Seybold Building

He then went on to run a shopping mall, called an arcade back then, that became the basis of the 10-story Seybold building,[5] which is the second largest diamond and jewelry center in the United States at 166,000 square feet (15,400 m2).

[6] The plan to transform the Seybold Building into a jeweler's hub had a helping hand from the Cuban revolution.

At the start of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro directed his regime to confiscate businesses all over Cuba causing a mass exodus off the island.

Jeffrey Buchwald, a Hungarian immigrant who first opened his jewelry shop on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, moved to Miami to escape the cold.

[7] Mario's Casting, a second-generation family-run jewelry manufacturing business, immigrating to the United States in 1969 to try and pick up where they had left off.

"In the 1970s, a lot of Cubans were coming over and making a home for their jewelry business in downtown Miami", said Martha Camero, one of the owners and operators of Mario's Casting.