City Park at West Kendall, a transformational 990-acre master-planned community designed to reshape the future of West Kendall, has officially filed its application with Miami-Dade County. Led by The Easton Group, Lennar, and MPKA, LLC, with SWA Group overseeing master planning and design, the $2 billion project aims to alleviate some of Miami-Dade’s worst traffic congestion by creating a true 15-minute city, a pedestrian-oriented community where residents can live, work, learn, and play without long commutes.
For decades, West Kendall residents have faced some of the county’s longest daily drives due to the lack of nearby employment centers and entertainment options. City Park is designed to reverse that imbalance by bringing 32,000 jobs, housing, schools, and amenities closer to home. The development is expected to generate $2.35 billion in annual economic output for Miami-Dade County, including more than 19,000 construction jobs producing $1.07 billion in wages and 13,000 permanent jobs paying a combined $897 million annually. Permanent jobs will average $75,000 per year, well above the county’s median wage.
Credit: Lennar Corp.
“City Park represents a complete community that has its own downtown, employment opportunities, schools, parks, transit, and well-integrated bike trails, reducing pressure on regional commutes while increasing quality of life,” said Sean O’Malley, Managing Principal of SWA Group, which is serving as lead planner and urban designer.
Edward W. Easton, founder and CEO of The Easton Group, added, “City Park sits on the only site in Miami-Dade County with the scale and connectivity needed to deliver a sustainable community of this kind, complete with the long-overdue jobs and entertainment center West Kendall has been missing. It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to ease traffic, shorten commutes, and leave a legacy of job growth and substantial recurring tax revenues that will benefit Miami-Dade County now and for generations to come.”
Credit: Lennar Corp.
At full build-out, City Park will feature a 144-acre Village Core that serves as the community’s central hub, with shops, restaurants, entertainment venues, plazas, and a waterfront boardwalk. The plan includes 1.4 million square feet of retail, 500,000 square feet of office space for medical, professional, and educational uses, and 526,000 square feet of light industrial space positioned along the site’s edge to support Miami Executive Airport’s growing aerospace and future spaceport operations.
The residential component will bring 7,800 new homes in a variety of formats, including 4,500 townhomes, 2,200 multifamily and live-work residences, and 1,000 single-family homes. Nearly 1,000 units will be designated as workforce housing for essential workers such as teachers, nurses, and first responders. More than 20 unique home designs will be offered to accommodate families at different stages of life.
Credit: Lennar Corp.
“As a company that has been building communities in Miami-Dade for more than 70 years, Lennar understands the critical need for housing that working families can afford, especially townhomes, which are among the most in-demand yet undersupplied formats in the County,” said Carlos Gonzalez, Regional President of Lennar. “City Park helps close that gap while also delivering the jobs, schools, and services that enable families to stay rooted in Miami-Dade and build stronger futures.”
City Park will devote 250 acres, roughly a quarter of the site, to open space, including parks, lakes, a community farm, and more than 10 miles of walking and biking trails that connect to the County’s regional trail network. The community will also feature a Future City Park Transit Hub linking directly to the South Dade Bus Rapid Transit system.
Credit: Lennar Corp.
Located outside environmentally sensitive areas and beyond the two-mile buffer zone of Everglades National Park, City Park is being designed with climate resilience and sustainability at its core. Plans call for green infrastructure features such as stormwater retention lakes, aquifer recharge systems, graywater reuse, EV charging, and solar readiness.
“With more than $2 billion in projected development costs and significant job creation, City Park is poised to become a major economic engine for Miami-Dade County,” said Bill Albers, Partner with MPKA, LLC. “Now that our application is filed, we look forward to working collaboratively with local neighbors, government officials, and community stakeholders to fine-tune our plan and bring this vision to life.”
City Park is strategically positioned near the Florida Turnpike, the Don Shula Expressway, and the proposed Kendall Parkway extension, providing efficient access to regional destinations. The site is adjacent to Miami Executive Airport, which is expected to serve as a future aerospace and spaceport hub.
According to City Park’s economic analysis, the project will contribute approximately $181 million in permit and impact fees during construction and generate $37 million in annual property tax revenues upon completion, including $21 million for Miami-Dade County and $14.6 million for local public schools.
The proposal is currently under review by the county, with hearings expected later this year.
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Not a good idea. Too close to the Everglades.
This is complete nonsense. Do you really think almost all the residents will work, shop and seek recreation only in this community?
It’s all a gimmick. They said the same stuff over fifty years ago when West Kendall was developed. More focus should be on infill, replacing dilapidated strip shopping centers into mixed-use development, getting commuter rail service on existing railroads, and considering light rail.
STOP TRYING TO PUSH THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT BOUNDARY! THERE ARE PLENTY OF LOTS, VACANT LAND AND DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS YOU SHOULD BE DEVELOPING
Complete BS. Why add more housing? It’s already crowded.
Trash concept to sell county commissioners on tax revenue scams. This will never be fully built and design will change cookie cutter high density townhomes just like everything else in the area. They can barely afford to maintain the roads and sidewalks. 15 min cities are globalist scam to create socialist housing.
Lol
While I agree that Miami-Dade needs more housing opportunities to support a growing population and to entice younger generations to stay and contribute here, building outside our current Urban Development Boundary atop highly productive farmland and close to the Everglades is not the way. We need to redevelop so much of the interior of our urbanized area which is degraded, underutilized, low-density, and with a high potential for transport connections. We need to tweak our building codes to allow more urban housing types and provides incentives for developers to re-develop/expand structures in our city core. We will be all the better for it.
100% agree, well said.
This project, if completed to the standard set by this article, will be an incredible win and undeniable proof that “15-minute cities” work. It will be so insanely economically viable that there will be major change in how we develop/redevelop land in Miami-Dade. However, this is once again pushing the boundaries of development, further destroying farmland and getting ever closer to erasing the everglades. This is undeniably horrible. Development needs to happen within our city’s borders. We need to make use of the dying malls, abandoned big box stores, empty parking lots, and generally underdeveloped land. We do not need to expand, we need to improve what we already have.
7800 residences = 25,000+ new residents! All those cars need to drive to their jobs along Kendall/Sunset/Killian roads! This is insane!
There’s a housing shortage.
Lack of supply===unaffordable homes for many.
Oh yeah, lets limit housing supply, says every current homeowner who plans on dying in place. They got theirs so f the rest.
As long as the money is there, much else does not matter. “In $$$ We Trust”
I don’t believe nothing. Always the same retoric so the city can approves the project. What we need in West Kendall is a highway and no more construction. Even Chrome is crowded at all time of the day. They say a community where people can work there without leaving the area but only 1000 locations will be created for offices and business. The rest 98% for houses