Ultramont Mall — Local services in Miami

Every time I visit places like Brickell City Centre or Ultramont Mall, I’m reminded that Miami can get it right. These spaces are clean, modern, and well-managed. The people working there are professional, attentive, and take pride in what they do. Everything flows — from the design to the service — and you leave feeling like your time matters. It’s efficiency and excellence in plain sight.

Then there’s the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine… a complete opposite experience. While the school parades around as a top-tier institution, behind closed doors it’s a mess of dysfunction, ego, and political games. It’s not about merit or meaningful contributions — it’s about playing the system, currying favor, and surviving the toxic culture. The people who actually care about doing good work? They get overlooked, pushed aside, or outright driven out.

Miller is a masterclass in wasted potential. On the outside: glossy PR, big-name donors, and buzzwords. On the inside: internal sabotage, petty leadership, and a culture that rewards sycophants over skill. It’s not just a bad department here or there — it’s embedded in the institution’s DNA.

Miami deserves better. We should expect the same standards of professionalism, respect, and basic functionality in our medical and academic institutions that we see in places like Ultramont Mall. Unfortunately, Miller is a reminder of how low standards can fall when no one holds leadership accountable.

Until that changes, I’ll keep spending my time in places that work — where people take pride in their work and you can feel the difference. Miller can keep pretending; the rest of us...

This is a gem of 1980s-1990s Miami life I hope gets a full restoration and become active again. The 4 colored neon sign says it all. I hope this mall does not disappear but it seems that it may. When I was there I was the only person around besides a janitor stuffing boxes into a side room. This little mall has a charm to it that the surrounding malls just can’t capture. There is a family friendly appeal that is there even without stores or people. It can also serve the niche for stores that would never be able to afford the rents luxury national retailers pay. An arcade would be great in here. A toy store, candy store or vintage video game store would be great too. The cute Ultramont Mall is a joyful little shell just waiting for a better future to unfold. Hopefully someone reading this review or looking up more about this now obscure place can put in effort that would harmonize with its ethos and make the Ultramont Mall better than it ever was. A great place that may be in jeopardy or the...

This place is a mini-mall located in Downtown Miami between Flagler Street & SE 1st Street. It has a few shops on the first floor, though most of the activity is located on the second floor with the food court. Quite a few people eat here that work in the surrounding area - for a quick bite and good deal. This mall has been in the process of being remodeled/upgraded. Decent place...