The St. John Community Development Corporation and the St. John Baptist Church requested a design study be undertaken to analyze the potential of an area along Northwest 3^rd Avenue, which was recommended by the Community Redevelopment Authority to be turned into parking lots. The CUCD assembled a group of graduate students from the Suburb and Town Design Program to study the one and a half block area. The team developed preliminary designs for three and four story buildings grouped around parking and courtyards with retail shops on the ground floor and a variety of assisted living, elderly housing and apartments above. The St. John CDC will use these drawings to demonstrate to neighbors and City departments that this important neighborhood can be revitalized by such combinations of residential, commercial and parking uses and that such solutions will lead to more self-sustaining areas in the City of Miami.

Above: Infill proposal for Overtown