What’s Up in Miami THEN AND NOW Dinner Key Auditorium/Regatta Park


CIRCA 1950 Few places were as important to Miami’s development as Dinner Key Auditorium, which was a plane hangar for Pan Am World Airways in the ’30s and ’40s as well as an auditorium and a soundstage, among its myriad uses. It was where Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz got a key to the city in 1956, and where, in 1962, members of Brigade 2506 reconnected with families after the Bay of Pigs invasion. The spot was later called the Coconut Grove Convention Center (and then the Coconut Grove Expo Center). Its last claim to fame? It was a production set for USA Network’s Burn Notice. Both the structure and the show bit the dust in 2013.


2017


It took the city of Miami approximately 30 days to raze the convention center to make room for a new green space and a dockmaster building. Construction on the project was delayed because of budgeting issues and the discovery of toxic soil, but two years and $6 million later, Regatta Park opened to the public in September 2015. The original Burglar Winds (1988) sculpture by John T. Young that stood outside of the old building remains at the entrance of the park, which features seven acres of turf, concrete pathways, palm trees and shoreline improvements that allow boats to dock. True to its name, the park hosted the Sailing World Cup for the first time in 2016. ■ Virginia Gil


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CityPlace Doral is the commercial capital’s new frontier in dining and entertainment.


THE NEXT TIME your friends suggest a night out in Doral, you might think twice before offering up an alternative. The reason for your change of heart: CityPlace Doral, the industrial hub’s shiny new commercial development. Set to soft open mid-February, the mixed-use project (it also features more than 1,000 luxury residences) will eventually be home to 40 restaurants, including Pembroke Pines’ Brimstone Woodfire Grill and Salsa Fiesta; boutiques like Agua Bendita and Kare; and entertainment options such as


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a CinéBistro-Cobb Theatre and a Kings America bowling alley, both of which open later in the year. Besides giving the area’s nine-to-fivers a reason to leave their cubicles at lunchtime, CityPlace—and its 250,000 square feet of diversions— continues a recent trend of new local construction s (think M.I.A. Beer Co. and the Shops at Downtown Doral, both of which opened their doors within the last year) giving locals motivation to venture west. ■ VG à 8300 NW 36th St, Doral (cityplacedoral.com)


PHOTOGRAPHS (FROM TOP): COURTESY MIAMI HERALD; ALI MOGHANI; COURTESY CITYPLACE DORAL


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