City-backed mural goes up on Bay Supermarket's wall on Normandy Isle

Painting has begun on a large mural on the side of Bay Supermarket, at 905 Bay Drive on Normandy Isle, under the City of Miami Beach’s Art in Public Places program.

The mural covers the store’s long east-facing wall along Bay Drive, near the corner of 71st Street. The city itself applied for it, and the Design Review Board approved it at its July 9 meeting, according to the board’s written order, recorded with the Miami-Dade Clerk of the Court in August. The order says the work must follow the city Tourism and Culture Department’s “Bay Supermarket Mural Proposal,” prepared by Michelle Weinberg.

The board set two conditions: city planning staff must sign off on the mural’s final colors, design and details, and the city should look into adding lighting to it. The order doesn’t say whether lights will be installed.

Early work on the wall shows blue and green geometric shapes over a mint-green base, with the rest of the design sketched in pencil lines.

The Art in Public Places program commissions and maintains public artwork across Miami Beach. More about it is on the city’s Art in Public Places page.