Big box

Customers wait for the grand opening of a new Target store in the Midtown Miami superblock project on Sunday, October 10, 2006. The big box chain is the first to open its doors in the new development which spans 18 blocks from 29th to 36th streets just north of downtown and south of the Design District, on the site of a former railroad depot. The impact of the project, which is still largely under construction, has already impacted the community via the building of high-end loft condos and a emerging art gallery scene, dramatically recreating a neighborhood decreasingly populated by latino immigrants, homeless, and textile warehouses.

I woke up early again today; a slave to the light. It was a really nice morning, even if the Target opening didn't draw as many people as I expected -- and tsk, tsk, no local media coverage whatsoever! In my perspective, the opening of a superstore wouldn't draw any people to wait outside at 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday, but I'm often surprised and wrong about those types of things. Too bad they didn't open on Black Friday, that would have been a scene.

There is a lot more to write about the project that these pictures are connected to -- some of which can be seen on my website, as an essay-very-very-much-in-progress -- but I don't have any time this morning to begin to try and lay out the territory of this body of work. I need to get showered, grab my cameras, and pack my lighting kit and bathing suit for a shoot today in Naples.

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