Building a More Walkable Miami Beach

MIAMI—Miami Beach is known as walkable community. It has to be. Driving can be a frustrating experience at times. How will the redeveloped Miami Beach Convention Center District add to the congestion? And what do developers pitching for the right to spearhead the 52-acre project have in mind to keep Miami Beach walkable?

In part four of this series that takes a side-by-side look at how South Beach ACE and Portman-CMC plan to approach the redevelopment, we asked a principal from each firm what elements set their hotel plans apart and how they settled on the hotel design. In this segment, we asked about all-important plans for minimizing traffic congestion and encouraging pedestrian flow