![]() "It's not like I'm abandoning Miami Beach," he continued. The rents just got too high, and the street isn't quirky enough to attract people from all over South Florida the way it once did. ![]() Kaplan also told the Miami Herald that since Books & Books' Lincoln Road store opened in 1989, " We went from being on a really funky, wonderful street to a street that now is very inhospitable to most locally owned independent businesses. "Even some of the big box stores are going to find it very, very difficult to stay at the rent structures that are there now." Kaplan said he is optimistic about finding another location in Miami Beach. "Rents are too high and they've been too high for a long time," he said. He added that high rents on the iconic street were behind the closing, a decision that was accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. "It's been really a wonderful 30 years of being there, having this kind of front row seat there watching Miami develop," owner Mitchell Kaplan commented. Books & Books is permanently closing its store on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Fla., the Real Deal: South Florida Real Estate News reported. ![]()
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