The Members of the Overtown Collaborative
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St John CDC
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Growing out of the Overtown neighborhood anchor institution of St. John's Baptist
Church, St. John's CDC is poised to begin the rebirth of Overtown through housing
initiatives, commercial facade improvements, and homeownership counseling. With
over 40 homes and multifamily units already in place and 14 townhomes for homeownership
in current development, St. John's will soon be developing 14 individual parcels
of land in Overtown for multi- and single family homeownership in one of the most
challenging and impoverished environments in Miami-Dade County. Phone: 305-372-0682
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Village Townhomes
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BAME Development Corporation, Inc.
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BAME is affiliated with the historic Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal
Church, has been at the forefront in providing economic and housing opportunities,
along with homeownership counseling, for the community. Having completed over 211
multifamily units of housing with an additional 52 in production, BAME CDC is an
anchor institution in a community that has been all-too-often abandoned and forgotten.
Phone: 305-373-7233
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St. Agnes Rainbow Village CDC
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The CDC was created in 1991 by St Agnes Episcopal Church located in Overtown. It
focuses on child care and housing development. It is in partnership with the Empowerment
Zone Trust, Miami Dade County, and Banc of America CDC to develop the Villages of
St Agnes project whic is developing 98 new housing units on 12 acres of land in
Overtown that will be affordable to low income homebuyers. 80 of the new units will
be detached two story homes having two and three bedrooms and two baths. The remaining
18 units will be townhomes. The project is a joint effort between the St Agnes Rainbow
Village CDC and two other entities: Banc of America Community Development Corporation
and the Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust.
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The Black Archives
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The Black Archives has taken the lead in creating the Historic Overtown Folklife
Village. Overtwon used to be known as the "Harlem of the South. The project
seeks to preserve and to rennovate his toric structures. Some of the most important
are already gon including the Sir John Hotel at Sixth St and 3rd Ave which hosted
Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, and Josephine Baker. But others remain.
There are, in various stages of renovation, the Carver Hotel at NW 9th Street and
3rd Ave, Dr Davis Office Building at NW 2nd Ave and 10th Street, and the Cola-Nip
Building at 233-5 NW 9th Street. Most prominent, however, is the recently renovated
the Lyric Theatre, a two story masonry vaudeville and movie theatre was Miami's
version of the Apollo Theatre and Miami s contribution to the Chitlin' Circuit;
built by prominent black entrepreneur Gedar Walker in 1915, it was the apex of African
American entertainment and social life in Overtown
