Planning

With the 2025 Downtown Miami Masterplan as our compass, the Miami DDA works with our Board of Directors, our business community, residents, elected officials, partner agencies and other public and private stakeholders towards making Downtown Miami the most livable urban center in the nation and a world-class destination for commerce and culture. We achieve this by prioritizing the public realm and parks, connecting our beautiful, tropical waterfront via the Baywalk and Riverwalk, transforming vehicular corridors into pedestrian and bicycle-oriented boulevards, designing larger and more active sidewalks for shopping and dining, ensuring equitable access to our waterfront, implementing more canopy trees to provide shade and ensuring that workers, residents, students and tourists alike can access mass transit within 5 to 10 minute walks.

Project Pages

2025 Downtown Miami Master Plan

The goal of this Downtown Miami Master Plan is to connect and maximize the potential of the Central Business District (CBD), the Arts & Entertainment (A+E) District, Brickell, and Miami’s celebrated waterfront.

2050 Downtown Miami Master Plan Update (CBD Focus)

The goal of this Downtown Miami Master Plan is to connect and maximize the potential of the Central Business District (CBD), the Arts & Entertainment (A+E) District, Brickell, and Miami’s celebrated waterfront.

Baywalk & Riverwalk Completion

In 1979, the City of Miami passed the Dan Paul ordinance requiring new buildings to be set back 50 feet from the water’s edge and requiring owners to build and maintain a 25-foot public pedestrian promenade along either Biscayne Bay or the Miami River.

Biscayne Green

The proposed vision of Biscayne Green calls for the redesign of Biscayne Boulevard into Miami’s grand pedestrian promenade, similar to that of San Francisco’s Embarcadero, Madrid’s Paseo del Prado, and Barcelona’s Las Ramblas.

DDRI - Downtown Development of Regional Impact

The Downtown Miami Development of Regional Impact (DDRI) is an area-wide development of regional impact created to ensure responsible and healthy development within the region’s urban core.

Discover Downtown Miami in 3D: Interactive 3D Development Pipeline Map

The pedestrian bridge will not only provide access and connection, but should be an iconic destination that truly activates the waterfront.

Downtown Miami Event Transportation Management Plan (ETMP)

In 2015-16, the Miami DDA and their lead consultant Kimley Horn prepared a comprehensive Event Transportation Management Plans for the major downtown event venues to improve traffic flows, reduce pedestrian vehicle conflicts, and reduce congestion during the time of events.

Fort Dallas Park

Located on the Miami River at 60-64 SE Fourth Street and adjacent to a Metromover stop, Fort Dallas Park has all the potential to be a premier destination on the Riverwalk.

I-395 Baywalk Pedestrian & Bikeway Bridge

The pedestrian bridge will not only provide access and connection, but should be an iconic destination that truly activates the waterfront.

Underdeck / Rev. Edward T. Graham "Heritage Trail"

The I-395 Underdeck will be a 33-acre public open space that will completely transform a lifeless infrastructure corridor into a significant landscape and actively programmed destination for residents, workers, and visitors.