The Collins Canal Park is a 3.5-acre linear park along the north side of the Miami Beach Convention Center that preserves majestic mahogany trees and a iconic strangler fig while providing new shaded areas for public art. Importantly, the linear park restores mangroves at the canal's edge. Isaac Stein was the lead designer for this project while working at West 8. 

Situated among residential neighborhoods, the New World Symphony campus, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, and Miami Beach’s signature Lincoln Road, the Collins Canal Park is part of the 40-acre Convention Center district that all together adds twelve acres of public space.

Located on the north side of the Convention Center, the park serves as a background for the historic Carl Fisher Clubhouse, the City’s oldest building, and establishes new paths and a sculpture garden along the Collins Canal. The park also features ample shade trees, a butterfly garden, a ballroom terrace, and a plant palette that showcases South Florida’s notable primordial plant life. The southern bank of the Collins Canal was reseeded with mangroves to restore the littoral shelf of the canal; and most notably, a majestic Strangler Fig is preserved and celebrated as a focal point along Washington Avenue.

Miami Beach, FL

Collins Canal Park

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