An affiliate of Paxton Development Group has plans for a mixed-use project in Miami-Dade County. Legacy Park would offer 230 apartments in two eight-story buildings, with some reserved as affordable housing.
There would be a mix of one-bedroom to three-bedroom units; communal amenities would include a dog park, swimming pool, and 2,500-square-foot clubhouse. Aside from the residential aspect, plans also call for 2,400 square feet of retail and 263 parking spots, rounding to about 1.3 per unit. Currently, the project’s in its pre-application phase, where developers hope to get further feedback before advancing.
The 4.85-acre site currently serves as agricultural land. Image from Google Earth
248th Street Properties LLC purchased the 4.85-acre build site for $1 million in 2017. In 2019, the developer received approval for 144 apartments in three stories, but those plans never came to fruition.
Our sources report that the developer is seeking to expand the project through the county’s Rapid Transit Zone rules. Corwil Architects designed Legacy Park. The firm also designed Courtside II, the second phase of Courtside I in Miami-Dade County. The expansion will feature 120 residences in two seven-story buildings, requiring 161,000 square feet of new construction. Construction is anticipated to start on that community in the first quarter of 2026.
Legacy Park is slated for 13850 SW 248th St., Homestead, FL, 33032, in Miami-Dade County.
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County land use officials need to be horsewhipped and the Commissioners need to be run out of town on a rail for their management of growth in South Dade. Rural roads and green space are being overdeveloped, creating traffic congestion on all the Redland access roads and over use of US-1 and Krome Avenue already a problem. Existing rural roads are full of potholes, largely due to heavy equipment being moved through the backroads for faster travel to and from gravel pits, concrete plants and construction sites. Developers are overbuilding, crashing the infrastructure, creating future slums for commuters working in already compacted high rise businesses to the north, with the blessing of government agencies expected to protect the population currently living south of Coral Reef Drive. Crime is on the rise as the historic populations of central Miami-Dade continue to be moved out of ongoing “gentrification” areas close to commercially valuable land into “affordable housing”(which is not) in parts of South Dade. Road rage, parking lot fights, hit and run accidents, gun-fights, armed assaults and drive-bys used to be rare. South Dade, Homestead, Florida City are all starting to tell the future. If this madness stopped today it will still take years to recover what is already lost. “If you build it (they) will come.” “Just say no.” When all the ground is compromised, the water gone, utilities unable to meet the needs created by greedy developers who “hit and run”, gridlock extended from county line to county line, what will be left? Like frogs in warm water, the temperature can be raised in small increments until the frogs are cooked having gotten used to the rising temp and not sensing the need for action. The residents living in South Dade are in hot water and the temp is rising quicker recently. I have lived and worked in the county through the 1960s and 1970s, left and returned from 1998 to present. The county has NEVER kept up with transportation, communications, water, sewer, or sane development of open space.