TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT:

MIAMI

Anna Bielawski, Laura LaLiberte, Kelly Paluck

“Florida has an established history of pushing transportation issues to the

forefront of city and regional planning.”

REALLY?

MIAMI DADE COUNTY• Currently three forms of mass transit• Advantages of TOD:

– MPO takes the lead on planning and zoning at transit stations and along transit rights-of-way.

– Joint development and public-private partnerships.

– TOD and joint development as a revitalization strategy for inner city.

– CDMP places an emphasis on developments around stations.

– International hub, fairly strong office market; small inventory of retail space; high-rise, high-density living supply, but high vacancy rates.

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MOVER

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PEOPLES TRANSPORT PLAN

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RAIL

• Approved by voters November 2002• Managing growth, dealing with traffic

congestion, encouraging TOD.• Raised local taxes by 0.5%

– Metrobus improvements– Rapid transit improvements– Major highway and road

improvements– Less than 5% of revenue to be spent

for administrative costs.– 20% will go for local infrastructure

including bikelanes.• Citizens’ Independent Transportation

Trust: NGO, use of revenues. Each of the 13 districts will have a representative

• County Office of Public Transportation Management: Construction, planning, engineering and management of new projects and expansions.

RAPID TRANSIT ZONE

BUS

MOVER

RAIL• Applies to all land and airspace.• Compatibility with the Rapid Transit

System.• County and municipality will work

together for a station area design and development process.

• Provides single jurisdiction to developers to work with.

• Important asset for joint development.• Specific to each project, no fixed rules

for developers to follow.• Disagreements between county and

municipality can cause delays in the project.

CASE STUDY:METRORAIL

• Elevated rapid transit system• Terminates at Hialeah Gardens in

the North and Kendall at the South• Major points of interest:

• Downtown Miami• Jackson Hospital• Tri-Rail Connection• University of Miami

• 22 total stations• To encourage TOD, county has

engaged in joint development in 11 of the 22 stations

CASE STUDY:METRORAIL

OVERTOWN

BRICKELL

DOUGLAS ROAD

SOUTH MIAMIDADELAND NORTHDADELAND SOUTH

OVERTOWN

• Located just northwest of downtown Miami

• About 10,000 residents reside in Overtown

• A historical and cultural center of African-American community in Miami

• Entertainment and Art Hub in the 1930s

• Neighborhood Declines in the 1960s• Construction of I-95 and I-395 further

deteriorates Overtown• Poorest Neighborhood in one of the

country’s poorest cities• 40% of population displaced• Home ownership declines by 60 %• Business drops by 50 %

OVERTOWN:TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT

• 1980s- Metrorail to bring investment opportunities to Overtown

• Overtown/Lyric Theater Station • Little TOD-like development has

actually occurred on site • Proximity to the Government Center

Metrorail/Metromover is the primary cause because most major locations can be reached from this station

• Overtown did not attract enough investment, has low ridership and no joint development on site

OVERTOWN:NEW PROMISING DEVELOPMENTS

• Overtown Advisory Board and Overtown Neighborhood Partnership

• Overtown Transit Village – a joint development

• 14 unit townhouse project, 80 unit single family home for sale project, an affordable 40 unit single family home for sale project

• 9th Street Pedestrian Mall- walkway connecting Historic Overtown Folk life Village, Lyric Theater and housing within vicinity

• Mixed Use Development around Lyric Theater Area

OVERTOWN:FUTURE OUTLOOK

OVERTOWN:TRANSIT VILLAGE

• Most successful and current development in Overtown

• 17-story, 341,000 sq. ft. County office building

• 8 ½ story, 596-space parking garage• 4,000 sq. ft. of ground-floor retail space

BRICKELL

• One of Miami’s and South Florida’s major financial districts

• Over 190,000 office employees work in Brickell and Miami

• Largest concentration of international banks in the United States

• Highest residential and commercial rates in Miami

• Mary Brickell Shopping Village

• Metrorail/Metromover connecting station• Ridership remains low despite growing

numbers of residents and employees (only 2,000 boardings per day)

