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Miami Hopes to Revive Urban Living.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004

By Maya Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 2--MIAMI--Today, maybe 400 people live in downtown Miami's central business district, which bustles by day with the suit-and-tie crowd strolling to offices and shoppers browsing jewelry shops and electronic and discount stores.

By night, the workers and shoppers leave, turning the downtown core into a dead zone dotted with vacant parking lots. But fast forward to Miami's near future, and more than 12,000 people will call the area home.

As Orlando launches an ambitious redevelopment of its downtown, a glimpse of what the future may hold is just 250 miles down the road in Miami, albeit on a much larger scale.

Florida's most cosmopolitan city is...

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