Coconut Grove · On Biscayne Bay
A village on the water.
Miami’s first neighborhood: banyan streets above Dinner Key, three sailing clubs at the door, and the city kept across the bay.
Since the nineteenth century
Older than the city around it.
Coconut Grove was settled in the late nineteenth century, before the city that surrounds it had a name.
What began as a clearing in a tropical forest drew naturalists, sailors and artists, and the mix never left. Marjory Stoneman Douglas gave the neighborhood the description that the project itself still quotes: half garden, half community.
The garden is literal. Banyans a century old arch over the streets, palms crowd the yards, and the sidewalks are in shade at noon. The community is the village at the top of the hill — a few blocks of boutiques and tables, all of it reached on foot.
On foot
Under the canopy, to everything.
From the door on South Bayshore Drive, the daily map of the Grove is drawn in walks rather than drives.
Kennedy Park and Peacock Park open onto the bay on either side. The Kampong and The Barnacle hold the early history of the place. The three sailing clubs of the Grove — Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, Coconut Grove Sailing Club and Coral Reef Yacht Club — share the same bayfront, and the tables of the village, Ariete, Los Félix and Sadelle’s among them, are a short walk up the hill.
For families the schools are part of the address: Ransom Everglades, Carrollton and Immaculata-La Salle are all in the neighborhood. It is a place arranged for staying in, not for passing through.
The city, across the water
Downtown is around the corner.
The phrase belongs to the neighborhood, and it is accurate. The skyline of Miami stands in full view from the terraces, close enough to read at night, far enough to stay quiet. South Beach is less than thirty minutes away, and the Design District is seven miles off.
What matters more is the return. Coming home means leaving the towers behind, turning onto a road lined with royal palms, and arriving where the bay is on one side and the garden on the other. The Grove is an enclave, and it feels like one each evening.
Within reach
The neighborhood in seven lines.
Names a resident will use in the first month.
“Half garden, half community.”
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, on Coconut Grove
By appointment
Come and see where it stands.
The sales gallery stands in the Grove itself, on Pan American Drive, and opens by appointment only. With your name, MILLION will set a private visit — to the residences on paper, and to the neighborhood around them.