The Arts & Entertainment District, or previously known as Omni, is a neighborhood of Downtown Miami, Florida.
It is home to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the old Miami Herald headquarters (now located in Doral), and the Omni International Mall.
Until 2014, it was one of the neighborhoods that hosted the annual Miami International Boat Show[3] at the Sea Isle Marina.
From the 1920s to the 1950s, the Omni area was a high-end shopping area with many major department stores along Biscayne Boulevard, such as Sears, Roebuck and Company (whose tower still stands at the Arsht Center), a Burdines directly to the north at the southwestern corner of Northeast 14th Street, and a Jordan Marsh at the northeastern corner of Northeast 15th Street built in 1956).
While the Jordan Marsh was built earlier in 1956, conforming to the Biscayne Boulevard Company's original pedestrian shopping-oriented plan, the mall's construction caused the closure of two streets and the demolition of two city blocks.
Burdines, after sharing the Biscayne Boulevard side of a block with Sears since 1930, moved into the former Jordan Marsh for a year.
Today, it houses a few office tenants and the Miami International University of Art and Design.
Transfers can be made to the Metrorail, Miami's heavy rail system, at Government Center, as well as to the Brickell and Inner Metromover loops.
The Venetian Causeway is a popular bicycle commuter route that connects South Beach to Omni.