The chairman of Codina Group is asking Miami-Dade County toamend the master plan and bring a two-parcel, 1,280-acre area intothe urban boundary. County commissioners are not expected to ruleon the request until year end 2001. They haven't revised theboundary lines since 1994.

Codina feels the project could break ground at an undetermineddate in 2002. Beacon Lakes would be built in two five-year phases.The park would house a mix of warehouses, office and retailprimarily catering to the park's tenants. The site is northwest ofthe Turnpike's intersection and the Dolphin Expressway (State Road836).

The 1,280 acres of Australian pine, scrub and grazing areas isone of the last large parcels of developable dirt left inMiami-Dade. Codina maintains the county should approve the projectbecause the site poses fewer environmental problems than aresidential development and would create thousands of new jobs inthe area.