Inside Bayside Marketplace mall in Miami, FL: wild timeline, big makeover, and why it still wins

Bayside Marketplace on the Water’s Edge

Stand at the edge of Biscayne Bay on any warm afternoon, and you immediately understand why this place has drawn people in for nearly four decades.

The salt air moves off the water. Charter boats rock at the marina docks. The Miami skyline rises to the west, and the Port of Miami sits just across the bay, its cruise ships stacked tall and white.

Right in the middle of all of it – at 401 Biscayne Boulevard – is Bayside Marketplace. It is a two-story, open-air complex of shops, bars, and restaurants spread across 22 acres in downtown Miami, and it does not feel like an ordinary mall…

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