Special report | Miami’s makeover
The bid to make Florida’s most famous city a tech hub
An ambitious mayor is trying to transform Miami’s appeal
|Miami
URBAN RENEWALS rarely trace their origins to Twitter, but then Miami is no conventional city. “How can I help?” Francis Suarez, Miami’s mayor, asked on Twitter in 2020, after a tech entrepreneur suggested moving Silicon Valley out of the Bay Area. Mr Suarez has an enthusiastic following as he tries to rebrand Miami from a party paradise into a hub for digital finance and technology. He even sports a T-shirt carrying a “#HowCanIHelp?” tagline.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Tech in the city”
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