Tag: ocean drive

When I started to come here in the early 90s the renovation boom had just kicked off.  I remember going through some open houses for hotel-condo conversions which were selling for $60,000.   What I didn’t remember back then was the sheer number of hotels in the Art Deco district.   There are probably twenty more going through revitilization as we speak and many many have already undergone transformations.  I was reading a book about the early 90s revitilization and it was quoted as saying that rooms on Ocean Drive in 1976 could be had for $5.  That was of course when you would not have wanted to be here and it was a dangerous place. 

Penguin Hotel, originally uploaded by captjoe06.