Talk:Cutler Bay, Florida

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[edit] History

I have moved the History section to this talk page until references are supplied
per the Wikipedia Verifiability Policy. -- Dalbury(Talk) 21:22, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Originally two small towns were located within the area. The town of Peters straddled both sides of US 1 near Quail Roost Drive, where Thomas J. Peters had a large tomato farm. John H. Earhart owned 2,000 acres near Franjo Road where a small farming community developed. The town name was a combination of letters from his brothers name, Francis, and his own...so was born the town of "Franjo."

It was really not until David Blumberg began developing the land that the area became an organized community. In the early 1950’s Blumberg and his partner, Joe Segal, convinced owner Walter Blumberg to sell him 1,400 acres of undeveloped land. Blumberg actually named this area after the town of Cutler (now located within the village of Palmetto Bay, Florida), and the limestone ridge on which the land sits. The first housing development went up in 1954 and the Cutler Ridge Mall (now Southland Mall) opened in 1960. Street names in Cutler Ridge come from holidays and the ports of call Blumberg visited as a sailor. The area around the Mall was called Seminole Plains. What is now Lakes by the Bay was labeled Lincoln City as the streets and parks were laid out.

  • Cutler Ridge Mall was "reopened" in 1978, but its ultimate configuration didn't come into being until the mid 1980s, when the Cutler Ridge Shopping Center was expanded in four stages between the Richards (later Burdines) and Sears stores on the northern end of the property. Of the extended Cutler Ridge Mall, only phases two and three are still in existence today, along with Sears. The original Cutler Ridge Shopping Center building was torn down in the wake of severe damage by Hurricane Andrew. The last vestige of the tomato farm that at one time dominated the plot currently occupied by Southland Mall was removed in 2005, two years after the current name was adopted by the managers of the mall, T/S Development of Miami[1].