LTC 150-2018 Byron Carlyle Charrette UpdateAA WO I BEAC
OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
NO. LTC # 150-2018
LETTER TO COMMISSION
TO: Mayor Dan Gelber and Members of the City mmission
FROM: Jimmy L. Morales, City Manager
DATE: March 20, 2018 I
SUBJECT: Byron Carlyle Charrette Update,'
The purpose of this Letter to Commission is to provide you with an update on the community
charrette regarding the Byron Carlyle Theater that occurred on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. The
Department of Tourism, Culture, and Economic Development hosted a North Beach charrette to
engage residents around the future use of the Byron Carlyle Theater. The North Beach Master
Plan identified the Byron Carlyle as a catalytic site for mixed-use redevelopment highlighting this
site as a key component in creating the Town Center vision.
The community presentation included a brief background and history to the North Beach Master
Plan and subsequent actions that have since occurred, as directed by the City Commission.
Participants were invited to use sticky notes to share their individual ideas as to what the future
use of the Byron Carlyle site could be. Staff presented five central themes to engage around, as
outlined in the Master Plan recommendations: 21st Century Library, Economic Incubator,
Civic/Education, Cultural Arts, and "What Else.. For the discussion around the creation of a 21st
Century Library, the potential sites included the Byron Carlyle Theater or utilizing the 72nd
municipal parking lot.
Please find attached an aggregated list of the ideas put forth from the charrette. As directed by
Commission, staff will create an RFLI based upon the Master Plan recommendations and the
community feedback to solicit development ideas from the private market.
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C: Kathie Brooks, Assistant City Manager
Eva Silverstein, Director, Tourism, Culture and Economic Development
Byron Carlyle Theater Community Meeting
March 13, 2018
This list is reflective of the individual ideas put forth by the participants
21St Century Library
Great idea to relocate library and upgrade in this space. Should be ground floor to invite
pedestrians.
Library — multi use room — similar to the 23rd Street library with workshops
Internet access for student and low-income residents.
Free and wide reaching WiFi
Expand library on existing library space!
Improve the existing library — Amen!
Update the new library
Move library — add world class media center
New library shared with current art cinema
Economic Incubator
Community Center
Combine a cinema (0 Cinema) with other small business sharing the space cafe
CoWorking space to help attract and get businesses started. Can be temp. Like North
Beach Yard to help build Town Center
Shared work space
Collaborative work space with services like marketing, finance, etc that can be shared
for startups
Music and film performance/collaboration space with residency program connected to
the Bandshell programming
Coworking space
Workforce Housing
Permitting center for resident + business
Something like MADE at the Citadel. With a market/meeting place along with coworking
space focused on creative industries
Facebook is locating for new spaces
Tech hub/incubator with a focus on marine/ecology (North Shore Open Space Park)
Civic/Education
Crossover w/ Arts + Culture — a university should house a gallery space (think
Wolfsonian)
Tech college
Keep 0 Cinema
Offer family packs to promote cultural events
Team up with Miami -Dade college; students will move to NOBE
Community events
If satellite campus, should be locally focused, not to attract more commuter traffic
Film satellite campus of university with expert residences curated by local anchor (eg. 0
Cinema/ Barry Jenkins [Moonlight] org.)
City Hall annex
Adult Learning Center
MDPL Annex Welcome Center for MiMO historic MDPLIS Center for resiliency +
sustainability
Adult community center
Open cultural venue and community meeting space
Coding academy for kids, mid + 2nd career folks
College campus
Art studies for North Beach Artists
ESL programs
Use 0 Cinema theater space during daytime hours when there are no movies playing for
masterclasses and outreach education for public to attend
Movie theatre
Instead of over zoned condos, do micro units for students + young entrepreneurs
Artist Housing
Cultural Arts
Expand number of movie screens 0 Cinema oversees, add a cafe/restaurant for more
"hang out" space
Cinema for classic movies. Films should be played on reels. No digital!
Artist colony
- Keep Cinema + add other spaces
- 0 Cinema home for an independent cinema + other art partners
- Space can be shared, but would like to continue to see 0 Cinema at the Byron Carlyle
and make sure they are still able to provide independent films to the community
- Renovate as fully operational performing arts facility — Rhythm Foundation
- Retro style movie theatre city current + small stage for rentals + black box theatre
- Community center with all kinds of art programs + enrichment programs
- Stand up comedy
- Re -open rental theatre space for dance, music + theatre — or rhythm foundation;
possibly managed by Miami New Drama or University of Miami
- Live theater + community activities all ages!
- Performing Center (black box style)
- Mixed use arts complex
- We would like to continue seeing a cinema at the Byron Carlyle as a shared space with
other art and culture organizations (museum, performance theatre, dance school, shop
selling local art)
- Art center for South American Art influence in MIA (eg. Argentina, Brazil)
- Concerts by New World Symphony; Ballet; All film festivals; Continue "0"
Music + live performance
FIU/Dade college theatre; mixed use with gallery space
Keep 0 Cinema
Expanded film center. Anchor of 0 Cinema Space for other film collectives and a cultural
hub for Caribbean film
Keep as a cultural institution but find the formula to make it accessible to moderate
income families w/ children; theater + performances, doesn't have to be expensive!
- Independent cinema space; theatre/performing arts space; the theater space should be
available for rent to local theatre groups
- Combination of a new library and a small independent movie theatre; live theatre for
plays & musicals
Karaoke
- Sacred space model
- Pop up space/work space for artist studios (film, art, music)
- Offer to Biscayne Elementary (no auditorium)
- Low cost movies & theater
What else?
Micro apartments workforce housing
Trader Joe's
Workforce housing (with all the luxury condos around — What spaces are left for the
teachers, the nurses, etc. in Miami Beach)
High End Boutique food hall — i.e. small version of Wynwood staples Coyo Taco, Panther
Coffee, Butcher Shop, Sushi. Think Chelsea Market
Ground floor retail for startup businesses
Extend town center N/ 715t Collins to 75st.
Courtyard, garden, community gathering space, mix -use property; 1st level library &
movie theatre; Above -smaller size apartments
Ice cream shop
- Theatre — live & video; educational —university; keep the fagade
No over develop; homogenize, Starbucks, GAP, etc...
Workforce + tech housing
TJ Max; Marshalls
Co-op Community Focus; slow food > mkt
- Please do not design to look like any "mall" homogenized w/out character of locals (i.e.
we've been w/out Starbucks)
- Root rec/sports center
- Sacred space model
Community meeting space
- Social Justice Incubator/Collective Space
o 1) Home for community organizing affordable
o 2) Exhibit demonstrating history of organizers in the city
o 3) Film space to have community films + Q+A. curated by 0 Cinema
- No offices; this should anchor the neighborhood town center; there are enough
restaurants in the neighborhood already
- Whole Foods; Trader Joes
City Note: A policy decision will ultimately need to be made, regarding several proposed uses
(library, civic site, economic incubator), whether they should be developed on the Byron Carlyle
site or the 72nd Street site. The North Beach Master Plan (Plan Nobe) recommended that the City
better utilize public land and that these sites provide civic and public benefit to the community.