"It’s nice to have a vision, but the numbers also have to work."
-- Laura Weinstein-Berman
The first sign that there’s something unusual about the newly opened building in the heart of Miami’s Overtown is its color — a deep shade of peach, inspired by a bit of neighborhood soda-pop history.
The second is its simple yet sophisticated modern design, a street-front grid of floor-to-ceiling windows framed in yellow to pop out of the peach-colored structure.
And the third is its compact scale.
At a time when extensive redevelopment in the core of Miami’s foundational Black neighborhood fills entire blocks with high-rise towers, Project Peach is wedged into a narrow, substandard lot and rises all of four stories.
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