Downtown Dadeland is an urban residential and retail development in Dadeland, Kendall, Florida, USA. Dadeland is an edge city in Kendall, which is part of unincorporated Miami-Dade County. Downtown Dadeland was completed in 2005, during a South Florida real estate boom. Notably, the 7.5-acre (3.0-hectare) development contains 15 acres (6.1 hectares) of parking on two underground levels, unprecedented in South Florida,[1] which averages under 10 feet (3.0 m) of elevation AMSL. Since then, some other projects have pursued more than one sub-grade level, including Brickell City Centre in the Brickell district of Downtown Miami.[2] Underground development in the Miami area is complicated and expensive, due to the high water table (low elevation). A project on Fort Lauderdale beach planned three levels of underground parking, but revised plans down to a single level mechanical parking garage.[3] The mixed-use development is adjacent to Dadeland South station, the southern terminus of the Metrorail system, which saw significant ridership increases in the 21st century[4] after many transit-oriented developments such as Dadeland were completed. Underground parking, including -1.5 and greater depths, began to become more common in the 2010s, pressured by building codes, aesthetics, and economics.[3]
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- ^ "Downtown Dadeland at Home Stretch of Retail Leasing; Now 60% Leased, the Mixed-Use, Re-Urbanization Project is Transforming Miami's Dadeland Area". BusinessWire. March 9, 2005. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
- ^ Fernandez, Yudislaidy (May 19, 2011). "Underground connectivity a key to massive Swire project". Miami Today. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
- ^ a b Larry Barszewski (May 28, 2014). "Fort Lauderdale project will dig down on the beach". Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
- ^ "Ridership Technical Reports". Miami-Dade County. December 4, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.