Villa 221

Bar owners in Miami’s booming Wynwood neighborhood say recent busts show the police are in league with downtown club owners to temper the popularity of the arty enclave, the Miami New Times reported.

Notorious for its all-night parties, at least a dozen bar owners or employees in Wynwood have been arrested since February for serving alcohol past the legal last call of 3 a.m., some during a police raid called Operation Dry Hour, the New Times reported. [more]

The flex space in Wynwood

A two-story flex space in Wynwood has been listed for sale at $6.3 million, according to Metro 1 Commercial, which has the listing on the property. The 29,800-square-foot building can house a number of spaces, from private collections to showrooms. The lease includes a 9,600-square-foot parking lot across the street from the building, which is located on the corner of NW 29th Street adjacent to the Rubbell Collection. It’s also being leased at $17 per square foot modified gross. —Alexander Britell

Tony Goldman

From The Real Deal’s South Florida market report:  It’s an edgy area, full of art galleries, well-worn loft spaces and a few intrepid retail tenants — an Italian restaurant, an indoor-outdoor tavern and a few coffee shops.

It may sound like one of Brooklyn’s fast-evolving neighborhoods or parts of downtown Manhattan in the 1980s, but it’s not. It’s Wynwood, the small, mostly industrial zone on downtown Miami’s western frontier that is rapidly becoming one of the city’s meccas of urban cool.

With the South Florida real estate market heating up, The Real Deal looks at the some of the region’s biggest commercial and residential deals, and as well as its key dealmakers. We also dish with the Donald, discuss Miami’s ”LeBron effect,” and delve into Latin American buyers’ impact on the South Florida market. To see the complete supplement, check the South Florida section of our November issue page.  — Christopher Cameron

Wynwood, which has already welcomed a rum distillery and will eventually house a Ducati dealership, will soon be home to its first cigar factory, according to Cigar Aficionado. Christian Elroa will be opening the factory, which will include graffiti honoring the late Tony Goldman, one of the neighborhood’s pioneers. “This has become my home office,” said Elroa, the former president of Camacho Cigars. [Cigar Aficionado]

Pipeline Brickell

Miami has become a hotbed of shared-workspace development, from now-veteran Buro Miami in Midtown (which is expanding to Sunset Harbour) and upstarts such as the soon-to-open Pipeline Brickell and Wynwood’s LAB Miami, the Miami Herald reported. “Working at home can be an extremely lonely experience,” said Philippe Houdard, co-founder of Pipeline. “When you step into this place, you do start to build your pipeline, your network. If you’re an entrepreneur, it really helps to have the veterans around.” LAB, which began in a 720-square-foot space in Wynwood, plans to open a 10,000-square-foot space this winter. [Miami Herald]

Wynwood’s latest commercial tenant is a new craft brewery, according to the Miami New Times. Wynwood Brewing Company is one of the first-ever breweries in Miami-Dade County. Owner Luis Brignoni has signed a 10-year lease at the site, which is located at 565 NW 24th Street in Wynwood. That’s not far from another new liquor tenant, Miami Club Rum, which opened in the last year as Miami’s first rum distillery. “I just try to focus on our goal to get open, and it’s not easy,” Brignoni said. “The brewery has been getting a lot of hype in the past year, and that’s a good thing.” [Miami New Times]

Panther Coffee on NW 2nd Avenue in Wynwood (TRD Photo)

Until recently, Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood was known mostly for its art galleries. Now the former enclave, made up largely of vacated industrial space, is developing into a full-fledged center of commercial real estate activity. It was the signing of Italian motorcycle manufacturer Ducati for a new showroom last month that made the most noise, but the area west of downtown and south of Midtown and the Design District has quietly been attracting a variety of retail, restaurant and office tenants, from Panther Coffee to the Lester’s café.  [more]

Continuing a trend of restaurants opening in Miami’s emerging Wynwood neighborhood, Myron Mixon is brining his Pride and Joy BBQ to 2808 North Miami Avenue. Mixon, who is a judge on TLC’s BBQ Pitmasters, follows another high-profile barbecue eatery to downtown Miami — New York’s Brother Jimmy’s is migrating south to Brickell as well. Developer Tony Goldman’s son Joey Goldman opened his eponymous Joey’s Italian restaurant on NW 2nd Avenue in 2008 as the arts district’s first major restaurant. [Eater]

Wynwood

Miami’s emerging Wynwood area has received a $140,000 ArtPlace grant to go toward creating a Business Improvement District, the Miami Herald reported. ArtPlace is funded by the Knight Foundation and a number of art groups and federal agencies. “Art has been at the core of the revival of Wynwood,” said Matt Haggman, Miami program director for the Knight Foundation. ”Art gives the area a sense of place and an identity, which serves as a catalyst for economic development.” [more]