Brickell Key

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Brickell Key is an artificial triangular island at the mouth of the Miami River in downtown Miami, Florida.

[edit] History

The history of Brickell Key real estate can be traced to 1896, when Henry Flagler had a 9-foot deep channel dug from the mouth of the Miami River. In the process, Mr. Flagler created an off-shore property composed of two small islands.

In 1943, a real estate investor, Edward N. Claughton, Sr. acquired the Brickell Key islands and eventually purchased additional bay bottom land to combine them to a 44-acre triangle-shaped tract separated from the mansions of Miami's fashionable Brickell Avenue by only a few hundred feet of water.

In the late 1970s, Swire Properties purchased most of the island Brickell Key real estate property from the Claughton, and began to put into place a master plan that would ultimately transform it into one of the most distinctive island communities in the world.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Brickell Key Home Page[1]

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Coordinates: 25°45′59″N 80°11′07″W / 25.766288, -80.185152