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Downtown Dadeland is an urban residential and retail development in Dadeland, Kendall,

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, USA. Dadeland is an

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in Kendall, which is part of unincorporated

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. Downtown Dadeland was completed in 2005, during a South Florida real estate boom. Notably, the development contains of parking on two underground levels, unprecedented in

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, which averages under of elevation

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. Since then, some other projects have pursued more than one sub-grade level, including

Brickell City Centre Brickell City Centre is a large mixed-use complex consisting of two residential high-rise towers, two office buildings, a high-rise hotel, and an interconnected five-story shopping mall and lifestyle center covering located in the Brickell dis ...

in the

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district of

Downtown Miami Downtown Miami is the urban city center of Miami, Florida. The city's greater downtown region consists of the Central Business District, Brickell, the Historic District, Government Center, the Arts & Entertainment District, and Park West. It ...

. Underground development in the Miami area is complicated and expensive, due to the high

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(low elevation). A project on

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beach planned three levels of underground parking, but revised plans down to a single level

mechanical parking garage An automated (car) parking system (APS) is a mechanical system designed to minimize the area and/or volume required for parking cars. Like a multi-story parking garage, an APS provides parking for cars on multiple levels stacked vertically to ma ...

. The

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is adjacent to

Dadeland South station Dadeland South station is a transfer station on the Metrorail rapid transit system in the Dadeland district of Kendall, Florida. It is the southern terminus of the Metrorail system and the northern terminus of the South Dade TransitWay (a BRT ...

, the southern terminus of the

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system, which saw significant ridership increases in the 21st century after many

transit-oriented development In urban planning, transit-oriented development (TOD) is a type of urban development that maximizes the amount of residential, business and leisure space within walking distance of public transport. It promotes a symbiotic relationship between ...

s such as Dadeland were completed. Underground parking, including -1.5 and greater depths, began to become more common in the 2010s, pressured by building codes, aesthetics, and economics.

References

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