![]() The Unbranded Brewery is one of the anchors of the thriving Leah Arts District in Hialeah. The four-block Leah Arts District includes many once-legendary buildings factorials where teams of exiled Cuban seamstresses made clothes in the 1960s and 1970s for Jewish landlords, who had established textile businesses in the city after World War II. The East Hialeah revaluation taps into the city’s history and its typically funky mix of utilitarian and everyday architecture. “I’ve been in the city for 19 years and we’ve planted seeds that are now starting to grow,” said Debora Storch, Hialeah’s planning director. The approach was embraced by Hialeah Mayor Esteban “Steve” Bovo, elected in 2020 in part on a promise to generate new developments and keep young Hialeahns at home. It’s all part of a long-standing strategy by the city to one day create dense, mixed neighborhoods with apartments, restaurants, stores and transit-linked offices to retain the city’s youth, who must now leave Hialeah to experience city life. READ MORE: Miami Developer Avra Jain Preserves Hialeah’s History READ MORE: All about Factory Town, a musical, artistic and gastronomic place There’s even a Freebee shuttle that connects the transfer station, Hialeah City Hall, and the Leah neighborhood. In between is the booming neighborhood of Leah Arts and Miami developer Avra Jain’s ambitious plan for Factory Town. The new development, already underway or in the planning stages, centers around the two Industrial Corridors Tri-Rail stations, one of which, known as the Hialeah Transfer Station, connects to the Metrorail. Gradually, the rumble of aging warehouses, railroad tracks and rutted streets that make up the old industrial neighborhoods of east Hialeah sees something new: new buildings blending housing and retail, plans for new public spaces and a bike path under the elevated subway lines, and even an unusual music and entertainment district in a sprawling former mattress factory called Factory Town that’s generating considerable buzz. This is part of an ambitious plan to make the city desirable for young and old. Mayor Mitchell was happy to hear that sound mitigation efforts and testing were moving forward, however, she wanted to make sure that there’s a legal plan in place to be able to shut down the noise from Factory Town should the sound testing and mitigation efforts not be sufficient to prevent the pounding boom, boom, boom disturbance to our residents.An architectural rendering shows what a street near Hialeah’s Tri-Rail market station might look like if it were redeveloped. Miami Springs Mayor Maria Mitchell and Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo (Photo credit: Maria Mitchell Social Media) Those engineers are expected to provide a report to the City Attorney this week. The City Attorney reported that the Factory Town sound engineers conducted sound testing last week. The City Attorney stated they would prefer to resolve this without going to court, but are continuing to move forward with legal options. ![]() According to the City Attorney, the representatives from Factory Town have hired sound engineers to work on the sound issues experienced by residents of the City of Miami Springs. The City of Miami Springs City Attorney gave the City Council an update on the ongoing Factory Town litigation.
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