A single-family home constructed in 1993 could be replaced with a low-rise workforce housing development in Naranja.
Plans call for a six-story building with 37 apartments, with the average unit measuring 646 square feet. Miami-Dade County defines workforce housing as housing reserved for tenants earning within 30 to 140 percent of the County’s area median income (AMI). As of May 2025, Miami-Dade County’s median income was $87,200.
In total, the unnamed community would have close to 23,903 square feet of leasable residential space. In addition to the apartments, the 37-unit community would host 2,000 square feet of commercial space and 17 parking spots.
This home could be replaced with a six-story housing development. Image from Zillow
WBH Investments LLC is the developer. The South Florida Business Journal notes that the firm is seeking approvals under the county’s Naranja Community Urban Center rules and the county’s SMART Plan. Based on current site plans, an EV bus transit system is just 500 feet away.
The firm is not seeking incentives under the Live Local Act, meaning that it cannot bypass the project’s pre-application phase. Here, developers seek approval from both the community and various officials. Soto & Garcia Associates is the architect. Adonai Design & Construction is representing the developer’s application.
If approved, the six-story housing project would occupy 14490 S.W. 264th St., Homestead, Florida, 33032, in Miami-Dade County.
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You would think with all this compact development close to what’s laughably called “transit” would be in lieu of sprawl, but Dade County seems to go both ways. Meanwhile where actual transit exists along Metrorail and Tri-Rail stops, there’s hardly been any redevelopment, except maybe a couple of blocks within the last twenty years. The fact that Metrorail should have been expanded westward decades ago and Tri-Rail into Kendall and along the FEC line, paving the way for more transit corridors, is another urban blunder in itself.