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The Week in Shopping: Welcome to Miami

The South Florida shopping scene contains multitudes—and Miami’s various shopping districts somehow manage to coexist without cannibalization.

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Air conditioning is a competitive advantage in Miami’s brutal summer heat, which gives a leg up to Aventura, where the mix means you can spend all day there without having to venture outside. Photo: Universal Television/courtesy of Everett Collection
Sarah Shapiro
July 18, 2025

One mystery of the Miami retail scene is that, with so many shopping neighborhoods wedged into about a 20-mile radius (Coconut Grove, Aventura, Bal Harbour, the Design District…), they somehow manage to keep from cannibalizing one another. This isn’t unique to the 305—the same puzzle is laid out in Dallas, Boston, Chicago, and beyond. But Miami is a land of extremes, and thus an especially informative place to study operations, tenant strategies, and where brands actually want to plant their flags.