MIAMI-As Miami’s retail market continues outpacing the nation, one of my favorite retail strips has been seeing renewed action: Lincoln Road in South Beach.

I used to work for a sports photographer on Lincoln Road in the mid-1990s. I lived two blocks off Lincoln Road in one of those charming old Art Deco flats. South Beach looks much different then than it does today. But Lincoln Road has remained much the same—until recently.

Lincoln Road, an eight-block open-air pedestrian mall between Alton Road and Washington Avenue, features high-end restaurants, boutiques and entertainment. The street generates some of the highest per square foot sales in Florida as one of the only 24-hour retail destinations. The recent opening of the New World Symphony campus designed by Frank Gehry has helped spur a mini-boom at the street mall.