Miami Suburb Looking To Densify
Through the creation of 5 new mixed-use business districts, the low density and auto-oriented Miami suburb of Hialeah is looking to create new growth and economic vibrancy.
"Ten years from now, Hialeah, the self-styled 'City of Progress' may look vastly different than it does today, with its one-story strip malls, family-owned cafeterias and mini-markets named after Cuban cities."
"The sounds of salsa music blaring outside storefronts may give way to mellow jazz in trendy coffee shops, and dollar stores selling religious candles may be replaced by big-name retailers."
"The business districts would have mixed-use buildings where storefronts would occupy the first floor, and offices and apartments would be on the higher stories. The measure also calls for all parking lots to either be covered or surrounded by landscaping."
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Vitality
"..big name retailers"? When are cities going to learn that vitality comes from growing from within, encouraging entrepreneurialism and facilitating it, and creating a strong, locally based economy? A Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and other "big name" retailers coming in, sucking money out of the local economy, and shipping it off to their home city is not the way to build a vital, stable city.
- Brandon
a clarification
Hialeah may be auto-oriented but it is certainly not low-density. It has 220,000 people in 19 square miles, a density higher than that of Washington, DC. So (if the article describes it accurately) it has density without walkability: the worst of both worlds.