WGM Weekly: Sunshine Coffee NoBe, Property Tax for Dummies, & Kosher Michelin Stars?
+ Adam Neumann Takes Over Aventura, sort of, & all about Ziggurat Coconut Grove.
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WHAT’S GOOD MIAMI: 6.2.26
On My Mind: Two Miami’s. Same city. Two completely different places.
3 scenes. Same week. Same city. Two people who will never compare notes.
Beach Business
Sunshine’s Coffee’s New Home: The 2nd Location Arrives in North Beach, and She Is a Beauty
Sunshine Coffee. North Beach. Born. Raised. Roasted. And June 4th, open.
Adam Neumann Is Coming to Aventura
Flow, Adam Neumann’s residential real estate company, just received approval for three 29-story towers in Aventura.
DeSantis Property Tax Plan for Dummies
If you own your home in Florida, the government wants to stop making you pay rent on it.
Hospitality Local Insider
First Kosher Restaurant in the World to Earn a Michelin Star is in Miami
Mutra is not a flashy venue backed by major investors. It’s an intimate space where the chef cooks from memories of Jerusalem.
Real Estate
LUXE DEVELOPMENTS, WE LOVE: ZIGGURAT, COCONUT GROVE
19 ultra-luxury residences, 2 to 5 bedrooms, ranging from 1,500 to over 4,000 sq ft, each with private elevators and expansive terraces overlooking Kirk Munroe Park.
ON MY MIND: TWO MIAMIS
Same city. Same week. Two completely different places.
Cities don’t transform quietly. They do it in the middle of everything, while people are still trying to live their lives, getting coffee, going to the beach, sitting in traffic. Miami is in that moment right now. Not falling apart. Not finished becoming. Just in the middle of the most important negotiation a city ever has with itself.
These are three scenes from the same week. The same city. Two people who will never compare notes.
SCENE ONE: GROWTH
Sunday morning. Miami Design District. A new café just opened where a parking lot used to be.
The Arrival: Did you see this place? The owner moved from New York two years ago and put everything into it. The beans are from a farm in Venezuela he visited himself.
This is why I’m here. This city keeps saying yes. Every month something opens that couldn’t have existed anywhere else and somehow it still feels like we’re just getting started. Miami is becoming something unreal.
The Original: That used to be a parking lot. Before that, my uncle had a shop there for nineteen years. He couldn’t make the new rent. He’s in Homestead now.
I’m happy for the guy with the Venezuelan beans. I really am. But I grew up two blocks from here and I can’t afford two blocks from here anymore. I still come back on Sundays. Habit, maybe. Or something I don’t have a word for yet.
Miami is becoming something. I just don’t always recognize it as mine.
They pass each other in the doorway. One arriving. One remembering.
SCENE TWO: THE BEACH
Saturday afternoon. South Beach. The water is the color of something you’d frame.
The Arrival: I’ve been to beaches on four continents and nothing touches this. The light here does something to everything it hits. There’s a version of the good life and we’re standing inside it.
I used to live somewhere where winter lasted six months. Now I wake up and this is just Tuesday. I never take it for granted.
The Original: My grandmother used to bring us here when parking was free and the beach was empty by nine. She’d make croquetas wrapped in foil and they’d still be warm at noon.
I brought my kids last month. Parking was forty dollars. A woman asked if I was “with a hotel” like I needed permission to be on my own shoreline.
I still love this water. I just have to fight a little harder to reach it now.
They’re watching the same wave break.
SCENE THREE: THE TRAFFIC
Thursday evening. I-95 South. Nobody is moving.
The Arrival: This is not traffic. I sat on the Cross Bronx for two hours on a Tuesday in February in the dark. I missed a wedding rehearsal dinner. I called my wife from a parking lot in the middle of a highway and knew I was done with that city.
This is a delay with palm trees. Windows down. Seventy-eight degrees. I genuinely don’t know what everyone is upset about.
The Original: I know every back road, every cut-through, every trick. None of it works anymore. They built a hundred thousand new units and one new lane. I leave forty-five minutes early and I’m still late.
I’m not comparing it to New York. I’m saying this is my city and I can’t move through it the way I used to.
Adjacent lanes. One of them is smiling. One of them is watching the clock.
SCENE FOUR: THE SAME BLOCK
Saturday afternoon. They pass each other. Neither one knows the other’s story.
The Arrival: God, I love this city.
The Original: God, I love this city.
Cities evolve. They always have. The question was never whether Miami would change, it was whether we could hold both truths at once without letting go of either.
Paradise is what you discover. Home is what you build. Miami has always been both.
The people who found it and the people who built it are still here, on the same streets, watching the same water, sitting in the same traffic. They just aren’t always speaking the same language yet.
That’s not a failure. That’s what becoming looks like from the inside.
BEACH BUSINESS
Sunshine’s Coffee’s New Home: The 2nd Location Arrives in North Beach, and She Is a Beauty
When we first moved here, we searched for the right neighborhood. We tried everywhere, but it always came back to North Beach.
It felt real. Genuine. Honest. Unbothered. Like the Miami we fell in love with, before the noise, before the rest of them showed up.
North Beach is home. A feeling, rarer than people think, of actually belonging somewhere. For River. For Teddy. For Sunshine, our daughter who the shop is named for. And now Lucky, who was born shortly after we opened Sunshine on Española Way. As I like to say: first we had Sunshine, then we got Lucky.
On June 4th, we open Sunshine Coffee at 7351 Collins Avenue. Two blocks from where we live.
This one is different. Not because Gelareh and I designed a space with 15-foot curved ceilings and a wave-inspired bar that is genuinely one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever built together. But because this time we’re not opening in someone else’s neighborhood. We’re opening in ours.
The menu has everything people love, the Miami Iced, the Sunshine Sando, the Pancake Cake, the Brown Butter Focaccia Cinnamon Roll, the soft serve Dream Team plus new things we’ve been working on for months. We have expanded Gelly’s Matcha program and added a Chopped Buffalo Chicken Caesar Wrap and Spicy Tuna Wrap with Crispy Rice Crumbles that I’m currently craving daily.
But honestly, none of that is the point.
The point is the neighbor who comes in every morning. The family stopping by after the beach. The person who just needs a great iced coffee and a place that makes them feel welcome. That’s why we built Sunshine, for the Miami we love and the community that has given us so much.
Now we are here. And so are you. And so is she.
Sunshine Coffee. North Beach. Born. Raised. Roasted. And as of June 4th, open.
Adam Neumann Is Taking Over Aventura, Sort Of.
Flow, Adam Neumann’s residential real estate company, just received approval for three 29-story towers in Aventura, 674 apartments, 250,000 square feet of office, and 39,000 square feet of retail, rising adjacent to the Aventura Corporate Center on Biscayne Boulevard.
