Community Background Report

City of Aventura

County

Miami-Dade

Boundaries

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Community Type

Municipality

History

Aventura, one of the newest municipalities in Miami-Dade County, was incorporated in 1995. Aventura is 3.2 square miles located on the Intracoastal Waterway in northeast Miami-Dade County, along US Highway 1 near the Atlantic Ocean. Aventura is primarily an upscale condominium community and is known internationally as a premier shopping destination. Since the incorporation of Aventura, millions of dollars have been spent on infrastructure improvements, including streets, sidewalks, lighting, beautification projects, drainage, pedestrian and safety improvements.

Community Dynamics

As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language accounted for 59.92% of the population, while Spanish as a first language accounted for 22.63% of residents. Aventura is known for its substantial Jewish population, and those who spoke Hebrew constituted 3.66% of the population, with Yiddish spoken among 2.78% of the population. Aventura has seen growth in its Brazilian, Colombian, Israeli, Romanian, Venezuelan and Russian communities. The percentage of the population with citizenship is 77.9%, compared to the national average of 92.9%. There is a concentration of particularly affluent Eastern European and Latin American immigrants. The median household income in 2014 was $59,657, much higher than the County, State, and US national median income levels.

Aventura is unique in that it emulates the private sector by privatizing services and emphasizing customer service. The City is committed to maintaining a high quality of life for its citizens, businesses and visitors. This is done through providing a safe and secure environment to live and work in, and responding promptly to citizen requests. The City maintains multiple recreational parks, a Community Recreational Center, and a new Arts & Cultural Center. Along Aventura’s Country Club Drive Circle, there is a multimillion-dollar, three-mile, paved, scenic promenade, with views of water and landscaped green space, for walking and jogging.

Transportation Characteristics

Aventura is almost equal distances from the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport and the Miami International Airport. It is in close proximity to I-95 and the Golden Glades exchange were the 826 and the Florida Turnpike can be accessed.

The City runs the Aventura Express Shuttle bus, free to its citizens. The Metrorail and Metromover do not serve the city, but there are Metrobus connections to Government Center via Biscayne Boulevard/US 1. Aventura is one of Miami-Dade's most car-centric neighborhoods, and due to the increasing population growth over a 25-year period, and the very popular Aventura Mall, with 10,000 free parking spaces, traffic has become congested, despite the fact that Biscayne Boulevard (US 1) is up to ten lanes wide through the city. The intersection where Ives Dairy Road meets US 1 has been raised, but still creates a back-up.

The main north-south road in the city is Biscayne Boulevard (US 1) and the main east-west route is the William H. Lehman Causeway. Although no interstates run through the city, I-95 is just five minutes away.

By 2015, Tri-Rail commuter rail service may run on the FEC line that runs parallel to Biscayne Boulevard through Aventura. Until then, Aventura has no other means of transportation other than roads. One of the proposed lines for the Miami Metrorail was a corridor that would follow US 1 from downtown Miami to the Dade-Broward County line between Aventura and Hallandale Beach.