Transit Oriented Communities

Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) is a fast-growing community development trend that includes a mixed-use of housing, office, retail space and/or amenities integrated into a walkable neighborhood and located within a half-mile of public transportation. Transit Oriented Communities provide better access to jobs and housing for people of all ages and incomes. TOCs help to enhance connectivity for area residents and businesses, leading to safer accessibility to jobs, businesses, residential and commercial districts, and schools.

Goals

Reduce the number of household drivers.
Lower congestion, air pollution and greenhouse emissions.
Create walkable communities that accommodate healthier lifestyles.
Increase transit ridership and fare revenue.
Expand mobility choices that reduce dependence on the automobile.
Reduce transportation costs.

See how DTPW is delivering Transit Oriented Communities.

Upland Park will be built next to the Dolphin Station Park and Ride and will be the largest TOC in Miami-Dade County. It will include office, retail, hotel, school, a life sciences facility, and more than 2,100 apartments, including 122 senior housing units.

Link at Douglas is located next to the Douglas Rd. Metrorail station. The project will help offset expenses, focus density around the station and promote increased patronage of the Metrorail system.

Motion at Dadeland sits directly adjacent to the Dadeland North Metrorail station and the Dadeland Station retail center.

Grove Central sits directly adjacent to the Coconut Grove Metrorail station. Grove Central provides 172,000 square feet of retail space, five levels of parking, and 402 residential units, including 60 work-force housing units.

Upcoming Projects

Located next to the Coconut Grove Metrorail Station at SW 27 Avenue at US 1 in the City of Miami.

The Grove Central development is a mixed-use residential and retail project on a 5.2-acre lot. Construction of this Transit Oriented Community development started in 2020 and it's now completed.

Grove Central connects with The Underline, a 10-mile linear park that is currently under construction below Metrorail's guideway. The heart of historic Coconut Grove, a popular destination for local residents and tourists, is within walking distance from Grove Central.

Grove Central provides 172,000 square feet of retail space, five levels of parking, and 402 residential units, including 60 work-force housing units. It also includes 250 dedicated transit spaces.

As part of DTPW's partnership with the developer, Grove Metro Station LLC will contribute up to $5 million in improvements to the Coconut Grove Metrorail Station.
Once completed, Upland Park will be the largest TOD in Miami-Dade County. Designed to be a monumental step forward in transit-oriented design, Upland Park is a 47-acre development being built from the ground up to be a fully integrated community connected to the Dolphin Station Park & Ride. Part of Miami-Dade County East-West corridor SMART Program, this lifestyle evolution is being made possible through concepts such as transit-supportive land uses, mobility alternatives, and ample open spaces for holistic live, work, and play environments.

Upland Park will add accessibility to its residents and patrons onto the County’s rapid-transit system and will feature the following:
- Approximately 2,100 residential units
- Approximately 192K sqft of retail space
- Approximately 467K sqft of office space
- Approximately 126K sqft of hotel rooms
- 122 senior housing units
Located at SW 37 Avenue at US 1 in the City of Miami.

Project I: Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department (WASD) headquarters in a five-story, 150,000 sq. ft. office building with an 11-story, 750-space parking garage. Completed in 2002.

Project II: The Link at Douglas development project with three phases of mixed-use residential, commercial, and retail development uses. Developer to provide station improvements, improve accessibility to the station via project components, bus and trolley bays and other transportation related improvements.
- Phase 1 “Core at Douglas” – 285,375 sq. ft. 22-story residential tower with 312 and 6,000 sq. ft. ground floor retail. Completed 2021.
- Phase 2 “Cascade at Douglas” – 907,000 sq. ft. 36-story high-rise with 421 units, 75,000 ft. of open space, 700-space parking garage with 300 transit-dedicated spaces. Completion 2022.
- Phase 3 – multi-story towers with ground floor retail by 2031.
Atlantic Station is being built next to the Historic Overtown/Lyric Theater Metrorail Station. The facility will have 616 apartments, including 360 units of workforce housing. Atlantic Station will be the largest single phase mixed-income development of its kind in Miami-Dade.

