During this week of welcoming Art Basel Miami, let us take a moment to say goodbye to The Art Of Food.
The raw food/vegan counter cafe was located in a cooperative vintage
clothing and jewelry shop across the street from Midtown Miami's
Circuit City (which has problems of its own). Excepting delicious
desserts, I didn't care for the Art Of Food's food at all. As I wrote
at the time of review,
the glorious natural flavors of fresh fruits and vegetables are
impressive enough on their own terms, an
Circuit City, the nation-wide electronic retailer, is unplugging, and closing down all 567 of its American stores, including the one in the Shops at Midtown. Midtown has already weathered the loss of Linen-N-Things, and now Circuit City will leave another big chunk of unoccupied real estate. We held up Midtown as a bit of a microcosm of economic hardship back in November, and last week Frank Alvarado dug deeper into the mega-development's problems. Of course Midtown won't be the only strip mall
screencap from Google MapsWe've found the predicament of Midtown Miami to be quite interesting for a while now: noting its trouble both here on Riptide and in print. Now the Grey lady is weighing in on the development's slump in a piece that just went online: "The bankruptcies of Circuit City and Linen 'n Things have emptied sizable spaces at the shopping center, leaving it only 76 percent occupied, Mr. Freddo said. At the same time, some larger tenants are exercising their right to get an adjus
