Are we the Culver City of the East?
As much as I like Coconut Grove to stay small, quaint and Grovey, I love what the corner of Mary and Grand has become -- Corporate! With the addition to the Regus logo to the Mayfair building, as you come up the hill on Mary from South Bayshore Drive, it's quite an impressive entry into the Grove. This is what the tour buses see as they enter the village.
It reminds me of Culver City, a small village-y area in Los Angeles, right near Hollywood, where some of the movie and tv studios are. It's where MGM was. The Wizard of Oz was made in Culver City, so was the Andy Griffith Show and Gunsmoke and Gone With the Wind and so many other famous productions. Sony Pictures is located there, just like we have Sony here (you can see the Sony music orange logo in the photo above).
Anyway, the point of all this is that Coconut Grove can be it's own little corporate Culver City. There is talk of setting up a techie place, sort of like the Regus shared office spaces, but this would be for computer geeks. Also, many would like to see movie and tv production continue in Coconut Grove. I have one friend who would love the Expo Center to stay as a film studio even long after Burn Notice is gone. It's an interesting thought.
posted by Tom Falco at 7:45 AM
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5 Comments:
Do you think that we can get the powers that be to support bringing more companies into the grove? I get the feeling that those with the power lack the motivation to make it easier for companies to relocate here. We need an org like beacon council (whose job is to bring companies to florida) specific for coconut grove. Would be someone working with City Hall.
Well I always feel we need some sort of "salesman" or Ambassador to get all the empty storefronts filled.
But about the techie thing, I was asked by the BID to come and sit in on a meeting that supposedly was set up with the Commissioner (his name was mentioned) and others to discuss this very subject. I thought you were involved as your name came up as a participant. I'll find out about the meeting and let you know what the status is.
Regus is an excellent company and it's a perfect fit for that space in the Mayfair.
I like the idea of film production, but the waterfront is Coconut Grove's most beautiful and precious gem and it needs to be dedicated to the people.
What does shit like that mean, "it needs to be dedicated to the people"? Should Sarnoff kick the restaurants off the waterfront, then maybe the hotels, then maybe even Mercy hospital? TV/Film production has every much a right to operate on the waterfront as any other industry. You already HAVE the holy grail of TV production: the #1 drama on cable TV which brings in MILLIONS. No need to recruit a bunch of techies.
Sigh, how typical of Angelenos and New Yorkers trying to fit Miami into their worldview.
Miami is very much its own place, with its own sensibilities, pace and style. I once heard an Angelino say Miami was "like LA 20 years ago". How amazingly patronizing.
I lived in Southern California for five years, and it has very little resemblance to life here.
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