Commissioner Diaz to dedicate street in honor of El Dorado matriarch

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY – Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz will help honor the matriarch of the family that founded the El Dorado furniture store at a ceremony co-designating Northwest 72nd Avenue between 12th Street and its terminus just south of Miami International Airport as Aida Rosa Capó Way.

The ceremony will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 10 a.m. inside the El Dorado furniture store at 1260 NW 72nd Ave. Capó family members will be present.

Aida Capó’s family describe her as the “motivation and spiritual force” that inspired her husband and six children to leave Cuba and forge a new life in the United States, where they founded El Dorado, which now has 15 stores in South Florida and is considered the largest Hispanic-owned furniture retailer in the United States. The store’s name is a tribute to the small sailboat in which Manuel Capó and his sons Luis and Carlos crossed the Straits of Florida in 1966.

The newly rededicated street runs adjacent to the El Dorado facilities located north of Northwest 12th Street.