This is not a campaign commercial for the governor, Ron DeSantis, who has his sights set on the White House, or even the local pols like Francis Suarez, the very able mayor of Miami. But both have …
and orange groves these days. Big tech, Wall Street, crypto, hospitality and amazing restaurants are the state’s — and city’s — lifeblood.all of them seeking opportunityAgain, spend some time talking to these strivers as I did. They’re grinders. Not just the brokers and bankers, but the people who work during the day in restaurants, then drive an Uber at night.
At a restaurant, I was served by a waiter from Italy, who escaped the stifling economy of the southern region known as the “Mezzogiorno.” He left some years ago and by the sound of it, he’s never going back because he can actually make a decent living here without paying off the local Mafia boss.
Miami was always a place of change, and in the 1990s Little Havana, as my friend pointed out, was increasingly becoming Little El Salvador and Little Nicaragua as well. Fast forward to my trip last week and it’s obvious Miami is still changing — and improving with creative capitalist destruction that preserves some of the old and advances the new.
But the downtown business district, which back in the 1990s looked like a ghost town in the middle of the day, is bustling with financiers. New construction of luxury high-rises and office buildings is seemingly everywhere.
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