A dispute over late-night noise in Wynwood has snowballed into a fight over the future of the red-hot district: Can the funky, art-splashed neighborhood, with its buzzy nightclubs and open-air events, retain its character if people start living there? Billionaire developer Moishe Mana, who owns 45 contiguous acres of land in Wynwood, has declared war on the Wynwood Business Improvement District (BID), claiming the group is catering to real estate developers who want to gut the neighborhood while profiting from luxury residential developments. “Every time there is a cool place in Miami, we start building residential and we blow up the eco-system and then move on to the next neighborhood,” Mana told the Herald. “It happened in South Beach and Coconut Grove and Brickell. Wynwood is the only place we have left where people can come and meet and walk around and listen to music and enjoy themselves. The minute we become residential, there’s no point for tourists to come. This is declaring a war on tourism.”
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