West Dixie Music Corridor: Studios Without Stages, the network map

The finding

14recording or production businesses within 1.5 miles of the anchor: 11 publicly verified, 3 tax receipt only

0live music venues with booking evidence within 1.5 miles

57venues with booking evidence elsewhere in Miami-Dade

5jurisdictions the ring crosses, the anchor itself on county land

The corridor has production infrastructure and no documented public stage system inside its ring. The map is the detection's third step made literal: expose the infrastructure, then make the case for the stage. Every count on this site is computed from the dataset, every node carries its sources and a confidence grade, and the venue finding is reproduced from booking evidence rather than asserted.

The reference, chapter by chapter

Reading the map

A corridor is a system before it is a district

This reference accompanies the interactive map that enhances Street Economics® Detection #1, Studios Without Stages. The detection's sequence is the map's spine: studios without stages; therefore no documented local performance circuit; expose the...

Chapter 1

The anchor

Criteria, 1958 to 2026

Mack Emerman, a trumpeter who had played with Les Brown's Duke Ambassadors, moved to Hollywood, Florida in 1950, recorded on location and in his parents' house, ran a short lived jazz label called Criteria Gold Coast, and in 1958 borrowed from his father to...

Chapter 2

The ring

The cluster around the anchor

The detection began from Miami-Dade business tax receipts for a music related set, pulled countywide and mapped, with the corridor's edges set by where that density returns to background rather than by any municipal line. This map tests every receipt inside...

Chapter 3

Jurisdictions

A cluster no jurisdiction contains

North Miami was incorporated on 1 February 1926 as the Town of Miami Shores and renamed in 1931 [WNM]; North Miami Beach was incorporated the same year as Fulford by the Sea and renamed the same year [WNB]; Miami Shores Village dates from 1932 [WMS] and...

Chapter 4

The stage that is not there

Zero, by booking evidence

The detection's core finding is a separation between where music is made and where it is played, and its method for the second half is booking evidence, not tax category: a venue is a venue when a calendar, a listing or a press guide shows shows. This map...

Chapter 5

The condition that is changing

Nine hundred and sixty units on the anchor's block

Two residential projects sit on NE 146th Street, one block south of Criteria and across from School of Rock. Allure North Miami, Tate Capital's 20 storey, 360 unit tower designed by Kobi Karp on 2.11 acres of city land between NE 143rd and 146th Streets, the...

Chapter 6

Network metrics

Who carries the connections

The figures below are computed on this dataset and nothing else. Degree is the number of edges attached to a node, with every edge type (personnel, lineage, records, labels, adjacency, plans) weighted equally and parallel edges between the same pair counted...

Chapter 7

Method

Confidence and sources

Data are current through 11 September 2026. Every node and edge was checked against at least one source on 11 September 2026, and where sources disagree the map takes the studio's or business's own statement over a reference article, a county record over a...

Chapter 8

Appendix

Index of nodes

Every node on the map except the jurisdictions, grouped by layer and ordered by placement year. The swatch repeats the layer colour used on the interactive map; the Layer column carries the same information in text. Flag: closed, announced, or blank for...

Chapter 9

Ten layers on one map

Anchor: Criteria across its erasCriteria and its six eras: Emerman, Atlantic Studios South, the Bee Gees and RSO, Levy, Hit Factory Criteria, Criteria Studios.

Recording studiosThe ring: PLYBCK, Hit Central, Afterhours, Velvet Basement, Electric Air, Midtown North, Bay Eight, Audio Vision, Miami Beach Recording Studios, Circle House, Studio Center, World Famous Sound, the closed Studio City complex and the tax receipts at its address.

Mastering, mixing and rehearsalMusicTurista's seven rehearsal rooms across the street from the anchor, Magic Sound, Jet Sound, Visualize and a music service receipt on NE 125th Street.

Producers, engineers, ownersEmerman, Dowd, Wexler, Mardin, the Alberts, Richardson, Galuten, Szymczyk, the Hit Factory Germanos, Trevor Fletcher, and the owners and founders of every room, shop and school in the ring.

Artists and recordsJames Brown to Shenseea: forty six artists with a documented session at the anchor or a room in the ring, and thirteen landmark records kept as nodes.

Labels and publishersAtlantic, RSO, Capricorn, TK and Alston in Hialeah, The Hit Factory, Vision Records, Criteria Gold Coast.

SchoolsSAE Institute Miami, School of Rock North Miami, LIVE! School of Music, Forte Music and Arts Academy.

Gear, repair and record storesSpace Music, The Guitar Nook, Abe Music, Found Sound Records, the closed Blue Note Records and Brooklyn Vintage and Vinyl, and MCI, the console maker that grew out of the anchor.

Venues, stages and promotersLuna Star Cafe, Jazz at MOCA and the Littman Theater near the ring; three promoter receipts inside it; fifty seven venues with booking evidence across the county, pinned where they are.

Places and developmentWest Dixie Highway, the North Miami CRA's music city strategy, the Dezer and Allure projects on the anchor's block, and North Towne, Arch Creek and Shelton along the highway.

Downloads and data

PDF referenceLetter size, the full report with figures, tables, register and index Dataset (Excel)Nodes, edges, sessions, personnel moves, jurisdictions, the venue finding recomputed by formula, metrics, sources data.jsonThe map's own data file: nodes, edges, boundaries, sources, computed finding Detection #1Studios Without Stages, the original detection this map enhances

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