79th Street Corridor Neighborhood Initiative Inc

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$10,000 Goal

The 79th Street Corridor Initiative is an effort to transform Miami Dade County’s 79th Street from a fragmented set of residential, commercial, and industrial sites with a reputation as dangerous and undesirable into a cohesive neighborhood conscious of its tangible and intangible assets and directing its future.

For over 20 years, 79th Street Corridor Neighborhood Initiative “The Initiative” has worked to eliminate the systemic barriers to bridge the economic wealth gap for Low-to-Moderate Income (LMI) households, startups, micro-entrepreneurs and small businesses located in the high-poverty Target Urban Areas (TUAs) of Miami Dade. When household financial stress rises, it directly impacts business resilience through reduced consumer demand. Local small businesses struggle to offer benefits/stable wages due to capital restraints so household resilience further erodes. Our project seeks to address the interdependent financial vulnerability of LMIs households, startups and micro-businesses, due to the increasing survival differential between households’ cash flow shortfall and the explosive cost of living increases.

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Mission

The Mission of the 79th Street Corridor Initiative is to use a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) approach, along with existing community assets, to transform 79th street corridor neighborhoods into a community of choice for people to live, work and visit.

The 79th Street corridor in unincorporated Miami Dade County has countless unrealized opportunities and underutilized resources. In recognizing this, the 79th Street Corridor Initiative was created to utilize community assets to revitalize the area. The Initiative’s goals are to:

Provide access to good jobs for area residents

Strengthen the area’s access to public transportation

Implement green initiatives that beautify the area and make businesses in the area more energy efficient and Spur comprehensive redevelopment of the area.