Massive MiamiCentral Train Station Arriving Soon for All Aboard Florida

Part infrastructure, part urban development—MiamiCentral is moving ahead quickly as an urban hub on the south end of the All Aboard Florida high-speed rail project.

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October 7, 2014, 1:00 PM PDT

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell


"All Aboard Florida, the new privately financed passenger-rail service to Orlando, is moving full steam ahead with plans for a mammoth new downtown train-station complex that supporters say will constitute nothing less than a quantum leap in Miami’s quest for a place among the world’s great urban centers," reports Andres Viglucci.

The station development, called MiamiCentral, already has approval of its conceptual plans, and "detailed site plans are now under review by Miami-Dade County and City of Miami planners," according to Viglucci. Construction could begin by the end of the year. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is designing the station.

Here's the pitch for what the MiamiCentral development is going for, as described by Viglucci: "MiamiCentral…would turn a drab stretch of downtown into a bustling fulcrum of transportation and human activity — including a food market, shops, restaurants, offices and two residential towers with that increasingly rare commodity, 800 rental apartments affordable to people who work in the neighborhood."

Monday, October 6, 2014 in Miami Herald

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