WGM: Kanye, Should You Listen?, Grutman’s Playbook, SoFlo's Most Underrated Opportunity

+ Foreclosure Alert at Mercedes Benz Places & Alexa Leigh Minivan Mart in Sunset Harbor

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WHAT’S GOOD MIAMI: 4.7.26

Beach Business

• You Gotta Have Friends: Alexa Leigh Mini-Van Mart in Sunset Harbor

  The minivan is parked. The jewelry is out. And Sunshine coffee & matcha are free.

• Foreclosure Alert: Mercedes Benz Places Miami

  Cottonwood Group filed a foreclosure lawsuit against Michael Stern’s JDS.

• Continuum Heading to West Palm Beach

  South of Fifth. North Beach. Now Singer Island.

• From Bartender to Kingmaker: Grutman’s Playbook Hits Shelves

  The secret, he is one of the most genuine & generous people you will ever know.

Hospitality Local Insider

• The Florida Keys: The Most Underrated Opportunity in SoFlo.

  Cheeca Lodge hits the market for $300m. The Florida Keys are the most under-recognized real estate opportunity in South Florida.

On My Mind: Kanye, Should You Listen?

Could you enjoy a meal cooked by a chef who was a Nazi?

That’s not a hypothetical. That’s the question I ask myself every time a Kanye track comes on and I feel it, really feel it, before I can stop myself.

Can you separate the art from the artist? It’s the oldest debate in culture and it has never been more personal to me than it is right now. When you eat a meal, you’re not just consuming food. You’re entering a relationship. You’re saying: this person’s gifts are worth my presence. Patronage is not passive. The food being exceptional doesn’t soften that calculus, it sharpens it. You’d be choosing the pleasure over the principle with full awareness of what you’re doing.

And still. The beat hits.

Forgiveness is the decision to stop letting someone’s worst moment define your relationship with the present. Memory is the decision to never let it define your future.

I’m somewhere between those two things. Some days the music takes me somewhere else entirely, another dimension, another version of what’s possible when a human being is fully unlocked. Other days I can’t get there. The wine has gone bad and I can taste it in every sip. I’m eating the steak and the sourness won’t leave. The genius and the hatred are inseparable on those days, and no amount of wanting to separate them makes it so.

That’s what true art does. It divides the audience, not between fans and critics, but within each of us individually. It forces a reckoning no algorithm can resolve for you.

So wherever you land on Kanye, moved by him or repulsed by him, or both on the same Tuesday, know this: the hatred he put into the world, knowingly or not, is toxic. Full stop. No matter how hard the beat hits. You don’t have to throw away the meal. But you should know what’s in it.

That’s what’s on my mind this week.

YOU GOTTA HAVE FRIENDS

One Day Only: Alexa Leigh Mini-Van Mart & Free Sunshine Coffee in Sunset Harbor

The minivan is parked. The jewelry is out. And the coffee and matcha are free. Alexa Leigh brings the Minivan Mart to Row Sunset Harbor on April 10, 10:30AM to 3PM, one day, one location, no second chances.

The Mini Signature Collection makes its IRL debut here, best sellers you’ve been adding to cart, finally in your hands. Piercing on site, free with an earring purchase. And Sunshine Coffee is pulling up with complimentary coffee and matcha for the whole crowd, because that’s just how we do it in Miami.

Jewelry, a fresh piercing, and a free cup of iced deliciousness. Thursday has never had less of an excuse.

Alexa Leigh Mini-Van Mart

Friday April 10th, 2026, 1030 AM - 3 PM

Row Sunset Harbor, 1201 20th St

BEACH BUSINESS

Foreclosure Alert: Mercedes Benz Places Miami

The Mercedes-Benz badge is on the building. The lawyers are in the lobby.

Cottonwood Group filed a foreclosure lawsuit against Michael Stern’s JDS Development just days after acquiring the $85 million bridge loan backing Mercedes-Benz Places, the 800-unit, two-tower project that broke ground in 2024. JDS missed its January 2025 repayment deadline on a loan extended multiple times since 2015. Cottonwood says the tab is now nearly $100 million, with interest accruing daily.

JDS isn’t flinching.