Other features of Atlantic Station include:
- 25,000 square feet of ground floor retail and restaurant space
- Central location with prime access to transit including the Brightline train station, Metrorail and Metromover stations
- Amenities such as a sunset-view recreation deck with two pools, dog park, state-of-the-art fitness center, club lounge, and work from home center.
- Engaging ground floor features retail and restaurant space surrounding an interior courtyard.
Located at West Okeechobee Road/U.S. 27 and West 19 Street in the City of Hialeah.
- Metro Grande will be three 8-story towers with 202 units of affordable elderly housing and 84 units of luxury workforce housing, 10,225 sq. ft. retail space, structured parking for tenants and covered walkways to and from the station. Groundbreaking in 2022.
Located at 7701 NW 79 Avenue, west of the Palmetto Expressway, in the City of Medley.

In planning and under negotiations, a two-phase project on a portion of the station’s surface parking lot.
- 1,290-space parking garage, covered walkway, bike path, lighting, paving and landscaping
- Tenant is a non-for-profit corporation whose mission is to provide housing for children who aged out of foster care
- The planned mixed-use project will provide 1,030 workforce units in two phases on 5.87 acres
- The residential units will be entirely for workforce housing families, with units set aside for:
  - Children who aged out of foster care (at no cost to the children)
  - Military members and their families, transit bus operators and their families
  - Majority of the retail space will also be operated by non-for-profit tenants
Located at SW 59 Place and SW 70 Street in the City of South Miami, VOX Miami sits adjacent to the South Miami Metrorail Station.

VOX Miami enjoys a strategic location near the University of Miami’s main campus and is squarely positioned at one of the region’s most heavily trafficked and recognizable intersections – US1 and Sunset Drive.

Phase I of the community development is a unique, adaptive reuse project that was constructed above the previously existing five-story Metrorail parking garage with over 650 parking spaces. Phase I was completed in Aug. 2021.

Now under construction, Phase 2 will be a 13-story residential student housing tower connecting both phases to the South Miami Metrorail Station. Upon completion, VOX Miami Phase I and Phase II combined will consist of 262 student housing units and approximately 15,000 SF of ground floor retail space.
- Quail Roost Transit Village will be a mixed-use development on an 8.51-acre site due west of the SW 184th station. Once completed, the residential and commercial transit-oriented development will feature:
  - 500 housing units, 250 affordable and 250 market rate.
  - 10,000 sq. ft. of commercial space.
  - Park and Ride garage with 261 dedicated spaces for transit riders and spaces for the residential and commercial components of the project.
  - Covered walkway.
- The project has an estimated 2024 completion date.
Located at 19796 Harriet Tubman Highway (formerly West Dixie Highway) in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
- Development Agreement with Brightline Trains USA LLC to construct a passenger rail station, park and ride and bus bays on County-owned property to include a center platform, a pedestrian bridge connecting the station and park and ride lot to the center platform. Under construction.

