The Music Cities™ and Street Economics® · Studios Without Stages

The West Dixie Music Corridor

Studios without stages. A network map of Criteria Recording Studios since 1958, the recording, mixing and rehearsal rooms, schools, shops, labels, people and landmark records around it on West Dixie Highway across five jurisdictions, and the documented absence of a live music stage inside the ring.

Work in progress. This map is not exhaustive. It presents the result of documented research at this release and changes as sources are added, corrected, or superseded. Every node is based on at least one public source and carries its sources and confidence class. If something is missing or wrong, submit it.

Public disclosure policy: This map uses public business records, public corporate filings, property records, public calendars, public civic documents, public press coverage and public listings. It maps commercial infrastructure and documented civic activity, not endorsements, partnerships or private cultural behavior. Inclusion does not require participation, consent or approval. The map corrects factual errors promptly and considers removal requests case by case where a listing is outdated, an entity has closed, publication presents a material safety concern, or the entity is not conducting public facing commercial activity. Public commercial infrastructure is mappable; private cultural behavior is protected.

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236 studios, rooms, people, artists, records, labels, schools, shops, venues and projects · 295 connections · 10 layers · 5 jurisdictions
Version 1.4.1. Data current through 11 September 2026. Activity after that date is described as announced or scheduled, never as completed.

Network view. Three more: Lineage timeline, Cities at street level with the municipal boundaries and the 1.5 mile ring, and 3D, plus a Play animation from 1958 to 2026.

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 detection Studios Without Stages carries the argument; this site is the evidence layer it links to.

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The same text as the PDF, generated from the same data file as the map, so the counts never disagree.

Reading the mapA corridor is a system before it is a districtWhat the nodes and lines mean, the inclusion rules, jurisdiction by point in polygon, timeline placement, the people rule and the ten layers.The anchorCriteria, 1958 to 2026Mack Emerman's studio through six eras, the sessions that made the building, the lineages that flowed out of it and the landmark records kept as nodes.The ringThe cluster around the anchorHow the studio count is built, every node inside the ring by distance from the anchor, what feeds it from beyond, and the schools as the pipeline.JurisdictionsA cluster no jurisdiction containsFour cities and county land, the anchor's parcel outside any of them, the CRA that names music city, and the counting rule.The stage that is not thereZero, by booking evidenceThe venue count reproduced from the data, why the ring is a mile and a half, the sensitivity table, the minimum viable stage and the county's venues.The condition that is changingNine hundred and sixty units on the anchor's blockAllure and Dezerland Park West at NE 146th Street, the projects along the highway, worded as proposed or approved, and status as of the cutoff.Network metricsWho carries the connectionsDegree and betweenness computed on this dataset, the people and production network, and the people who moved between mapped institutions.MethodConfidence and sourcesConfidence grades, preferred evidence by claim type, the public disclosure policy, what the map cannot see, terminology, open items and the source register.AppendixIndex of nodesEvery node on the map except the jurisdictions, grouped by layer, each with its own entry.

Current cases: the corridor as one system

Five cases singled out because each carries one step of the detection's argument. Node size and centrality are computed, not adjusted.

The anchor · unincorporated Miami-Dade · 1958Criteria, the anchorSix eras, one site, since 1958. The studio outlived its owners; the parcel sits outside any city.The ring · five jurisdictionsA cluster no jurisdiction containsFive governments, one ring. Studios and rooms strung along West Dixie across four cities and county land.Schools · within two milesThe schools as the pipelineFour schools inside two miles. SAE, School of Rock, LIVE! and Forte, pinned on the corridor with the anchor.Venues · the ring and the countyThe stage that is not there0 music calendars within 1.5 miles; one at two. A documented absence by booking evidence, not tax category; a floor on absence.Development · NE 146th StreetThe condition that is changingAbout 960 units proposed or approved on the anchor's block. Dezer and Allure at NE 146th Street, worded as announced; the stakes rise for the rooms already there.

Ten layers

Every node belongs to one layer, the one that best describes the network it sits in. Open any layer in the index of nodes.

Anchor: Criteria across its eras7 nodes Recording studios21 nodes Mastering, mixing and rehearsal5 nodes Producers, engineers, owners53 nodes Artists and records59 nodes Labels and publishers8 nodes Schools4 nodes Gear, repair and record stores8 nodes Venues, stages and promoters63 nodes Places and development8 nodes

Most connected in this dataset

Betweenness on the full graph: the nodes that bridge otherwise separate parts of the map. Full table and method.

Criteria Recording Studiosstudio · betweenness 0.352
West Dixie Highwayplace · betweenness 0.066
Miami Beach Recording Studiosstudio · betweenness 0.031
Audio Vision Studiosstudio · betweenness 0.014
Allure North Miami (1810 NE 146th St)place · betweenness 0.011
Hit Central Recordsstudio · betweenness 0.010
Afterhours Musicstudio · betweenness 0.010
The Hit Factorylabel · betweenness 0.010

Data and downloads

The PDF reference, the Excel dataset and data.json, with the rules, the evidence standard and how to cite, on the data page. Corrections and additions go through the Corrections page.