The parking was already bad on South Beach it is about to be worse now.
Mayor Philip Levine confirmed the KOD-to-SoBe rumors on Facebook yesterday, posting a letter from City Attorney Raul Aguila, who writes that “the city has received notification of an individual that has acquired the naming rights for the King of Diamonds and intends on opening some type of business establishment at 1330 Ocean Drive.”
Rules state you can’t have a strip club on South Beach, but people in the area feel they will find away around those rules.
“It’s already a done deal. I know how this city works,” he says. “They’ll find a loophole, whether it’s that they can’t serve alcohol or that they’ll have to wear nipple pasties, they’ll find a way.”
“KOD is a huge concern for Miami Beach, its residents and its businesses,” writes a resident named David Richards in one mass email. “I have been coming to Miami Beach for the last 25 years, own a condo and hoped to spend my retirement years here but not if KOD opens. KOD will change Miami Beach forever. I (and everyone I have talked to) sincerely believes that KOD needs to STOPPED NOW.”
They seem pretty heated about this.
If you are just here for the stripper pics flip the pages…