunday Stroll, and a renewed interest in Little Havana in the arts. All these locations stand ready to grow or absorb whatever outflow there is from Wynwood's possible transformation into something that is no longer attractive to the arts community.
Spinello Projects has already made the move out of the Design District and word on the street is that a couple other artists have vacated due to escalating rents. Is this the beginning of a change as Big Time appears to think it is or not much of anything?
What do think? And do you care?
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5 comments:
Bring out your dead.
Do hipsters and artists valet park?
Never been there so doesn't really matter much to me, but isn't this sort of what happened in Coconut Grove 10-15 yrs ago. The artists got pushed out, big companies moved in and since there was no longer anything unique about the Grove people stopped going.
this guy is way to premature in his prediction of demise. the hipsters won't stop going to wynwood for years. wynwood hasn't peaked. it hasn't reached critical mass. there are no lamestream corpos in wynwood. wynwood is a safe haven and will long be a breath of fresh air for the hipsters, artists, counter-culture, anti-club, anti mainstream of miami. nice try, very mayan of you.
Does anyone know what the rent is like in Wynwood these days, as opposed to say 5 years ago? or 6? or 8?
If I'm an artist and I can't afford a vehicle, I'd live as close to the 'office' as possible, but if I have to compete with the likes of Louis Viutton for what used to be cheap work space and 60+ high rises are propping right over what used to be cheap rent, I'm getting the hell outta there.
I stand by my article. though unknown is correct when he suggests that Wynwood still has plenty of air left in it. However, as Spinello has done, others will do, and the edge will be off the knife as Wynwood morphs into something more commercial. The good news is as the SFDB states it: other places will absorb the change.
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