Miami Beach Community Development Corporation seeks to enhance the quality of life of Miami Beach and achieve neighborhood revitalization through a comprehensive community development program that pursues and balances historic preservation and urban design, economic vitality and increasing job opportunity, and support for a diverse, eclectic and successful neighborhood social fabric.



History and Scope



Founded in 1981 by the Miami Design Preservation League, MBCDC spearheaded the economic revitalization of the Art Deco District, public and private investment on Ocean Drive and Lincoln Road and re-emergence of South Beach as a world-class tourist destination. The organization now works throughout Miami Beach to celebrate an extraordinary architectural and urban endowment, revitalize distressed neighborhoods, create increased economic opportunity, rehabilitate affordable housing and improve the quality of city life for those who life and work and visit the city.



Community Development Strategy



The Miami Beach Community Development Corporation works in collaboration with its Community Partner Organizations in a comprehensive community development program that embraces the values of revitalization, historic preservation, community empowerment and ombudsmanship. The organization’s mandate is to work on the sometimes completing demands of economic revitalization, preservation of the natural and build environment, urban design, affordable housing and community development. MBCDC seeks to preserve and rehabilitate existing residential neighborhoods and encourage and provide safe, decent affordable housing to low and moderate income residents of Miami Beach