A major east–west commercial artery in northern
Miami-Dade County,
State Road 932 is a -long four-lane highway connecting
US 27/
SR 25 in
Hialeah Gardens and
SR 915 in
Miami Shores, just south of the campus of
Barry University. Locally, SR 932 is also known as
North 103rd Street in greater
Miami, and as 49th Street or Palm Springs Mile in Hialeah.
In addition to the cities at the termini, SR 932 serves
Hialeah;
Medley lies across the
Miami Canal from the western terminus;
Liberty City and
Biscayne Park are within a quarter mile of the eastern terminus. The part of SR 932 in Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens is almost completely lined with commercial establishments (next to its interchange with the
Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) is Westland Mall, one of the oldest enclosed
shopping centers in Florida; across the street is
Miami Dade College – Hialeah Campus). East of Red Road/
SR 823 (West 4th Avenue in Hialeah), SR 932 is almost entirely lined with
suburban developments.
While Westland Mall has been relatively unchanged since its opening in the early 1970s, Hialeah near SR 932 has evolved greatly in the past four decades.
Dairy farms have given way to shopping centers and residential housing developments; Hialeah’s population has grown from 67,000 in 1960 to 226,400 in 2000. State Road 932’s connection with the Palmetto Expressway has similarly evolved from a little-used at-grade intersection in the early-1960s to a
diamond interchange in the 1970s that was often...
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