Lincoln Road still hasn’t really gotten back to its old self since the halcyon before-Covid-times, when the Miami Beach pedestrian shopping street was eternally packed with people and retail rents were sky high. Sure, people complained that all of the independent and artsy places that made Lincoln Road great years and years ago were being replaced, but Lincoln Road was busier and more successful than ever. That was also when, in 2017, multiple vehicular attacks over in Europe spooked the city administration into installing temporary concrete wall-like barriers, intending them to be replaced by something a little prettier in the near future.
Well, that near future came and went, and so did the pandemic, and now, finally, seven years later, we have our “prettier” answer: big, unpainted concrete planters. They’re very brutalist chic, which does coordinate with the famous 1111 Parking Garage on the west end of Lincoln Road, but may be just a bit drab for the eastern side. Perhaps they’ll paint those hot pink or something. What do you think, Miami Beach?
Maybe paint them with a mosaic of pink flamingos
Love them and much better that the Jersey barriers that were there before! No don’t paint them, they match the concrete below them.
Love them as they are! Don’t make them trashy. Keep them classy.
Agree
1000% percent paint them using local Miami artists and street artists: spend 20K and pay an artist 1k each.