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The Opa-locka Company administration building is a historic site in Opa-locka, Florida. It is located at 777 Sharazad Boulevard. On March 22, 1982, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. This property is part of the Opa-locka Thematic Resource Area, a multiple-property submission to the National Register. It is a boarded ...
Opa-locka was founded in 1926 by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, who had retired to become a real estate developer during the nascent Florida land boom.The city's unique "Arabian" or "Moorish" architectural theme was executed by American architect Bernhardt E. Muller, who had designed several Mediterranean and Spanish-style homes in nearby Miami in 1923. [8]
Opa-locka railroad station Long House Harry Hurt Building. The Opa-locka Thematic Resource Area is a group of thematically related historic sites in Opa-locka, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The area comprises 20 surviving Moorish Revival buildings which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Construction to start on Opa-locka development, boosting jobs in the city
And we build wealth through creative placemaking — using arts and culture to write the future stories of places like Opa-locka, a city of 16,000 10 miles north of the city of Miami. Opa-locka is ...
When Matthew Pigatt stepped down as Opa-locka mayor in late 2021, he made allegations of a corrupt government and mismanagement as the reasons for his departure. Four candidates running for Opa ...
In 2023, public charter airline JSX announced it would move all of its Miami operations into the Opa-Locka Executive Airport. The company, which focuses on providing passengers with easy access to flights, decides that the smaller airport would improve ease of access and reduce the costs and complexities of operating at a bigger airport such as Miami International.
In an interview with Opa-Locka’s newspaper, the North Dade Hub, Muller explained the original intent of his scheme for Opa-Locka: [3] In planning the city, our [Muller and Curtiss] idea was to avoid the only too-well known checkerboard idea of development with the visual square boxes planted on each lot, making a composite of architectural ...