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| Location | 600 NW 1st Avenue Miami, Florida United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 25°46′39″N80°11′45″W / 25.77753°N 80.19578°W /25.77753; -80.19578 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Florida East Coast Industries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tracks | 5[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes, paid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks, Citi Bike station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architect | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Zyscovich Architects, TLC Engineering for Architecture | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Modernism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | Miami Airport to Golden Glades (Tri-Rail) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | April 15, 1896 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | January 23, 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | May 19, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MiamiCentral is a train station inMiami, Florida. Located inDowntown Miami, the station provides access to theBrightline inter-city rail service and theTri-Rail commuter rail service. The station is part of a 9-acre (3.6 ha)mixed-use complex, which includes 3 million square feet (280,000 m2) of residential, office, commercial, and retail development.[3]
Government Center station, providing bothMetromover andMetrorail service, is directly connected to the south end of MiamiCentral via a pedestrian bridge over NW 3rd Street. TheWilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Metromover station and theHistoric Overtown/Lyric Theatre Metrorail station are within steps of the northern entrances to MiamiCentral. The station was built by All Aboard Florida, a subsidiary ofFlorida East Coast Industries (FECI) overseeing Brightline, and designed bySkidmore, Owings & Merrill in association with Zyscovich Architects.[4]
MiamiCentral was originally a railroad station opened April 15, 1896 as the southernterminus ofHenry Flagler'sFlorida East Coast Railway (FEC). The station was the southern end of the FEC line until 1905, when construction began toKey West via theOverseas Railroad. The FEC built a wooden passenger station building in 1912 at site of what would become theDade County Courthouse.[5] Construction on the courthouse was started in 1925 and finished 1928. FEC regularly serviced the site until January 23, 1963, when union workers for both companies went on strike.[6][7]
At the insistence of the City of Miami, which had long fought to get rid of the tracks in the downtown section just north of the county courthouse, the downtown passenger terminal was demolished by November 1963.[8] Although a new station was planned at theBuena Vista yard nearNorth Miami Avenue and 36th Street (US 27),[7] it was never built. The site of the old station was left as parking lots until construction of MiamiCentral began in 2014.
When FEC ended their passenger service, this leftSeaboard Coast Line Railroad (service absorbed byAmtrak in 1971) as the sole inter-city rail in Miami. They operated out of the decayingAllapattah terminal at Northwest 22nd Street and Seventh Avenue (US 441) until in 1978 Amtrak moved to itscurrent location nearHialeah.[9]
In March 2012, All Aboard Florida, a former subsidiary ofFlorida East Coast Industries that also at the time owned theFlorida East Coast Railway, announced plans to connectMiami andOrlando withhigher-speed passenger rail service.[10] In May 2014, All Aboard Florida unveiled their plans for the 9-acre (3.6 ha) site, with construction anticipated to begin in late 2014. The company planned to build two tracks on either side of an island platform 50 feet (15 m) above street level and 3 million square feet (280,000 m2) oftransit-oriented development, with retail shops at street level and hotel rooms, housing and office space occupying towers above the station.[11][12]
In August 2014, preparatory work began with the removal of parking lots that had previously been located on the site.[13] Construction of the facility began in mid 2015, when subterranean support pilings began to be built, and by the end of the year foundation and frame construction was underway.[14] By October 2016, construction of the rail facility was about 70% complete, while work on the lower structure of the office and residential buildings had begun.[15] When Brightline began revenue operations in January 2018 between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, MiamiCentral was still incomplete.[16] Service to Miami was planned to begin at the end of April 2018.[17] Brightline service to MiamiCentral commenced on May 19, 2018.[2]
In its final design, MiamiCentral includes a 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) dining and grocery marketplace dubbed Central Fare, 130,000 square feet (12,000 m2) of retail space, one residential building with 800 apartments, and two office buildings.[15][18] It will have five tracks, with three serving Brightline trains and two serving Tri-Rail trains.[14] The office buildings are 3 MiamiCentral (12 stories, 96,000 sq ft (8,900 m2)) and 2 MiamiCentral (190,000 square feet (18,000 m2))[19]
The Tri-Rail commuter service invested about $70 million at the station for the "Tri-Rail Downtown Miami Link" project,[20] which allows Tri-Rail to operate into the station. Service began on January 13, 2024, with aribbon-cutting ceremony held the previous day.[21] MiamiCentral is additionally planned to be the southern terminus of theNortheast Corridor Rapid Transit Project commuter rail line.[22][23]
Tracks 1-3, as well as Platforms A-C, are forBrightline service toOrlando. Tracks 4 and 5, along with Platforms D and E, opened in conjunction withTri-Rail's Downtown Miami Link service.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)The key to this leveraging is a local investment of $70 million by the public for incremental construction costs by the public partners for the MiamiCentral Station, to accommodate Tri-Rail trains and new rail infrastructure to support the extension into Downtown Miami.
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