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.
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.
Miami Beach Community Development Corporation rehabilitated a three-story apartment building in the historic art deco section of Miami Beach with a Loan Fund loan of $100,000 in 1998. The Mediterranean Revival building now contains four studios and 23 one-bedroom apartments for low-income elderly citizens, enabling them to remain in their neighborhood despite rising property values. In September 2004, MBCDC received a second loan for $500,000 to assist in rehabilitation of another building for 18 new units of elderly housing.
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CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE: (1) The Jefferson - providing 27 units of affordable housing for the elderly; (2) Aimee II - 18 units of affordable housing for the elderly; and (3) Miami Beach CDC offices located in the Seymour Building.
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Economic decisions have human consequences and moral content; they help or hurt people, strengthen or weaken family life, advance or diminish the quality of justice in our land.
U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, November 1986
, "Economic Justice for All: A Pastoral Letter".
