This took about a hundred years, not a decade. Walk the timeline from the warehouses of the 1920s through the murals, The LAB, and the tech crowd that eventually followed. Tap any point to read more.
The people who built one showed up on their own, and that history still runs the place today.
In 2004, Goldman Properties started buying up empty warehouses in one of Miami's most forgotten industrial pockets. No tenants, no foot traffic, no reason to think it would pay off.
By 2009 those same walls were a globally-renowned outdoor museum: the Wynwood Walls, with artists from 18 countries covering 85,000 square feet of concrete. Visitors came from everywhere, and the neighborhood got a name for itself.
It didn't stop at the walls. Serious chefs followed the crowd in. KYU, Alter, Hiyakawa, and Francesco Martucci's first U.S. spot, from one of the best pizzaiolos working anywhere.
Bit by bit, Wynwood turned into a place people wanted to stick around. Artists, chefs, and the kind of people who build things.
"Wynwood just really has that sort of spirit that you are looking for when a new tech sector is built — like San Francisco's South of Market, like Brooklyn in New York. Ultimately you want to be with the other tech companies."— Peter Smith, CEO & Co-Founder, Blockchain.com
In 2012, The LAB Miami opened in a converted Wynwood warehouse, the first coworking space in South Florida built for tech founders specifically. Someone had decided this was exactly where Miami's startup scene ought to begin.
Then 2021 happened. Founders Fund and Atomic signed 10-year leases, three full floors, 22,000 square feet. Blockchain.com put 200 people here. Spotify and Live Nation were already around. PwC wanted 38,000 square feet. Ken Griffin and Goldman Properties paid $180 million for 545wyn, a 298,000 square foot tower. Amazon arrived in 2025.
What those companies got wasn't just office space. It was a neighborhood that had spent ten years quietly filling up with people who build things, walkable and dense and busy at street level.
Each point is a turn Wynwood took. Tap a dot to see what happened and why it mattered.
A hundred years of people showing up to build something. The LAB is where the next stretch of it happens.