A Discussion about Walmart in Midtown Miami
- .@kareemzarwi Have you ever lived in Little Haiti? Overtown? Wynwood? Alapattah? How much time do you spend there?
- @grantstern I lived in Buena Vista for 2 years- when all the beautification of the DD took off. I know the area very well.
- @grantstern You repeat this but cannot cite the “local businesses” that you propose it would affect. Gentrification IS already happening.
- There are numerous mom & pop grocery stores as well as 150 local clothing and accessories businesses in 2 districts near Midtown Miami, the NW 5th Avenue Wynwood Fashion District and Alapattah’s NW 20th Street Retail Row
- Below stores 0.5 miles from proposed Midtown Miami Walmart
- below shops are 2.9 miles from proposed Midtown Miami Walmart, a 9 minute car ride.
- @kareemzarwi Overtown’s Meat Market butcher, the Wynwood garment district. Too many to list in 1 tweet #NoWalmartinMidtown
- @kareemzarwi There’s a difference between reclamation and gentrification… and right now the line hasn’t been crossed, yet.
- @grantstern one precludes the other. On a day like today we can be honest: they both stem from racial/class steering.
- @kareemzarwi Dead Wrong! Wynwood’s Garment district is decades old, not steered…
- @kareemzarwi the Overtown Meat Market just recently relocated from NW 20th & 2nd Avenue to NW 14th St. & 1st Ave. could have left, didn’t
- @grantstern it is not close enough to justify it as a would-be victim. Neither are the Wynwood Garment District shops carrying knockoffs.
- “The Meat Store” moved from NW 20th Street & 2nd Avenue to NW 14th Street and NW 3rd Avenue to be closer to the center of Overtown, which has been heavily renovated in the last decade by the Southeast Overtown Community Redevelopment Agency.It is 1.7 Miles from the proposed Midtown Miami Walmart. 5 minutes by car.
- .@kareemzarwi #Walmart’s distribution suggests a 2-4 sq. mile sphere of influence per store on SR826 #miami maps.google.com/maps?q=wal…
- .@kareemzarwi Notice how Walmart rings the Palmetto Expressway maps.google.com/maps?q=wal… on average of 1 store for every 4 miles of highway?
- @kareemzarwi Wouldn’t you prefer a shorter drive from the Grove to Walmart if they took over Mayfair? Wouldn’t more traffic help the Grove?
- @grantstern long enough to know it. Mayfair doesn’t make any sense whereas Southern Midtown does due to location & competitors- target, etc.
- @kareemzarwi but Mayfair has no Target, lots of moderate income people in West Grove who need a place other than Merrick Park to shop
- @grantstern quiet condescending but your comment has no valid context for Mayfair- as a mortgage broker & real est. consultant you know this
- @kareemzarwi West Coconut Grove, nor Shenandoah have Target or Walmart, which might be useful. Existing Luxury shops sit empty nearby.
- @grantstern traffic = daily issue in the Grove as its 60% school zones. Big box stores @ Mayfair would bring consumers of all walks spending
- @kareemzarwi there are school zones in Midtown/Wynwood too, one right in front of Fashion District. Grove is a shopping district, right?
- @grantstern agreed and yes. Cocowalk was reborn after Paragon 13 opened. More shops would not debilitate the area but give more options.
- @kareemzarwi Most residents wish Midtown had a movie theater, this site would be prime for it, and other tenants…
