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Please be advised: Slide Hill is temporarily closed for planned maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Please be advised: Slide Hill is temporarily closed for planned maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Mia­mi-bound

[cap­tion id=“attachment_1655” align=“aligncenter” width=“468” caption=“SIMCOE WAVEDECK, designed by West 8, recent­ly opened on the Toron­to water­front”]Simcoe Wavedeck, designed by West 8, Toronto waterfront[/​caption] West 8, the lead­ers of the team design­ing the new park and pub­lic spaces on Gov­er­nors Island, has been select­ed to design an impor­tant new civic park in Mia­mi Beach. An announce­ment this week­end in The Mia­mi Her­ald trum­pet­ed that West 8 is known for “…deliv­er­ing eupor­i­cal­ly orig­i­nal urban designs on a bud­get…” (read more here ). Lin­coln Park will front a new con­cert hall designed by Frank Gehry sched­uled to open in 2011. Con­grat­u­la­tions to the City of Mia­mi Beach and the New World Sym­pho­ny for an inspired choice.