April
2003 Design Institute
City of North Miami Beach Summary
[See also the Results page]
In an attempt to benefit from rapid growth, North Miami Beach has
come up with a strategy dedicated to making North Miami Beach a
more attractive "address.” This strategy involves: improving
the public streets; identifying development, infill, and redevelopment
opportunities; working to find appropriate developers and investors;
and protecting the investments made by those parties.
The City’s vision is to create an area that combines stores,
offices, and restaurants with outdoor seating, entertainment, and
residential tenants, in an attractive and interesting center for
the community, centered on Hanford Boulevard and extending out into
the surrounding area.
Recommendations from the design team toward this goal were:
- Provide additional residential units.
- Continue the 164th Street (Hanford)
improvements.
- Take advantage of demand for retail junior departments
(need 10,000-20,000 square foot units for these).
- Supplement a potential
Wal-Mart big box with liner shops along the 164th Street edge
at 165th Street termination, in order
to disguise its bulk; possibly a third party developer should
be brought in for
the liners. (Wal-Mart will bring 5,000 cars a day and
provide opportunity for other retail, yet most won’t walk
from Wal-Mart so the design has to be such that they visit on
their way to or from,
hence the liner store concept.)
- Design liner buildings measuring
30' on sides.
- Create a main street marketing plan for the
future tenants on 164th Street.
- Continue quality main street on
164th and work to create a great urban place that allows fingers
of commercial on
side streets
that
run toward 163rd.
- Use 163rd Street as a location for Class
A office space at some point since it will never be developed
as residential,
give
its width.
- Surround parks with residential—assures
increased use, adds eyes on the park.
- Improve parks
so that they are well used; this will deter homeless.
- Develop streetscape
on parking/bosque tree edges.
- Evaluate future parking distribution
on 164th Street at build-out.
- Incorporate mature trees.
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