Completed Projects

Located on NW 7 Avenue at NW 62 Street in the City of Miami. 7th Avenue Transit Village is a mixed-use development project located in the heart of Liberty City, one of Miami-Dade’s oldest and most celebrated communities, featuring residential units, a transit hub, parking garage, community black-box theatre, ground floor commercial, sun deck, swimming pool, fitness center, business center. Silver LEED certified.
- Phase I is 9 stories with 76 affordable housing units. Completed 2016.
- Phase II is 9-stories with 100 units of affordable housing. Completed 2017.
- Multi-level parking garage with 158 spaces, 25 of which are dedicated to Metrobus patrons.
Transit hub being served by four Transit bus routes - NW 7th Avenue MAX (277), Liberty City Connection (46), 62, and 77.
Located at NW 36 Street at NW 12 Avenue in the City of Miami.
- Allapattah Garden Apartments is a garden style 8 buildings, 3-story, 128 units of affordable housing. 135,100 sq. ft. Completed 2004.
Located at NW 52 Street and NW 27 Avenue in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
- Brownsville Transit Village is a five-phase, 5.2-acre, joint-development project.
- Phases I-IV feature 401 affordable housing units in four 14-story rental buildings, a 660-space parking garage for tenant use with an additional 100 spaces dedicated for Metrorail riders and 6,400 sq. ft. of retail space. Completed in 2014.
- Phase V will contain 120 residential units of which 44 affordable housing units are required. Groundbreaking coming soon.
The 12.54 acre site is located on SW 84 Street at US 1 in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
- Phase I Dadeland Station is an 859,337 sq.ft. big box vertical retail mall with 9600 sq.ft. ground floor retail, features Target, Best Buy, Dick’s, PetSmart, Bed Bath & Beyond and Michael’s. Completed in 1996.
- Phase II Towers of Dadeland I is a 14-story market rate residential tower with 6400 sq. ft. ground floor retail. Completed in 2005.
- Phase III Motion at Dadeland features 294 market-rate rental apartments in a 25-story building with structured parking, along with 8,000 sq. ft. of ground floor retail. Completed in 2019.
- Phase B Dadeland Vista is an off-site 4-story 48-unit market rate apartment building. Completed in 2000.
The 4.6-acre site is located at the NW corner of Dadeland Boulevard at US 1 in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
- Phase I & III - Datran Center 1 & 2 are 16-story and 20-story Class A office buildings of 1,007,156 sq. ft. with 44,920 sq. ft. of retail, 3,500 structured parking spaces with 1,000 dedicated to transit patrons. Completed 1984.
- Phase II - Miami Dadeland Marriott Hotel and Conference Center with 300 rooms. Completed 1984.
- Phase 4A - Dadeland Centre is an 18-story 127,353 sq. ft. Class A office building with structured parking. Completed 2005.
- Phase 4B – Dadeland Centre II is a 15-story 112,000 sq. ft. Class A office building with ground floor retail and structured parking. Completed 2008.
Located at NW 62 Street and NW 27 Avenue in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Office Building is a 5-story, 172,000 sq. ft. office building with 13,500 sq. ft. ground floor retail. Completed 2004.
Located at NW First Street at NW First Avenue in the City of Miami.
- The Stephen P. Clark Government Center is a 27-story building housing the seat of and offices of Miami-Dade County government. Completed in 1984.
Located at NW First Court between NW 6th and NW 8th Streets in the City of Miami.
- Overtown Transit Village North is a 17-story, 309,900 sq.ft. office building with a 950-space parking garage and 4,000 sq.ft. ground floor retail. Completed 2006.
- Overtown Transit Village South is a 21-story, 300,000 sq.ft. office building with a 334-space parking garage and 7,152 ground floor lobby. Completed 2010.
Located at NW 32 Avenue and NW 79 Street in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
- Northside Transit Village is four 8-story affordable housing residential buildings with 438 units, 20,000 sq. ft. ground floor retail and 250 dedicated transit patron parking spaces in a multi-level parking garage. Silver LEED.
- To date, 319 housing units have been constructed between 2015-2022.
- An additional 118 are under construction.
Located at NW corner NW 20 Street and NW 12 Avenue in the City of Miami.
- Santa Clara Apartments I is a 9-story, 219,376 sq.ft. 208-unit affordable housing project with surface parking. Completed 2004.
- Santa Clara Apartments II is a 17-story, 361,325 sq.ft. 204-unit affordable housing project with 258-space structured parking plus 61 dedicated transit patron spaces. Completed 2006
- Caribbean Village is a mixed-use, transit-oriented development located on the South Dade TransitWay at SW 200th Street.
- Phase I of the project features 123 affordable housing units. Completed 2019.
- Phase II features 47 housing units and 12,500 sq.ft. retail/commercial space. Completion 4Q2022.
- The facility contains a new Park and Ride lot with 100 spaces of surface parking for TransitWay patrons.
- Caribbean Village comprises a significant investment in Art in Public Places with one-of-a-kind wallpaper, murals, paintings, tile work and entry-way lighting.

Transit Oriented Communities

Upcoming Projects

Coconut Grove Metrorail Station

Dolphin Station Park and Ride

Douglas Road Metrorail Station

Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre Metrorail Station

Okeechobee Metrorail Station

Palmetto Metrorail Station (Palmetto TOC)

South Miami Metrorail Station

TransitWay at SW 184th Street Quail Roost Transit Village

West Aventura Station

Completed Projects

7th Avenue Transit Village

Allapattah Metrorail Station

Brownsville Metrorail Station

Dadeland North Metrorail Station

Dadeland South Metrorail Station

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Metrorail Station

Government Center Metrorail Station

Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre Metrorail Station

Northside Metrorail Station

Santa Clara Metrorail Station

TransitWay at SW 200th Street Caribbean Village