Mission Statement:

Miami Beach Community Development Corporation seeks to enhance the quality and diversity of community life and achieve neighborhood revitalization through a comprehensive community development program that pursues and balances historic preservation and urban design, affordable housing and economic vitality and increasing job opportunity, and support for a diverse, eclectic and successful neighborhood social fabric.

History and Scope

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.