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| A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Highway | |
 View of Collins Boulevard inSouth Beach | |
| Type | SR |
| Maintained by | FDOT |
| Length | 13.1 mi (21.1 km)[1] |
| Location | Miami-Dade |
| South end | South Pointe Drive inMiami Beach |
| North end |   SR 856 (William Lehman Causeway) /SR A1A inSunny Isles Beach |
| Construction | |
| Inauguration | 1945 renumbering (definition) |
Collins Avenue, partly co-signedState Road A1A, is a major thoroughfare inSouth Florida, United States. The road runs parallel to theAtlantic Ocean inMiami Beach, Florida, one block west. It also runs through the cities ofSurfside andSunny Isles Beach to the north. Collins Avenue was named forJohn S. Collins, a developer who, in 1913, completed Miami’s first bridge,Collins Bridge, connecting Miami Beach to the mainland acrossBiscayne Bay.
Collins Avenue is home to many historicArt Deco hotels, and several nightclubs to the north.
North of 41st Street this boulevard lies between the Atlantic Ocean and theIndian Creek, lined by palm trees, and famous hotels from the 1950s and 1960s such as theEden Roc and theMorris Lapidus-designedFontainebleau Hotel, built in the curvy, flamboyantNeo-baroque fashion that defined the 1950s "Miami Beach" resort hotel style.[2]
The annualMiami International Boat Show occurs on Collins Avenue. On February 2, 1973, a mentally ill manfirebombed a cafeteria at 1921 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, killing three people and injuring over 130. On June 24, 2021, an apartment building at 8777 Collins Avenue in Surfsidepartially collapsed, resulting in 98 fatalities.
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