In Miami, they started out with a lot of parks, but gradually, the assholes in charge find "better purposes" for the land.
When I came to Miami in 1977, there was a nice grassy slope right on the bay in front of downtown.
They built "Bayshore Center", a shopping mall with expensive prices and expensive parking there and moved the library.
Then they built an ugly arena next to it, and an even uglier parking garage. What's left of the park is not visible from the land side and isn't used.