{"id":43541,"date":"2025-11-12T08:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43541\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:58:49","slug":"wynwood-retail-sees-major-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43541\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynwood retail sees major shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tWritten by Kelly Sanchez<\/a> on November 12, 2025<\/p>\n

\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wynwood store owners are seeing a dramatic shift in the retail scene as the vibrant Miami neighborhood sprouts new construction projects, including residential buildings, apartments, commercial spaces and an increase in rent.<\/p>\n

Mariano Diaz is the owner of Wynwood Soul, an art and clothing store at 2301 NW Second Ave.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going through the worst time period in retail sales in Wynwood since the last five years probably \u2026 everything is going down, downhill very fast for a lot of retail stores,\u201d Mr. Diaz said. \u201cMost of them are actually disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pointing to the factors affecting retail, he said he noticed that rental rates have been getting higher over the past five years and the neighborhood hasn\u2019t been getting its usual tourists from states and cities up north like Chicago, Boston and New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tourism is not coming, is not showing up in Wynwood,\u201d Mr. Diaz said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the tourists from the North \u2026 and they usually are the ones that give a lot of life to Wynwood because they\u2019re the spenders, to put it in some way \u2013 you know, they spend money when they come here, but they are not here anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he said he thinks the main problem is high rent costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe landlords increased their rents dramatically in the past five years. More than 50% in some of the cases,\u201d Mr. Diaz said.<\/p>\n

Development in Wynwood also plays a role, according to Mr. Diaz, who said it directly affects the essence of the art district: the graffiti.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened is that people used to come to Wynwood because we have a great place for art and graffiti on the walls and, you know, things like that, and right now there\u2019s no more walls,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re showing up with these super high-end buildings in the area, unaffordable, for people that want to live here in the area\u2026 In one way it\u2019s great, you know, you see a lot of progress, but they definitely killed the vibe of Wynwood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wynwood Soul\u2019s sales have declined about 50% over the past five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, we\u2019re pretty much surviving right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Diana Gonzalez owns a gift shop that offers merchandise and collaborates with artists, Wynwood Shop, at 181 NW 25th St. She said construction in the neighborhood has caused interruptions and Wynwood Walls\u2019 transition to a ticket model has deterred visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, there has been a lot of construction,\u201d she said, \u201cso having Second Avenue close several times, or not having electricity while they\u2019re installing tubes or water ducts and things like that, it just kind of interrupts a lot of the flow. I also feel like the Wynwood Walls, after they started charging for the entrance, that has been a little bit discouraging for people to browse Wynwood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Gonzalez said her sales have fluctuated but overall declined roughly more than 50% in the span of a year. There\u2019s also a worker shortage as a result.<\/p>\n

\u201cBottom line, a lot of the stores are, us owners, are kind of working the store front, so it\u2019s just been reducing and reducing costs. Also, we\u2019re not able to employ anybody,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Diaz said he would like to see work to conserve the graffiti that attracted many people beyond Wynwood Walls.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess that we need more help from the [Business Improvement District] and the city, pay more attention to this great spot which is Wynwood, and do something about it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by Kelly Sanchez on November 12, 2025 Advertisement Wynwood store owners are seeing a dramatic shift in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-43541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43541","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=43541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}