“The historic Deauville Beach Resort in Miami Beach is set to be demolished after the city’s building official issued a final demolition permit Wednesday. The shuttered hotel, at 6701 Collins Ave., will be brought down by implosion and conventional demolition, according to a Thursday memo from City Manager Alina Hudak to the City Commission. A date for the demolition was not provided.”
—The Miami Herald, March 10, 2022
Every fall, the streets of my hometown flood from the King Tide (high tide, new or full moon), a precursor to Miami Beach’s inevitable climate-change drowning. Still, rents and luxury-real-estate sales explode in a lunatic, multi-billion-dollar game of musical chairs. The very modest house I grew up in, the home my grandfather built with his own hands in 1956 for $23,000 (including the price of the landlocked Hibiscus Island lot), sold in 2021 for $2.3 million. (Unfortunately my parents had left years before.)
