The cranes of Port Miami are hard to miss. They stand as a towering beacon to the city’s cargo trade, greeting MacArthur Causeway drivers like steel monsters straight out of Star Wars.
They’re pretty much metal eyesores, but local artist Peter Hammar wants to transform the lofty mechanical birds into an art project. He has proposed to paint the cranes pink and light ’em up so they look like Florida’s favorite bird — the flamingo.