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2018, New regulations hit our business, and many locals badly pushing our visitors to book expensive hotels only.

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Although our main and most clients were young professionals with low budgets, families with small kids looking for more privacy and space, and retired couples who prefer to eat healthy at home, the city did not give us a chance to keep offering you our services.

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On the other hand, most of the properties managed by SoBe are owned by foreigners who come once or twice a year. Meaning, most of these units will now remain empty and closed for most of the year, not contributing to the urban vibes we had before. 

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To all our clients,
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for the gifts, cards, chocolates, and flowers, for the wonderful 700 reviews on Airbnb, the yearly messages, and returns...we want to say, within tears, big and loud:

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about
South  Beach

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A piece of paradise everyone deserves to experience at least once in a lifetime

Our  City's
Background

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  • 1870 Henry and Charles Lum purchased 165 acres on South Beach for 75 cents/acre to plant and harvest coconuts, which turned out to be unprofitable.

  • 1896 John Collins arrives from New Jersey to survey the land on Miami Beach.

  • 1912 Miami businessmen, the Lummus Brothers, acquire 400 acres to establish the Ocean Beach Realty Company.

  • 1914 Collins Ave opens on the Beach and is the first paved road suitable for automobiles. Aug 4th, WWI begins.

  • 1915 Fisher clears Lincoln Road out of a mangrove swamp with the help of Rosie the Elephant.

  • 1917 Miami Beach changes its status from a town to a city.

  • 1920 The Miami Beach land boom begins and millionaires like Harvey Firestone, J.C. Penney, Harvey Stutz, Albert Champion, Frank Seiberling, and Rockwell LaGorce build mansions on the three-mile stretch of Collins Avenue known as "Millionaire's Row" today most of them Hotels.

  • 1922 Golf Courses and Hotels are built.

  • 1926 A hurricane strikes FL causing substantial loss.

  • 1927 The Million Dollar Pier is constructed at the southern tip of Miami Beach.

  • 1929 Flamingo Park is acquired by the city and is dedicated as a public facility.

  • 1930's Miami Beach flourishes with a boom of art deco buildings. Population growth from about 6,500

  • 1940 Population 28,000

  • 1941 Dec 7th, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The Army Air Corps takes command over Miami Beach.

  • 1950 Population 46,300.

  • 1957 The auditorium homes to many television variety shows, including the third revival of The Jackie Gleason Show

  • 1959 Fidel Castro takes over Cuba and the exodus of Cuban refugees to Miami begins.

  • 1960's Miami Beach Population: 63,200. The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba fails. The Cuban missile crisis.

  • 1962 The Jackie Gleason Show begins broadcasting from the auditorium, today "The Fillmore"

  • 1970 Miami Beach Population: 28,000

  • 1979 The Miami Beach Architectural District is listed as a historic landmark.

  • 1980 The Mariel boatlift brings 140,000 Cubans to FL.

  • 1980's After decades of economic and social decline, an influx of gays and lesbians moving to South Beach led to the revitalization of the city.

  • 1983 The feature film Scarface took place.

  • 1984 Miami Vice, an American television crime drama series.

  • 1991 Miami population grows to nearly 2 million.

  • 1992 Hurricane Andrew hits south Dade County.

  • 1996 The comedy "The Birdcage" took place.

  • 1997 Gionni Versace's is murdered on the steps of his Ocean Drive estate, Casa Casuarina.

  • 2000 Miami Beach named #1 Urban Beach by Surfrider Foundation.

  • 2001 Jan 18th, Morris Lapidus dies in Miami Beach.

  • 2002 The annual international Art Basel Miami Beach begins.

  • 2003 Population: 88,000

  • 2009 first Gay Pride Festival in April and every year after.

  • 2010 population 87,779.

  • 2011 The New World Symphony move into the New World Center building designed by Canadian American Pritzker Prize- winning architect Frank Gehry.

  • 2013 SoBe Affairs is born to please your whims during your stay in paradise.

SoBe 
Team

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life & style

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Beach Volleyball Game

We are a small organized, dynamic, and respectful team managing some friends' apartments while they are away. We travel a lot, therefore, we enjoy making our guests' experience pleasant. We offer you clean, organized, and fully-equipped studios/apartments in South Beach. All our units are within the Art Deco District, within walking distance to the beach, famous streets like Ocean Dr, Lincoln Rd, also museums, cafes, fine restaurants, clubs, and everything you need.

 

Somos un equipo pequeño, organizado, dinámico y respetuoso que administra los apartamentos de amigos mientras ellos están fuera del país. Nosotros viajamos mucho, por lo tanto disfrutamos hacer que las experiencias de nuestros huéspedes sean placenteras. Les ofrecemos estudios/aptos aseados, organizados, totalmente equipados en South Beach. Nuestras unidades están en el distrito Art Deco, a poca distancia de la playa, calles famosas como Ocean Drive, Lincoln Rd, museos, cafes, restaurantes, clubes, y todo lo que necesita.

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