At the Northside Metrorail station

Has this been approved by the city of Miami?

I don't like it!

Carlisle Development Group has been working on this project with Miami-Dade for years. It is a very complex deal involving leasing land from the county, low income housing credits, parking spaces built etc. They finally got approval from the County commission for the lease.

Oppenheim was brought on in 2008

showing construction to start in 3/2013:
http://www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/buil...le.asp?SelType=GOB&SelRType=SITE&SelKey=73267

Not digging it either. The retail is on the inside of this project? Retail should be facing the street- not inwards. I would never want to open a retail store here-guaranteed to fail. I doubt this design adheres to Miami 21 standards. Retailers need to appeal to cars driving by and people that walk to and from the transit station, not just the residents of this project.

Walmart also opening a supercenter at the northside station

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/21/3152625/walmart-expanding-in-nw-miami.html

Looks nice but will it really house low incomee people, or just middle income people wholl just live their cause the metrorail is their. Im worried it will just be an island community, not focused at all in helping the surrounding community, which has been plagued with crime and poverty since the beginning. Thats the phenonema now, with space running out in the desirable area to live, white middle class people are resorting to areas immediatly close to metrorail stations in poverty stricken places, so that theyll never have to step outside the sites...hmm jus sayin

Horrendous -- looks like a jazzed-up 50s-style public housing project. Will do absolutely nothing to improve the surrounding areas

The white, middle class would definitely not live in this development. Let's be realistic here. This project is more geared towards improving the West Little River and Gladeview neighborhoods for the existing black community.

As far as the project goes, I find it very insular. It has a lot of potential to be a great community center akin to the Brownsville Transit Village, which is already maturing nicely. This project design for the Northside Station completely blocks itself off from the rest of the neighborhood. Not to mention that retail in the interior of the project is guaranteed to fail. The retail needs to be more accessible to everyone, not just those living in this project.

Exactly! Terrible urban planning