Six months after announcing they would ditch a plan for a long-awaited, multi-block enclosed shopping mall, the developers of the massive Miami Worldcenter have submitted a new “high-street retail” blueprint to the city that significantly reshapes the project, breaking it up over three-and-a-half city blocks and giving it a far more urban look and feel. Instead of one solid, interconnected shopping and parking structure spanning multiple blocks in the heart of the desolate Park West section north of downtown — a scheme that some critics complained was monolithic and cut off nearby Overtown from Biscayne Boulevard — the new shopping and dining center would cover the same area with five...
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