Mission: The 79th Street Corridor Initiative is an effort to transform Miami Dade County's 79th Street Corridor from a fragmented set of residential, commercial, and industrial sites with a reputation as dangerous and undesirable into a cohesive neighborhood conscious of its tangible and intangible assets and directing its future. The Initiative will leverage opportunities presented by the presence of the most significant (and most underutilized) passenger rail station complex south of Atlanta (TriRail, MetroRail, Amtrak).
The Master Redevelopment Land Use Plan  79th Street Corridor Neighborhood Initiative, Inc. A collaboration of three community-based development corporations operating in the corridor
 Objectives:
To improve and test a replicable community development process of
continuous improvement using new tools for collaboration, community
design and decision support and delivered through new and existing
infrastructure including community development corporations and local
planning departments.Description: The 79th Street Corridor Initiative is an effort to transform Miami Dade County's 79th Street Corridor from a fragmented set of residential, commercial, and industrial sites with a reputation as dangerous and undesirable into a cohesive neighborhood conscious of its tangible and intangible assets and directing its future. The Initiative is led by three local community-based development organizations (the Urban League of Greater Miami, Inc., Miami-Dade Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc., and DEEDCO) in partnership with the Center for Neighborhood Technology, an organization of national scope which invents and implements tools and strategies for healthy urban communities by seeking to achieve environmental improvement, economic growth, and community vitality simultaneously. While interested in the entire Corridor the Initiative will focus most of its efforts on its western portion which have an unprecedented opportunity for sustainable development. This area has greater access to jobs, services and amenities by public transportation than any other site in South Florida. Three rail lines intersect at 79th Street: Tri-Rail, which links Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties; MetroRail that provides access within the county; and Amtrak that links to the rest of the United States. The Initiative is a planning process that will position the 79th Street community to take full advantage of these transportation assets as the anchor of a 79th Street Corridor Initiative. This effort will be a model of sustainability, with an integrated approach to neighborhood development that is equally responsive to jobs and to the environment. The project will expand opportunities for individual residents, improve the community's quality of life, and demonstrate that environmental improvements and economic development can work together to benefit low and moderate income people. The Initiative will build on the considerable assets of the community, including tangible assets such as the skills of residents, public transportation, land available for assembly, undervalued market potential, home ownership, job access, rail freight, and rights-of-way, and intangible assets such as the sense of place, knowledge of the community, and location efficiency process.   Chicago
Transit Oriented Development SitesMiami Herald Article on the 79th Street Corridor Initiative  Tax Increment Financing Districts |
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