Bal Harbour, Florida Bal Harbour, Florida Flag of Bal Harbour, Florida Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida in Bal Harbour View on Bal Harbour from the north athwart Baker's Haulover Inlet Bal Harbour is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
Since the 1920s, the Detroit-based Miami Beach Heights Corporation headed by industrialists Robert C.
Graham assumed the duties as the developer for Bal Harbour.
The initial name chosen for Bal Harbour was Bay Harbour.
A name was invented to encompass a village that ran from the bay to the Atlantic Ocean.
The camp for prisoners was positioned where the Bal Harbour Shops are presently.
Graham had twenty five families move into the apartment homes that he had converted in order to qualify the Village for incorporation.
He then hired Willard Webb, a Miami Beach tax assessor, to draft a charter for the Village.
After the charter was completed, the Village of Bal Harbour was incorporated on August 14, 1946, by Mr.
Bal Harbour was the first prepared improve in Florida to have its utilities placed underground.
The first home was assembled at 160 Bal Cross Drive.
Graham Jr., who was the son of Bal Harbour Developer Robert C.
Bal Harbour Village was re-incorporated by a special act of the 1947 Florida Legislature and its own charter was issued June 16.
Regis. In 1959, Bal Harbour's beach was renovated due to harsh erosion.
In 1965, the Bal Harbour Shops was assembled by the Whitman family.
In 1971, Bal Harbour's beach started a primary renourishment project. In 1984, the inhabitants of an exclusive neighborhood in Bal Harbour were successfully sued to remove the clause preventing Jews and blacks from owning property there. In 2008, The new Regent Bal Harbour opened, becoming the northern gateway to the Village. In 2012, The last oceanfront undeveloped Beach Club site was sold for $220 million in order to make way to the ultra luxury Oceana at Bal Harbour. In 2014, The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami opens at the former Regent Bal Harbour and ONE Bal Harbour Resort & Spa . In 2015, the it was reported in the press that "the Bal Harbour Police and the Glades County Sheriff set up a enormous cash laundering scheme, but it all fell apart when federal investigators and the Miami Herald found strange things going on." Bal Harbour is positioned at 25 53 35 N 80 7 33 W (25.893005, -80.125729). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2).
Bal Harbour, Florida is positioned on the northern tip of the barrier island generally referred to as Miami Beach; it is the northern-most barrier island in a chain that extends southward up to and including Key West, Florida.
The chief traffic corridor running south to north through Bal Harbour is Collins Avenue, also demarked as Florida State Highway A1 - A.
A channel between the north end of Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic ocean runs athwart the northern end of Bal Harbour.
A bridge, maintained by the State of Florida joins Bal Harbour to Haulover Park, to the north.
Bal Harbour Demographics 2010 Enumeration Bal Harbour Miami-Dade County Florida In 2000, the village populace was spread out with 10.2% under the age of 18, 3.7% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 37.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
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Bal Harbour to Caracas: Millions in drug cash; Miami Herald; December 26, 2015.
"MLA's Data Center Results of Bal Harbour, FL".
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