Upland Park is set to be western Miami-Dade's new transit-oriented community

A billion mixed used region is expected to be western Miami-Dade s next big thing It s called Upland Park and district leaders hope the progress will bridge the west end to the rest of the county It s one of several construction projects featured in NBC s What s Being Built Here series For years the acres area was nothing Before this property was just sitting here as green land explained David Martin CEO of Terra Developers say the property is to be the largest transit oriented region in Miami-Dade County s history We bid and were selected by the County to endeavor on this vision to create a society that was sustainable integrated walkable and provided much needed housing in a commercial district stated Martin Terra is a South Florida commercial and residential expansion firm Developers disclosed the main goal of this project is to increase ridership on residents transit being in line with the county s SMART plan of creating the east-west corridor To have a transit-oriented district at the west end of the east west corridor is major in the level and size county wide and state wide but also it s impact to the western side of our county explained Martin Phase one of the project is underway and developers hope to have multifamily apartments completed by The master plan anticipates having more than multifamily apartments about square feet of retail and roughly square feet of commercial space There s still a long way to go until that vision becomes reality But Terra and other partners of the project hope this is exactly what the neighborhood requirements I think the impact is more routes more BRT routes more amenities more convenience more prospective places to work possible places to live And a list of amenities that are for the residents in the society but also for the extended residential locality around us Martin revealed