Tobacco Road (bar)

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Tobacco Road in May 2008

The Tobacco Road was a bar in the Brickell area of Downtown Miami, Florida. It was popularly known as the oldest bar in the city. [1] The liquor license it amended was first issued in November 1912 (though property records show the building as being built in 1915, [2] as a bakery) [3] [4] and operated nearly continuously since its opening, having been shut down briefly at times for run-ins with the law, such as when the upstairs, now a live music venue, was used as a speakeasy during Prohibition. [3] Tobacco Road was located at 626 South Miami Avenue, on the south side of the Miami River, putting it in Miami's Brickell district, where it was classified as a classic dive bar, being popular among locals. Tobacco Road celebrated its 100th anniversary in November 2012. In 2012, the land on which Tobacco Road lies was purchased for $12.5 million. On October 26, 2014, Tobacco Road closed and was demolished by Thunder Demolition Inc. An estimated 4,000 people came on its last night.

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Sale and closure

In April 2012, developer Carlos Mattos purchased the large lot which included Tobacco Road, though it was stated that Tobacco Road had a three-year lease and could remain open for at least that long before the lot was developed. [1] [5] In 2014, the bar's owners announced that they were planning on selling the bar to its employees, [6] regardless of whether or not demolition was imminent, and relocating to another building nearby. [7] The bar closed on the morning of October 26 with plans to relocate to another building in the same block. [8] In October 2015, Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Escape began service from PortMiami, with the ship including a bar named "Tobacco Road", which was "reimagined as a fancy cigar bar". [9]

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  1. 1 2 "Tobacco Road's Three Year Lease May Mark The Closure Of Miami's Oldest Bar". WFOR-TV. May 11, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ "626 South Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33130". PropertyShark. 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Piket, Casey (June 29, 2014). "Tobacco Road – From Bakery, Speakeasy to Miami City Landmark". Miami History (blog). Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Tobacco Road". Tobacco Road. 2013. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ Walker, Elaine (May 10, 2012). "Tobacco Road to stay open for at least three years despite land sale". The Miami Herald . Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  6. ↑ Bevan, Shaun (April 25, 2014). "Economic Development: Tobacco Road staffers may turn to crowdfunding to buy bar". South Florida Business Journal . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  7. ↑ S. Pajot (April 8, 2014). "Tobacco Road Planning to Sell and Relocate". Miami New Times (blog). Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  8. ↑ Viglucci, Andres (October 24, 2014). "Last call for legendary bar Tobacco Road". Miami Herald. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ Doss, Laine (13 November 2015). "Norwegian Escape Drinking at Sea: Pitbull, Tobacco Road, Bar Lab, and Wynwood Brewing". Miami New Times.

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