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Coral Gables, FL
Coral Gables was developed beginning in 1921 by George Merrick as one of the most fully realized examples of the "City Beautiful" planning movement in the United States, laid out with consistent Mediterranean Revival architecture, wide boulevards, and elaborately themed entrance gates and plazas built specifically to evoke the look of a Spanish or Italian coastal town rather than a typical South Florida suburb. The Biltmore Hotel, opened in 1926 as the centerpiece of Merrick's development, remains one of the most architecturally significant hotels in Florida, its distinctive tower modeled on the Giralda bell tower in Seville, and the hotel's pool has at various points held the title of the largest hotel pool in the continental United States. The University of Miami's main campus sits within Coral Gables, giving the city a genuine college-town presence layered on top of its planned-community architectural identity, and city zoning codes still enforce Merrick's original Mediterranean Revival design standards on new construction nearly a century after the city's founding. Coral Gables's combination of one of the most architecturally consistent planned communities in the country, a historically and architecturally significant flagship hotel, and a major research university campus has made it one of the most distinctive and consistently desirable suburbs anywhere in the greater Miami area.
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Doral, FL
Doral incorporated as its own independent city only in 2003, one of the more recently established municipalities in Miami-Dade County, and its rapid growth since then has been driven substantially by a combination of new corporate office parks and a large residential build-out on what had previously been mostly agricultural and undeveloped land west of Miami International Airport. Trump National Doral, a golf resort with four championship courses, has anchored the area's identity for decades and hosted a PGA Tour event, the Cadillac Championship (later the World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship), on its Blue Monster course through much of the 2010s before the tournament relocated. The city has drawn one of the largest concentrations of Venezuelan-American residents and businesses anywhere in the United States, a demographic shift substantial enough that Doral has been informally nicknamed "Doralzuela" in local and national media covering the broader wave of Venezuelan immigration to South Florida over the past two decades. Doral's proximity to Miami International Airport has also made it a significant corporate office hub, drawing logistics, trade, and international business headquarters specifically seeking easy airport access, and that combination of a major golf resort, a distinctive immigrant community identity, and airport-adjacent corporate development has made Doral one of the fastest-growing and most economically dynamic suburbs anywhere in Miami-Dade County.
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