{"id":371491,"date":"2026-08-14T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371491\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:06:07","slug":"miami-flagler-street-reopens-after-decade-of-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371491\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Flagler Street reopens after decade of construction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man on an electric scooter travels past buildings undergoing demolition by entrepreneur Moishe Mana on downtown Miami\u2019s rebuilt Flagler Street, which has reopened after six years of on-off construction. The new, wider sidewalk on this side of the block remains partly closed because of the ongoing demolition.<\/p>\n

PHOTO BY AL DIAZ<\/p>\n

adiaz@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s historic Flagler Street has fully reopened after six years of on-off construction on a $32 million streetscape project plagued by fired contractors, design changes and business closings. New businesses are opening along the corridor, but questions remain about the street\u2019s future identity.<\/p>\n

FULL STORY: Construction is finally, finally over. Can historic Flagler Street reinvent itself?<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s cost ballooned from $13 million to $32 million over a decade, with delays caused by contractor disputes, surprise underground utility issues and the COVID-19 pandemic.Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins and City Manager James Reyes stepped in earlier this year, hiring subcontractors directly to finish enough work to reopen the five-block corridor from Biscayne Boulevard to West First Avenue.Terrell Fritz, director of the Flagler Business Improvement District, said 13 new businesses have opened or are about to open this year, including a pizza restaurant, cigar club, wine shop and French bakery, with seven more leases signed.Entrepreneur Moishe Mana, who owns about 80 downtown properties including the former SunTrust Bank tower he bought for $110 million in March, is demolishing condemned buildings to make way for a temporary soccer park in a deal with the Downtown Development Authority.Weekend closures on Flagler Street during this summer\u2019s FIFA Fan Festival drew big crowds, but the 14 closures cost more than $130,000 \u2014 roughly 70% of which went to police security \u2014 making regular closures financially unfeasible without cost-saving measures.<\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man on an electric scooter travels past buildings undergoing demolition by entrepreneur Moishe Mana on downtown Miami\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-371491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}