• Poor land use and transportation integration• Area considered transit-adjacent and not

transit-oriented• Pedestrian Barriers- lack of comfortable

sidewalks, safe crossings, and other physical barriers

BRICKELL:TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT

DOUGLAS ROAD

• Station located at Douglas Road and US-1

• Adjacent to Coral Gables and Coconut Grove

• Miami Dade Water and Sewer HQ

• Close to Merrick Park, a high-end outdoor shopping mall

DOUGLAS ROAD:WATER AND SEWER HEADQUARTERS

• Project originally structured as a long-term lease with purchase option, was purchased by Miami-Dade Water & Sewer Department, which now owns the land and the building

• Completed Summer 2002

• 150,000 sq. ft. 5-story County office space

• 11-story, 750 space parking garage

DOUGLAS ROAD:WATER AND SEWER HEADQUARTERS

• Pedestrian bridge crossing over US-1

• Surface lot to be sold as surplus for mixed-use development with tenant and Metrorail parking

DOUGLAS ROAD:MERRICK PARK

• Built in 2002• Upscale lifestyle center• Mixed-Use

• Over 100 stores in “outdoor mall” setting

• Condominiums• Office Suites

SOUTH MIAMI• Mixed-use development

• Market-rate rental apartments

• 160,000 square feet of office

• and 20,000 square feet of retail

• Sunset Place, an outdoor shopping mall

SOUTH MIAMI:MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT

• Built in 2005• Across US-1 from Metrorail

SOUTH MIAMI:SUNSET PLACE

• Opened in 1999• Outdoor shopping mall –

across US-1 from South Miami Metrorail station

• Three levels of retail• Movie theatres

DADELAND NORTH

• Competitive RFP initiated 1994• Phase 1 completed in 1996• Phase B occupied in 2000, Phase

2 in 2005• 320,000 sq. ft. of big-box retail• 9,600 sq. ft. of TOD retail space• 158 market-rate rental units• 127,000 sq. ft. of office space• 1,975 garage parking spaces• 2007 Annual Revenue: $

458,000• Lease commenced in 1994 and

expires in 2084 (90 years)

DADELAND NORTH:DADELAND STATION - DADELAND MALL•Dadeland Station - first vertical Retail Center in the USA •Designed by Robin Bosco Architects & Planners. •Target, Best Buy, Michaels, Sports Authority, Bed Bath & Beyond•Mall developed by the Joseph Meyerhoff Company of Baltimore•Owned by Simon Property Group

DADELAND NORTH:DADELAND MALL

DADELAND SOUTH

• Land swap of real property in 1982

• Phases 1-3 in operation since 1984

• Phase 4a in 2005, Phase 4b in 2008

• 600,000 sq. ft. of office space• 35,000 sq. ft. of retail space• 305 room hotel• 1,060 garage / 200 surface

parking spaces• 2007 Annual Revenue: $

1,092,000• Lease commenced in July

1982, with initial term ending December 2038 and an automatic renewal to December 2082

DADELAND SOUTH:DADELAND Centre

•Station is in the suburb of Kendall•Southern terminus of metro system•Connects to Dadeland Marriot & Dadeland Centre•TOD projects include office/retail & hotel developments

CASE STUDY:METRORAIL

FUTURE METRORAIL• Orange Line

• Connect to MIA International Airport (in progress)

• Extend west to county fairgrounds/FIU South

• Extend North through Opa-Locka

• Extend existing blue line south along busway

• Extend orange line east to downtown and south to Kendall

• New route along FEC line

FUTURE TRANSIT PLAN

Provide equitable transportation services to all groups in the metropolitan population, including the

special transportation needs of the elderly, persons with disabilities, low income and

other transit dependent persons (Objective 5).

TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT:

MIAMI