Bayside Marketplace
Open-air waterfront marketplace of shops, dining and street performers overlooking a marina.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bayside Marketplace in Miami traces how a stretch of rotting fishing piers on Biscayne Bay became a downtown gamble. By the early nineteen eighties Pier Five's charter boats and fish stalls stood empty, and Miami wrestled with a reputation problem sharpened by a certain TV cop show broadcasting the city's drug wars into living rooms. The Rouse Company answered with a ninety-three million dollar bet on architect Benjamin Thompson's open-air market design, meant to feel like an old-fashioned market shed on the water.
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