Kendall, to be precise. Here's the rest of the story. Neighborhood activists, suspending their disbelief that city planning could ever actually exist in South Florida, sit down for almost two years with developers, planners and county officials. It's possible, for a moment, to glimpse the seed of a real sense of place rising from the ashes of Dadeland Sprawl.
Jaws drop in amazement.
There's an actual overlay ordinance mandating that this new, engaging, liveable Downtown Kendall be built. Then the lions get hungry. Then, it seems, they had an abrupt change of heart. Dadeland had mothballed a plan years before that would have double decked the sprawl mall and lined Kendall Drive with massive parking garages. They had not touched the plan in years, and the Miami Herald had reported the plan was dead.