Team               Flux Architects | Miguel Hastings, Landscape Architect

Client                Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation

Location          Opa-Locka, Florida

Opa-Locka's development agency is undertaking a comprehensive redevelopment of the city center to establish a pedestrian-oriented district characterized by diverse building typologies and integrated mixed uses. The program encompasses four adjacent blocks of underutilized land, planned for mixed-use towers incorporating residential, retail, food and beverage, and commercial functions. Miguel Hastings, Landscape Architect designed the streetscape framework, planting palettes, hardscape systems, and on-structure landscapes for the four buildings along Pervez Ave., Fisherman St., and Sharazad Blvd.

The design responds directly to Opa-Locka's distinctive Moorish architectural heritage, a defining characteristic of both its civic and private realm. Working within this vernacular, the plant palette draws from landscapes historically associated with Moorish design: Italian Cypress as vertical accents, Date Palms establishing scale and rhythm, and fine-textured grasses including Dwarf Fakahatchee and Liriope providing groundplane continuity. The hardscape employs a herringbone paving pattern in subtly contrasting tones, a deliberate reference to traditional Moorish decorative motifs adapted for contemporary urban use.

The scope included comprehensive street furnishing and lighting design to support the district's pedestrian character.