Home Sweet Home: Our Annual Home Edition

Editor’s Note

Home Sweet Home

Few cities of its size have the same pride of place as Coral Gables. Its residents, many of them multi-generational, have a sense of self-regard and self-identity that is rare and matchless. This is a city where you come to raise a family, live for decades (if not forever), and create an exquisite home for yourself and your loved ones.

For this reason, we publish our annual Home Edition each February. This year, being the centennial anniversary of the founding of Coral Gables, we have included a feature on 100-year-old homes – how they looked then and how they appear today. We also reprise our feature about three Gables home interiors, with commentaries on the designers who created their unique looks. In addition, we are including an exhaustive guide to all the retailers in the city who provide resources for the home, from furnishings to appliances, and everything in between. We have included some places in Miami’s Design District as well, after merchants there told us that more than half of their customers come from the Gables.

Speaking of hometown concerns, we are also sharpening our focus on the upcoming elections for City Commission. For those who follow the politics of City Hall, the last two years have been tumultuous, to say the least. The up-coming election in April is a consequential one for the city’s future. To that end, in our March edition we will bring you a guide to all nine individuals running for office, with a full page for each one to tell you why they are running for office and what they believe they can bring to the city’s government. To get an idea of how vicious this election is likely to be, read our story in Talk of the Town, “Phishing with a Poll,” on the latest ploy to bend voters in a particular direction.

Meanwhile, Coral Gables continues to move forward with a remarkable sense of community and a love of home that is unique in today’s transient world. Don’t take it for granted.