Downtown Miami, Florida

Downtown Miami

Downtown Miami, which is also referred to as the Central Business District, is an ever-evolving bayfront community in Miami that has experienced an extraordinary amount of new construction and growth since the early 2000’s. As one of the fastest growing communities in South Florida, Downtown Miami has demanded further residential and commercial development over the years, and developers have stepped up to the plate and delivered. Downtown Miami now offers a variety of residential condo living options, an abundance of entertainment for all ages, amazing dining choices, great walkability and public transit.

While many visitors and newcomers to Miami may not truly understand what locals refer to as ‘Downtown Miami,’ it is necessary to briefly explain the area to clarify that it is just a neighborhood within the Greater Downtown Miami area.

Greater Downtown Miami is a vast 3.8-square-mile area in Miami-Dade County that is located between Interstate 95 on the west, Biscayne Bay on the east and includes several distinct neighborhoods. These communities are referred to as Downtown Miami, Brickell, Wynwood, Edgewater, Midtown, Design District and historic Overtown. So, to again clarify, when we talk about Downtown Miami on MiamiCondos.com, we are only referring to the Central Business District which includes the area from the Miami River to the south and the MacArthur Causeway to the north.

Entertainment and Dining in Downtown Miami

Downtown Miami offers a variety of entertainment for all ages including an innovative 6-level science museum, the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, which offers so many cool exhibits, a planetarium, aquarium and so much more while also offering an observation deck to showcase the breathtaking views of Biscayne Bay and Museum Park. This museum is situated within walking distance of the Perez Art Museum Miami a/k/a PAMM, American Airlines Arena – home of the Miami Heat and a variety of concerts, the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts and Bayside Marketplace, offering an array of shopping and alfresco casual dining. Also, within walking distance is the highly-anticipated Miami Worldcenter, which is a 28-acre, mixed-use project boasting a Lincoln Road-esque, high-end, open-air shopping district, 7th Street Promenade with alfresco dining and Marriott Marquis World Convention Center Hotel. Downtown Miami is also home to PortMiami, which is the world’s leading cruise port and recognized on a global scale as the ‘Cruise Capital of the World.’

Downtown Miami offers a wide range of dining options and bars. Some of the most popular restaurants and bars in Downtown are Zuma Miami in the Epic hotel offering fine dining Japanese, Il Gabbiano’s which is an authentic Italian restaurant, Novikov Miami a trendy restaurant offering Chinese-Japanese food and cocktails, CVI.CHE 105 a Peruvian restaurant offering some of the best ceviche in South Florida, Lost Boy which is a local’s happy hour favorite offering craft cocktails and The Corner which is a low-key bar offering classic cocktails and true Chicago-style hot dogs.

Condos in Downtown Miami

Downtown Miami offers a variety of condo living options including affordable condo towers in the interior corridor of the neighborhood such as Centro Lofts and Loft I & II, reasonably-priced bayfront condos situated along Biscayne Boulevard like One Miami, Vizcayne, Met 1 and Marina Blue and luxury high-rise condo towers that were built in 2008 or later offering spectacular, direct-water views. Higher-end condos in Downtown Miami, such as Marquis, 900 Biscayne Bay and Epic Miami offer expansive residences, private terraces and exceptional luxurious amenities. Additionally, there have been multiple ultra-luxe new construction projects in Downtown over the past few years including the Zaha Hadid masterpiece One Thousand Museum completed in 2019, Aston Martin Residences which will be completed in 2021 and Paramount Miami Worldcenter, also 2019, which is a signature residential tower situated in the heart of Downtown within the 28-acre, mega-mixed-use project that is now the 2nd largest urban development in the country.